Black Friend: Essays
By: Ziwe
4.30
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From a rapidly rising comedy star, a bold, biting, and deeply hilarious takedown—and send-up—of our…
Want to Read $ 11.99"You can't have my body, but you can have my body of work."-Ziwe, Black Friend: Essays
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1. Bright Young Women
By: Jessica Knoll
4.02
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary novel inspired by the real-life sorority targeted by America's first celebrity ser… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is."-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
"Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that."-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
"There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was mak…"-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
"Her lips are moving silently around words I recognize. 'I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.' It's a line by one of her favourite …"-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
2. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles
By: Kate Flannery
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent coll… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
3. 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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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- 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
4. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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- humor
- adult
- audiobook
5. The Woman in Me
By: Britney Spears
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"I realized how powerful it can be when women defy expectations. I can make my own way in life. I can make my dreams come true."-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me
"But then, when it came time to end the conservatorship, I realized one thing: You can’t fuck with a woman who knows how to pray. Really pray. All I did was pray."-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me
"Later, I walked all the way home so I could take in the city, breaking one of my heels along the way. When I got to my apartment, I went to my terrace and just looked up at the stars for hours. At th…"-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me
"Giving a person no grace in a hard time is just not nice. Especially when you can't take as good as you give. When I started to speak and throw it back at them a little, God knows they were far from …"-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me
6. The Guest
By: Emma Cline
3.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"-Emma Cline, The Guest
7. Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier
By: Marisa Meltzer
3.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The bombshell exposé that reveals—for the first time—exactly what happened at Glossier, one of Amer… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
"Glossier is about much more than aesthetic appearance; it has become a way for people to feel connected to bigger beliefs, to feel like their daily choices are having an impact, and that they are put…"-Marisa Meltzer, Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier
8. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
By: Maria Bamford
3.77
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more
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- memoir
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- comedy
- audiobook
9. Come and Get It
By: Kiley Reid
3.38
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
10. 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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- adult
- audiobook
"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
11. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- audiobook
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
12. Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome
By: Aparna Nancherla
3.60
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and insightful collection of essays exploring impostor syndrome, from the inside and ou… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- nonfiction
- essays
- comedy
- audiobook
13. Down the Drain
By: Julia Fox
4.40
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Julia Fox is famous for many her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut G… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
"I want to love him but I often find myself wishing he could just be an asshole all the time. This way I wouldn't have all these inner battles with myself. I learn to navigate my way through shattered…"-Julia Fox, Down the Drain
14. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
By: Roxane Gay
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Po… read more
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- race
- memoir
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- audiobook
15. The House of Hidden Meanings
By: RuPaul
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
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16. 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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- memoir
- humor
- short stories
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- essays
- comedy
- audiobook
17. Joyful Recollections of Trauma
By: Paul Scheer
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and humorous memoir-in-essays on coming… read more
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- biography
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- humor
- nonfiction
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- audiobook
"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
18. Black Friend: Essays
By: Ziwe
4.30
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From a rapidly rising comedy star, a bold, biting, and deeply hilarious takedown—and send-up—of our… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- humor
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- comedy
- audiobook
"You can't have my body, but you can have my body of work."-Ziwe, Black Friend: Essays
19. 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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- memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
20. The Jolliest Bunch: Unhinged Holiday Stories
By: Danny Pellegrino
4.18
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of How Do I Un-Remember This? and host of the hit podcas… read more
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- memoir
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- comedy
- audiobook
21. The Art of Small Talk
By: Casey Wilson
3.80
Format: 5 pages, Audiobook
Hilarious and practical advice for how to up your small talk game from comedians, actors and self-a… read more
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