A Ticket to the Circus: A Memoir
10 best books like A Ticket to the Circus: A Memoir (Norris Church Mailer): The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, A Complicated Kindness, A Spot of Bother, Nothing Was the Same, The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War, You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story, Teaching the Pig to Dance: A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances, We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-Biz Saga, Tip It!: The World According to Maggie, Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
| Author | Anne Fadiman |
| ISBN | 0374525641 |
Lia Lee was born in 1982 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderstanding, over-medication, and culture clash: "What the doctors viewed as clinical efficiency the Hmong viewed as...
| Author | Miriam Toews |
| ISBN | 1582433224 |
In this stunning coming-of-age novel, award-winner Miriam Toews balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty, beleaguered teenager whose family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity.
"Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing," Nomi Nickel tells us at the beginning...
| Author | Mark Haddon |
| ISBN | 0385520514 |
George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not at quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood, or manly bonhomie. He does not understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. “The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring...
| Author | Kay Redfield Jamison |
| ISBN | 0307265374 |
From the internationally acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind, an exquisite, haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss.
Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison—who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with a writerly elegance and passion—could bring such a delicate...
| Author | Alexander Waugh |
| ISBN | 0385520603 |
From Alexander Waugh, the author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons, comes a grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family.
The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history. Karl Wittgenstein, who ran away from home as a wayward...
In this hilarious and ultimately moving memoir, comedians and real-life married couple Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn prove that in marriage, all you need is love—and a healthy dose of complaining, codependence, and pinot noir.
After thirteen years of being married, Annabelle and...
| Author | Fred Thompson |
| ISBN | 0307460304 |
Fred Thompson has enjoyed a remarkable career in Hollywood and politics, but when he sat down to write a memoir about how he got to be the person he is, he discovered that his best stories all seemed to come out of the years he spent growing up in and around his hometown of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. It was a...
| Author | Paul Shaffer |
| ISBN | 0385524838 |
From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.
How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights...
Tip It!: The World According to Maggie
| Author | Maggie Griffin |
| ISBN | 1401324045 |
Dear Readers, There are at least five good reasons to Tip It! right now. 1. My daughter Kathy put out her memoir last year, which was real nice except for the controversial parts. And it got to be a #1 New York Times bestseller. Congratulations, Kathleen! But now it's my turn. I've written my own book. I have...
Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy
| Author | Paula Butturini |
| ISBN | 1594488975 |
A story of food and love, injury and healing, Keeping the Feast is the triumphant memoir of one couple's nourishment and restoration in Italy after a period of tragedy, and the extraordinary sustaining powers of food, family, and friendship.
Paula and John met in Italy, fell in love, and four...
Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir
| Author | Helena Andrews |
| ISBN | 0061778826 |
Strong, sassy, always surprising—and titled after a Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update” monologue by Tina Fey—Bitch Is the New Black is a deliciously addictive memoir-in-essays in which Helena Andrews goes from being the daughter of the town lesbian to a hot-shot political reporter…...
Keeper: One House, Three Generations, and a Journey into Alzheimer's
| Author | Andrea Gillies |
| ISBN | 0307719111 |
Keeper is a fiercely honest "glimpse into the dementia abyss" - an endlessly engrossing meditation on memory and the mind, on family, and on a society that is largely indifferent to the far-reaching ravages of this baffling disease.
Five years ago, Andrea Gillies - writer, wife, and mother...
Larry's Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant--and Save His Life
| Author | Daniel Asa Rose |
| ISBN | 0061708704 |
“One of the funniest, most touching and bizarre nonfiction books I’ve read.”
—Boston Globe
Larry’s Kidney is Daniel Asa Rose’s wild-and-crazy memoir about his trip to Beijing, China, to help his black-sheep cousin Larry receive an illegal kidney transplant,...
| Author | Harry Bernstein |
| ISBN | 0345503740 |
Dreams played an important part in our lives in those early days in England. Our mother invented them for us to make up for all the things we lacked and to give us some hope for the future.
During the hard and bitter years of his youth in England, Harry Bernstein's selfless mother struggles to keep...
| Author | Paul Mooney |
| ISBN | 1416587950 |
OTHER COMEDIANS TELL JOKES. PAUL MOONEY TELLS THE TRUTH. For more than forty years, whether writing for Richard Pryor and Saturday Night Live or performing stand-up to sold-out crowds around the country, Paul Mooney has been provocative, incisive... and absolutely hilarious. His comedy has always...
Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think
| Author | Cybill Shepherd |
| ISBN | 0060193506 |
From Model to Moonlighting, from Elvis to Bruce Willis to motherhood to a behind-the-scenes inside view of network sit-com madness, the irrepressible show biz icon tells all in her own inimitable, no-holds-barred fashion.
-- Cybill is a bona fide star with millions of fans -- a hero to middle aged...
