50 Books like The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

The Geography of Memory

by Jeanne Murray Walker • 2013

She came home to care for her mother and found her own lost childhood waiting.

3.98

117

🧠 Alzheimer's Caregiving 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 📖 Family Stories 🕰️ Memory And Aging 🙏 Spiritual Memoir

The Geography of Memory 95%

She came home to care for her mother and found her own lost childhood waiting.

by Jeanne Murray Walker 2013

3.98

117 ratings

🧠 Alzheimer's Caregiving 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 📖 Family Stories 🕰️ Memory And Aging 🙏 Spiritual Memoir

Choosing to SEE

by Mary Beth Chapman • 2010

A driveway accident. A sister dead. Her teenage brother behind the wheel. Faith that held.

4.29

15k+

✝️ Christian Testimony 🏠 Adoption Memoirs 💔 Child Loss 🙏 Grief And Faith 🧒 Orphan Care

Choosing to SEE 94%

A driveway accident. A sister dead. Her teenage brother behind the wheel. Faith that held.

by Mary Beth Chapman 2010

4.29

15k+ ratings

✝️ Christian Testimony 🏠 Adoption Memoirs 💔 Child Loss 🙏 Grief And Faith 🧒 Orphan Care

Did I Ever Tell You?

by Genevieve Kingston • 2024

Her dying mother packed gift chests for the milestones she'd miss. The first opened at sixteen.

4.29

6k+

🕯️ Grief Memoir 🥀 Loss Of A Mother 🧵 Mother-Daughter Bond 🎗️ Cancer Memoir 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoir

Did I Ever Tell You? 94%

Her dying mother packed gift chests for the milestones she'd miss. The first opened at sixteen.

by Genevieve Kingston 2024

4.29

6k+ ratings

🕯️ Grief Memoir 🥀 Loss Of A Mother 🧵 Mother-Daughter Bond 🎗️ Cancer Memoir 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoir

No Cure for Being Human

by Kate Bowler • 2021

She studied the prosperity gospel. Then she got incurable cancer. Everything she knew broke.

4.12

24k+

🏥 Cancer Memoirs 🕊️ Faith And Doubt ⏳ Finitude And Limits 🚫 Anti-Self-Help ⏰ Time And Presence

No Cure for Being Human 94%

She studied the prosperity gospel. Then she got incurable cancer. Everything she knew broke.

by Kate Bowler 2021

4.12

24k+ ratings

🏥 Cancer Memoirs 🕊️ Faith And Doubt ⏳ Finitude And Limits 🚫 Anti-Self-Help ⏰ Time And Presence

My Sisters the Saints

by Colleen Carroll Campbell • 2012

Infertility, a father's dementia, a stalled career: the six women saints who walked her through.

4.35

4k+

📖 Spiritual Memoir 🙏 Catholic Spirituality ✨ Communion Of Saints 🌊 Faith And Doubt 🌱 Infertility And Faith

My Sisters the Saints 94%

Infertility, a father's dementia, a stalled career: the six women saints who walked her through.

by Colleen Carroll Campbell 2012

4.35

4k+ ratings

📖 Spiritual Memoir 🙏 Catholic Spirituality ✨ Communion Of Saints 🌊 Faith And Doubt 🌱 Infertility And Faith

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

by Donald Miller • 2009

You're the protagonist of a story you're not writing. The screenwriter's rules for changing that.

4.13

32k+

📖 Narrative Identity ✝️ Christian Memoir 🔄 Life Transitions 🧭 Vocation And Calling 🦁 Everyday Courage

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years Summary

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years 94%

You're the protagonist of a story you're not writing. The screenwriter's rules for changing that.

by Donald Miller 2009

4.13

32k+ ratings

📖 Narrative Identity ✝️ Christian Memoir 🔄 Life Transitions 🧭 Vocation And Calling 🦁 Everyday Courage

Grace and Grit

by Ken Wilber • 1991

A marriage, a terminal diagnosis ten days in, and five years of transforming suffering into grace.

