18 best-selling biography books like Bad Mormon: A Memoir by Heather Gay

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Bad Mormon: A Memoir

By: Heather Gay

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Drinking and Tweeting meets Unorthodox in this vulnerable memo…

"I was beginning to learn the gendered rules for behavior. My parents did not want a steely-eyed warrior for a daughter- they wanted someone obedient and kind. She didn't have to be a quivering sack of hysteria, but she should at least crack at FBI-interrogator levels. I would have to do better. I would try to be softer."

-Heather Gay, Bad Mormon: A Memoir

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1. The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year

By: Andy Cohen

3.59

Format: None pages,

A year in the whirlwind life of the beloved pop icon Andy Cohen, in his own cheeky, candid, and irr… read more

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2. First Lie Wins

By: Ashley Elston

4.05

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house w… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Elston's First Lie Wins book and Heather Gay's Bad Mormon: A Memoir

  • adult
  • audiobook
"Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"It’s because you’re not ready to tell me the truth and I’d rather you not lie to me."

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is delibe…"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

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3. Counting the Cost

By: Jill Duggar

4.06

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

For the first time, discover the unedited truth about the Duggars, the traditional Christian family… read more

Similar categories in Jill Duggar's Counting the Cost book and Heather Gay's Bad Mormon: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"He loved spending time with us and told us often that we were his number one hobby."

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

"Sometimes you have to be okay with other people not being okay with you. And you have to be okay with you not being okay too."

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

"The dangers were not just out there on the street or in the mall, and they weren't just limited to the summer. They were closer to home as I soon discovered."

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

"It's like roses and thorns, justice and grace. You can recognize the beauty and happy parts of your story while also recognizing the more difficult parts. The two can coexist. The highs aren't automa…"

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

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4. Paris: The Memoir

By: Paris Hilton

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

🎧Listening Length: 8 hours and 22 minutes ***An Instant New York Times Bestseller*** From the… read more

Similar categories in Paris Hilton's Paris: The Memoir book and Heather Gay's Bad Mormon: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Some friendships just have their seasons, and that's ok."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

"Don’t waste energy living a life someone else designed for you. Life is one per customer. Let them do theirs. You do yours."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

"Know your worth, girls. You're not lucky to be at the party, the party is lucky to have you. Apply as needed to relationships, jobs, and family."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

"Maybe if one of them had told someone, it wouldn't have happened to me. And maybe if I had told someone, it wouldn't have happened to someone else."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

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5. Pretty Mess

By: Erika Jayne

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Without her alter-ego Erika Jayne, Erika Girardi says she’d just be “ano… read more

Similar categories in Erika Jayne's Pretty Mess book and Heather Gay's Bad Mormon: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Woman in Me

By: Britney Spears

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival… read more

Similar categories in Britney Spears's The Woman in Me book and Heather Gay's Bad Mormon: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I realized how powerful it can be when women defy expectations. I can make my own way in life. I can make my dreams come true."

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"But then, when it came time to end the conservatorship, I realized one thing: You can’t fuck with a woman who knows how to pray. Really pray. All I did was pray."

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"Later, I walked all the way home so I could take in the city, breaking one of my heels along the way. When I got to my apartment, I went to my terrace and just looked up at the stars for hours. At th…"

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"Giving a person no grace in a hard time is just not nice. Especially when you can't take as good as you give. When I started to speak and throw it back at them a little, God knows they were far from …"

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

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7. Bad Mormon: A Memoir

By: Heather Gay

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Drinking and Tweeting meets Unorthodox in this vulnerable memo… read more

Similar categories in Heather Gay's Bad Mormon: A Memoir book and Heather Gay's Bad Mormon: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • mormonism
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I was beginning to learn the gendered rules for behavior. My parents did not want a steely-eyed warrior for a daughter- they wanted someone obedient and kind. She didn't have to be a quivering sack o…"

-Heather Gay, Bad Mormon: A Memoir

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8. If You Would Have Told Me

By: John Stamos

3.81

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad’s fast-food joint that one d… read more

Similar categories in John Stamos's If You Would Have Told Me book and Heather Gay's Bad Mormon: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Down the Drain

By: Julia Fox

4.40

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

Julia Fox is famous for many her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut G… read more

Similar categories in Julia Fox's Down the Drain book and Heather Gay's Bad Mormon: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I want to love him but I often find myself wishing he could just be an asshole all the time. This way I wouldn't have all these inner battles with myself. I learn to navigate my way through shattered…"

-Julia Fox, Down the Drain

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10. One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

By: Kate Kennedy

3.78

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millenni… read more

Similar categories in Kate Kennedy's One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In book and Heather Gay's Bad Mormon: A Memoir

