15 Best memoir books like Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility by Michelle Tea

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Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

By: Michelle Tea

4.02

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From PEN/America Award winner, 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle…

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1. The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself

By: Susan Bell

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

The Artful Editexplores the many-faceted and often misunderstood--or simply overlooked--art of edit… read more

Similar categories in Susan Bell's The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself book and Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

  • nonfiction
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2. 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

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Hanna's Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk book and Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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4. More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

By: Molly Roden Winter

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unputdownable memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that follows a happily married mother'… read more

Similar categories in Molly Roden Winter's More: A Memoir of Open Marriage book and Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There is something pathetic about crying within the first minute of therapy"

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"I worry that things are going too well, that they're all going to come toppling down."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"Why do I keep doing this? Why can't I stop this stupid pleasing everyone bullshit? I'm so fucking sick of myself."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

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5. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

Similar categories in Miranda July's All Fours book and Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

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6. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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7. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

By: Melissa Febos

4.24

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Febos's Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative book and Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

  • memoir
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

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8. How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone

By: Cameron Russell

3.79

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A fierce and innovative memoir that explores who holds the power in an image-obsessed culture, from… read more

Similar categories in Cameron Russell's How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone book and Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Family Outing: A Memoir

By: Jessi Hempel

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A striking and remarkable literary memoir about one family's transformation, with almost all of the… read more

Similar categories in Jessi Hempel's The Family Outing: A Memoir book and Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • adult
  • queer
"As an adult, I'll come to understand that the price of belonging to a church community, or to any community, is accepting beliefs that you don't hold. Sometimes these beliefs are so incongruous with …"

-Jessi Hempel, The Family Outing: A Memoir

"You'll know, even as I use the word "Evan," that Evan had a name before this. It's a name I won't tell you. To utter it would be to disrespect all the work he has done to find his way to Evan. The mo…"

-Jessi Hempel, The Family Outing: A Memoir

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10. Dykette

By: Jenny Fran Davis

2.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette book and Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
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11. Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

By: Michelle Tea

4.02

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From PEN/America Award winner, 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility book and Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

  • audiobook
  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • adult
  • queer
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12. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse

By: Brontez Purnell

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more

Similar categories in Brontez Purnell's Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse book and Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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13. Pretty Baby

By: Chris Belcher

4.03

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A queer teen rebel escapes small-town Appalachia and becomes Los Angeles’s Renowned Lesbian Dominat… read more

Similar categories in Chris Belcher's Pretty Baby book and Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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14. Yours for the Taking

By: Gabrielle Korn

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Korn's Yours for the Taking book and Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
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15. Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America

By: Krista Burton

3.86

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappear… read more

Similar categories in Krista Burton's Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America book and Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"While I appreciate the freedom to live anywhere we want, and I love visiting those places, I do feel a sharp sense of loss knowing I can't see the people I consider my queer family on a daily basis. …"

-Krista Burton, Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America

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16. The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood

By: Krys Malcolm Belc

4.13

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Krys Malcolm Belc’s visual memoir-in-essays explores how the experience of gestational parenthood—c… read more

Similar categories in Krys Malcolm Belc's The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood book and Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

  • audiobook
  • parenting
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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17. Body Grammar

By: Jules Ohman

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A coming-of-age queer love story set in the glamorous but grueling world of international modeling … read more

Similar categories in Jules Ohman's Body Grammar book and Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
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18. Cinema Love

By: Jiaming Tang

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them. For over th… read more

Similar categories in Jiaming Tang's Cinema Love book and Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
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19. Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist

By: Cecilia Gentili

4.69

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A story of sex, theft, murder, motherhood, and outrageous fashion choices, Cecilia Gentili reinvent… read more

Similar categories in Cecilia Gentili's Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist book and Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready by Meaghan O'Connell

20. And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready

By: Meaghan O'Connell

3.92

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

And Now We Have Everything is O'Connell's exploration of transitioning into motherhood as a fledgli… read more

Similar categories in Meaghan O'Connell's And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready book and Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I don't want to be a mother. I want to be a writer. I want to be taken seriously. I want money. I want more time. I want to lose weight. I want to be beautiful. I want a day completely to myself, tho…"

-Meaghan O'Connell, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready

"I didn’t know before that when parents talked about 'checking on' their children, they meant checking to make sure they weren’t dead. And when they talked about their love for their children, maybe t…"

-Meaghan O'Connell, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready

"Who wanted to be a mother, anyway? Mom called to mind a relationship with someone, not an individual...There was no mother I wanted to be. I wanted to be myself, but better...To me, this was what a m…"

-Meaghan O'Connell, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready

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21. Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance

By: Francesca Royster

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance is a brilliant literary memoir o… read more

Similar categories in Francesca Royster's Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance book and Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer

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