15 Best nonfiction books like Finding Me by Viola Davis

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Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Viola Davis's Finding Me

• feminism
• adult
• audiobook

"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Viola Davis's Finding Me

• adult
• audiobook

"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

Similar categories in Jill Duggar's Counting the Cost book and Viola Davis's Finding Me

• biography
• memoir
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• 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

Similar categories in Paris Hilton's Paris: The Memoir book and Viola Davis's Finding Me

• biography
• memoir
• feminism
• 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

Similar categories in Britney Spears's The Woman in Me book and Viola Davis's Finding Me

• 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

Similar categories in Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures book and Viola Davis's Finding Me

• adult
• audiobook

"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

Similar categories in Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful book and Viola Davis's Finding Me

• adult
• audiobook

"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Viola Davis's Finding Me

• adult
• audiobook

"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Similar categories in Jada Pinkett Smith's Worthy book and Viola Davis's Finding Me

• biography
• memoir
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Elliot Page's Pageboy book and Viola Davis's Finding Me

• biography
• memoir
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

Similar categories in Michelle Obama's Becoming book and Viola Davis's Finding Me

• biography
• memoir
• feminism
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"When they go low, we go high"

-Michelle Obama, Becoming

"Grief and resilience live together."

-Michelle Obama, Becoming

"I've learned that it's harder to hate up close."

-Michelle Obama, Becoming

"At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be."

-Michelle Obama, Becoming

Similar categories in Viola Davis's Finding Me book and Viola Davis's Finding Me

• race
• biography
• memoir
• feminism
• adult
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• african american
• audiobook

Similar categories in Jennette McCurdy's I'm Glad My Mom Died book and Viola Davis's Finding Me

• biography
• memoir
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"I feel like the world is divided into two types of people: people who know loss and people who don't."

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

"My grandma frequently refers to me as "bitch". She always throws a little extra salt on the word too, for effect."

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

"Even if that thing makes you very uncomfortable at times. Even if that thing puts a lot of pressure on you. Even if that thing is very stressful. Sometimes it’s just nice to feel good at something."

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

"She wanted this. And I wanted her to have it. I wanted her to be happy. But now that I have it, I realize that she’s happy and I’m not. Her happiness came at the cost of mine. I feel robbed and explo…"

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

Similar categories in John Stamos's If You Would Have Told Me book and Viola Davis's Finding Me

• biography
• memoir
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Kerry Washington's Thicker than Water: A Memoir book and Viola Davis's Finding Me

• biography
• memoir
• adult
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• african american
• audiobook

Similar categories in Sadeqa Johnson's The House of Eve book and Viola Davis's Finding Me

• race
• adult
• african american
• audiobook

Similar categories in Whoopi Goldberg's Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me book and Viola Davis's Finding Me

• biography
• memoir
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• african american
• audiobook

"Listen. The confines of this neighbourhood do not represent the confines of your life. You can go and do and be whatever you want. But, whatever you choose, be yourself."

-Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

Similar categories in Michelle Obama's The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times book and Viola Davis's Finding Me

• biography
• memoir
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"Going high is about learning to keep the poison out and the power in."

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

"Being different conditions you toward cautiousness, even as it demands being bold."

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

"Life has shown me that strong friendships are most often the result of strong intentions. Your table needs to be deliberately built, deliberately populated, and deliberately tended to."

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

"Real-world connections most often tend to cut against stereotypes. They can be remarkably calming, in fact—a small but potent way to reset a bad mood or challenge broader feelings of mistrust. The on…"

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

Similar categories in Lara Love Hardin's The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing book and Viola Davis's Finding Me

• biography
• memoir
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Matthew Perry's Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing book and Viola Davis's Finding Me

• biography
• memoir
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"Addiction is like the Joker. It just wants to see the whole world burn."

-Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

"I wasn't fully me yet; I was just parts of me (and not the best parts, either)."

-Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

"My mother is beautiful; she was a star in every room she entered. And she's certainly the reason I'm funny."

-Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

"Addiction, the big terrible thing, is far too powerful for anyone to defeat alone. But together, one day at a time, we can beat it down."

-Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

Similar categories in Prince Harry's Spare book and Viola Davis's Finding Me

• biography
• memoir
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"It wasn’t that she felt no emotions. On the contrary, I always thought that Granny experienced all the normal human emotions. She just knew better than the rest of us mortals how to control them."

-Prince Harry, Spare

"I heard the story of what Pa allegedly said to Mummy the day of my birth: Wonderful! Now you’ve given me an Heir and a Spare—my work is done. A joke. Presumably. On the other hand, minutes after deli…"

-Prince Harry, Spare

"I'd traveled the world from top to bottom, literally. I'd hopscotched the continents. I'd met hundreds of thousands of people, I'd crossed paths with a ludicrously large cross-section of the planet's…"

-Prince Harry, Spare

"It occurred to me then that identity is a hierarchy. We are primarily one thing, and then we're primarily another, and then another, and so on, until death- in succession. Each new identity assumes t…"

-Prince Harry, Spare