Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir
By: Lacy Crawford
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A riveting, lucid memoir of a young woman's struggle to regain her sense of self after trauma, and …
Want to Read $ 14.99"Teachers refused to punish me, which is another way of saying that they refused to look after me."-Lacy Crawford, Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir
"Walking the path to classes, I had its beat in my head: Now get up and go. Now get up and go. There was no city, but I substituted a hazy notion of future. I liked to think there was a direction for me, however much solitude it might demand, however much loneliness."-Lacy Crawford, Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir
"Walking the path to classes, I had its beat in my heard: Now get up and go. Now get up and go. There was no city, but I substituted a hazy notion of future. I liked to think there was a direction for me, however much solitude it might demand, however much loneliness."-Lacy Crawford, Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir
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1. Half a Life
By: Jill Ciment
4.12
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
Unflinchingly honest, moving, and funny, Half a Lifeshows how a girl without means or promise and w… read more
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2. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
By: Meg Kissinger
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more
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- biography
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3. Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
By: Emmeline Clein
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal cult… read more
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- feminism
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4. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
By: Jonathan Rosen
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more
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- biography
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- audiobook
"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
5. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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- true crime
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- audiobook
6. Hollywood Park
By: Mikel Jollett
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
HOLLYWOOD PARK is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the … read more
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"Mom starts to cry because she doesn't know how to get mad. It's like the anger rises up in her and then turns to tears the second it gets to her eyes."-Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park
"It seemed like writers have the most important job in the world, to make books, to create a connection, a kind of telepathy between two minds in which one can inhabit the other."-Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park
"If I could open up my chest at that moment, there would be nothing but a blank shield inside, a barrier, rigid and sealed, from which nothing escapes, into which nothing is absorbed. It starts at the…"-Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park
7. Sociopath: A Memoir
By: Patric Gagne
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more
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"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
8. Everything Is Fine
By: Vince Granata
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Grief, mental illness, and the bonds of family are movingly explored in this extraordinary memoir “… read more
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"Eventually, I had no choice but to look at loss and pain, at all the pieces of my family's story that I didn't think I could ever understand. It was this process, recognizing the pieces, struggling t…"-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine
"In reality, memories are more feeling than fact. Though we want to think of our memories as one long record, the reel of our greatest hits, a memory is a constellation of infinitesimal changes, elect…"-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine
9. Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation
By: Erika Krouse
3.76
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir and part literary true crime, Tell Me Everything is the mesmerizing story of a landmark… read more
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- biography
- memoir
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- adult
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
"I felt a little bit like crying and instead ate more cheese."-Erika Krouse, Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation
"Nothing's more comforting than the sound of rain when you're not in it."-Erika Krouse, Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation
"When people are ashamed, they cover their faces. The face is where shame lives."-Erika Krouse, Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation
"People always rely on the incompetent idiot defense—it doesn’t hurt them. Look at Iran-Contra. They named an airport after that guy."-Erika Krouse, Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation
10. I Have Some Questions for You
By: Rebecca Makkai
3.61
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family trag… read more
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- crime
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- audiobook
11. Empty
By: Susan Burton
3.78
Format: 283 pages, Hardcover
An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"Most people had a history in this region, but not my parents, and my early, defining relationship to my environment was a feeling of being not from here, even though I had never lived in any other pl…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"...it allowed me to engage with my experience intellectually instead of practically, to analyze it instead of trying to fix it. And it demonstrated how another woman, in another time, had struggled w…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"It showed me one thing that being an adult meant. You were no longer limited to observing the world: Now you can join in. Instead of just being a fan of things you loved, you could get inside them. Y…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"I was struck, though, that even as the women share their experiences, they seem to remain essentially alone in them. They tell their stories, but they do not seem to connect with the others in doing …"-Susan Burton, Empty
12. Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir
By: Lacy Crawford
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A riveting, lucid memoir of a young woman's struggle to regain her sense of self after trauma, and … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- true crime
- feminism
- adult
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
"Teachers refused to punish me, which is another way of saying that they refused to look after me."-Lacy Crawford, Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir
"Walking the path to classes, I had its beat in my head: Now get up and go. Now get up and go. There was no city, but I substituted a hazy notion of future. I liked to think there was a direction for …"-Lacy Crawford, Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir
"Walking the path to classes, I had its beat in my heard: Now get up and go. Now get up and go. There was no city, but I substituted a hazy notion of future. I liked to think there was a direction for…"-Lacy Crawford, Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir
13. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
By: Lara Love Hardin
4.46
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac … read more
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- adult
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14. The Observable Universe: An Investigation
By: Heather McCalden
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A moving memoir of a young woman's reckoning with her parents' absence, the virus that took them, a… read more
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15. 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
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16. I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope
By: Chessy Prout
4.41
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
“A bold, new voice.” —People“A nuanced addition to the #MeToo conversation.” —ViceA young survivor … read more
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"#IHaveTheRightTo"-Chessy Prout, I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope
17. Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood
By: Stephen Mills
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Memoir "An unparalleled achievement , a work of shatt… read more
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18. The God of the Woods
By: Liz Moore
4.27
Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition
When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
19. A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever
By: Kim Mager
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager , a real-life version of Cla… read more
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- memoir
- adult
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- crime
- audiobook
20. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida
By: Mikita Brottman
3.54
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more
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- true crime
- audiobook
21. Someone Like Us
By: Dinaw Mengestu
3.66
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more
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"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us