4.47

2k+

🎗️ Cancer Memoirs 🙏 Spiritual Memoirs 🌐 Perennial Philosophy 💗 Compassion Practice 🌸 Feminine Spirituality

Grace and Grit 94%

A marriage, a terminal diagnosis ten days in, and five years of transforming suffering into grace.

by Ken Wilber 1991

4.47

2k+ ratings

🎗️ Cancer Memoirs 🙏 Spiritual Memoirs 🌐 Perennial Philosophy 💗 Compassion Practice 🌸 Feminine Spirituality

Somewhere Towards the End

by Diana Athill • 2008

At 89 she stops pretending, faces death without God, and finds the view unexpectedly good.

3.72

3k+

📖 Literary Memoir ⏳ Aging And Mortality 👩 Women's Lives ✍️ Late-Life Creativity 👥 Caregiving In Old Age

Somewhere Towards the End 94%

At 89 she stops pretending, faces death without God, and finds the view unexpectedly good.

by Diana Athill 2008

3.72

3k+ ratings

📖 Literary Memoir ⏳ Aging And Mortality 👩 Women's Lives ✍️ Late-Life Creativity 👥 Caregiving In Old Age

Traveling Mercies

by Anne Lamott • 1999

Faith for people who swear, drink too much, and can't stomach Sunday school answers.

4.14

49k+

✝️ Spiritual Memoir 💔 Messy Spirituality 🪜 Twelve Step Recovery 😂 Comic Memoir 🌧️ Grief And Loss

Traveling Mercies 94%

Faith for people who swear, drink too much, and can't stomach Sunday school answers.

by Anne Lamott 1999

4.14

49k+ ratings

✝️ Spiritual Memoir 💔 Messy Spirituality 🪜 Twelve Step Recovery 😂 Comic Memoir 🌧️ Grief And Loss

Dancing Fish and Ammonites

by Penelope Lively • 2013

A life measured in books and fossils: a novelist confronts the new territory of old age.

3.65

1k+

📖 Literary Memoir 🏺 Material Memory 📚 Reading Life 🕰️ Meditations On Aging 🇬🇧 British Memoirists

Dancing Fish and Ammonites 94%

A life measured in books and fossils: a novelist confronts the new territory of old age.

by Penelope Lively 2013

3.65

1k+ ratings

📖 Literary Memoir 🏺 Material Memory 📚 Reading Life 🕰️ Meditations On Aging 🇬🇧 British Memoirists

A Hole in the World

by Amanda Held Opelt • 2022

We lost the rituals that made grief survivable. This is the blueprint for getting them back.

4.43

800

🕯️ Grief Rituals 🤝 Communal Grief 💪 Embodied Grief ✝️ Theology Of Suffering 📷 Memory And Loss

A Hole in the World 94%

We lost the rituals that made grief survivable. This is the blueprint for getting them back.

by Amanda Held Opelt 2022

4.43

800 ratings

🕯️ Grief Rituals 🤝 Communal Grief 💪 Embodied Grief ✝️ Theology Of Suffering 📷 Memory And Loss

The Spiral Staircase

by Karen Armstrong • 2004

A failed nun, an undiagnosed brain disorder, and the world religions that rebuilt her faith.

3.94

9k+

🌑 Faith Crisis 📚 Comparative Religion ✍️ Spiritual Memoir ❤️ Compassion Ethics 🛐 Monastic Life

The Spiral Staircase 94%

A failed nun, an undiagnosed brain disorder, and the world religions that rebuilt her faith.

by Karen Armstrong 2004

3.94

9k+ ratings

🌑 Faith Crisis 📚 Comparative Religion ✍️ Spiritual Memoir ❤️ Compassion Ethics 🛐 Monastic Life

Old Rage

by Sheila Hancock • 2022

Sheila Hancock, 89, plans her funeral, rages at Brexit, and finds the pandemic strangely stoic.

4.06

984

🇬🇧 British Memoirs 🎭 Celebrity Memoirs 🗳️ Political Commentary 🕯️ Quaker Spirituality ⚒️ Class Consciousness

Old Rage 94%

Sheila Hancock, 89, plans her funeral, rages at Brexit, and finds the pandemic strangely stoic.

by Sheila Hancock 2022

4.06

984 ratings

🇬🇧 British Memoirs 🎭 Celebrity Memoirs 🗳️ Political Commentary 🕯️ Quaker Spirituality ⚒️ Class Consciousness

From Fear to Freedom

by Rose Marie Miller • 2000

Her faith collapsed under guilt and control; repair came through identity as God's child.

