Books like Daddy doesn't live here anymore by Betty Virginia Doyle Boegehold

After being murdered at fourteen, Susie Salmon watches from heaven as her family, friends, and killer grapple with grief and justice, revealing how love and forgiveness shape a family's future.

Jeannette Walls' memoir chronicles her turbulent childhood in a dysfunctional, itinerant family, detailing poverty, alcoholism, and homelessness across the United States as she seeks stability and personal growth.

In the orderly suburb of Shaker Heights, a new family’s arrival and a custody dispute ignite tension, revealing secrets, art, and the complex pull of motherhood in a tightly knit community.

Eighteen‑year‑old Susanna Kaysen is admitted to McLean Hospital in 1967, where she documents life in the psychiatric ward, exploring mental illness, recovery, and the cultural landscape of the late 1960s.

Dave Eggers' 2000 memoir chronicles his struggles and resilience after the cancer-related deaths of his parents, as he assumes responsibility for his younger brother and confronts the challenges of growing up alone.

A Newbery‑Medal‑winning juvenile epistolary novel by Beverly Cleary, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky, about a young writer who learns about family, friendship, and school life through letters.

Augusten Burroughs recounts his turbulent adolescence spent in a decaying Victorian home run by a psychiatrist, where ordinary rites of childhood give way to a surreal blend of family eccentricity, escape from school, and the early years of a future author.

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In the Gulf‑swamp town of Leechfield, Texas, a group of oil workers called the Liars’ Club spin tall tales, while a young woman confronts her family’s hidden past, unmasking lies that threaten her sanity.

William Styron’s memoir recounts his 1985 struggle with severe depression, hospitalization, and recovery, offering an honest portrait of living with mental illness.

A darkly humorous account of addiction and self-discovery.

When her mother remarries, an eleven-year-old learns that she can love her stepfather and her real father at the same time.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

THE DADDY-TO-BE WAS TO DIE FOR... Summer Warren had signed a contract to carry a stranger's babies inside her. A surrogate contract that specified that she and the man would never meet. Yet when a nameless, faceless stalker began to track her every move, where else could she turn? It didn't matter that Summer and Craig Banks had never made love--his body seemed built to match hers. His dark eyes seemed to penetrate her soul. Craig was the perfect man for Summer--and the perfect father for her babies. He was also the only man she could trust--if only she hadn't lied to him long before they'd met...

A young girl confronts her parents' impending divorce, learning that though the family structure changes, the parents’ love for her endures. The book offers guidance for children and parents navigating this transition.

After her father’s death in a car accident, Clare feels frightened, lonely, and angry, but receives support from her mother and grandfather as she learns to cope with grief.

Adam Young awakens to a new love: a widowed single mother whose heart belongs to her children. Will the gentle man win both her affection and the chance for happily ever after?

A young woman returns home from medical school and discovers her sister's abusive husband and her ex-fiance have returned to claim her newborn son.

A bright, playful picture book celebrating fathers of all kinds, showcasing everyday moments from cookie‑making and donut shopping to camping and naps, with plenty of hugs and kisses along the way.

Pete Earley, a former Washington Post reporter, recounts his family's harrowing experience with the mental health system as his son‑in‑law enters a manic episode and is convicted, exposing the gap between care and punishment for the mentally ill.