25 Best biography memoir books like Mother Noise by Cindy House

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Mother Noise

By: Cindy House

3.84

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, “raw[,] and tender” ( The New York Times Book Review ) memoir told in essays and graphi…

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Cover of My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean by Amy Dresner

1. My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean

By: Amy Dresner

3.93

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Blackout and Permanent Midnight , a darkly funny and revealing debut memoir of … read more

Similar categories in Amy Dresner's My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Corrections in Ink: A Memoir by Keri Blakinger

2. Corrections in Ink: A Memoir

By: Keri Blakinger

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Brave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and rele… read more

Similar categories in Keri Blakinger's Corrections in Ink: A Memoir book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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4. Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness

By: Melissa Bond

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Brain on Fire meets High Achiever in this “page-turner memoir chronicling a woman’s accidental desc… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Bond's Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Stash: My Life in Hiding by Laura Cathcart Robbins

5. Stash: My Life in Hiding

By: Laura Cathcart Robbins

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and vivid memoir—in the vein of Drinking: A Love Story and Somebody’s Daughter—about t… read more

Similar categories in Laura Cathcart Robbins's Stash: My Life in Hiding book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Mother Noise

By: Cindy House

3.84

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, “raw[,] and tender” ( The New York Times Book Review ) memoir told in essays and graphi… read more

Similar categories in Cindy House's Mother Noise book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
  • audiobook
Cover of Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley

7. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

Cover of Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings by Chrysta Bilton

8. Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

By: Chrysta Bilton

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"One of the maddest memoirs you'll read this year... This beautiful, warm, funny book is a testamen… read more

Similar categories in Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education by Stephanie  Land

9. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

By: Stephanie Land

3.62

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Land's Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Living Remedy: A Memoir by Nicole Chung

10. A Living Remedy: A Memoir

By: Nicole Chung

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Chung's A Living Remedy: A Memoir book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"

-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir

Cover of Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford

11. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

By: Maria Bamford

3.77

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more

Similar categories in Maria Bamford's Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Happy-Go-Lucky

By: David Sedaris

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” ( Los Angeles Times ) returns with his first new collect… read more

Similar categories in David Sedaris's Happy-Go-Lucky book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
Cover of Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) by Nora McInerny

13. Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

By: Nora McInerny

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Nora McInerny does not dance like no one is watching. In fact, she dances like everyone is watching… read more

Similar categories in Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"He can say he forgives me, sure, but I know better. In therapy, I work on forgiving myself."

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

"How frightening to know that your brain can betray you this way, that the vessel for our sense of self is often faulty and prone to error. How awful to know that death may come for us over and over, …"

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

"To admit this—a hopelessly unfashionable addiction to the appearance of my body—is a crime in some circles. It's much more becoming to "embrace your flaws" or—even better—to not see your body's flaws…"

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

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14. I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

By: Jessi Klein

3.90

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed New York … read more

Similar categories in Jessi Klein's I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"A mother's heroic journey is not about how she leaves, but how she stays."

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

"But becoming a mother alters every ince of your body, your routine, your soul, your heart."

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

"Motherhood leaves you inevitably and profoundly changed; you can be similar to who you were - maybe? - but you'll never be the same."

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

"Because now I know that everything bad can happen, and I am responsible for it not. Because sometimes I feel like keeping us from dying will kill me. Because I am on board, and I'm exhausted. Because…"

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

Cover of Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne

15. Sociopath: A Memoir

By: Patric Gagne

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more

Similar categories in Patric Gagne's Sociopath: A Memoir book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

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16. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's You Could Make This Place Beautiful book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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17. Fly Girl: A Memoir

By: Ann Hood

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of gla… read more

Similar categories in Ann Hood's Fly Girl: A Memoir book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures by Connie  Wang

18. Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures

By: Connie Wang

3.70

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"Hilarious, candid, and heartfelt . . . It's like Eat Pray Love meets The Amazing Race with hints o… read more

Similar categories in Connie Wang's Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
Cover of Acceptance: A Memoir by Emi Nietfeld

19. Acceptance: A Memoir

By: Emi Nietfeld

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, exami… read more

Similar categories in Emi Nietfeld's Acceptance: A Memoir book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Any exclusive system is a system of exclusion."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

"Everyone who dealt with disadvantaged kids, from therapists to college admissions officers, treated us as if we could overcome any abuse or neglect with sheer force of will."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

"Adults viewed suicidal ideation as a pathology. But for me it was logic. Weighing the bad against the good, projecting forward to decide if life was worth sticking around for."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

Cover of My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings by Zosia Mamet

20. My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings

By: Zosia Mamet

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A warm and relateable collection of essays exploring the memories we associate with different meals… read more

Similar categories in Zosia Mamet's My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
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21. Never Simple

By: Liz Scheier

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This gripping and darkly funny memoir “is a testament to the undeniable, indestructible love betwee… read more

Similar categories in Liz Scheier's Never Simple book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Clearly I hadn't actually won the Shitty Family Olympics, just placed in the qualifiers. It could've been worse."

