15 Top biography books like The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister by Kyleigh Leddy

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The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

By: Kyleigh Leddy

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

All Kait Leddy had ever wanted was a little sister. When Kyleigh was born, they were inseparable; K…

"Only after we relinquish what is lost are we truly healed."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

"For better and for worse, hope proves itself to be surprisingly resilient."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

"No one tells you what a precious, fragile gift your mind is in the first place. No one tells you it can be lost."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

"You wish there was an adequate term for what you are—like orphan or widower—a term that says 'I once meant something to somebody."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

If you liked the biography plot in The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister by Kyleigh Leddy , here is a list of 15 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 Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness

By: Melissa Bond

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Brain on Fire meets High Achiever in this “page-turner memoir chronicling a woman’s accidental desc… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Bond's Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness book and Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger

3. 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 Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings by Chrysta Bilton

4. 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 Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education by Stephanie  Land

5. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

By: Stephanie Land

3.62

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Land's Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education book and Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

6. 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 Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Easy Beauty

By: Chloé Cooper Jones

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction … read more

Similar categories in Chloé Cooper Jones's Easy Beauty book and Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Beauty is what we're told is beautiful and what we're told becomes the truth."

-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

"Maybe then I would submit to it's rigid ideals if I were recognized as worthy of experiencing them."

-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

"I care if you are happy. I'm in love with your happiness. My focus is on how you feel not what you do."

-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

"You could have made me come home," I say. "No, I can only try to be the person you want to come home to."

-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

Cover of Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne

8. 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 Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • 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

Cover of The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister by Kyleigh Leddy

9. The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

By: Kyleigh Leddy

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

All Kait Leddy had ever wanted was a little sister. When Kyleigh was born, they were inseparable; K… read more

Similar categories in Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister book and Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
"Only after we relinquish what is lost are we truly healed."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

"For better and for worse, hope proves itself to be surprisingly resilient."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

"No one tells you what a precious, fragile gift your mind is in the first place. No one tells you it can be lost."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

"You wish there was an adequate term for what you are—like orphan or widower—a term that says 'I once meant something to somebody."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

Cover of Cost of Living: Essays by Emily Maloney

10. Cost of Living: Essays

By: Emily Maloney

3.59

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The searing intimacy of Girl, Interrupted combined with the uncomfortable truths of The Empathy Exa… read more

Similar categories in Emily Maloney's Cost of Living: Essays book and Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

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

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 Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • 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

Cover of Everything/Nothing/Someone by Alice Carrière

13. Everything/Nothing/Someone

By: Alice Carrière

4.02

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A powerful literary debut that tells of a young woman’s coming-of-age in the bohemian ’90s, as her … read more

Similar categories in Alice Carrière's Everything/Nothing/Someone book and Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Reunion

By: Elise Juska

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of the “uniquely poignant” (Entertainment Weekly) novel The Blessings comes… read more

Similar categories in Elise Juska's Reunion book and Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

  • audiobook
Cover of If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing by Kathleen Buhle

15. 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 Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of I Need You to Read This by Jessa Maxwell

16. I Need You to Read This

By: Jessa Maxwell

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The author of the “clever, atmospheric, and creepy” (Andrea Bartz, New York Times bestselling autho… read more

Similar categories in Jessa Maxwell's I Need You to Read This book and Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

  • audiobook
Cover of Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood by Stephen   Mills

17. Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood

By: Stephen Mills

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Memoir "An unparalleled achievement , a work of shatt… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Mills's Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood book and Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Start by Believing: Larry Nassar's Crimes, the Institutions that Enabled Him, and the Brave Women Who Stopped a Monster by John Barr

18. Start by Believing: Larry Nassar's Crimes, the Institutions that Enabled Him, and the Brave Women Who Stopped a Monster

By: John Barr

4.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, devastating account of the largest sex abuse scandal in American sports history-wit… read more

Similar categories in John Barr's Start by Believing: Larry Nassar's Crimes, the Institutions that Enabled Him, and the Brave Women Who Stopped a Monster book and Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses by Sarah  Fay

19. Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses

By: Sarah Fay

3.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning debut--both a memoir and a work of investigative journalism--writer Sarah Fay expl… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Fay's Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses book and Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of But How Are You, Really by Ella  Dawson

20. But How Are You, Really

By: Ella Dawson

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A burned-out bisexual confronts old demons, her estranged chosen family, and the ex she maybe shoul… read more

Similar categories in Ella Dawson's But How Are You, Really book and Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

  • audiobook
  • mental health
Cover of Extra Easy Keto: 7 Days to Ketogenic Weight Loss on a Low-Carb Diet by Stephanie  Laska

21. Extra Easy Keto: 7 Days to Ketogenic Weight Loss on a Low-Carb Diet

By: Stephanie Laska

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From USA Today and Publisher's Weekly bestselling author Stephanie Laska comes a seven-day keto kic… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Laska's Extra Easy Keto: 7 Days to Ketogenic Weight Loss on a Low-Carb Diet book and Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

  • nonfiction

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Corrections in Ink: A Memoir

Keri Blakinger

4.26

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Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness

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3.99

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While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

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4.28

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Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

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