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10 best books like An Unknown Woman (Alice Koller): The Bread of Angels: A Memoir of Love and Faith, Strictly G.I.: The WWII Letters of Cpl.wanda M. Renn, The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties, The House by the Sea, Widening Circles: A Memoir, Daybook: The Journal of an Artist, The New Diary: How to use a journal for self-guidance and expanded creativity, A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries, The Measure of My Days, Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Journey

The Bread of Angels: A Memoir of Love and Faith
AuthorStephanie Saldana
ISBN0385522002
A riveting memoir about one woman's journey into Syria under the Baathist regime and an unexpected love story between two strangers searching for meaning.

When Stephanie Saldana arrives in Damascus, she is running away from a broken heart and a haunted family history that she has crossed...
Strictly G.I.: The WWII Letters of Cpl.wanda M. Renn
AuthorPatricia Arnold
ISBN1461103940
Strictly G.I. Letters from a WAAC is a woman's historical World War II Memoir created from an actual collection of letters and Vmail.

Wanda served in the 149th WAAC Post Hq. Co., the first group of Womens Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) during World War II to be sent overseas. "Strictly G.I." is a...
The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties
AuthorJudith Nies
At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington—Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar congressmen, her husband as a Treasury department...
The House by the Sea
AuthorMay Sarton
ISBN0393313905
This is the sixth of Sarton’s journals I’ve read. It covers 1975–6, when she was 63–4 and in her second year in Maine. Her health is not yet a worry, at least as compared to later journals, but there is a faint sense of diminished abilities and an awareness of death’s approach. Poetry has run dry...
Widening Circles: A Memoir
AuthorJoanna Macy
ISBN0865714207
In this absorbing, and sometimes thrilling memoir, well-known eco-philosopher, Buddhist scholar, and deep ecology activist /teacher Joanna Macy recounts her adventures in the key social movements of our era. Macy's autobiography reads like a novel as she relates her multi-faceted life experiences...
Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
AuthorAnne Truitt
ISBN0140069631
Renowned American artist Anne Truitt kept this illuminating and inspiring journal over a period of seven years, determined to come to terms with the forces that shaped her art and life. Her range of sensitivity—moral, intellectual, sensual, emotional, and spiritual— is remarkably broad. She...
The New Diary: How to use a journal for self-guidance and expanded creativity
AuthorTristine Rainer
ISBN0874771501
The New Diary is about a completely modern concept of journal writing. It has little to do with the rigid daily calendar diary you may have kept as a child or the factual travelogue you wrote to recall the Grand Canyon. Instead, it is a tool for tapping the full power of your inner resources.

The...
A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries
AuthorThomas Mallon
ISBN1886913021
Mallon has assembled a guide to the great diaries of literature -- from Samuel Pepys to Anais Nin. Mallon has written a new introduction for this edition which comments on the political consequences of keeping a journal, as in the former controversy involving Sen. Bob Packwood. A diarist himself, Mallon...
The Measure of My Days
AuthorFlorida Scott-Maxwell
ISBN0140051643
Playwright and Jungian analyst Florida Scott-Maxwell explores the unique predicament of one's later years: when one feels both cut off from the past and out of step with the present; when the body rebels at activity but the mind becomes more passionate than ever. Written when Maxwell was in her eighties,...
Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Journey
AuthorDeena Metzger
ISBN0062506129
Pros:

-This book has some of the most creative and deepest writing prompts I've ever experienced.
-Those who follow the writing exercises will derive both personal and professional insight.
-This book can be used by writers of all levels.

Cons:
-The author disses "genre"...
Canyon Solitude: A Woman's Solo River Journey Through the Grand Canyon
AuthorPatricia McCairen
ISBN1580050077
"It's well known that Mother River doesn't like a smart aleck," says Patricia McCairen. Accordingly, she plies her oars with reverence and skill on a sometimes hair-raising solo rafting trip along the Colorado River that winds though the stupendous stone valleys of the American Grand Canyon. Like...
Deep Water Passage
AuthorAnn Linnea
ISBN0671002821
This book was so bad on so many levels, that the only thing spiritual about it was the way in which self-flagellation would have been preferable to reading the entire thing. Now, what you are no doubt asking yourself right now is "if it was so bad, why did he finish the damn thing?"
Well, pull up a chair...
Perfection of the Morning: A Woman's Awaking in Nature
AuthorSharon Butala
ISBN1886913161




It is a very personal book, and yet the writer is very careful to keep certain things at bay. There is much in her thoughts and experiences that resonate with human beings.

Writing about her life in nature, she says; "I inhabit another world now ... that is worked out physically...
Chocolate for a Woman's Soul: 77 Stories to Feed Your Spirit and Warm Your Heart
AuthorKay Allenbaugh
ISBN0684832178
Treat yourself to 77 true stories that celebrate life and capture the essence of what it means to be a woman. Like chocolate, these stories soothe, satisfy, and delight -- better yet, they're good for you! Written by and for women, here are heartfelt insights on commitment, compassion, work, marriage,...
Loving and Leaving the Good Life
AuthorHelen Nearing
ISBN0930031636
Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of Living the Good Life and many other bestselling books, lived together for 53 years until Scott's death at age 100. Loving and Leaving the Good Life is Helen's testimonial to their life together and to what they stood for: self-sufficiency, generosity, social justice,...
Mockingbird Years: A Life In and Out of Therapy
AuthorEmily Fox Gordon
"During my years as a patient, I felt a guilty and unshakeable conviction that I was completely sane. Of course, my notion that patients were expected to be crazy was naïve, but I had swallowed whole the ideology that connects madness to beauty of spirit. In fact, I wasn't interested in being happier,...
When I Loved Myself Enough
AuthorKim McMillen
ISBN0312271247
When I Loved Myself Enough began as one woman's gift to the world, hand-made by Kim McMillen. Book by book, reader by reader, When I Loved Myself Enough was passed along from friend to friend, shared by parents with their children, and given as a gift at special occasions. As word spread, it's heartfelt...
Sleeping with Cats
AuthorMarge Piercy
ISBN0060936045
Marge Piercy, a writer who is highly praised as both a poet and a novelist, turns her gaze inward as she shares her thoughts on life and explores her development as a woman and writer. She pays tribute to the one loving constant that has offered her comfort and meaning even as the faces and events in her life...
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