The Liars’ Club

Biographies & Memoirs of Authors

Author: Mary Karr

Astonishing…One of the most dazzling and moving memoirs to come along in years’ “New York Times”Mary Karr, a prize-winning poet adn critic, grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile, defiantly loving family. In this keen and funny memoir, she looks back at a painter mother, seven times married, whose outlaw spirit could tip over in psychosis; a fist-swi….Read More

10 Books Similar to The Liars’ Club

Searching for Caleb

Ranging from the ragtime era to small-town America in the seventies, Searching for Caleb is a moving quest for a family's deepest roots - and a haunting story of growing… Continue Reading Posted in: Domestic Fiction, Fiction, General, Literary Short Stories, Psychological Literary Fiction

The Ride of Our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American Family

The Ride of Our Lives is the humorous yet deeply moving account of NBC journalist Mike Leonard’s cross-country odyssey with his eccentric parents, three grown children, and a daughter-in-law. Full… Continue Reading Posted in: Essays, Family Travel Guides, Travel, United States

The Snack Thief

In the third book in Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano series, the urbane and perceptive Sicilian detective exposes a viper's nest of government corruption and international intrigue in a compelling new… Continue Reading Posted in: Crime Fiction, Detective And Mystery Stories, Heist Thrillers, Italian, Italian Fiction, Political Thrillers

The Year of Magical Thinking

From one of America’s most iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage—and a… Continue Reading Posted in: Author Biographies, Family Health, Grief, Love & Loss, Mothers And Daughters

This Boy’s Life

The author of "The Barracks Thief" and "Hunters in the Snow" recreates his boyhood experiences, relating how he and his mother travelled throughout the United States, and tracing his experiences… Continue Reading Posted in: Biographies & Memoirs of Authors, Biography Youth, Childhood And Youth, Literary Movements & Periods

A Parchment of Leaves

Winner-Kentucky Novel of the Year, 2003Winner-Award for Special Achievement from Fellowship of Southern WritersNominee-Southern Book Critics Circle PrizeNominee-BookSense Book of the Year (longlist)"So it is that Vine, Cherokee-born and raised… Continue Reading Posted in: Cherokee Women, Domestic Fiction, Mountain Life

The Truth About Diamonds

In her electrifying first novel, Nicole Richie tells the sensational story of Chloe Parker, a rock royalty princess and a card-carrying member of Hollywood's inner circle. At the age of… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Women's Fiction, Young Adult

Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother

This is James McBride's tribute to his remarkable, eccentric, determined mother, and an eloquent exploration of what family and the colour of your skin really means Continue Reading Posted in: Biography, Jewish Women, Racially Mixed Children

A Long Way Gone

A first-person account, told by a 25-year-old veteran of the Sierra Leone conflict, this title is a heartbreaking, honest and important memoir about the horrors of war and the lost… Continue Reading Posted in: American Civil War Biographies, Biography, Historical African Biographies, Military Participation Juvenile, Personal Narratives

Leave a Reply