9 must-read biography books like Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams

Cover of Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

By: Terry Tempest Williams

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same…

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Cover of And So It Goes: Adventures in Television by Linda Ellerbee

1. And So It Goes: Adventures in Television

By: Linda Ellerbee

3.74

Format: 306 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Examines the internal operations of television news and answers many basic journalistic questions b… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Daughter of the Queen of Sheba: A Memoir by Jacki Lyden

2. Daughter of the Queen of Sheba: A Memoir

By: Jacki Lyden

5.00

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

As an adult, National Public Radio foreign correspondent Jacki Lydenhas spent her life on the front… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Fat Girl: A True Story by Judith Moore

3. Fat Girl: A True Story

By: Judith Moore

3.31

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

A Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2005 ( Entertainment Weekly ) For any woman who has ever had a love/h… read more

Similar categories in Judith Moore's Fat Girl: A True Story book and Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams

4. Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

By: Terry Tempest Williams

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same… read more

Similar categories in Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place book and Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
Cover of A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance by Jane Juska

5. A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance

By: Jane Juska

3.48

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

“Round-heeled” is an old-fashioned label for a woman who is promiscuous—someone who nowadays might … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

6. Home Free: Adventures of a Child of the Sixties

By: None

4.27

Format: 224 pages,

On a bus trip to a Catskill Mountain ashram, Rifka Kreiter recollects her past as she travels to me… read more

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7. Find Me

By: Rosie O'Donnell

4.60

Format: 645 pages, Paperback

Part memoir, part mystery, a compelling tale that will break readers' hearts even as it heals them. read more

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8. A Kick-Ass Fairy

By: None

4.25

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

What does it mean to be a Kick-Ass Fairy? Looking for a fairy tale to make into a musical? Look som… read more

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9. Cutted Chicken in Shanghai

By: Sharon Winters

4.01

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

An American woman takes a cultural fling into China and finds humorous and engaging adventures as h… read more

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  • nonfiction

10. A Backward Glance

By: Edith Wharton , Louis Auchincloss

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, vividly reflects on her public and privat… read more

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Cover of But Enough About Me: A Jersey Girl's Unlikely Adventures Among the Absurdly Famous by Jancee Dunn

11. But Enough About Me: A Jersey Girl's Unlikely Adventures Among the Absurdly Famous

By: Jancee Dunn

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

New Jersey in the 1980s had everything Jancee Dunn wanted: trips down the shore, Bruce Springsteen… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

12. The Cost of Hope: A Memoir

By: Amanda Bennett

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize winner Amanda Bennett comes a moving, eye-opening, and beautifully written memo… read more

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Cover of Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind by Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

13. Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind

By: Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

4.29

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Ready to break through the six-figure plateau? Discover an actionable strategy to cross over the mi… read more

Similar categories in Darnyelle Jervey Harmon's Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind book and Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

  • nonfiction
Cover of Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives by Anne  Michaud

14. Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

By: Anne Michaud

4.29

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

Why do good women stay with bad men? What if political wives are just as calculating as their in… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"The political wife came forward and publicly vouched for her straying man. If she could continue to trust and believe in him, the public could too – or so the script went."

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. Peopl…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"What we witness playing out in the relationships of our public figures we risk finding acceptable in our private lives. Feminists have connected women’s sexual subordination to their unequal status i…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being o…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

Cover of Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love by Aimee Cabo Nikolov

15. Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

By: Aimee Cabo Nikolov

4.30

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Her family secrets burst in the spotlight when Aimee and her sister went to the authorities. In thi… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Cabo Nikolov's Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love book and Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"We can be beacons of light"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"Unconditional Love conquers all!"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"God is the Cure, Love is the Answer"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

Cover of A Forest of Doors: An Orphan's Quest by L.A. Muse

16. A Forest of Doors: An Orphan's Quest

By: L.A. Muse

4.02

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

About the A young child, orphaned by addiction and isolated from her siblings, dreams of reuniting… read more

Similar categories in L.A. Muse's A Forest of Doors: An Orphan's Quest book and Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

  • memoir
Cover of Don't Shoot! . . . I Have Another Story To Tell You by Elen Ghulam

17. Don't Shoot! . . . I Have Another Story To Tell You

By: Elen Ghulam

4.08

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Four languages, an assortment of passports and no where to call home. Don't Shoot! ... I have a… read more

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Cover of Blockade: The Diary of an Austrian Middle-Class Woman, 1914-1924 by Anna Eisenmenger

18. Blockade: The Diary of an Austrian Middle-Class Woman, 1914-1924

By: Anna Eisenmenger

3.67

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

English, Pages 98. Reprinted in 2013 with the help of original edition published long back. This bo… read more

Similar categories in Anna Eisenmenger's Blockade: The Diary of an Austrian Middle-Class Woman, 1914-1924 book and Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

  • history
Cover of The Thirty-Ninth Victim by Arleen Williams

19. The Thirty-Ninth Victim

By: Arleen Williams

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The Green River murders were headline news throughout the 1980s. By the time the perpetrator was se… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Unwifeable: A Memoir by Mandy Stadtmiller

20. Unwifeable: A Memoir

By: Mandy Stadtmiller

3.58

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Provocative, fearless, and dizzyingly uncensored, Mandy spills every secret she knows about dating,… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Angle of Flickering Light by Gina Troisi

21. The Angle of Flickering Light

By: Gina Troisi

4.07

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

Desperate to find respite from the knowledge of her father's infidelities, his verbal abuse, and he… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"It was more than loneliness, than isolation; it was a feeling of somehow being invisible and transparent at the same time, of sinking & slipping of falling away."

-Gina Troisi, The Angle of Flickering Light

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And So It Goes: Adventures in Television

Linda Ellerbee

3.74

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Jacki Lyden

5.00

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Fat Girl: A True Story

Judith Moore

3.31

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Terry Tempest Williams

4.19

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Golda Meir

4.04

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Lana Wood , Lana Wood

4.26

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G. Willow Wilson

4.12

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5.00

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