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Books like About Alice

If you loved About Alice by Calvin Trillin, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Literary Figures, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Personal Memoirs, and Family & Relationships.

Literary Figures Death, Grief, Bereavement Personal Memoirs Family & Relationships Biography & Autobiography

Top related books to About Alice

Each title here shares meaningful common ground with About Alice — in theme, mood, or literary style.

The Fragments of My Father A Memoir of Madness, Love and Being a Carer — Sam Mills

The Fragments of My Father A Memoir of Madness, Love and Being a Carer

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Personal Memoirs

Epilogue A Memoir — Anne Roiphe

Epilogue A Memoir

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Personal Memoirs

Vessel A Memoir — Chongda Cai

Vessel A Memoir

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Personal Memoirs

The Presence — Dannie Abse

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Personal Memoirs

Levels of Life — Julian Barnes

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Personal Memoirs

The Year of Magical Thinking — Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Personal Memoirs

Paula A Memoir — Isabel Allende

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Personal Memoirs

Mother Mary Comes to Me — Arundhati Roy

Mother Mary Comes to Me

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Personal Memoirs

H is for Hawk — Helen Macdonald

Helen Macdonald

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Personal Memoirs

In My Time of Dying How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife — Sebastian Junger

In My Time of Dying How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

Sebastian Junger

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Personal Memoirs

They Left Us Everything A Memoir — Plum Johnson

They Left Us Everything A Memoir

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Personal Memoirs

A Book of Reasons — John Vernon

A Book of Reasons

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Personal Memoirs

Wintering The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times — Katherine May

Wintering The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Personal Memoirs

Name All the Animals A Memoir — Alison Smith

Name All the Animals A Memoir

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Personal Memoirs

My Dead Parents A Memoir — Anya Yurchyshyn

My Dead Parents A Memoir

Anya Yurchyshyn

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Personal Memoirs

Books for Living — Will Schwalbe

Books for Living

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Personal Memoirs

Death Be Not Proud — John Gunther

Death Be Not Proud

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Personal Memoirs

The Widower’s Notebook A Memoir — Jonathan Santlofer

The Widower’s Notebook A Memoir

Jonathan Santlofer

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Personal Memoirs

Assembling My Father A Daughter’s Detective Story — Anna Cypra Oliver

Assembling My Father A Daughter’s Detective Story

Anna Cypra Oliver

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Personal Memoirs

This Really Isn’t about You — Jean Hannah Edelstein

This Really Isn’t about You

Jean Hannah Edelstein

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Personal Memoirs

The Place of Tides — James Rebanks

The Place of Tides

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Personal Memoirs

The Soulful Child Twelve Years in the Wilderness — Chloe Rachel Gallaway

The Soulful Child Twelve Years in the Wilderness

Chloe Rachel Gallaway

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Family & Relationships

Still Waters — Jennifer Lauck

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Family & Relationships

Paula — Isabel Allende

Themes: Literary Figures • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Family & Relationships

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for About Alice by Calvin Trillin — spanning Literary Figures, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Personal Memoirs and featuring authors such as Sam Mills, Anne Roiphe, Chongda Cai, Dannie Abse, and others.

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