You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story
10 best books like You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story (Annabelle Gurwitch): Nothing Was the Same, The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War, A Ticket to the Circus: A Memoir, 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, Cabin Pressure: One Man's Desperate Attempt to Recapture His Youth as a Camp Counselor, The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change, Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy, Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir
| 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...
| Author | Norris Church Mailer |
| ISBN | 1400067944 |
A great American love story, this warm, funny, revealing memoir introduces the world to Norman Mailer’s greatest inspiration, his wife of more than thirty years. Like Zelda Fitzgerald before her, Norris Church Mailer has led a life as large and as colorful as her husband’s—and every bit as engaging.
Growing...
| 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...
Cabin Pressure: One Man's Desperate Attempt to Recapture His Youth as a Camp Counselor
| Author | Josh Wolk |
| ISBN | 1401302602 |
What happens when a grown man returns to the site of his fondest childhood memories? A wry, clear-eyed, and laugh-out-loud look at the transition to adulthoodThree months before getting married at age thirty-four, Josh Wolk decides to treat himself to a "farewell to childhood" extravaganza: one...
The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
The riveting story of how a young man turned $25 into more than 200 schools around the world and the guiding steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life.
Adam Braun began working summers at hedge funds when he was just sixteen years old, sprinting down the path to a successful...
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...