4.24

353

📖 Christian Memoir 🔥 Spiritual Transformation ✝️ Grace And Forgiveness 🆔 Identity In Christ 💔 Family Wounds

From Fear to Freedom 93%

Her faith collapsed under guilt and control; repair came through identity as God's child.

by Rose Marie Miller 2000

4.24

353 ratings

📖 Christian Memoir 🔥 Spiritual Transformation ✝️ Grace And Forgiveness 🆔 Identity In Christ 💔 Family Wounds

Surprised by Joy

by C.S. Lewis • 1955

One desire no pleasure could satisfy broke C.S. Lewis's atheism.

4.06

70k+

🕯️ Spiritual Memoir ✝️ Conversion Narratives 📖 Literary Memoir 🏔️ Spiritual Longing 🌅 Aesthetic Awakening

Surprised by Joy 93%

One desire no pleasure could satisfy broke C.S. Lewis's atheism.

by C.S. Lewis 1955

4.06

70k+ ratings

🕯️ Spiritual Memoir ✝️ Conversion Narratives 📖 Literary Memoir 🏔️ Spiritual Longing 🌅 Aesthetic Awakening

Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet

by Sara Hagerty • 2014

God's goodness isn't waiting past the pain. It's inside the barren decade itself.

4.06

3k+

🌱 Spiritual Formation 🌊 Suffering And Faith 🙏 Contemplative Prayer ✨ Divine Goodness ⏳ Waiting On God

Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet 93%

God's goodness isn't waiting past the pain. It's inside the barren decade itself.

by Sara Hagerty 2014

4.06

3k+ ratings

🌱 Spiritual Formation 🌊 Suffering And Faith 🙏 Contemplative Prayer ✨ Divine Goodness ⏳ Waiting On God

A Heart That Works

by Rob Delaney • 2022

Henry was diagnosed at one, dead by two. His father, a comedian, tells what happened in between.

4.62

35k+

🕯️ Child Loss 💔 Parental Grief 🏥 Medical Memoir 🩺 Childhood Illness 🧩 Disability Parenting

A Heart That Works 93%

Henry was diagnosed at one, dead by two. His father, a comedian, tells what happened in between.

by Rob Delaney 2022

4.62

35k+ ratings

🕯️ Child Loss 💔 Parental Grief 🏥 Medical Memoir 🩺 Childhood Illness 🧩 Disability Parenting

A Widow's Story

by Joyce Carol Oates • 2011

Her husband of 48 years dies overnight. That morning, a call: she might have won the Nobel.

3.76

4k+

🖤 Spousal Loss 📖 Bereavement Memoir ⚡ Sudden Death 🪞 Grief And Identity ✍️ Creative Block

A Widow's Story 93%

Her husband of 48 years dies overnight. That morning, a call: she might have won the Nobel.

by Joyce Carol Oates 2011

3.76

4k+ ratings

🖤 Spousal Loss 📖 Bereavement Memoir ⚡ Sudden Death 🪞 Grief And Identity ✍️ Creative Block

A Matter of Death and Life

by Irvin D. Yalom • 2021

A dying woman and her psychiatrist husband trade chapters. When her voice stops, his grief begins.

4.40

10k+

🪦 Grief Memoir 🛋️ Existential Therapy 💀 Death Acceptance 💔 Spousal Loss ✍️ Writing As Therapy

A Matter of Death and Life 93%

A dying woman and her psychiatrist husband trade chapters. When her voice stops, his grief begins.

by Irvin D. Yalom 2021

4.40

10k+ ratings

🪦 Grief Memoir 🛋️ Existential Therapy 💀 Death Acceptance 💔 Spousal Loss ✍️ Writing As Therapy

English Lessons

by Andrea Lucado • 2017

Raised to have all the answers, she moved to Oxford and learned to love the questions.

4.01

469

🕊️ Christian Memoir 🔨 Faith Deconstruction 🌱 Post-Evangelical 📚 Faith And Reason 🏠 Inherited Faith

English Lessons 93%

Raised to have all the answers, she moved to Oxford and learned to love the questions.

by Andrea Lucado 2017

4.01

469 ratings

🕊️ Christian Memoir 🔨 Faith Deconstruction 🌱 Post-Evangelical 📚 Faith And Reason 🏠 Inherited Faith

Divine Disruption

by Tony Evans • 2021

When life falls apart, here's how to keep faith intact and find purpose in the pieces.

