15 Top memoir books like Bringing Home the Birkin: My Life in Hot Pursuit of the World's Most Coveted Handbag by Michael Tonello

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Bringing Home the Birkin: My Life in Hot Pursuit of the World's Most Coveted Handbag

By: Michael Tonello

3.68

Format: 593 pages, Hardcover

For more than twenty years, the Hermes Birkin bag has been the iconic symbol of fashion, luxury, an…

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1. Primates of Park Avenue

By: Wednesday Martin

3.15

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Like an urban Dian Fossey, Wednesday Martin decodes the primate social behaviors of Upper East Side… read more

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  • chick lit
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"You don't get your prebaby body back, ever, because you cannot go back to being a person who hasn't had a baby. Because you had a baby."

-Wednesday Martin, Primates of Park Avenue

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2. Chasing Harry Winston

By: Lauren Weisberger

0.00

Format: 798 pages,

Meet Emmy, Leigh, and Adriana. Best friends since college, each has seen her share of career foils … read more

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  • chick lit
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3. Low Country

By: Anne Rivers Siddons

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Caroline Venable has everything her Southern heritage promised: money, prestige, a rich husband--an… read more

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  • chick lit
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4. Tales from the Back Row: An Outsider’s View from Inside the Fashion Industry

By: Amy Odell

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Funny and fearless, Tales from the Back Rowis a keenly observed collection of personal essays about… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
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5. Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster

By: Dana Thomas

3.87

Format: 288 pages,

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  • fashion
  • nonfiction
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6. Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

By: Justine Picardie

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Coco Chanel,Justine Picardie peels away the layers of romance and myth surrounding the legend of… read more

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  • fashion
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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7. Bringing Home the Birkin: My Life in Hot Pursuit of the World's Most Coveted Handbag

By: Michael Tonello

3.68

Format: 593 pages, Hardcover

For more than twenty years, the Hermes Birkin bag has been the iconic symbol of fashion, luxury, an… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • chick lit

8. The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

By: None

3.22

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

Did Patrizia Reggiani murder her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci, in 1995 because his spending was wildl… read more

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9. The Woman I Wanted to Be

By: Diane Von Furstenberg

4.34

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

One of the most influential, admired, and innovative women of our time: fashion designer, philanthr… read more

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10. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there… read more

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  • chick lit
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11. Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation

By: Jon Ward

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Jon Ward's life is divided in half: two decades inside the evangelical Christian bubble and two dec… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire by Francesca Cartier Brickell

12. The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire

By: Francesca Cartier Brickell

4.24

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The captivating story of the family behind the Cartier empire and the three brothers who turned the… read more

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  • fashion
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See by Bianca Bosker

13. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

By: Bianca Bosker

4.16

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."

-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

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14. Wine People

By: Michelle Wildgen

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rich, intoxicating escape into the hedonistic and cutthroat world of wine and what happens when t… read more

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  • chick lit
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15. No Filter: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful

By: Paulina Porizkova

3.61

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“A book about a rare life, profound love, profound grief, anxiety, self-assurance, empowerment, agi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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16. Anna: The Biography

By: Amy Odell

3.78

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This definitive biography of Anna Wintour follows the steep climb of an ambitious young woman who w… read more

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  • fashion
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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17. Women of Good Fortune

By: Sophie Wan

3.59

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

Set against a high-society Shanghai wedding, a heartfelt, funny, dazzling novel about a reluctant b… read more

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  • humor
"What's the point of getting educated if you're going to end up stuck as a housewife?" Jane's heard that one before. Some people find it hard to accept that housework is preferable to inflexible deadl…"

-Sophie Wan, Women of Good Fortune

"Why would you want to work when you don't have to? "At some point, you have to do things for yourself," Jane says to Mei. "You'll understand once you've been worked like a dog and can't even keep tra…"

-Sophie Wan, Women of Good Fortune

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18. Wives Like Us

By: Plum Sykes

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Take a grand English country house, one (heartbroken) American divorcee, three rich wives, two tyco… read more

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  • chick lit
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19. Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

By: Elizabeth Beller

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in thi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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20. Private Equity: A Memoir

By: Carrie Sun

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A gripping memoir of one woman’s self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indict… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"A gift weighed down by the imposition of gratitude becomes an expectation; over time, it becomes debt."

-Carrie Sun, Private Equity: A Memoir

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21. The Chiffon Trenches

By: André Leon Talley

3.83

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

During André Leon Talley's first magazine job, alongside Andy Warhol at Interview, a fateful meeti… read more

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  • fashion
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"On holidays, I cave in to the memory of love, and associate desserts and eating with the love I experienced at my grandmother's table. She was a great cook, and sweets crowded the side console cabine…"

-André Leon Talley, The Chiffon Trenches

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22. A Very Private School: A Memoir

By: Charles Spencer

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age ei… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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23. Introduction to Internal Family Systems

By: Richard C. Schwartz

4.28

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A highly accessible introduction to a therapeutic approach that brings our inner “parts” into harmo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. Ilium

By: Lea Carpenter

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Set in the dark world of international espionage, from London to Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap … read more

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25. Jackie

By: Dawn Tripp

4.34

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In this mesmerizing novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, acclaimed author Dawn Tripp has crafted… read more

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"not only because of the pleasure it will bring, but because the power of ideas, and the ability to express them, is the greatest power we have."

-Dawn Tripp, Jackie

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26. Field of Dreams (Dreaming of Darcy, #1)

By: J. Dawn King

4.40

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

A TENDER MR. DARCY...A VULNERABLE ELIZABETH BENNET Elizabeth Bennet is in dire straits. Desperat… read more

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27. The Queen's Men (Agents of the Crown, #2)

By: Oliver Clements

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The Agents of the Crown returns with this riveting novel following the original MI6 agent as he is … read more

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28. CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion

By: Sunita Kamir Nair

3.67

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Fashion and creative director Sunita Kumar Nair presents Carolyn Bessette A Life in Fashion, which… read more

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  • fashion
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of A Visible Man: A Memoir by Edward Enninful

29. A Visible Man: A Memoir

By: Edward Enninful

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From one of our culture's most important changemakers, a memoir of breaking barriers. When Edwar… read more

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  • fashion
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century by Simon Kuper

30. Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

By: Simon Kuper

4.17

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

'Kuper is a shrewd observer [in] this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday Times… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of My Own Magic: A Reappearing Act by Anna Kloots

31. My Own Magic: A Reappearing Act

By: Anna Kloots

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Despite what appeared to be a glamorous existence full of globetrotting adventures, behind the scen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

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Wednesday Martin

3.15

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Lauren Weisberger

0.00

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Anne Rivers Siddons

4.12

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Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief: Guided Practices for Reclaiming Your Body and Your Life

Jon Kabat-Zinn

3.68

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Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People: Avoid Emotional Traps, Stand Up for Your Self, and Transform Your Relationships as an Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.49

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Gabor Maté

4.32

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Janina Fisher

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