14 must-read memoir books like The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow by Daniel Paisner, Krystyna Chiger

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The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

By: Daniel Paisner , Krystyna Chiger

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing ext…

If you liked the memoir plot in The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow by Daniel Paisner, Krystyna Chiger , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Ophelia Speaks

By: Sara Shandler

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Barnes & Noble ReviewWhen Sara Shandler was 16, she read psychologist Mary Pipher's Reviving Op… read more

Similar categories in Sara Shandler's Ophelia Speaks book and Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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2. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

By: Mary McCarthy

3.72

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This unique autobiography begins with McCarthy’s recollections of an indulgent, idyllic childhood t… read more

Similar categories in Mary McCarthy's Memories of a Catholic Girlhood book and Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into some…"

-Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

"I have sometimes thought that Catholicism is a religion not suited to the laity, or not suited, at any rate, to the American laity, in whom it seems to bring out some of the worst traits in human nat…"

-Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

"I felt caught in a dilemma that was new to me then but which since has become horribly familiar: the trap of adult life, in which you are held, wriggling, powerless to act because you can see both si…"

-Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

"I came back [to school] in the fall, as a full-time boarder, with a certain set to my jaw, determined to go it alone. A summer passed in thoughtful isolation, rowing on a mountain lake, diving from a…"

-Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

Cover of The Aqua Net Diaries: Big Hair, Big Dreams, Small Town by Jennifer Niven

3. The Aqua Net Diaries: Big Hair, Big Dreams, Small Town

By: Jennifer Niven

3.16

Format: 288 pages,

For anyone who has ever endured the insufferable pain, the soaring excitement, and the relentless s… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Niven's The Aqua Net Diaries: Big Hair, Big Dreams, Small Town book and Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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4. The Concubine's Children

By: Denise Chong

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Concubine’s Children is the story of a family cleaved in two for the sake of a father’s dream. … read more

Similar categories in Denise Chong's The Concubine's Children book and Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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5. Everything I Never Wanted to Be: A Memoir of Alcoholism and Addiction, Faith and Family, Hope and Humor

By: Dina Kucera

3.74

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Everything I Never Wanted to Be by Dina Kucera is the true story of a family's battle with alcoholi… read more

Similar categories in Dina Kucera's Everything I Never Wanted to Be: A Memoir of Alcoholism and Addiction, Faith and Family, Hope and Humor book and Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"There are millions of people out there who live this way, and their hearts are breaking just like mine. It’s okay to say, “My kid is a drug addict or alcoholic, and I still love them and I’m still pr…"

-Dina Kucera, Everything I Never Wanted to Be: A Memoir of Alcoholism and Addiction, Faith and Family, Hope and Humor

"I thought over and over about what I was going to do when Carly overdosed and died. How would we go on? And then I knew: I wouldn’t go on. And then I realized that it was just going to be too painful…"

-Dina Kucera, Everything I Never Wanted to Be: A Memoir of Alcoholism and Addiction, Faith and Family, Hope and Humor

"When I was about nine, my siblings and I fell out of our moving van at an intersection. My dad didn’t notice for about five blocks. It was back before seat belts. It was also back before parents used…"

-Dina Kucera, Everything I Never Wanted to Be: A Memoir of Alcoholism and Addiction, Faith and Family, Hope and Humor

"I felt empty and sad for years, and for a long, long time, alcohol worked. I’d drink, and all the sadness would go away. Not only did the sadness go away, but I was fantastic. I was beautiful, funny,…"

-Dina Kucera, Everything I Never Wanted to Be: A Memoir of Alcoholism and Addiction, Faith and Family, Hope and Humor

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6. Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper

By: Diablo Cody

4.16

Format: 422 pages, Paperback

Die 30-jahrige Diablo Cody ist ein Phanomen. Mit ihrem Internet-Blog machte sie sich einen Namen, d… read more

Similar categories in Diablo Cody's Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper book and Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story by Ingrid Ricks

7. Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story

By: Ingrid Ricks

3.95

Format: 288 pages, ebook

What would you do if your Mormon stepfather pinned you down and tried to cast Satan out of you? For… read more

Similar categories in Ingrid Ricks's Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story book and Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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8. The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

By: Daniel Paisner , Krystyna Chiger

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing ext… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow book and Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust

9. A View of the Lake: Living the Dream on Lake Superior

By: Beryl Singleton Bissell

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

A View of the Lake chronicles the joys and lessons in finding one's place amid the North Woods and … read more

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10. Swanson on Swanson

By: Gloria Swanson

4.75

Format: None pages,

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11. Becoming Alice: A Memoir

By: Alice Rene

3.80

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

Six-year-old IIse watches Nazi soldiers march down her street in Vienna. She does not understand th… read more

Similar categories in Alice Rene's Becoming Alice: A Memoir book and Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

12. Prison Baby: A Memoir

By: Deborah Jiang Stein

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A deeply personal and inspiring memoir recounting one woman's struggles--beginning with her birth i… read more

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13. Speaking Truth to Power

By: Anita Hill

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Paperback

After her astonishing testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill ceased to be a private … read more

