Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
By: Gina Frangello
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"A pathbreaking feminist manifesto, impossible to put down or dismiss. Gina Frangello tells the mo…
Want to Read $ 11.99"There is only one way to tell the truth, but there are myriad ways to live a lie."-Gina Frangello, Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
"There is only one way to tell the truth, but there are myriad ways to live a lie."-Gina Frangello, Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
"My life has become a series of fast-moving parts, each hurtling forward while I race to catch up, forever on the verge of tripping."-Gina Frangello, Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
"My life has become a series of fast-moving parts, each hurtling forward while I race to catch up, forever on the verge of tripping."-Gina Frangello, Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
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1. The Chronology of Water
By: Lidia Yuknavitch
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
This is not your mother's memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the r… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
"my parents Oedipal fakers"-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
"...what is a couple over time but a line..."-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
"Make up stories until you find one you can live with."-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
"Always we were making. Making love, making trouble, making art."-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
2. Dear Fang, With Love
By: Rufi Thorpe
3.49
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Girls from Corona del Mar, a sprawling, ambitious new novel about … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
3. 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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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
4. 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
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- 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
5. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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- feminism
- adult
- audiobook
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
6. Exhibit
By: R.O. Kwon
3.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
7. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
By: Lucy Sante
3.70
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a st… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- gender
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"(Although it is extremely exciting to have tits.)"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"I wanted to so badly to be a woman that I could not really understand anyone wanting anything else"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"It appeared that transitioning did not involve piling on additional stuff; rather it was a process of removal, dismantling the carapace of maleness that had kept me in its grip for so long."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"My secret poisoned my entire experience of life. There was never a moment when I didn't feel the acute shame of being me, even as I denied to myself that my secret had anything to do with it."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
8. 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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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- 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
9. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
By: Glynnis MacNicol
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
10. Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love
By: Nina Renata Aron
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A scorching memoir of a love affair with an addict, weaving personal reckoning with psychology and … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
"Everything related to addiction feels Sisyphean."-Nina Renata Aron, Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love
"Not the girl who got away, but just a girl who went away."-Nina Renata Aron, Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love
"As an AA old-timer once said, I only drank on special occasions, like the grand opening of a pack of cigarettes."-Nina Renata Aron, Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love
"Every relationship is a kind of world-making, and the one we'd said we wanted to make at the beginning wasn't the one we made."-Nina Renata Aron, Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love
11. What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love
By: Laurel Braitman
4.43
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A true story about the ways loss can transform us into the people we want to become. “What Looks L… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
By: Gina Frangello
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"A pathbreaking feminist manifesto, impossible to put down or dismiss. Gina Frangello tells the mo… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- gender
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
- adult
- audiobook
"There is only one way to tell the truth, but there are myriad ways to live a lie."-Gina Frangello, Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
"My life has become a series of fast-moving parts, each hurtling forward while I race to catch up, forever on the verge of tripping."-Gina Frangello, Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
"We are all specks of dust against the specter of Time. Is ninety years so different from forty in the scheme of things? We are all the walking dead of history."-Gina Frangello, Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
"If I believe that art can, in fact, save us, over and over again, then does it follow that I risk the audacity of believing that you might be the very one who needs my words to save your life?"-Gina Frangello, Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
13. The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
By: Declan Walsh
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s most distinguished international correspondents. His el… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Zia perished in 1988"-Declan Walsh, The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
14. 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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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
15. Sidle Creek
By: Jolene McIlwain
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Set in the bruised, mined, and timbered hills of Appalachia in western Pennsylvania, Sidle Creek is… read more
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16. 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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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
17. 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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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
By: Gregg Colburn
4.23
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisi… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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- feminism
- adult
- audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
20. Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir
By: Nina St. Pierre
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riveting memoir about a daughter’s investigation into the wirings of her loving, unpredictable mo… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Feh: A Memoir
By: Shalom Auslander
4.12
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Foreskin’s Lament , a memoir of the author’s attempt to escape the bib… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