4.68

1k+

✝️ Christian Living 💔 Grief And Loss 🕊️ Faith In Suffering 🙏 Trusting God 🙌 Surrender To God

Divine Disruption 93%

When life falls apart, here's how to keep faith intact and find purpose in the pieces.

by Tony Evans 2021

4.68

1k+ ratings

✝️ Christian Living 💔 Grief And Loss 🕊️ Faith In Suffering 🙏 Trusting God 🙌 Surrender To God

Carry On, Warrior

by Glennon Doyle • 2013

Addiction, infidelity, parenting fails: one woman's refusal to pretend, and the life that followed.

4.10

30k+

🔮 Spiritual Memoir 🧊 Addiction Recovery 🌿 Everyday Spirituality 💬 Radical Honesty 👶 Modern Motherhood

Carry On, Warrior 93%

Addiction, infidelity, parenting fails: one woman's refusal to pretend, and the life that followed.

by Glennon Doyle 2013

4.10

30k+ ratings

🔮 Spiritual Memoir 🧊 Addiction Recovery 🌿 Everyday Spirituality 💬 Radical Honesty 👶 Modern Motherhood

AMERN WIFE

by Taya Kyle • 2015

The American Sniper's widow on grief, sudden fame, and the courtroom fight for his legacy.

4.27

5k+

🪖 Military Spouses 🕊️ Grief Memoir 📰 Public Widowhood 🧠 Living With Ptsd 🛡️ Defending A Legacy

AMERN WIFE 93%

The American Sniper's widow on grief, sudden fame, and the courtroom fight for his legacy.

by Taya Kyle 2015

4.27

5k+ ratings

🪖 Military Spouses 🕊️ Grief Memoir 📰 Public Widowhood 🧠 Living With Ptsd 🛡️ Defending A Legacy

The Reason

by Lacey Sturm • 2014

Suicidal and atheist, she walked into a church and left as the future voice of Flyleaf.

4.36

2k+

🕊️ Christian Testimony 🎸 Rock Memoir 💙 Suicide Survival 👩‍🎤 Women In Rock 🎨 Faith And Artistry

The Reason 93%

Suicidal and atheist, she walked into a church and left as the future voice of Flyleaf.

by Lacey Sturm 2014

4.36

2k+ ratings

🕊️ Christian Testimony 🎸 Rock Memoir 💙 Suicide Survival 👩‍🎤 Women In Rock 🎨 Faith And Artistry

How to Keep House While Drowning

by K.C. Davis • 2022

Jesus's wounds, an unknown sister, and a grandfather at 29: a four-year-old's tour of heaven.

4.20

81k+

🌅 Near-Death Experiences ✝️ Christian Testimony 🤔 Apologetics 💔 Grieving Parents ⚔️ Spiritual Warfare

How to Keep House While Drowning Summary

How to Keep House While Drowning 93%

Jesus's wounds, an unknown sister, and a grandfather at 29: a four-year-old's tour of heaven.

by K.C. Davis 2022

4.20

81k+ ratings

🌅 Near-Death Experiences ✝️ Christian Testimony 🤔 Apologetics 💔 Grieving Parents ⚔️ Spiritual Warfare

Praying for Strangers

by River Jordan • 2011

One year of praying for a stranger each day: how an introvert rewired her heart.

4.09

704

✝️ Christian Memoir 🧪 Spiritual Experiments 🤝 Stranger Connection 🙏 Prayer Practice 🕯️ Faith In Action

Praying for Strangers 93%

One year of praying for a stranger each day: how an introvert rewired her heart.

by River Jordan 2011

4.09

704 ratings

✝️ Christian Memoir 🧪 Spiritual Experiments 🤝 Stranger Connection 🙏 Prayer Practice 🕯️ Faith In Action

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

by Dave Eggers • 2000

Orphaned at 21, raising his 8-year-old brother: a grief memoir that knows it's a memoir.

