21 must-read nonfiction books like Between Two Trailers by J. Dana Trent

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Between Two Trailers

By: J. Dana Trent

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a…

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1. Troubled

By: Rob Henderson

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more

Similar categories in Rob Henderson's Troubled book and J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

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2. The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony

By: Annabelle Tometich

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Rows of orange people sit handcuffed in a beige room. One of them is my mother. When journalist … read more

Similar categories in Annabelle Tometich's The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony book and J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Wives: A Memoir

By: Simone Gorrindo

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A captivating memoir that tells the story of one woman’s experience of joining a community of army … read more

Similar categories in Simone Gorrindo's The Wives: A Memoir book and J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Between Two Trailers

By: J. Dana Trent

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more

Similar categories in J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers book and J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • mental illness
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

By: Lawrence Ingrassia

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Ingrassia's A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery book and J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. 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 J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • mental illness
  • 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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7. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

Similar categories in Sarah McCammon's The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church book and J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez's My Side of the River book and J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. 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

Similar categories in Michelle Horton's Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds book and J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. 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

Similar categories in Brittney Griner's Coming Home book and J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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11. 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 J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]

By: Chelsea Devantez

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Devantez's I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway] book and J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. A Very Private School: A Memoir

By: Charles Spencer

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age ei… read more

Similar categories in Charles Spencer's A Very Private School: A Memoir book and J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Manicurist's Daughter

By: Susan Lieu

3.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more

Similar categories in Susan Lieu's The Manicurist's Daughter book and J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari

15. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

By: Anna Akbari

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more

Similar categories in Anna Akbari's There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish book and J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

By: Pamela Prickett

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more

Similar categories in Pamela Prickett's The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels book and J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir

By: Nina St. Pierre

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riveting memoir about a daughter’s investigation into the wirings of her loving, unpredictable mo… read more

Similar categories in Nina St. Pierre's Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir book and J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

Similar categories in Tia Levings's A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy book and J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more

Similar categories in Mikita Brottman's Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida book and J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers

  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

20. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

Similar categories in Jesselyn Cook's The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family book and J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
Cover of Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl by Hyeseung Song

21. Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl

By: Hyeseung Song

4.13

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

For readers of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings as well as lovers of the film Minari comes a sea… read more

Similar categories in Hyeseung Song's Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl book and J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook

9 must-read adult books like Between Two Trailers by J. Dana Trent

Transform Your Habits

Between Two Trailers

J. Dana Trent

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds

Michelle Horton

4.52

Transform Your Habits

Did I Ever Tell You?

Genevieve Kingston

4.34

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21 must-read audiobook books like Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman

Transform Your Habits

Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

Griffin Dunne

4.19

Transform Your Habits

We Burn Daylight

Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

Transform Your Habits

There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

Anna Akbari

3.66

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