Chosen Forever: a memoir

8 best books like Chosen Forever: a memoir (Susan Richards): Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year, Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog, The Chronology of Water, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less, How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents, Wild by Nature: One Woman, One Trek, One Thousand Nights

Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story

Author

Jacob Tobia

A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above.

From the moment a doctor in Raleigh, North Carolina, put "male" on Jacob Tobia's birth certificate, everything...

Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

Author	Anne Lamott
ISBN	1400079098

The most honest, wildly enjoyable book written about motherhood is surely Anne Lamott's account of her son Sam's first year. A gifted writer and teacher, Lamott (Crooked Little Heart) is a single mother and ex-alcoholic with a pleasingly warped social circle and a remarkably tolerant religion to...

Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog

Author	Dave Barry
ISBN	1501161172

In this “little gem” ( Washington Independent Review of Books), Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and New York Times bestselling author Dave Barry learns how to age happily from his old but joyful dog, Lucy.

As Dave Barry turns seventy—not happily—he realizes that his dog,...

The Chronology of Water

Author	Lidia Yuknavitch
ISBN	0979018838

This is not your mother’s memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the reader through issues of gender, sexuality, violence, and the family from the point of view of a lifelong swimmer turned artist. In writing that explores the nature of memoir itself, her story traces...

Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

Author	Rachel Held Evans
ISBN	0718022319

 One Woman’s Journey Back to Loving the Bible

If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instruction manual, then what is it? What do people mean when they say the Bible is inspired? When Rachel Held Evans found herself asking these questions, she began a quest to better understand what the...

Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less

Author	Tiffany Dufu
ISBN	1250071739

A bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women's leadership movement who shows women how to cultivate the single skill they really need in order to thrive: the ability to let go.

Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child, Tiffany Dufu...

How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents

Author	Jimmy O. Yang
ISBN	0306903490

Standup comic, actor and fan favorite from HBO's Silicon Valley and the film Crazy Rich Asians shares his memoir of growing up as a Chinese immigrant in California and making it in Hollywood.

"I turned down a job in finance to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. My dad thought I was crazy. But I...

Wild by Nature: One Woman, One Trek, One Thousand Nights

Author	Sarah Marquis
ISBN	1250081971

From National Geographic's Explorer of 2014, featured in The New York Times Magazine, Wild By Nature is the harrowing and nearly unbelievable story of Sarah Marquis' solo 10,000-mile hike across the remote Gobi desert from Siberia to Thailand, then transported by boat to complete her hike at her favorite...