3.69

184k+

🪦 Parental Loss 🖤 Grief Memoir 👬 Brothers 🏠 Unconventional Families 🔄 Meta Memoir

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Summary

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 93%

Orphaned at 21, raising his 8-year-old brother: a grief memoir that knows it's a memoir.

by Dave Eggers 2000

3.69

184k+ ratings

🪦 Parental Loss 🖤 Grief Memoir 👬 Brothers 🏠 Unconventional Families 🔄 Meta Memoir

When We Were the Kennedys

by Monica Wood • 2012

A girl loses her father. Then JFK is shot, and private grief finds a national mirror.

3.93

8k+

🧒 Childhood Memoir 🕊️ Parental Loss ☮️ 1960s America 🔧 Working Class Life ✝️ Catholic Family Life

When We Were the Kennedys 93%

A girl loses her father. Then JFK is shot, and private grief finds a national mirror.

by Monica Wood 2012

3.93

8k+ ratings

🧒 Childhood Memoir 🕊️ Parental Loss ☮️ 1960s America 🔧 Working Class Life ✝️ Catholic Family Life

Shattered

by Frank Pastore • 2010

One pitch shattered his elbow and his identity. Rebuilding took a faith he used to mock.

3.95

150

🏟️ Sports Memoirs ✝️ Conversion Narratives 🏛️ Faith And Politics 🛋️ Therapy And Faith 👧 Childhood Neglect

Shattered 93%

One pitch shattered his elbow and his identity. Rebuilding took a faith he used to mock.

by Frank Pastore 2010

3.95

150 ratings

🏟️ Sports Memoirs ✝️ Conversion Narratives 🏛️ Faith And Politics 🛋️ Therapy And Faith 👧 Childhood Neglect

In Love

by Amy Bloom • 2022

He chose to die before Alzheimer's took his mind. Their final trip together: Zurich.

4.26

26k+

🏥 End-Of-Life Care 🧠 Dementia Memoirs 🌊 Anticipatory Grief 🕊️ Assisted Suicide 💀 Death Acceptance

In Love 93%

He chose to die before Alzheimer's took his mind. Their final trip together: Zurich.

by Amy Bloom 2022

4.26

26k+ ratings

🏥 End-Of-Life Care 🧠 Dementia Memoirs 🌊 Anticipatory Grief 🕊️ Assisted Suicide 💀 Death Acceptance

Blessed Are the Crazy

by Sarah Griffith Lund • 2014

Her father had bipolar, her brother wanted to die, her cousin was executed. She still believes.

4.24

202

🏷️ Mental Health Stigma 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Mental Illness 🙏 Faith And Mental Health 🧘 Spiritual Practices 💪 Caregiver Support

Blessed Are the Crazy 93%

Her father had bipolar, her brother wanted to die, her cousin was executed. She still believes.

by Sarah Griffith Lund 2014

4.24

202 ratings

🏷️ Mental Health Stigma 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Mental Illness 🙏 Faith And Mental Health 🧘 Spiritual Practices 💪 Caregiver Support

Before My Heart Stops

by Paul Cardall • 2010

He waited 384 days for a heart. Before it came, his brother died.

3.98

392

🏥 Medical Memoir ⛪ Mormon Memoir 🫀 Organ Transplant ✨ Inspirational Memoir 🕊️ Grief And Loss

Before My Heart Stops 93%

He waited 384 days for a heart. Before it came, his brother died.

by Paul Cardall 2010

3.98

392 ratings

🏥 Medical Memoir ⛪ Mormon Memoir 🫀 Organ Transplant ✨ Inspirational Memoir 🕊️ Grief And Loss

Nothing Holds Back the Night

by Delphine de Vigan • 2011

After her mother died, a daughter unpacks the delusions and the family secrets that fueled them.

4.35

25k+

🧠 Mental Illness Memoir 📖 Family Biography 🕸️ Intergenerational Trauma ✍️ Writing As Healing 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds

Nothing Holds Back the Night 92%

After her mother died, a daughter unpacks the delusions and the family secrets that fueled them.

by Delphine de Vigan 2011

4.35

25k+ ratings

🧠 Mental Illness Memoir 📖 Family Biography 🕸️ Intergenerational Trauma ✍️ Writing As Healing 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds

Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog

by Emily Dean • 2019

Her family was allergic to stability and dogs. When they died, she finally got one.

