I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
By: Jami Attenberg
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and e…
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1. Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir
By: Molly Brodak
4.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Raw, poetic and compulsively readable. In Molly Brodak's dazzling memoir, Bandit, her eye is so ho… read more
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- biography
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- audiobook
2. Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning
By: Claire Dederer
3.69
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times best-selling author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, a ferocio… read more
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- feminism
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- essays
3. Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems
By: Dulce María Loynaz , None
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the first comprehensive selection and translation of Dulce Maria Loynaz's poetry, James O'Connor… read more
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4. 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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5. The Swimmers
By: Julie Otsuka
3.67
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From the award winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine, a tour de… read more
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- audiobook
"Above ground, many of us are ungainly and awkward, slowing down with the years.... Down below, at the pool, we are restored to old youthful selves. Grey hairs vanish beneath dark blue swim caps. Brow…"-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers
"The pool is their sanctuary, their refuge, the one place on earth they can go to escape from their pain, for it is only down below in the waters that their symptoms begin to abate. "The moment I see …"-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers
6. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
7. Easy Beauty
By: Chloé Cooper Jones
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction … read more
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"Beauty is what we're told is beautiful and what we're told becomes the truth."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"Maybe then I would submit to it's rigid ideals if I were recognized as worthy of experiencing them."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"I care if you are happy. I'm in love with your happiness. My focus is on how you feel not what you do."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"You could have made me come home," I say. "No, I can only try to be the person you want to come home to."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
8. The Hero of This Book
By: Elizabeth McCracken
3.77
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, abo… read more
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- writing
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"As for me, I don't think writing is that hard, as long as you're comfortable with failure on every single level."-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
"My mother's favorite cats were male and nervous and needed her. "Come to Mommy," my mother would say to one of them. "Yes, I love you, too." "You are not that cat's mother," I said, sitting on the so…"-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
"I've always hated the notion, in life or in fiction, that the human personality is a puzzle to be solved, that we are a single flashback away from understanding why this person is cruel to her childr…"-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
9. Joan Is Okay
By: Weike Wang
3.67
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be… read more
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"I wasn't a genius in the end, but a girl could still hope."-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay
"A woman who twirls her hair while speaking is a woman never to be taken seriously"-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay
"The average Joe in America is expected to move 11.3 times in his life. Who knows about Average Jane."-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay
"Proud to be an American, a feeling that I lacked but also a phrase that I didn't think applied to me."-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay
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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"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. 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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- 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
12. Write for Your Life
By: Anna Quindlen
3.95
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In this clarion call to pick up a pen and find yourself from "one of our most astute chroniclers of… read more
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- audiobook
"Solitude can lead to a tunnel within ourselves at the end of which is a room we didn't even know was there."-Anna Quindlen, Write for Your Life
13. I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
By: Jami Attenberg
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and e… read more
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14. Lost & Found: A Memoir
By: Kathryn Schulz
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & F… read more
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- memoir
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"For now, at least, the world is ours to notice and to change, and that seems to me sufficient. It is true that loss will ultimately part us from it, but it is also true, as I said earlier, that we ha…"-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir
"One consequence of losing a parent—obvious enough, although it hadn't occurred to me beforehand—is that it reconfigures the rest of your family. All my life, it had been the four of us; to the extent…"-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir
"What an astonishing thing it is to find someone. Loss may alter our sense of scale, reminding us that the world is overwhelmingly large while we are incredibly tiny. But finding does the same; the on…"-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir
15. Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
By: Isaac Fitzgerald
3.59
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, … read more
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16. 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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17. Consent: A Memoir
By: Jill Ciment
3.96
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more
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18. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays
By: Elisa Gabbert
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more
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19. Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
By: Heather Havrilesky
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating, poignant, and savagely funny examination of modern marriage from Ask Polly advice … read more
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"I wasn’t sure I wanted to spend forever with anyone, least of all myself."-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
"But we weren’t married yet, so he still thought he could do whatever he wanted."-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
"Forever is two immortal elves, sipping pink champagne by a burbling stream, then exploring the wild, gorgeous woods around them in everlasting harmony. Forever is set in New Zealand, not New Jersey."-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
"I wrote this book to explore that tedium, along with everything else that marriage brings: the feeling of safety, the creeping darkness, the raw fear and suspense of growing older together, the tiny …"-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
20. My Life as a Villainess
By: Laura Lippman
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A Paperback Original—Also Available as a Hardcover Library Edition New York Times bestselling au… read more
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