19 Best biography memoir books like Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings by Chrysta Bilton

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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…

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings by Chrysta Bilton , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Corrections in Ink: A Memoir by Keri Blakinger

1. 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 Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more

Similar categories in Meg Kissinger's While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence book and Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. 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 Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • adult
  • 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

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5. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more

Similar categories in Roxanna Asgarian's We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America book and Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. A Heart That Works

By: Rob Delaney

4.62

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

New York Times  Bestseller *  The New Yorker   Best Books of 2022 *  Entertainment Weekly  Best Boo… read more

Similar categories in Rob Delaney's A Heart That Works book and Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
"I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through"

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

"Why don't you just leave open the possibility that others love you, whether you like it or not, and that the people who'd like you to stick around aren't, to a man, wrong."

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

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7. 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 Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • 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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8. Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up

By: Selma Blair

3.93

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** 'Funny and frank, a chance to spend time with a brave… read more

Similar categories in Selma Blair's Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up book and Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"To outlive your child is the worst grief, my mother said later that night."

-Selma Blair, Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up

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9. Uncultured: A Memoir

By: Daniella Mestyanek Young

4.08

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a … read more

Similar categories in Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir book and Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Daniella,"

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"The body keeps the score."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"I can run and run, but I’m always still here."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"...the only real friend I had, and would ever have, was myself."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

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10. Rough Draft: A Memoir

By: Katy Tur

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From MSNBC anchor and New York Times bestselling author Katy Tur, a sharp and candid memoir about a… read more

Similar categories in Katy Tur's Rough Draft: A Memoir book and Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

By: Delia Ephron

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-lif… read more

Similar categories in Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life book and Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom

12. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

By: Amy Bloom

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two… read more

Similar categories in Amy Bloom's In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss book and Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Family Outing: A Memoir by Jessi Hempel

13. The Family Outing: A Memoir

By: Jessi Hempel

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A striking and remarkable literary memoir about one family's transformation, with almost all of the… read more

Similar categories in Jessi Hempel's The Family Outing: A Memoir book and Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
"As an adult, I'll come to understand that the price of belonging to a church community, or to any community, is accepting beliefs that you don't hold. Sometimes these beliefs are so incongruous with …"

-Jessi Hempel, The Family Outing: A Memoir

"You'll know, even as I use the word "Evan," that Evan had a name before this. It's a name I won't tell you. To utter it would be to disrespect all the work he has done to find his way to Evan. The mo…"

-Jessi Hempel, The Family Outing: A Memoir

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14. When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

By: Guinevere Turner

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood… read more

Similar categories in Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir book and Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Did I Ever Tell You? by Genevieve Kingston

15. Did I Ever Tell You?

By: Genevieve Kingston

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You? book and Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Acceptance: A Memoir by Emi Nietfeld

16. 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 Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • 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

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17. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

By: Lara Love Hardin

4.46

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac … read more

Similar categories in Lara Love Hardin's The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing book and Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. 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 Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

  • 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

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19. Why Didn't You Tell Me?

By: Carmen Rita Wong

3.76

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An immigrant mother’s long-held secrets upend her daughter’s understanding of her family, her ident… read more

Similar categories in Carmen Rita Wong's Why Didn't You Tell Me? book and Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing by Kathleen Buhle

20. If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing

By: Kathleen Buhle

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Kathleen Buhle shares her story of resilience and self-discovery after her marriage to Hunter Biden… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Buhle's If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing book and Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Magic Season: A Son's Story by Wade Rouse

21. Magic Season: A Son's Story

By: Wade Rouse

4.40

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

*A Michigan Notable Book of 2022*"Honest, authentic, heartbreaking and healing. I devoured it in on… read more

Similar categories in Wade Rouse's Magic Season: A Son's Story book and Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook

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