7 best-selling essays books like The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays by Kelly McMasters

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The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays

By: Kelly McMasters

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A memoir in intimate essays navigating marriage and motherhood, art and ambition, grief and nostalg…

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1. Abandon Me: Memoirs

By: Melissa Febos

3.64

Format: 221 pages,

For readers of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, a fierce and dazzling personal narrative that expl… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Febos's Abandon Me: Memoirs book and Kelly McMasters's The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays

2. Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

By: Dani Shapiro

4.04

Format: 226 pages,

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3. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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4. Brutalities: A Love Story

By: Margo Steines

4.16

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

"Brutalities is electric with insight, riveted by its commitments—to love and bewilderment, to bear… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"N, still new to me, coming inside and sitting down, me thinking that we would have sex and he would leave and it would be whatever, but instead we kissed a little bit and then started talking and I h…"

-Margo Steines, Brutalities: A Love Story

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5. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

By: Lyz Lenz

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • divorce
  • audiobook
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."

-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

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6. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • divorce
  • audiobook
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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7. The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays

By: Kelly McMasters

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A memoir in intimate essays navigating marriage and motherhood, art and ambition, grief and nostalg… read more

Similar categories in Kelly McMasters's The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays book and Kelly McMasters's The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • divorce
  • audiobook
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8. End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood

By: Patty Lin

3.79

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

What happens when you land your dream job and everything you've been working toward becomes a compl… read more

Similar categories in Patty Lin's End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood book and Kelly McMasters's The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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9. My What If Year: A Memoir

By: Alisha Fernandez Miranda

3.49

Format: None pages, Paperback

An exuberant, hilarious memoir about a woman who pauses her successful career for a year and explor… read more

Similar categories in Alisha Fernandez Miranda's My What If Year: A Memoir book and Kelly McMasters's The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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10. I've Tried Being Nice: Essays

By: Ann Leary

3.90

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from t… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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11. This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

By: Elizabeth Crane

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage an… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • divorce
  • audiobook
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12. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

By: Sara B. Franklin

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne… read more

Similar categories in Sara B. Franklin's The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America book and Kelly McMasters's The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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13. End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

By: Meghan Riordan Jarvis

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized by loss? Esteemed trauma therapist Meghan Riord… read more

Similar categories in Meghan Riordan Jarvis's End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir book and Kelly McMasters's The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"If I could stop getting caught in the old cobwebs of disappointment and accept my dad as he was, I might enjoy myself too. In the emotional tumbling routine of my father slowly dying, I did manage to…"

-Meghan Riordan Jarvis, End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

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14. Here After

By: Amy Lin

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Here After is an intimate story of deep love followed by dizzying loss; a stunning, taut memoir fro… read more

Similar categories in Amy Lin's Here After book and Kelly McMasters's The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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15. Negative Space (SFWP Literary Awards)

By: Lilly Dancyger

4.23

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

"Dancyger crafts a striking composition out of found objects, a poignant portrait of the identities… read more

Similar categories in Lilly Dancyger's Negative Space (SFWP Literary Awards) book and Kelly McMasters's The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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16. We Are Too Many: A Memoir (Kind Of)

By: Hannah Pittard

3.69

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

“Hannah Pittard’s memoir is so exquisitely crafted ― I loved it.” ―Ann Napolitano, New York Times … read more

Similar categories in Hannah Pittard's We Are Too Many: A Memoir (Kind Of) book and Kelly McMasters's The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays

  • memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • divorce
  • audiobook
Cover of Wanting: Women Writing About Desire by Margot Kahn

17. Wanting: Women Writing About Desire

By: Margot Kahn

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

An intimate and empowering anthology of essays that explore the changing face of female desire in w… read more

Similar categories in Margot Kahn's Wanting: Women Writing About Desire book and Kelly McMasters's The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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18. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Liars book and Kelly McMasters's The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays

  • marriage
  • audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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19. Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood

By: JoAnna Novak

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Rachel Cusk and Maggie Nelson, the rapturous memoir of a soon-to-be-mother whose obs… read more

Similar categories in JoAnna Novak's Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood book and Kelly McMasters's The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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20. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl by Hyeseung Song

21. Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl

By: Hyeseung Song

4.13

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

For readers of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings as well as lovers of the film Minari comes a sea… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

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This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

Lyz Lenz

3.99

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You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Maggie Smith

4.08

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Kelly McMasters

4.23

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3.81

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3.38

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