-Liz Scheier, Never Simple

"Having a mentally ill parent meant simultaneously wrestling with a hard relationship while mourning the absence of the one you actually wanted."

-Liz Scheier, Never Simple

Cover of Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional by Isaac Fitzgerald

22. Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional

By: Isaac Fitzgerald

3.59

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, … read more

Similar categories in Isaac Fitzgerald's Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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23. Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

By: Kristine S. Ervin

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of My Dark Places and I'll Be Gone in the Dark , a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting… read more

Similar categories in Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After by Elizabeth Crane

24. This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

By: Elizabeth Crane

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage an… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir by Meghan Riordan Jarvis

25. End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

By: Meghan Riordan Jarvis

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized by loss? Esteemed trauma therapist Meghan Riord… read more

Similar categories in Meghan Riordan Jarvis's End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If I could stop getting caught in the old cobwebs of disappointment and accept my dad as he was, I might enjoy myself too. In the emotional tumbling routine of my father slowly dying, I did manage to…"

-Meghan Riordan Jarvis, End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

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26. Naked in the Rideshare: Stories of Gross Miscalculations

By: Rebecca Shaw

3.43

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold, the youngest comedy writers ever for  The Tonight Show Starri… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Shaw's Naked in the Rideshare: Stories of Gross Miscalculations book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
Cover of The Dead Are Gods: A Memoir by Eirinie Carson

27. The Dead Are Gods: A Memoir

By: Eirinie Carson

4.13

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From an exciting new literary voice: a memoir that explores grief, Blackness, and recovery after th… read more

Similar categories in Eirinie Carson's The Dead Are Gods: A Memoir book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
Cover of The Missing Years by Lexie Elliott

28. The Missing Years

By: Lexie Elliott

3.54

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

An eerie, old Scottish manor in the middle of nowhere that’s now hers. Ailsa Calder has inherite… read more

Similar categories in Lexie Elliott's The Missing Years book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • audiobook
"They say you truly grow up when your parents die"

-Lexie Elliott, The Missing Years

"The damp cold squelching beneath my naked feet is deeply unpleasant"

-Lexie Elliott, The Missing Years

"I'm grateful, too, for the single-minded focus of young children when food is mentioned---all difficult topics of conversation have been instantly cast aside in favor of intense deliberating over exa…"

-Lexie Elliott, The Missing Years

"I follow her lean figure across the bar. Her hair is pulled back loosely in an artful mess, and her maroon cashmere sweater has slipped off one shoulder. Everything about her screams casual, sloppy s…"

-Lexie Elliott, The Missing Years

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29. Only One Survives

By: Hannah Mary McKinnon

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Becoming the star is easier when the rest of your band is dead… All drummer Vienna Taylor ever w… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Mary McKinnon's Only One Survives book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • audiobook
Cover of Fortunate: Tarot Poetry by Kim  Rashidi

30. Fortunate: Tarot Poetry

By: Kim Rashidi

4.04

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Based on the rider-waite-smith tarot cards, this book dives into the world of tarot through delicat… read more

Similar categories in Kim Rashidi's Fortunate: Tarot Poetry book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

Cover of Acne by Laura Chinn

31. Acne

By: Laura Chinn

4.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the creator and star of Florida Girls comes a hilarious and profound memoir about family, happ… read more

Similar categories in Laura Chinn's Acne book and Cindy House's Mother Noise

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We were not “ride or die"

-Laura Chinn, Acne

"As I took in all the sick and injured babies around me, I could feel empathy being forced upon me and I did not like it."

-Laura Chinn, Acne

"One of my friends lost her virginity when she was twelve to her older brother’s nineteen-year-old friend. She said he crept into her bedroom in the middle of the night and took her virginity. At the …"

-Laura Chinn, Acne

"Our family was an organic, free-range, humanely sourced kind of family. The kind of family who uses plant-based cleaners that aren’t strong enough to actually degrease anything so every pot and pan h…"

-Laura Chinn, Acne

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Leslie Jamison

3.86

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