8 best-selling autobiography books like That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row by Jarvis Jay Masters

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That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row

By: Jarvis Jay Masters

3.91

Format: None pages,

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1. That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row

By: Jarvis Jay Masters

3.91

Format: None pages,

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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2. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

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"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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3. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

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4. The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

4.14

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more

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5. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

By: Lisa See

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more

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6. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

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"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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7. The Covenant of Water

By: Abraham Verghese

4.45

Format: 724 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more

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8. Let Us Descend

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more

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"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."

-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend

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9. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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10. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

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11. Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

By: Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
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12. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

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13. Hello Beautiful

By: Ann Napolitano

4.16

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

An emotionally layered and engrossing story of a family that asks: Can love make a broken person wh… read more

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"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

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14. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

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15. Demon Copperhead

By: Barbara Kingsolver

4.50

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in t… read more

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"A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"I can still feel in my bones how being mad was the one thing holding me together."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don’t rule it out."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

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16. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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17. Wellness

By: Nathan Hill

4.00

Format: 611 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about mar… read more

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"It's an altogether manic and ceaseless conversation, a conversation that feels sometimes like falling down stairs, barely keeping upright, taken by gravity, skipping, grasping, and then somehow landi…"

-Nathan Hill, Wellness

"Behind curtains, this, he thinks, is what lovers do—they are alchemists and architects; pioneers and fabulists; they make one thing another; they invent the world around them. So he says, ‘Yes I beli…"

-Nathan Hill, Wellness

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18. Finding Me

By: Viola Davis

4.55

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-cha… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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19. Solito

By: Javier Zamora

4.48

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at th… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"We nod, and I notice stars beginning to pop behind his head."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

"Puedo sentir El Viaje en las plantas de mis pies. Lo veo en mis sueños."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

"My chest like hummingbirds fighting for the hibiscus in Abuelita's garden."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

"Mom to my left, Dad to my right, a mosquito net like a crown covering all of us."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

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20. How to Say Babylon

By: Safiya Sinclair

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."

-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon

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21. One Way Back: A Memoir

By: Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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22. The House of Eve

By: Sadeqa Johnson

4.26

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelph… read more

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23. Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

By: Whoopi Goldberg

4.33

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influ… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Listen. The confines of this neighbourhood do not represent the confines of your life. You can go and do and be whatever you want. But, whatever you choose, be yourself."

-Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

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24. The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

By: Anthony Ray Hinton

4.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thi… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"Life was a crazy, strange mix of tragedy and sorrow and triumph and joy."

-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

"Oh, the sanitized way of saying it is "sentenced to death." But let's call it what it is. They wanted to murder me because I had murdered."

-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

"Life is brutal, tragic, unbearable, and inhumane at times. The pain one man can cause another is limitless, but I didn't see, I couldn't see, how creating more pain made anything better."

-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

"I had just turned twenty-nine, and honestly, I still didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. Sometimes it felt like life was more a process of elimination than a series of choices."

-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

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25. The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

By: Michelle Obama

4.27

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER - ONE OF TIME'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2022 - In an insp… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Going high is about learning to keep the poison out and the power in."

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

"Being different conditions you toward cautiousness, even as it demands being bold."

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

"Life has shown me that strong friendships are most often the result of strong intentions. Your table needs to be deliberately built, deliberately populated, and deliberately tended to."

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

"Real-world connections most often tend to cut against stereotypes. They can be remarkably calming, in fact—a small but potent way to reset a bad mood or challenge broader feelings of mistrust. The on…"

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

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26. The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Martha N. Beck

4.17

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author, life coach, and sociologist Martha Beck explains why “ integrity ”— needed now … read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

By: Lara Love Hardin

4.46

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac … read more

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  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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28. Nightcrawling

By: Leila Mottley

3.98

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

Kiara and her brother, Marcus, are scraping by in an East Oakland apartment complex optimistically … read more

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"We always showing people our hands like it's proof we're human."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

"She is the bottom of the ocean, where all the magic hides beneath too many layers of dark and water and salt."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

"Even after everything he's put me through, if he's ready to ask for it instead of just taking it then I will walk to the ends of the earth for him."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

"That boy is a wonder. He's my autumn rain, my last picture of the sun before it sets. Daytime is not possible without Trevor. Not even sure the sun come out without Trevor."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

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29. Redwood Court

By: DeLana R.A. Dameron

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family, seen through the eyes of its yo… read more

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30. The Buddhist on Death Row: How One Man Found Light in the Darkest Place

By: David Sheff

4.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy explores the transformation of Jarvis Jay… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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31. Finding Me

By: Michelle Knight

4.61

Format: None pages, Paperback

Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel … read more

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14 Top nonfiction books like That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row by Jarvis Jay Masters

Transform Your Habits

That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row

Jarvis Jay Masters

3.91

Transform Your Habits

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Meg Kissinger

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

4.27

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The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich

Robert K. Wittman , David Kinney

3.81

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Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?

Ann Rule

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

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Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom

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