12 must-read memoir books like When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann

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When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

By: Ariana Neumann

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czecho…

"If you want to be truly just in this life, when you see people who are weak, you must stand with them. Because you are strong, and it is the weak who need you more, not the strong."

-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

"Memories, like misfiled documents, are not always where you expect to find them...I learned that detailed questions often did little to trigger specific memories. People returned to distant facts in roundabout ways, along their own winding paths, which seemed more mapped by emotion than by logic."

-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

"Perhaps all remembrance is a process of compilation and creation. Every day we absorb what is around us and assemble observations of a specific time: sounds, smells, textures, words, images, and feelings. Of course, we prioritize and edit as we go, subjective witnesses to our own lives, providing recollections that are often biased and incomplete."

-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

"…it was during a period he had so much time on his hands that he felt that time had stopped. How could time have stopped? ‘Because,’ he said, ‘and you will understand this when you are older, sometimes you feel that everything around you has come to an end. You feel that you are completely alone, that time is frozen and that you are invisible. At first, you might feel exhilarated by the sense of freedom, but then you’ll be frightened that you are lost and you will never be able to go back.’ He explained that when he first felt this, he had been isolated and afraid and had prised open his watch case to verify that time was indeed passing. The rhythm of the watch might have been imagined. Sound was not enough, he needed to see and touch it. It was the first time that he had dismantled a mechanism. The turning wheels, ticking each second away, had reassured him. It was then that he had comprehended the importance of time."

-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

If you liked the memoir plot in When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Journals of Louisa May Alcott

By: Louisa May Alcott , Joel Myerson

4.07

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A companion volume to The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott, the journals are here published in… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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2. Pretty in Plaid

By: Jen Lancaster

3.89

Format: 365 pages, Hardcover

The hardcover debut from the New York Times bestselling author- the prequel to Bitter is the New Bl… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. My Angel

By: Jamie Gibson

3.91

Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition

Pregnancy is supposed to be a wonderful time; a special moment that will change your life forever. … read more

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4. The Year of Yes

By: Maria Dahvana Headley

3.20

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

"Why not go out on a date with everyone who asks you? Plenty of reasons. They might be crazy. They … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"The main problem of living in the city that never sleeps that neither did I."

-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes

"I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me."

-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes

"I frantically opened my address book and searched it for someone, anyone, who'd moved me, who'd been good in both bed and brain. No. A slew of the so-so."

-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes

"I was becoming convinced that I was going to be lonely for the rest of my life. It wasn't that I wasn't meeting men. I was. It was just that they all drove me crazy."

-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes

Cover of Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think by Cybill Shepherd, Aimee Lee Ball

5. Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think

By: Cybill Shepherd , Aimee Lee Ball

4.17

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

From Model to Moonlighting, from Elvis to Bruce Willis to motherhood to a behind-the-scenes inside … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Will Love For Crumbs by Jonna Ivin

6. Will Love For Crumbs

By: Jonna Ivin

3.62

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Raised by an alcoholic mother and without a father, Jonna learned at a young age to put her needs o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"There is absolutely no reason to be a dick, just because you have one."

-Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs

"Quietly trying to manifest what you want doesn’t work, being a bitch does."

-Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs

"Funny how a wink from a city guy can come across as cheesy or condescending, but a wink from a southern boy will send shivers up a girl’s spine."

-Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs

"I didn’t make choices based on what I liked or didn’t like. I simply accepted what they chose for me. My role had always been to react and adapt to what was decided by other people, by outside circum…"

-Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs

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7. Knowing Jesse: A Mother's Story of Grief, Grace, and Everyday Bliss

By: Marianne Leone

3.15

Format: None pages,

Jesse Cooper was an honor-roll student who loved to windsurf and write poetry. He also had severe c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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8. Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography

By: None , P.D. James

3.91

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

On the day she turned seventy-seven, internationally acclaimed mystery writer P. D. James embarked … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"It is interesting how often unintelligent, even stupid, women manage their emotional lives more satisfactorily than do their cleverer sisters."

-None, Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography

"The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality."

-None, Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography

"Even as a child, I had a sense that I was two people; the one who experienced the trauma, the pain, the happiness, and the other who stood aside and watched with a disinterested ironic eye."

