The World According to Joan Didion
By: Evelyn McDonnell
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential w…
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1. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- biography
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"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
2. Where I Was From
By: Joan Didion
3.87
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her hist… read more
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- history
- biography
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- biography memoir
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"There is no real way to deal with everything we lose."-Joan Didion, Where I Was From
"The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried."-Joan Didion, Where I Was From
"Remember, never take no cutoffs and hurry along as fast as you can."-Joan Didion, Where I Was From
3. A Book of Common Prayer
By: Joan Didion , None
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Writing with the telegraphic swiftness and microscopic sensitivity that have made her one of our mo… read more
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"I think I have never known anyone who led quite unexamined a life."-Joan Didion, A Book of Common Prayer
"I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos."-Joan Didion, A Book of Common Prayer
4. Democracy
By: Joan Didion
3.85
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around In… read more
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"By 'the long view' I believe she meant history. Or more exactly, the particular undertow of having and not having, the convulsions of a world largely unaffected by the individual efforts of anyone in…"-Joan Didion, Democracy
5. Miami
By: Joan Didion
3.68
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hyp… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Havana vanities come to dust in Miami."-Joan Didion, Miami
6. South and West: From a Notebook
By: Joan Didion
3.69
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking two ex… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
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"I've never been any place I wanted to go."-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook
"It was the kind of Sunday to make one ache for Monday morning."-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook
"The devastation along the Gulf had an inevitability about it: the coast was reverting to its natural state."-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook
"The time warp: the Civil War was yesterday, but 1960 is spoken of as if it were about three hundred years ago."-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook
7. The Last Thing He Wanted
By: Joan Didion
4.72
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
In her first novel in twelve years, the legendary author of Play It As It Laysand Slouching Toward … read more
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8. Blue Nights
By: Joan Didion
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly… read more
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9. Salvador
By: Joan Didion
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its … read more
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10. On Directing Film
By: David Mamet
3.18
Format: 159 pages,
According to David Mamet, a film director must, above all things, think visually. Most of this inst… read more
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12. A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
By: Joanna Biggs
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by the New York Times , The Week , Vulture , Elle, and The Mi… read more
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"The wound my unsuspecting heart formerly received is not healed,"-Joanna Biggs, A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
13. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
14. Let Me Tell You What I Mean
By: Joan Didion
3.84
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces t… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
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"Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"In short I had no past, and, every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at noon in Dwinelle Hall, it seemed increasingly clear to me that I had no future."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or so I thought, another story."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"Well, there it was. I got out fast then, before anyone could say "serenity" again, for it is a word I associate with death, and for several days after that meeting I wanted only to be in places where…"-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
15. 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
- biography
- memoir
"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
16. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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17. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
By: Griffin Dunne
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
18. The World According to Joan Didion
By: Evelyn McDonnell
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential w… read more
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19. Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton
By: Gail Crowther
3.80
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
A vividly rendered and empathetic exploration of how two of the greatest poets of the 20th century—… read more
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- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- writing
"Perhaps the sadness here is that Plath and Sexton somehow could not quite gather the strength to truly believe in their self-worth, and in the end neither gave themselves time to."-Gail Crowther, Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton
20. The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir
By: Cory Leadbeater
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer—struggling with depression, family issues, and addict… read more
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21. How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon
By: Lyn Slater
3.44
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as “Accidental Icon,” brings her characte… read more
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