Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.21
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a soc…
Want to Read $ 9.99"We die all the time to avoid being killed."-Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
"What is armor after all but a cage that moves with you?"-Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
"Davis calls PTSD living at the whim of your worst memories."-Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
"When Giverny came out with a Gemina B. perfume advertised as with the slogan 'the fatal flower', I wondered if women should aspire to smell like a mutilated corpse."-Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
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1. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
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"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
2. The Seventh Horse And Other Tales
By: Leonora Carrington
3.91
Format: 2 pages, Paperback
This collection of Carrington's fiction, the most comprehensive so far, includes a novella and 18 s… read more
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3. Piękni Dwudziestoletni
By: Marek Hłasko
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Marek Hlasko pozostawil po sobie nie tylko spuscizne literacka, obejmujaca opowiadania i powiesci, … read more
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4. The Lost Daughter
By: Elena Ferrante
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more
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5. The Topless Tower
By: Silvina Ocampo , James Womack
2.00
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
When a mysterious stranger arrives laden with paintings, Leandro finds his quiet life instantly and… read more
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6. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
7. Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
By: Deborah Levy
4.29
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
'Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statu… read more
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- memoir
- feminism
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
- womens
"É difícil reivindicar fragilidade e força em igual proporção, mas é essa mistura que nos constitui a todos"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"A história neste livro era sobre uma mulher que oferece a sua vida a um homem. Não se deve tentar isso em casa, mas é normalmente aí que acontece."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"The story in this book was about a woman who has gifted her life to a man. This is not something to be tried at home but it is usually where it happens."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"One of these men told me at a book festival that if he did not transgress too many boundaries in his marriage, there would always be a comforting pair of slippers warming for him by the fire...Will t…"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
8. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
9. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
By: Alexander Chee
4.39
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literat… read more
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- audiobook
"Destroying art is practice for destroying people."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"...books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
10. 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
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- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
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- 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
11. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
By: Olivia Laing
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
12. Coventry: Essays
By: Rachel Cusk
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three "literary masterpieces… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"The rules of writing are mostly indistinguishable from the rules of living, but this tends to be the last place people look when searching for 'there'."-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"Indeed, we believe everyone has a book in them - a book, not a symphony, and not even a poem. What is it, this book everyone has in them? It is, perhaps, that haunting entity, the 'true' self. The tr…"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"War is a narrative: it might almost be said to embody the narrative principle itself. It is the attempt to create a story of life, to create agreement. In war, there is no point of view; war is the e…"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"In marriage, the woman compensates for her lack of external power by commandeering the story. Isn't that right? She fills the silence, the mystery of her own acts and aims, with a structured account …"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
13. Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.21
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a soc… read more
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- memoir
- feminism
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
- womens
- audiobook
"We die all the time to avoid being killed."-Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
"What is armor after all but a cage that moves with you?"-Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
"Davis calls PTSD living at the whim of your worst memories."-Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
"When Giverny came out with a Gemina B. perfume advertised as with the slogan 'the fatal flower', I wondered if women should aspire to smell like a mutilated corpse."-Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
14. Trash Story
By: Mateusz Górniak
3.15
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Trash Story to kołysanka dla epoki telewizji i pępkowe społeczeństwa katastrofy. Historię zaczyna o… read more
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15. Toń
By: Ishbel Szatrawska
4.30
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
Kiedy Eichmedien stały się Nakomiadami? Kiedy Rastenburg był Rastemborkiem i kiedy stał się Kętrzyn… read more
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16. Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)
By: Megan Harlan
4.63
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Mobile Home explores the emotional structures and metaphysical geographies of home as inspired by M… read more
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- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
"A city is a place where interesting always beats beautiful."-Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)
"I need the sky's colored threads to tangle inside me, pull me somewhere new."-Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)
"Books mimic adrenaline to the narratively restless: nests of worlds in which the mind takes predestined flights from time and place."-Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)
"At a certain point I need to go wandering. My feet need to hit earth, again and again, that bone-filling drumbeat. I need the sky's colored threads to tangle inside me, pull me somewhere new."-Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)
17. The World According to Joan Didion
By: Evelyn McDonnell
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential w… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
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- writing
18. Moja ukochana i ja
By: Renata Lis
4.00
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
Intymna, intelektualna i interwencyjna Książka, po którą powinna sięgnąć każda lesbijka w Polsce. … read more
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- memoir
19. The Volcano Daughters
By: Gina María Balibrera
3.66
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A saucy, searingly original debut about two sisters raised in the shadow of El Salvador’s brutal di… read more
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20. Lo llamaré amor
By: Pedro Carlos Lemus
4.26
Format: 163 pages, Paperback
«Me gusta cómo luce la agonía, pues sé que es verdadera». La preciosa novela de Pedro Carlos Lemus … read more
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21. Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion
By: Charlie Porter
3.69
Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition
'He makes us see a subject we thought we knew so well from a completely different angle; in writing… read more
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