-None, Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography

"There is much that I remember but which is painful to dwell on. I see no need to write about these things. They are over and must be accepted, made sense of and forgiven, afforded no more than their …"

-None, Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography

9. Becoming Alice: A Memoir

By: Alice Rene

3.80

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

Six-year-old IIse watches Nazi soldiers march down her street in Vienna. She does not understand th… read more

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10. The Third Sunrise: A Memoir of Madness

By: Natalie Jeanne Champagne

3.97

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

“Psychiatrists and I; we do not get on well. They have failed to cure me; I am still damaged and it… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Jeanne Champagne's The Third Sunrise: A Memoir of Madness book and Ariana Neumann's When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. Winning My Wings: A Woman Airforce Service Pilot in World War II

By: Marion Stegeman Hodgson , Lindy Boggs

3.93

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

One of the first women in the United States to train as a military pilot, the author was part of a … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

12. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq

By: James Ridgeway , Alia Mamdouh , None

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"In August 2003 a young Iraqi blogger began reporting her experiences as a civilian observer in Bag… read more

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Cover of Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind by Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

13. Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind

By: Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

4.29

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Ready to break through the six-figure plateau? Discover an actionable strategy to cross over the mi… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives by Anne  Michaud

14. Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

By: Anne Michaud

4.29

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

Why do good women stay with bad men? What if political wives are just as calculating as their in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
"The political wife came forward and publicly vouched for her straying man. If she could continue to trust and believe in him, the public could too – or so the script went."

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. Peopl…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"What we witness playing out in the relationships of our public figures we risk finding acceptable in our private lives. Feminists have connected women’s sexual subordination to their unequal status i…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being o…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

Cover of Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love by Aimee Cabo Nikolov

15. Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

By: Aimee Cabo Nikolov

4.30

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Her family secrets burst in the spotlight when Aimee and her sister went to the authorities. In thi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"#metooasachild"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"We can be beacons of light"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"Unconditional Love conquers all!"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"God is the Cure, Love is the Answer"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

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16. Looking for Humboldt & Searching for German Footprints in New Mexico and Beyond

By: Erika Schelby

3.89

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

As a German-American explores the colorful landscape of the American Southwest, its adventure-rich … read more

Similar categories in Erika Schelby's Looking for Humboldt & Searching for German Footprints in New Mexico and Beyond book and Ariana Neumann's When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. Motherhood: Lost and Found

By: Ann Campanella

4.13

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Ann Campanella, a freelance writer and horsewoman, returns to North Carolina after a several year a… read more

Similar categories in Ann Campanella's Motherhood: Lost and Found book and Ariana Neumann's When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I am thirty-three years old and have been riding horses since I was nine. From the beginning, I was entranced with their power, their muscled fluidity. I was a typical young girl in love with horses.…"

-Ann Campanella, Motherhood: Lost and Found

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18. #uncensored: inside the animal liberation movement

By: Camille Marino

4.13

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

In her best-selling memoir, Camille Marino's astonishing odyssey rapidly unravels in raw and compel… read more

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Cover of When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann

19. When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

By: Ariana Neumann

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czecho… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
"If you want to be truly just in this life, when you see people who are weak, you must stand with them. Because you are strong, and it is the weak who need you more, not the strong."

-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

"Memories, like misfiled documents, are not always where you expect to find them...I learned that detailed questions often did little to trigger specific memories. People returned to distant facts in …"

-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

"Perhaps all remembrance is a process of compilation and creation. Every day we absorb what is around us and assemble observations of a specific time: sounds, smells, textures, words, images, and feel…"

-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

"…it was during a period he had so much time on his hands that he felt that time had stopped. How could time have stopped? ‘Because,’ he said, ‘and you will understand this when you are older, sometim…"

-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

Cover of Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir by Angie Cavallari

20. Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir

By: Angie Cavallari

4.08

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Trailer Trash tells the story of Angie Cavallari, your typical girl growing up in the 1980s who fin… read more

Similar categories in Angie Cavallari's Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir book and Ariana Neumann's When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Most days Florence would proudly sport a halter top sans a brassiere and briskly march across her yard in crudely trimmed cut-off-jeans —her cheap flip flops flailing off her feet and her sagging bre…"

-Angie Cavallari, Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir

Cover of 走得越远,离自己越近 The Farther I Walk, The Closer I Get To Me by Hong  Mei

21. 走得越远,离自己越近 The Farther I Walk, The Closer I Get To Me

By: Hong Mei

3.64

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Hong Mei's (洪梅) debut travelogue, The Farther I Walk, The Closer I Get To Me (走得越远,离自己越近), takes re… read more

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