Remedies for Sorrow: An Extraordinary Child, a Secret Kept from Pregnant Women, and a Mother's Pursuit of the Truth
By: Megan Nix
4.43
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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1. 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
- parenting
- memoir
- audiobook
2. Troubled
By: Rob Henderson
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
3. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
By: Meg Kissinger
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
4. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
By: Stephanie Land
3.62
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
5. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
6. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
By: Ricardo Nuila
4.38
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more
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- health care
- memoir
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications (The ParentData Series Book 4)
By: Emily Oster
3.85
Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition
From the New York Times bestselling author of Expecting Better, a guide to navigating a second preg… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- audiobook
8. The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
By: Shannon Harris
3.77
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
"No one is coming to rescue me. I am going to have to rescue me." As a twenty-three-year-old sin… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"But the truth was that church was making me ill. Even the loveliest church in the world couldn't make up for the fact that I had had too much church. My body was rejecting Bible verses with the stren…"-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
"...the hypocrisy of it all was too much to take. To have heard the words 'forgiveness' and 'grace' in hundreds of sermons, thousands of prayers, in every quote, every song, at every meeting and then …"-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
"Religion carries with it great potential for good and for harm. It's humans that make it more complicated (and more certain) and heavier than it needs to be. Religion shouldn't be something heavy we …"-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
9. The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story
By: Aaron Bobrow-Strain
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
What happens when an undocumented teen mother takes on the U.S. immigration system? When Aida He… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"There was dignity, he knew, in the simple act of continuing to live in a world where you were not meant to survive."-Aaron Bobrow-Strain, The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story
"[...] the "explosion" of Mexicans crossing the border without permission was entirely predictable. It was the inevitable consequence of of policies that slashed opportunities to migrate legally witho…"-Aaron Bobrow-Strain, The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story
10. Sandwich
By: Catherine Newman
3.75
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more
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- audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
11. All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience
By: Jay Wellons
4.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as… read more
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- memoir
- medical
- medicine
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's
By: Sandeep Jauhar
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“Blending the humor, compassion, and absorbing family drama of first-rate memoir with expert scienc… read more
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- memoir
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
By: Camille T. Dungy
4.19
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
14. Did I Ever Tell You?
By: Genevieve Kingston
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
15. The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
By: Bozoma Saint John
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From iconic leader Bozoma Saint John, comes a memoir of grief, and one woman's drive to thrive in t… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
16. The Manicurist's Daughter
By: Susan Lieu
3.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
17. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
By: Anna Akbari
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
18. Remedies for Sorrow: An Extraordinary Child, a Secret Kept from Pregnant Women, and a Mother's Pursuit of the Truth
By: Megan Nix
4.43
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This "compulsively readable memoir...brings to light an issue that has been too long ignored...An i… read more
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- parenting
- health care
- memoir
- medical
- medicine
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
19. Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story
By: Kristine S. Ervin
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of My Dark Places and I'll Be Gone in the Dark , a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
20. The Marriage Box
By: Corie Adjmi
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Casey Cohen, a Middle Eastern Jew, is a sixteen-year-old in New Orleans in the 1970s when she start… read more
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21. 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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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
22. Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education
By: Sola Mahfouz
4.58
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
23. Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
By: Anthony Veasna So
4.11
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub By the New… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"We're minorities within minorities, I'd often repeat to my friend, in an attempt to subdue his frustration with the compounding obstacles of his life."-Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
"You can only keep up the precarious act of sustaining this fantasy of a better world for so long when not much has actually changed in our favor. But as long as there's something new in our queue, af…"-Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
"But—please, hear me out—don't you think difference breathes in the expanses that lie amid your monotonous thoughts? Even as you see in the future only suicide, your mind fosters so many novel meaning…"-Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
24. Reunion
By: Elise Juska
3.39
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of the “uniquely poignant” (Entertainment Weekly) novel The Blessings comes… read more
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- audiobook
25. What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt
By: Tessa Miller
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What Doesn’t Kill You is the riveting account of a young journalist’s awakening to chronic illness,… read more
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- memoir
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
26. The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph
By: Oksana Masters
4.62
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A memoir from the United States’s most decorated winter Paralympic or Olympic athlete, The Hard Par… read more
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- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
27. More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood
By: Majka Burhardt
4.01
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
An intense and emotional epistolary memoir by one of the world's top ice climbers, born at the conf… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- memoir
28. I Wasn't Supposed to Be Here: Finding My Voice, Finding My People, Finding My Way
By: Jonathan Conyers
4.50
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
As seen on Humans of New York , Jonathan Conyers introduces us to the teachers, his debate coach, … read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- memoir
29. Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing
By: Kimberly Shannon Murphy
4.46
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A USA Today Book Club Pick Foreword by Cameron Diaz “Reading Kimberly Shannon Murphy’s searing and … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
30. The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries: The Education of a Doctor
By: Stephen L. Hauser
4.30
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A doctor’s powerful and deeply human memoir about the mysteries of the brain and his 40-year quest … read more
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- memoir
- medical
- medicine
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. American Mother: A Life Reclaimed
By: Colum McCann
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In late 2021 Diane Foley sat at a table across from Alexanda Kotey. A member of the ISIS group know… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Listening is the quiet soul of storytelling"-Colum McCann, American Mother: A Life Reclaimed
"Even the worst of humans demand a portion of love."-Colum McCann, American Mother: A Life Reclaimed
"Turning your back will not change the direction of the knife."-Colum McCann, American Mother: A Life Reclaimed
"He didn’t just want to be at the edge, he wanted to become the edge."-Colum McCann, American Mother: A Life Reclaimed
