12 best-selling memoir books like Wavewalker: Breaking Free by Suzanne Heywood

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Wavewalker: Breaking Free

By: Suzanne Heywood

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing…

"Do you want to hear a secret?' I asked him, leaning closer. 'I don't want to be different — I want to be normal. I don't want to be stuck out at sea away from my friends. I know Mum and Dad would laugh if I told you this, but I want to be like Heidi and Sandy and go to school every day. Do you think I'm ungrateful?"

-Suzanne Heywood, Wavewalker: Breaking Free

If you liked the memoir plot in Wavewalker: Breaking Free by Suzanne Heywood , here is a list of 12 books like this:

1. Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind

By: Chuck Barris

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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2. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

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  • 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

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3. The Bee Sting

By: Paul Murray

3.96

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more

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  • audiobook
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

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4. 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 Suzanne Heywood's Wavewalker: Breaking Free

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • 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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5. Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness

By: Christian Lewis

4.40

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK – his dog Jet in tow – and rebuilds… read more

Similar categories in Christian Lewis's Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness book and Suzanne Heywood's Wavewalker: Breaking Free

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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6. Wavewalker: Breaking Free

By: Suzanne Heywood

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Heywood's Wavewalker: Breaking Free book and Suzanne Heywood's Wavewalker: Breaking Free

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • coming of age
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Do you want to hear a secret?' I asked him, leaning closer. 'I don't want to be different — I want to be normal. I don't want to be stuck out at sea away from my friends. I know Mum and Dad would lau…"

-Suzanne Heywood, Wavewalker: Breaking Free

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7. There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

By: Emma Espiner

4.31

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking abo… read more

Similar categories in Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir book and Suzanne Heywood's Wavewalker: Breaking Free

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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8. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

By: Josie Shapiro

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Adventures with Emilie: Taking on Te Araroa trail in 138 life-changing days

By: Victoria Bruce

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

“I’m here because I want to test the very limits of my own resilience and reassure myself that no m… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Bruce's Adventures with Emilie: Taking on Te Araroa trail in 138 life-changing days book and Suzanne Heywood's Wavewalker: Breaking Free

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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10. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun

By: Catherine Coldstream

3.71

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Coldstream's Cloistered: My Years as a Nun book and Suzanne Heywood's Wavewalker: Breaking Free

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Last Secret Agent

By: Pippa Latour

4.55

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The extraordinary untold story of Pippa Latour, who parachuted into occupied France in 1944 as an u… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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12. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Excommunicated: A multigenerational story of leaving the Exclusive Bretheren

By: Craig Hoyle

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

After coming out as gay, Craig Hoyle was excommunicated from the New Zealand Exclusive Brethren and… read more

Similar categories in Craig Hoyle's Excommunicated: A multigenerational story of leaving the Exclusive Bretheren book and Suzanne Heywood's Wavewalker: Breaking Free

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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14. Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy

By: Cait West

4.14

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece … read more

Similar categories in Cait West's Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy book and Suzanne Heywood's Wavewalker: Breaking Free

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of On Call: Stories from my life as a surgeon, a daughter and a mother by Ineke Meredith

15. On Call: Stories from my life as a surgeon, a daughter and a mother

By: Ineke Meredith

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Stories of life, death and bravery by a Kiwi female general surgeon. The world of surgery is str… read more

Similar categories in Ineke Meredith's On Call: Stories from my life as a surgeon, a daughter and a mother book and Suzanne Heywood's Wavewalker: Breaking Free

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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16. At The Grand Glacier Hotel

By: Laurence Fearnley

3.53

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Following a disastrous family holiday, Libby and Curtis make a If they ever visit the West Coast o… read more

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17. The Life of Dai

By: Dai Henwood

4.43

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving and profoundly uplifting story about living with joy, even in the face of adversity… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. Home Truths

By: Charity Norman

4.36

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Livia Denby is on trial for attempted murder. The jury have reached a verdict. Two years earlier, L… read more

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Cover of How To Visualize Like A World Champion: Manifest Your Dreams With Creative Visualization In 6 Steps by Vincent Santiago

19. How To Visualize Like A World Champion: Manifest Your Dreams With Creative Visualization In 6 Steps

By: Vincent Santiago

4.38

Format: 124 pages, Kindle Edition

You're here because you're driven, and you know that deep down within you, there's a powerful force… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. The Three Rooms: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

By: Kevin Murphy

3.80

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Move into the Present Room and Enjoy Your Life “The Three Rooms is a heartfelt seminal text whic… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Kind

By: Stephanie Johnson

3.43

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

High on the Southern Alps of New Zealand lies a fallen man, like ‘a black exclamation mark on a whi… read more

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne

3.84

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Suzanne Heywood

4.27

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There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

Emma Espiner

4.31

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The Starseed Transmissions

Ken Carey

4.09

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Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program

Colm A. Kelleher

4.12

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Suzanne Heywood

4.27

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