4.23

3k+

🪦 Grief Memoirs 💔 Family Loss 🛋️ Therapy Memoirs 🎪 Eccentric Families 🕯️ Adult Orphans

Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog 92%

Her family was allergic to stability and dogs. When they died, she finally got one.

by Emily Dean 2019

4.23

3k+ ratings

🪦 Grief Memoirs 💔 Family Loss 🛋️ Therapy Memoirs 🎪 Eccentric Families 🕯️ Adult Orphans

A Grief Observed

by C.S. Lewis • 1961

A believer's unsparing grief journal: God is absent, memory lies, and platitudes make it worse.

4.22

98k+

🖤 Spousal Bereavement 🕊️ Widowhood 📓 Grief Journals 🙏 Faith And Doubt ⚖️ Theodicy

A Grief Observed 92%

A believer's unsparing grief journal: God is absent, memory lies, and platitudes make it worse.

by C.S. Lewis 1961

4.22

98k+ ratings

🖤 Spousal Bereavement 🕊️ Widowhood 📓 Grief Journals 🙏 Faith And Doubt ⚖️ Theodicy

When Breath Becomes Air

by Paul Kalanithi • 2016

A neurosurgeon spent years facing other people's death. Terminal lung cancer at 36 made it personal.

4.41

820k+

🩺 Medical Memoirs 🕯️ Death And Dying ⚰️ Mortality And Meaning 🤒 Illness And Identity 📖 Narrative Medicine

When Breath Becomes Air 92%

A neurosurgeon spent years facing other people's death. Terminal lung cancer at 36 made it personal.

by Paul Kalanithi 2016

4.41

820k+ ratings

🩺 Medical Memoirs 🕯️ Death And Dying ⚰️ Mortality And Meaning 🤒 Illness And Identity 📖 Narrative Medicine

Promise Me, Dad

by Joe Biden • 2017

A vice president's son is dying of cancer. Foreign crises don't pause for grief.

4.14

24k+

🏛️ White House Memoirs 🕯️ Parental Grief 🎗️ Cancer Memoir 👨‍👦 Fathers And Sons ⛪ Catholic Faith

Promise Me, Dad 92%

A vice president's son is dying of cancer. Foreign crises don't pause for grief.

by Joe Biden 2017

4.14

24k+ ratings

🏛️ White House Memoirs 🕯️ Parental Grief 🎗️ Cancer Memoir 👨‍👦 Fathers And Sons ⛪ Catholic Faith

Faith Unraveled

by Rachel Held Evans • 2010

A televised execution cracks a young fundamentalist's certainty, and all her answers stop working.

4.24

11k+

🧱 Faith Deconstruction ❓ Religious Doubt 🕊️ Progressive Christianity 🌱 Emerging Church 📖 Biblical Interpretation

Faith Unraveled 92%

A televised execution cracks a young fundamentalist's certainty, and all her answers stop working.

by Rachel Held Evans 2010

4.24

11k+ ratings

🧱 Faith Deconstruction ❓ Religious Doubt 🕊️ Progressive Christianity 🌱 Emerging Church 📖 Biblical Interpretation

What We Carry

by Maya Shanbhag Lang • 2020

Alzheimer's erases her mother, and a daughter learns the family stories she carried were fictions.

4.32

4k+

🏠 Family Memoirs 🤲 Caregiver Memoirs 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🧠 Alzheimer's Caregiving 🌏 Immigrant Experience

What We Carry 92%

Alzheimer's erases her mother, and a daughter learns the family stories she carried were fictions.

by Maya Shanbhag Lang 2020

4.32

4k+ ratings

🏠 Family Memoirs 🤲 Caregiver Memoirs 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🧠 Alzheimer's Caregiving 🌏 Immigrant Experience

Life Beyond Measure

by Sidney Poitier • 2008

Sidney Poitier's letters to a great-granddaughter: the fear, faith, and fury that shaped a life.

