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12 books with a reading profile close to All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung. Inward-looking and contemplative; an easy read.

1

In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

by Amy Bloom

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative

After Amy Bloom’s husband, Brian Ameche, receives a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, he decides to end his life on his own terms before the illness erases his identity.
2

Memorial Days

by Geraldine Brooks

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative

Geraldine Brooks examines the formation of historical memory through the lens of her own family lineage and her decades spent as a foreign correspondent.
3

The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

by Clemantine Wamariya

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative

In 1994, six-year-old Clemantine Wamariya and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, fled the Rwandan massacre, leaving their parents behind.
4

What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love

by Carole Radziwill

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative

Carole Radziwill narrates her life from a working-class childhood in Suffern, New York, to her career as an ABC News producer and her marriage into the Kennedy-Radziwill family.
5

The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss

by Anderson Cooper

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative

This memoir records an email exchange between journalist Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, initiated during her ninety-first year.
6

The Sound of Gravel

by Ruth Wariner

Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative

Ruth Wariner’s memoir details her upbringing as the forty-second child of her father within a polygamist Mormon colony in Colonia LeBaron, Mexico.
7

The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

by Nikki Sixx

Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative

Nikki Sixx documents the peak of his addiction through journal entries written between 1986 and 1987.
8

Girl in a Band

by Kim Gordon

memoir, narrative

In this memoir, Kim Gordon traces her trajectory from a visual arts upbringing in Los Angeles to the center of the New York City post-punk scene.
9

Cash

by Johnny Cash

memoir, narrative

Johnny Cash details his life from his childhood in the Arkansas cotton fields to his decades as a country music icon.
10

Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

by Regina Calcaterra

Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative

Regina Calcaterra grew up on Long Island, New York, one of five children of a mother who abandoned and abused them.
11

The Glass Castle

by Jeannette Walls

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative

Jeannette Walls chronicles her upbringing within a nomadic family led by a brilliant but alcoholic father, Rex, and an artistic, detached mother, Rose Mary.
12

A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

by Sue Klebold

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative

Sue Klebold spent sixteen years raising Dylan Klebold before he and Eric Harris carried out the 1999 Columbine High School massacre.

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