Epilogue: A Memoir
10 best books like Epilogue: A Memoir (Anne Roiphe): My Name Is Asher Lev, Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, The Parisian, Home for Erring and Outcast Girls, The Art of Memoir, Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death, Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime, A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back, A Widow's Story
| Author | Chaim Potok |
| ISBN | 1400031044 |
Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when it leads him to blasphemy. In this stirring and often visionary novel,...
| Author | Ruth Reichl |
| ISBN | 1400069998 |
Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the job (and the risk) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now, for the first time, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet, during which she...
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing.
“By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it’s exactly the book America needs at this moment.”—Celeste...
| Author | Isabella Hammad |
| ISBN | 1473547679 |
As the First World War shatters families, destroys friendships and kills lovers, a young Palestinian dreamer sets out to find himself.
Midhat Kamal picks his way across a fractured world, from the shifting politics of the Middle East to the dinner tables of Montpellier and a newly tumultuous...
Home for Erring and Outcast Girls
An emotionally raw and resonant story of love, loss, and the enduring power of friendship, following the lives of two young women connected by a home for “fallen girls,” and inspired by historical events.
In turn-of-the-20th century Texas, the Berachah Home for the Redemption and Protection...
| Author | Mary Karr |
| ISBN | 0062223062 |
Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.
For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning...
Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death
| Author | Katy Butler |
| ISBN | 1451641974 |
Knocking on Heaven's Door is a visionary map through the labyrinth of a broken and morally adrift medical system. It will inspire the necessary and difficult conversations we all need to have with loved ones as it illuminates a path to a better way of death.
Like so many of us, award-winning writer...
Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime
Instant New York Times Bestseller
"In a return to the bighearted storytelling that made him a star NPR correspondent, [Simon] pays full tribute to the ex-showgirl who...taught her only son to be honest, kind, and entertaining. Be assured, tears will fall."--People Magazine
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A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
| Author | Kevin Hazzard |
| ISBN | 1501110837 |
A former paramedic’s visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta’s mean streets saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe.
In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt that something was missing from...
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0062015532 |
Unlike anything Joyce Carol Oates has written before, A Widow’s Story is the universally acclaimed author’s poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of Raymond Smith, her husband of forty-six years, and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. A recent recipient of National Book...
The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief
| Author | Nora McInerny Purmort |
From the host of the popular podcast, Terrible, Thanks for Asking, comes a wise, humorous roadmap and caring resource for anyone going through the loss of a loved one—or even a difficult life moment.
In the span of a few weeks, thirty-something Nora McInerny had a miscarriage, lost her father...
| Author | Meghan O'Rourke |
| ISBN | 1594487987 |
What does it mean to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge grief? After her mother died of cancer at the age of fifty-five, Meghan O'Rourke found that nothing had prepared her for the intensity of her sorrow. In the first anguished days, she began to create a record...
National Bestseller
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs's most provocative collection of true stories yet. From nicotine gum addiction to lesbian personal ads to incontinent dogs, Possible Side Effects mines Burroughs's...
“Rarely do memoirs of grief combine anguish, love, and fury with such elegance.” —Entertainment Weekly
In 2002, Ann Hood's five-year-old daughter Grace died suddenly from a virulent form of strep throat. Stunned and devastated, the family searched for comfort in a time when none...
| 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...
The Life You Never Expected: Thriving While Parenting Special Needs Children
Sometimes you end up living the life you never expected. When Andrew and Rachel found out that one, and then both, of their children had severe autism, their world was turned on its head.
This is a book about surviving, and thriving, when something goes horribly wrong. It is a mixture of their...
| Author | Darin Strauss |
| ISBN | 1934781703 |
Half a Life is a nakedly honest, ultimately hopeful examination of guilt, responsibility, and living with the past.
"Half my life ago, I killed a girl."
So begins Darin Strauss' Half a Life, the true story of how one outing in his father's Oldsmobile resulted in the death of a classmate...
A History of the Present Illness
| Author | Louise Aronson |
| ISBN | 1608198308 |
A History of the Present Illness takes readers into overlooked lives in the neighborhoods, hospitals, and nursing homes of San Francisco, offering a deeply humane and incisive portrait of health and illness in America today. An elderly Chinese immigrant sacrifices his demented wife's well-being...
| Author | Sarah Manguso |
| ISBN | 0374280126 |
At twenty-one, just as she was starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with another: a wildly unpredictable autoimmune disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, paralyzing her for weeks at a time, programming her first to expect nothing from life...
| Author | Marion Coutts |
| ISBN | 1782393501 |
In 2008, Marion Coutts' husband, the art critic Tom Lubbock, was diagnosed with a brain tumour, and told that he had not more than two years to live. The tumour was located in the area of the brain that controls speech and language, and would eventually rob him of the ability to speak. Tom was 53 when he died,...
| Author | Elizabeth Alexander |
| ISBN | 1455599875 |
In The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband. Channeling her poetic sensibilities into a rich, lucid prose, Alexander tells a love story that is, itself, a story of loss. As she reflects on the beauty of her married life,...
| Author | Sarah Pinborough |
| ISBN | 1906301824 |
A woman sits beside her father's bedside as the night ticks away the final hours of his life. As she watches over her father, she relives the past week and the events that brought the family together . . . and she recalls all the weeks before that served to pull it apart.
There has never been anything...
| Author | Ivan Coyote |
| ISBN | 1551527731 |
Ivan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent storytellers and performers; they are the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven previous books, and their TED talk has received over 1.6 million views online. Their most recent book, Tomboy Survival Guide, was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston...
The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills
The Little Book of Talent is a manual for building a faster brain and a better you. It is an easy-to-use handbook of scientifically proven, field-tested methods to improve skills—your skills, your kids’ skills, your organization’s skills—in sports, music, art, math, and business. The product...
How to Talk to Absolutely Anyone: Confident communication in every situation
Be a people magnet!
Improving your people skills and becoming a people-person is a surefire route to success, happiness, and confidence. Weive all looked enviously across the room at that person who seems to effortlessly interact with everyone - humorous, confident and well liked. That...
| Author | Fran Lebowitz |
| ISBN | 0679761802 |
Fran Lebowitz in
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Now an HBO® Documentary Film
The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together in one volume, with a new preface, two bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, by an "important humorist in the classic tradition"...
Little Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living
| Author | Jason Gay |
| ISBN | 0385539460 |
The Wall Street Journal's popular columnist Jason Gay delivers a hilarious and heartfelt guide to modern living.
“The book you hold in your hand is a rule book. There have been rule books before—stacks upon stacks of them—but this book is unlike any other rule book you have ever read....
Breaking the Ocean: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Reconciliation
| Author | Annahid Dashtgard |
| ISBN | 1487006470 |
Annahid Dashtgard was born into a supportive mixed-race family in 1970s Iran. Then came the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which ushered in a powerful and orthodox religious regime. Her family was forced to flee their homeland, immigrating to a small town in Alberta, Canada. As a young girl, Dashtgard was...
The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading
| Author | Anne Gisleson |
| ISBN | 0316393908 |
A memoir of friendship and literature chronicling a search for meaning and comfort in great books, and a beautiful path out of grief
Anne Gisleson had lost her twin sisters, had been forced to flee her home during Hurricane Katrina, and had witnessed cancer take her beloved father. Before she...
Things I've Learned from Dying: A Book About Life
| Author | David R. Dow |
| ISBN | 1455575240 |
"Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone."
In his riveting, artfully written memoir The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow enraptured readers with a searing and frank exploration of his work defending inmates on death row. But when Dow's...