  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Why would I ever let someone who drafts make-believe football teams make me believe I should be embarrassed by my interests?"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"Pregnancy loss...is an open wound with the most vulnerable scab, forced to constantly replenish its surface-level protection as it's picked at daily, not by you, but inadvertently by other people's j…"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"I'm a weird contradiction of someone who pursues and values traditions but tries to reject the parts that are oppressive, unfair or unnecessary, because we can adapt things to who we are, not to who …"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"That's the thing about girlhood. You and your friends have to take yourselves seriously, because no one else will. We had to keep our emotional behavior to diary pages and fangirl in private, perform…"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

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11. Love, Pamela

By: Pamela Anderson

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

To live and dream is a wicked dance. My dreams often come true -- a curse, and a blessing. Pa… read more

Similar categories in Pamela Anderson's Love, Pamela book and Heather Gay's Bad Mormon: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She told me that you get to have only one true love, and once you've found it, whether you kept it or lost it, you'd never recover...Accepting that was the hardest part."

-Pamela Anderson, Love, Pamela

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12. The House of Hidden Meanings

By: RuPaul

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

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13. Tell Me Everything

By: Minka Kelly

4.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“A timely, urgent portrait of working-class American women.”—Gabrielle UnionMinka Kelly takes reade… read more

Similar categories in Minka Kelly's Tell Me Everything book and Heather Gay's Bad Mormon: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

By: Crystal Hefner

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A raw and unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, a woman’s st… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Hefner's Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself book and Heather Gay's Bad Mormon: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. XOXO, Cody: An Opinionated Homosexual's Guide to Self-Love, Relationships, and Tactful Pettiness

By: Cody Rigsby

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved Peloton instructor chronicles his journey from small-town North Carolina to New York Ci… read more

Similar categories in Cody Rigsby's XOXO, Cody: An Opinionated Homosexual's Guide to Self-Love, Relationships, and Tactful Pettiness book and Heather Gay's Bad Mormon: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Rebel Rising

By: Rebel Wilson

3.91

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilariou… read more

Similar categories in Rebel Wilson's Rebel Rising book and Heather Gay's Bad Mormon: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Would this performance feel internally like I was going to die? Yes. But my desire to win, my desire to be somebody, is so strong that it compels me to do the hardest thing possible: to perform in pu…"

-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising

"People would come up to me on the street and say, 'I just want to thank you for being so brave!' Why am I so fucking brave? I'm not going off to fight in a war! I'm not running into a burning buildin…"

-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising

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17. The Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up

By: Andy Cohen

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Instant New York Times Bestseller! New York Times bestselling author Andy Cohen goes from bott… read more

Similar categories in Andy Cohen's The Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up book and Heather Gay's Bad Mormon: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Give Them Lala

By: Lala Kent

3.72

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

USA TODAY BESTSELLER T he Vanderpump Rules breakout star and provocateur brings her signature sh… read more

Similar categories in Lala Kent's Give Them Lala book and Heather Gay's Bad Mormon: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Off with My Head: The Definitive Basic B*tch Handbook to Surviving Rock Bottom by Stassi Schroeder

19. Off with My Head: The Definitive Basic B*tch Handbook to Surviving Rock Bottom

By: Stassi Schroeder

3.57

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

The year 2020 was going to be the best year of Stassi’s life. Besides getting engaged and feeling l… read more

Similar categories in Stassi Schroeder's Off with My Head: The Definitive Basic B*tch Handbook to Surviving Rock Bottom book and Heather Gay's Bad Mormon: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Next Level Basic: The Definitive Basic Bitch Handbook by Stassi Schroeder

20. Next Level Basic: The Definitive Basic Bitch Handbook

By: Stassi Schroeder

3.31

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover how to embrace your best basic self in this instant New York Times bestselling, laugh-out-… read more

Similar categories in Stassi Schroeder's Next Level Basic: The Definitive Basic Bitch Handbook book and Heather Gay's Bad Mormon: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Weight of Beautiful

By: Jackie Goldschneider

4.30

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

Jackie Goldschneider, star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey , bravely chronicles her decades-lo… read more

Similar categories in Jackie Goldschneider's The Weight of Beautiful book and Heather Gay's Bad Mormon: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

13 best-selling adult books like Bad Mormon: A Memoir by Heather Gay

Transform Your Habits

First Lie Wins

Ashley Elston

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Counting the Cost

Jill Duggar

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Paris: The Memoir

Paris Hilton

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Woman in Me

Britney Spears

3.86

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7 Best adult books like Next Level Basic: The Definitive Basic Bitch Handbook by Stassi Schroeder

Transform Your Habits

Paris: The Memoir

Paris Hilton

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Woman in Me

Britney Spears

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Open Book

Jessica Simpson

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Bad Mormon: A Memoir

Heather Gay

3.50

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