11 must-read nonfiction books like Saltwater by Cathy McLennan

Cover of Saltwater by Cathy McLennan

Saltwater

By: Cathy McLennan

4.10

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

‘Everyone knows that some of those kids are innocent … your dilemma is not whether the kids are inn…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Saltwater by Cathy McLennan , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston

1. Dust Tracks on a Road

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.11

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and a… read more

Similar categories in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road book and Cathy McLennan's Saltwater

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Mystery is the essence of divinity"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

"Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

"Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

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2. The Journals of Louisa May Alcott

By: Louisa May Alcott , Joel Myerson

4.07

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A companion volume to The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott, the journals are here published in… read more

Similar categories in Louisa May Alcott's The Journals of Louisa May Alcott book and Cathy McLennan's Saltwater

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of A Rose for Sergei by K. Kidd

3. A Rose for Sergei

By: K. Kidd

4.06

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

“Do we really know what we are getting ourselves into…” Sergei Kourdakov jumped from a Russian t… read more

Similar categories in K. Kidd's A Rose for Sergei book and Cathy McLennan's Saltwater

  • biography
  • memoir
"Sergei, what are you checking for?"

-K. Kidd, A Rose for Sergei

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4. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman's Survival Under Saddam Hussein by Jean Sasson

5. Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman's Survival Under Saddam Hussein

By: Jean Sasson

3.00

Format: 508 pages,

Mayada was born into a powerful Iraqi family. One grandfather fought alongside Lawrence of Arabia. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas

6. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

By: Koren Zailckas

4.00

Format: None pages,

For use in schools and libraries only. Eye-opening and utterly gripping, Koren Zailckas' story is t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of My Sergei: A Love Story by Ekaterina Gordeeva, E.M. Swift

7. My Sergei: A Love Story

By: Ekaterina Gordeeva , E.M. Swift

4.39

Format: 280 pages,

Thrown together as children by the Soviet regime and told to skate for the good of the state, Serge… read more

Similar categories in Ekaterina Gordeeva's My Sergei: A Love Story book and Cathy McLennan's Saltwater

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Will Love For Crumbs by Jonna Ivin

8. Will Love For Crumbs

By: Jonna Ivin

3.62

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Raised by an alcoholic mother and without a father, Jonna learned at a young age to put her needs o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"There is absolutely no reason to be a dick, just because you have one."

-Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs

"Quietly trying to manifest what you want doesn’t work, being a bitch does."

-Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs

"Funny how a wink from a city guy can come across as cheesy or condescending, but a wink from a southern boy will send shivers up a girl’s spine."

-Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs

"I didn’t make choices based on what I liked or didn’t like. I simply accepted what they chose for me. My role had always been to react and adapt to what was decided by other people, by outside circum…"

-Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs

Cover of Saltwater by Cathy McLennan

9. Saltwater

By: Cathy McLennan

4.10

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

‘Everyone knows that some of those kids are innocent … your dilemma is not whether the kids are inn… read more

Similar categories in Cathy McLennan's Saltwater book and Cathy McLennan's Saltwater

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • crime

10. Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey

By: Ozge Samanci

3.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Growing up on the Aegean Coast, Ozge loved the sea and imagined a life of adventure while her paren… read more

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11. 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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12. Elizabeth and Her German Garden

By: Elizabeth von Arnim

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. "Elizabeth and Her German Garden," a novel… read more

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"I shall not let myself be frightened away by the sarcasm of owls."

-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden

"We are none of us ever thankful enough, and yet we each get so much, so very much, more than we deserve."

-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden

", and there were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden, in spite of my years and children."

-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden

"Oh, I thought of calling it Journeyings in Germany. It sounds well, and would be correct. Or Jottings from German Journeyings--I haven't quite decided yet..."

-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden

13. Welfare Brat

By: None

4.22

Format: 160 pages,

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14. The Lonely Life

By: Bette Davis

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Hollywood legend talks about her four marriages, her leading men, her feud with a well-known co… read more

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15. The House at Sugar Beach

By: Helene Cooper

3.71

Format: 244 pages,

Journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her home country Liberia and the effects of i… read more

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Cover of The Three Witches and The Master by Max Nowaz

16. 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

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"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 Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece by Yvonne Korshak

17. Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

By: Yvonne Korshak

4.29

Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition

STEP ASIDE, ANTONY AND PERICLES AND ASPASIA —THE LOVE STORY THAT SHAPED HISTORY Two lovers cres… read more

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"Temples are for the gods,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"But  Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

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

18. 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 Cathy McLennan's Saltwater

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

19. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"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

20. 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

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  • 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

Cover of The Bare Melcessities: Walking Out. Waking Up. Getting Bare by Melanie Lutz

21. The Bare Melcessities: Walking Out. Waking Up. Getting Bare

By: Melanie Lutz

3.97

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

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"The soul knows where it belongs, not some of the time, all of the time. When you strip everything away and get bare that fact sings."

-Melanie Lutz, The Bare Melcessities: Walking Out. Waking Up. Getting Bare

"Home was within.
 Home was without.
 Home was here and now. 
Home was everything that already was and always is. There were so many chases and trips, and directions and events and places and experime…"

-Melanie Lutz, The Bare Melcessities: Walking Out. Waking Up. Getting Bare

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4.07

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4.06

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3.83

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3.10

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