The Upside of Being Down: How Mental Health Struggles Led to My Greatest Successes in Work and Life
By: Jen Gotch
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An entertaining, humorous, and inspirational memoir by the founder and…
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1. No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
By: Ron Powers
3.87
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
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"The mentally ill people in our lives, as they strive to build healthy, well-supported, and rewarding lives for themselves, can show us all how to reconnect with the most primal of human urges, the ur…"-Ron Powers, No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
"...I have sometimes imagined my own sanity as resting on the surface of a membrane, a thin and fragile membrane that can easily be ripped open, plunging me into the abyss of madness, where I join the…"-Ron Powers, No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
"The future will be decided in a thousand American urban neighborhoods and suburban conference centers and small-town church basements and library meeting rooms and rural kitchens... The future of men…"-Ron Powers, No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
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- audiobook
3. Triggers: Exchanging Parents' Angry Reactions for Gentle Biblical Responses
By: Amber Lia , Wendy Speake
3.91
Format: 337 pages,
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- self help
- nonfiction
- audiobook
4. The Age of Miracles
By: Karen Thompson Walker
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
"It still amazes me how little we really knew. . . . Maybe everything that happened to me and my fa… read more
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5. Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
By: Ryan Holiday
0.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
You've seen it all before. A malicious online rumor costs a company millions. A political sideshow … read more
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6. How to Murder Your Life
By: Cat Marnell
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
At the age of 15, Cat Marnell unknowingly set out to murder her life. After a privileged yet emotio… read more
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7. Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story
By: Jewel
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
New York Times best-selling poet and multiplatinum singer-songwriter Jewel explores her unconventio… read more
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8. We Are Never Meeting In Real Life
By: Samantha Irby
3.14
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire. With We Are Never Meeting in R… read more
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9. The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
By: Leslie Jamison
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
By the New York Timesbestselling author of THE EMPATHY EXAMS, an exploration of addiction, and the … read more
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10. Organizing Solutions for People With Attention Deficit Disorder: Tips and Tools to Help You Take Charge of Your Life and Get Organized
By: None
4.20
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
ADD, Attention Deficit Disorder and ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, are prevalent i… read more
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11. Survival Lessons
By: Alice Hoffman
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Fifteen years ago, Alice Hoffman received a diagnosis that changed everything about the life she'd … read more
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12. The Year We Turned Forty
By: Liz Fenton , Lisa Steinke
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
If you could repeat one year of your life, what would you do differently? This heartwarming and hil… read more
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13. Paris: The Memoir
By: Paris Hilton
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
🎧Listening Length: 8 hours and 22 minutes ***An Instant New York Times Bestseller*** From the… read more
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"Some friendships just have their seasons, and that's ok."-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir
"Don’t waste energy living a life someone else designed for you. Life is one per customer. Let them do theirs. You do yours."-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir
"Know your worth, girls. You're not lucky to be at the party, the party is lucky to have you. Apply as needed to relationships, jobs, and family."-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir
"Maybe if one of them had told someone, it wouldn't have happened to me. And maybe if I had told someone, it wouldn't have happened to someone else."-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir
14. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
15. Board to Death (Board Game Shop, #1)
By: C.J. Connor
3.09
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In a trendy Salt Lake City, Utah, neighborhood, Ben Rosencrantz's board game shop has become a comm… read more
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16. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
17. The Hilarious World of Depression
By: John Moe
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For years John Moe, critically-acclaimed public radio personality and host of The Hilarious World o… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- psychology
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"it makes sense when you think about the confluence of puberty hormones, stress from academics and the emergence of primitive appalling forms of dating, depression starts in your junior high."-John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression
"Novelist John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars among many other megaselling books, has struggled with [depression] for many years. "There is this weird perpetual hope," he told me, "not just a…"-John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression
"My dad loved telling ghost stories from the times he went camping with his father in Sweden. In one story they were driving on a country road at night and kept having to stop because they'd see feet …"-John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression
18. One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
By: Kate Kennedy
3.78
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millenni… read more
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"Why would I ever let someone who drafts make-believe football teams make me believe I should be embarrassed by my interests?"-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
"Pregnancy loss...is an open wound with the most vulnerable scab, forced to constantly replenish its surface-level protection as it's picked at daily, not by you, but inadvertently by other people's j…"-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
"I'm a weird contradiction of someone who pursues and values traditions but tries to reject the parts that are oppressive, unfair or unnecessary, because we can adapt things to who we are, not to who …"-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
"That's the thing about girlhood. You and your friends have to take yourselves seriously, because no one else will. We had to keep our emotional behavior to diary pages and fangirl in private, perform…"-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
19. Thicker than Water: A Memoir
By: Kerry Washington
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist Kerry Washington shares the "exquisitely movi… read more
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20. Momma Cusses
By: Gwenna Laithland
4.40
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Join the millions of fans who love Momma Cusses, TikTok’s #1 Parenting Unexpert! There are lots … read more
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"My mom raised me the best way she could with the tools she had available. I asked her once if she found being a single mom harder than being a not-single mom. "Just because I was married to your fath…"-Gwenna Laithland, Momma Cusses
21. Bravey
By: Alexi Pappas
4.20
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
"Renaissance runner" (New York Times) Alexi Pappas--Olympic athlete, actress, filmmaker and writer-… read more
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"Headed to the moon not now but soon."-Alexi Pappas, Bravey
"Grit is what’s left over when nothing’s left."-Alexi Pappas, Bravey
"A life can’t be replicated and it doesn’t need to be."-Alexi Pappas, Bravey
"A dream come true unfolds very very gradually then all at once."-Alexi Pappas, Bravey
22. The Upside of Being Down: How Mental Health Struggles Led to My Greatest Successes in Work and Life
By: Jen Gotch
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An entertaining, humorous, and inspirational memoir by the founder and… read more
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23. Rebel Rising
By: Rebel Wilson
3.91
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilariou… read more
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"Would this performance feel internally like I was going to die? Yes. But my desire to win, my desire to be somebody, is so strong that it compels me to do the hardest thing possible: to perform in pu…"-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising
"People would come up to me on the street and say, 'I just want to thank you for being so brave!' Why am I so fucking brave? I'm not going off to fight in a war! I'm not running into a burning buildin…"-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising
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24. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]
By: Chelsea Devantez
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more
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25. Dear Future Mama: A TMI Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, and Motherhood from Your Bestie
By: Meghan Trainor
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The real talk you want about pregnancy, birth, body image, and the newborn days from Meghan Trainor… read more
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26. Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine: Stories
By: Kevin Wilson
3.80
Format: 288 pages, ebook
“Wildfire Johnny” is the story of a man who discovers a magic razor that allows him to travel back … read more
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27. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir
By: Anna Marie Tendler
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the live… read more
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28. The Middle Finger Project: Trash Your Imposter Syndrome and Live the Unf*ckwithable Life You Deserve
By: Ash Ambirge
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Fresh, funny, and fearless, The Middle Finger Project is a point-by-point primer on how to get unst… read more
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29. The Starlet and the Spy
By: Ji-min Lee
3.14
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Historical fiction, based on true events, about two women who seem the most unlikely to ever meet: … read more
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30. Growing Old: Notes on Aging with Something like Grace
By: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
3.69
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing the natural world, chronicling the customs… read more
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31. Miss Aluminum: A Memoir
By: Susanna Moore
3.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Miss Aluminum is Susanna Moore's revealing and refreshing memoir of Hollywood in the 1970s I… read more
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