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12 books with a reading profile close to What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love by Carole Radziwill. Inward-looking, contemplative and clear-cut; an easy read.

1

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.
2

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.
3

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.
4

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.
5

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.
6

The Sound of Gravel

by Ruth Wariner

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · 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

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

by Regina Calcaterra

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, narrative

Regina Calcaterra grew up on Long Island, New York, one of five children of a mother who abandoned and abused them.
9

Girl in a Band

by Kim Gordon

Also clear-cut · 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

Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative

Johnny Cash details his life from his childhood in the Arkansas cotton fields to his decades as a country music icon.
11

Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

by Anne Lamott

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative

Anne Lamott chronicles her first year as a single parent to her son, Sam, during the early 1990s.
12

A Heart That Works

by Rob Delaney

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative

Rob Delaney, the comedian and actor known for Catastrophe, tells the story of his youngest son Henry, who was diagnosed with a brain tumour as a baby and died at the age of two.

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