Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us
By: Colleen Kinder
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
“Beautiful. The human condition is on full display in these glimpses of our essential connectedness…
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1. How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays
By: Mandy Len Catron
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
An insightful, charming, and absolutely fascinating memoir from the author of the popular New York … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
2. The Empathy Exams: Essays
By: Leslie Jamison
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Examsis a bold and brilliant collection; winner… read more
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- short stories
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
3. One Native Life
By: Richard Wagamese
4.00
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
One Native Lifeis a look back down the road Richard Wagamese has traveled -- from childhood abuse t… 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
5. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
"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
6. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
7. Lucky
By: Jane Smiley
3.13
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musicia… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
8. We Were the Universe
By: Kimberly King Parsons
3.68
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desir… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- contemporary
"It’s an unusual question, though not as unusual as you might think amongst women who have had children. Once you’ve been slit open by a surgeon or taken a shit in a birthing tub, a whole glittering w…"-Kimberly King Parsons, We Were the Universe
9. American Melancholy: Poems
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.48
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five years Joyce C… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. We're All in This Together . . .: So Make Some Room
By: Tom Papa
3.80
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Stand-up is all well and good, but observational humor that’s funny and warm may work best in books… read more
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- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
11. Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us
By: Colleen Kinder
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
“Beautiful. The human condition is on full display in these glimpses of our essential connectedness… read more
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- memoir
- unfinished
- travel
- anthologies
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
12. So Fetch
By: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
3.60
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia comes the totally fetch story of one of th… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. No One Tells You This
By: Glynnis MacNicol
3.91
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
If the story doesn’t end with marriage or a child, what then?This question plagued Glynnis MacNicol… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- memoir
- contemporary
"We're always drawn to the clearest articulation of what we think we lack."-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This
"And I knew the simple act of reading would give my mind a certain sort of peace nothing else could."-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This
"We're the first generation that can make enough of our own money to live the way we want. I feel like we have a responsibility to figure out what this means."-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This
"This is why people have babies...because it's exhausting not to know what you're supposed to do next. A baby is basically a nonnegotiable map for the next two decades."-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This
14. Birdgirl
By: Mya-Rose Craig
3.94
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Discover a powerful, evocative and urgent new young voice in nature writing*WINNER OF THE SOMERSET … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
15. Negative Space (SFWP Literary Awards)
By: Lilly Dancyger
4.23
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
"Dancyger crafts a striking composition out of found objects, a poignant portrait of the identities… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
16. Make It Scream, Make It Burn
By: Leslie Jamison
3.93
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A new collection of essays about obsession and longing from Leslie Jamison, the New York Times best… read more
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- memoir
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- audiobook
"I am human: nothing human is alien to me."-Leslie Jamison, Make It Scream, Make It Burn
"Every paradise is made possible by blindness."-Leslie Jamison, Make It Scream, Make It Burn
"Don't assume the contours of another person's heart. Don't assume its desires."-Leslie Jamison, Make It Scream, Make It Burn
"[...] one more definition of love: committing to a story you can't fully imagine when it begins."-Leslie Jamison, Make It Scream, Make It Burn
17. The Lonely Stories
By: Natalie Eve Garrett
3.73
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
A collection of essays about the joys and struggles of being alone by 22 literary writers including… read more
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- memoir
- anthologies
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
- adult
18. These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
By: Martha Ackmann
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An engaging, intimate portrait of Emily Dickinson, one of America’s greatest and most-mythologized … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Housekeeping, to her, was a way to cultivate a woman’s submission and steal time, and she wanted nothing of it."-Martha Ackmann, These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
"She wanted to think through the questions of faith herself, and she held fast to the belief that heaven on Earth would always outweigh heaven above."-Martha Ackmann, These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
"Whether she knew it then or not, she would bore into her own interior, confronting an unknown as wild and uncertain as any new world a missionary had seen. A place as rare as Noah’s."-Martha Ackmann, These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
"She thought accepting religious maxims meant abdicating independence and not personally struggling with profound questions. It was like learning chemistry by a book rather than an experiment."-Martha Ackmann, These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
19. Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures
By: Ivan E. Coyote
4.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Beloved storyteller Ivan Coyote returns with their most intimate and moving book yet. Writer an… read more
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- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
20. Life as We Know It (Can Be): Stories of People, Climate, and Hope in a Changing World
By: Bill Weir
4.10
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning journalist and CNN chief climate correspondent Bill Weir takes readers through time a… read more
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- nonfiction
21. This Might Be Too Personal
By: Alyssa Shelasky
3.91
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A frisky, feminine, funny, and profoundly genuine essay collection on relationships, sex, motherhoo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