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14. 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

Similar categories in None's Home Free: Adventures of a Child of the Sixties book and Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

15. A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas

By: Jane Wilson-Howarth

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of one of the most colourful countries in the world, A Glimpse of Eternal … read more

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16. Where the Birds Never Sing: The True Story of the 92nd Signal Battalion and the Liberation of Dachau

By: Jack Sacco

3.74

Format: 168 pages,

read more

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17. Slings & Arrows

By: Julie Elizabeth Powell

3.96

Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition

Nobody expects to lose a child but when it happens what can we do? In the sea of grief that seizes… read more

Similar categories in Julie Elizabeth Powell's Slings & Arrows book and Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

  • nonfiction

18. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq

By: James Ridgeway , Alia Mamdouh , None

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"In August 2003 a young Iraqi blogger began reporting her experiences as a civilian observer in Bag… read more

Similar categories in James Ridgeway's Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq book and Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

19. Ms. Cheevious in Hollywood - My Zany Years Spent Working in Tinsel Town

By: Lisa Jey Davis

3.46

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Ms. Cheevious in Hollywood by Lisa Jey Davis Enjoying Every Moment When Lisa Jey Davis (aka Ms. Che… read more

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20. Starving for Attention

By: Cherry Boone O'Neill

3.89

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

In this dramatic book, Cherry reveals the horrifying cycle that became her own flirtation with deat… read more

Similar categories in Cherry Boone O'Neill's Starving for Attention book and Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

21. Welfare Brat

By: None

4.22

Format: 160 pages,

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22. Faithfull

By: David Dalton , Marianne Faithfull

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

This is a memoir by Marianne Faithfull, recounting her days in the swinging '60s. She recalls her l… read more

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23. The Three Witches and The Master

By: Max Nowaz

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

When a beautiful naked woman Eve, unexpectedly turns up at his back door, Adam, an amateur wizard, … read more

Similar categories in Max Nowaz's The Three Witches and The Master book and Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

"Where’s my uncle?"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession. "

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

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

24. 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 Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

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

25. 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

Similar categories in Anne Michaud's Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives book and Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

  • 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

26. 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 Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"#metooasachild"

-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

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27. Resilience Road: Exploring Your Authentic Life Path

By: Beth Koritz

3.99

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

How many times have you taken a look at your life and thought these words? "Things have got to chan… read more

Similar categories in Beth Koritz's Resilience Road: Exploring Your Authentic Life Path book and Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Bigger than All the Night Sky: The Start Of Spiritual Awakening. A Memoir. by Rose Rosetree

28. Bigger than All the Night Sky: The Start Of Spiritual Awakening. A Memoir.

By: Rose Rosetree

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Why are you here? Still struggling to understand the spiritual purpose of your life? Findin… read more

Similar categories in Rose Rosetree's Bigger than All the Night Sky: The Start Of Spiritual Awakening. A Memoir. book and Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

  • memoir
"In practice “talent"

-Rose Rosetree, Bigger than All the Night Sky: The Start Of Spiritual Awakening. A Memoir.

"How hard is it to adjust to Earth life? Many incarnated adults only seem to be “grown up."

-Rose Rosetree, Bigger than All the Night Sky: The Start Of Spiritual Awakening. A Memoir.

"Millions can move into Enlightenment, and live That as Age of Awakening Enlightenment, a distinctively new way to be one with God, quite different from Traditional Enlightenment."

-Rose Rosetree, Bigger than All the Night Sky: The Start Of Spiritual Awakening. A Memoir.

"one by one, every single one of you Awakeners can reclaim your light. Each one of you can regain it. Waking up, gradually, you can reclaim all the joy you have ever known on Earth and beyond; all tha…"

-Rose Rosetree, Bigger than All the Night Sky: The Start Of Spiritual Awakening. A Memoir.

Cover of Dreaming Me: An African-American Woman's Buddhist Journey by Janice Dean Willis

29. Dreaming Me: An African-American Woman's Buddhist Journey

By: Janice Dean Willis

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An American Buddhist scholar recalls her incredible journey from an impoverished, segregated mining… read more

Similar categories in Janice Dean Willis's Dreaming Me: An African-American Woman's Buddhist Journey book and Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

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

30. 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

Similar categories in Gina Troisi's The Angle of Flickering Light book and Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

  • 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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31. The Places Left Unfilled

By: M.C. Cauley

4.09

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

My dressed up corpse and this secret; those were the two things I knew for certain I'd take to my g… read more

Similar categories in M.C. Cauley's The Places Left Unfilled book and Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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Transform Your Habits

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Sara Shandler

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

Mary McCarthy

3.72

Transform Your Habits

The Aqua Net Diaries: Big Hair, Big Dreams, Small Town

Jennifer Niven

3.16

Transform Your Habits

The Concubine's Children

Denise Chong

3.91

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Keith, A: Three Came Home

Agnes Newton Keith

4.16

Transform Your Habits

My Life

Golda Meir

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

Koren Zailckas

4.00

Transform Your Habits

A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today

Kate Bornstein

3.89

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