14 best-selling memoir books like The Cave: A Secret Underground Hospital and One Woman's Story of Survival in Syria by Amani Ballour

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The Cave: A Secret Underground Hospital and One Woman's Story of Survival in Syria

By: Amani Ballour

4.59

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This searing memoir tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital …

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1. The Underground Library

By: Jennifer Ryan

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighti… read more

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  • war
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2. The Cave: A Secret Underground Hospital and One Woman's Story of Survival in Syria

By: Amani Ballour

4.59

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This searing memoir tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital … read more

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  • memoir
  • medical
  • feminism
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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3. My Side of the River

By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and wh… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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4. The Medicine Woman of Galveston

By: Amanda Skenandore

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Caught in the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, a female doctor who’s joined a traveling medicine … read more

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  • medical
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5. Secrets of the Octopus

By: Sy Montgomery

4.43

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex anima… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Daughters of Shandong

By: Eve J. Chung

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An instant USA Today Bestseller! A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daught… read more

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  • war
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7. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds

By: Michelle Horton

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more

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  • social justice
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. The Unit: My Life Fighting Terrorists as One of America's Most Secret Military Operatives

By: Adam Gamal

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The first and only book to ever be written by a member of America's most secret military unit―an ex… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • war
  • memoir
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9. Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more

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  • social justice
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."

-Brittney Griner, Coming Home

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10. Sharing Too Much: Inspirational Musings and Lessons from an Unlikely Life

By: Richard Paul Evans

4.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author and “king of Christmas fiction” ( The New York Times ) del… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. Leave No Trace (National Parks Thriller, #1)

By: A.J. Landau

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a daring, brutal act of terrorism, an explosion rocks and topples the Statue of Liberty. Special… read more

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12. The Library Thief

By: Kuchenga Shenjé

3.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A strikingly original and absorbing mystery about a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England a… read more

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13. It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me

By: Rex Chapman

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media … read more

Similar categories in Rex Chapman's It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me book and Amani Ballour's The Cave: A Secret Underground Hospital and One Woman's Story of Survival in Syria

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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14. Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin

By: Andre Dubus III

4.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Essays from the literary master and bestselling author of Townie on a life of challenges, contradic… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Behind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj

15. Behind You Is the Sea

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more

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16. The Burning (Kate Burkholder, #16)

By: Linda Castillo

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates a gruesome murder that reveals a little-known chapter … read more

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17. These Tangled Threads: A Novel of Biltmore

By: Sarah Loudin Thomas

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Seven years ago, a hidden betrayal scattered three young friends living in the shadow of Biltmore E… read more

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18. The Night of the Storm

By: Nishita Parekh

3.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From debut author Nishita Parekh, a fresh take on the classic locked-room thriller, about a multige… read more

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19. The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

By: Simon Shuster

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Time  correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the definitive account of the Russian invasion of Ukrain… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • war
  • memoir
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20. Finding Sophie

By: Imran Mahmood

3.68

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two parents, desperate to find their missing daughter, stand accused of murder. How far will they g… read more

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21. The Memory of Lavender and Sage

By: Aimie K. Runyan

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since s… read more

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22. Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

By: Lisa G. Bailey

3.75

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor, Clay and Bones is the personal memoir o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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23. The Widow Spy

By: Megan Campisi

3.41

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The author of the “magnificent…complex, vivid” (New York Journal of Books) Sin Eater returns with a… read more

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24. Last to Eat, Last to Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women

By: Pashtana Durrani

4.39

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

“Pashtana’s story highlights the resourcefulness and bravery of young women in Afghanistan. I hope … read more

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  • feminism
  • social justice
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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25. Waiting for the Monsoon

By: Rod Nordland

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air, the New York Times's legendary war correspondent deli… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • war
  • memoir
Cover of Like Happiness by Ursula Villarreal-Moura

26. Like Happiness

By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a youn… read more

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27. The Glassmaker

By: Tracy Chevalier

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more

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"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

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28. The Lion Women of Tehran

By: Marjan Kamali

4.50

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stati… read more

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  • feminism
"When I am surrounded by books, I feel most at peace."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

"I wanted what Homa had. I wanted her family. Her living father, her kind mother. I wanted her fat, edible baby sister. I wanted the warmth and safety of her home."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

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29. Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice

By: Eddie Ahn

3.74

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A moving graphic memoir following Eddie Ahn, an environmental justice lawyer and activist striving … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian by Amy Attas

30. Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian

By: Amy Attas

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Hilarious, jaw-dropping, and heartfelt stories from New York City’s premier “house-call veterinaria… read more

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  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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31. The Booklover's Library

By: Madeline Martin

4.24

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A heartwarming story about a mother and daughter in wartime England and the power of the books that… read more

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  • war

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4.43

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4.03

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