3.83

741

🧓 Elder Wisdom 💌 Letters To The Young 🧘 Inner Stillness 🎬 Hollywood Memoir ⏳ Purpose And Mortality

Life Beyond Measure 92%

Sidney Poitier's letters to a great-granddaughter: the fear, faith, and fury that shaped a life.

by Sidney Poitier 2008

3.83

741 ratings

🧓 Elder Wisdom 💌 Letters To The Young 🧘 Inner Stillness 🎬 Hollywood Memoir ⏳ Purpose And Mortality

Bone

by Marion Woodman • 2000

When cancer strikes a Jungian analyst, she brings her dreams and goddesses into the treatment room.

4.15

182

🎗️ Cancer Memoirs 🧠 Jungian Psychology 🌿 Integrative Medicine 💭 Dream Work ✨ Divine Feminine

Bone 92%

When cancer strikes a Jungian analyst, she brings her dreams and goddesses into the treatment room.

by Marion Woodman 2000

4.15

182 ratings

🎗️ Cancer Memoirs 🧠 Jungian Psychology 🌿 Integrative Medicine 💭 Dream Work ✨ Divine Feminine

My Father's Brain

by Sandeep Jauhar • 2023

A cardiologist watches his father forget how to use a fork. His medical training offers nothing.

4.14

2k+

🧠 Alzheimer's Disease 📋 Dementia Care 👨‍👩‍👦 Family Caregiving 🕳️ Memory Loss 📖 Medical Memoir

My Father's Brain 92%

A cardiologist watches his father forget how to use a fork. His medical training offers nothing.

by Sandeep Jauhar 2023

4.14

2k+ ratings

🧠 Alzheimer's Disease 📋 Dementia Care 👨‍👩‍👦 Family Caregiving 🕳️ Memory Loss 📖 Medical Memoir

Nearly Departed

by Gila Pfeffer • 2024

Preventive mastectomy found cancer one millimeter from her chest wall. Kept secret for nine years.

4.40

360

🩺 Cancer Memoirs 🧬 Genetic Risk 👩‍👧 Motherhood And Illness 💪 Body Reclamation ✡️ Jewish Memoir

Nearly Departed 92%

Preventive mastectomy found cancer one millimeter from her chest wall. Kept secret for nine years.

by Gila Pfeffer 2024

4.40

360 ratings

🩺 Cancer Memoirs 🧬 Genetic Risk 👩‍👧 Motherhood And Illness 💪 Body Reclamation ✡️ Jewish Memoir

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair

by Nina Sankovitch • 2011

365 books, 365 days, one sister gone: the reading year that became a roadmap through loss.

3.48

7k+

🪦 Grief Memoirs 📚 Bibliomemoir 📖 Bibliotherapy 🌼 Everyday Mindfulness 🎨 Healing Through Art

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair 92%

365 books, 365 days, one sister gone: the reading year that became a roadmap through loss.

by Nina Sankovitch 2011

3.48

7k+ ratings

🪦 Grief Memoirs 📚 Bibliomemoir 📖 Bibliotherapy 🌼 Everyday Mindfulness 🎨 Healing Through Art

The Lessons of Love

by Melody Beattie • 2013

Her son died. She said yes to a marriage she knew would fail. It saved her.

4.02

257

🕊️ Parental Grief 📖 Grief Memoirs 🌱 Healing After Loss 🪨 Emotional Resilience 🤝 Forgiveness Practice

The Lessons of Love 92%

Her son died. She said yes to a marriage she knew would fail. It saved her.

by Melody Beattie 2013

4.02

257 ratings

🕊️ Parental Grief 📖 Grief Memoirs 🌱 Healing After Loss 🪨 Emotional Resilience 🤝 Forgiveness Practice

Scouting the Divine

by Margaret Feinberg • 2009

Sheep, vines, honey, wool: one writer's search for the God the Bible's first readers knew.

4.22

912

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Scouting the Divine 92%

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912 ratings

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3.80

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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City 92%

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3.80

12k+ ratings

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Your life isn't delayed. The waiting itself is the beginning of everything that matters.

3.75

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The In-Between 92%

Your life isn't delayed. The waiting itself is the beginning of everything that matters.

by Jeff Goins 2013

3.75

750 ratings

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A bedridden girl, a visibly different woman: she bought a Maine house and rebuilt herself.

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3.67

1k+ ratings

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by Elizabeth Esther • 2014

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4.02

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Girl at the End of the World 92%

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4.02

2k+ ratings

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