8 Top memoir books like Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story by Bess Kalb

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Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Bess Kalb's Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

• adult
• audiobook

"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Bess Kalb's Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Bess Kalb's Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

• adult
• family
• audiobook

"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

Similar categories in Harrison Scott Key's How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told book and Bess Kalb's Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"He was "as deep as bro country and possessed all the charm of an unsalted potato."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"I play the drums, an instrument that has caused more divorces than any other musical instrument in history, after the banjo."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"The memories do not dissolve. They cohere into captivating art films that play endlessly in the International Infidelity Film Festival of my mind."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"Coco will be gone in less than two years and Pippi and Ginsburg not long after, and then it'll just be the two of us again and this weird-ass marriage."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Bess Kalb's Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

• biography
• memoir
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• 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

Similar categories in Bess Kalb's Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story book and Bess Kalb's Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

• biography
• memoir
• jewish
• humor
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• family
• adult
• audiobook

"If the earth is cracking behind you right up to your heels, put one foot in front of the other. You keep going. Nothing's as important as moving forward."

-Bess Kalb, Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Bess Kalb's Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful book and Bess Kalb's Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

• adult
• family
• audiobook

"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

Similar categories in Jenny Jackson's Pineapple Street book and Bess Kalb's Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

• adult
• family
• audiobook

"But you know foundations shouldn't have to be the answer. The real problems are tax laws, anti-labor policies, and the slow expansion of the welfare state," Chip said. Everyone turned and looked at h…"

-Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Bess Kalb's Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

• adult
• family
• audiobook

"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's Family Family book and Bess Kalb's Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

• adult
• family
• audiobook

"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

Similar categories in Caroline O'Donoghue's The Rachel Incident book and Bess Kalb's Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

• adult
• audiobook

"I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and Bess Kalb's Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

• adult
• audiobook

"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

Similar categories in Jessi Klein's I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood book and Bess Kalb's Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• 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

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's You Could Make This Place Beautiful book and Bess Kalb's Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

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

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Bess Kalb's Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

• adult
• family
• audiobook

"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

Similar categories in Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover book and Bess Kalb's Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

• adult
• family
• audiobook

"Instead of constantly asking ourselves the question of why we're here, maybe we should be savoring the simpler truth: We are here."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"Maybe we just need to appreciate that many aspects of life— and the people we love—will always be a mystery. Because without mystery, there is no magic."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"The secret to a beautiful death is to live a beautiful life. Putting your heart out there. Letting it get broken. Taking chances. Making mistakes.... Promise me, kid,...that you'll let yourself live."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"Grief plays tricks on you that way - a familiar whiff of cologne or a potential sighting of your person in a crowd, and all the knots you've tied inside yourself to manage the pain of losing them sud…"

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

Similar categories in Lara Love Hardin's The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing book and Bess Kalb's Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

• biography
• memoir
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in R. Eric Thomas's Congratulations, the Best is Over! book and Bess Kalb's Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"If I'm not heading toward a place where I can feel joy, then hope in the present has nothing to hold on to."

-R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, the Best is Over!

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's We All Want Impossible Things book and Bess Kalb's Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

• adult
• family
• audiobook

"In the end there’s more beauty in the imperfection."

-Catherine Newman, We All Want Impossible Things

Similar categories in Bess calling's No one will tell you this but me book and Bess Kalb's Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

• nonfiction
• memoir