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Books like In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

12 books with a reading profile close to In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom. Inward-looking and contemplative; an easy read.

1

All You Can Ever Know

by Nicole Chung

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative

Nicole Chung grew up as a Korean child adopted by a white family in a predominately white Oregon town.
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

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.
5

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.
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

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.
8

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.
9

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.
10

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.
11

Truth & Beauty

by Ann Patchett

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative

Ann Patchett narrates the decades-long friendship between herself and the writer Lucy Grealy, beginning at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
12

Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

by Roz Chast

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative

Roz Chast uses a mix of cartoons, sketches, and personal photographs to document the final years of her aging parents, George and Elizabeth.

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