Joan Didion: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
By: Melville House
4.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conver…
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1. Play It As It Lays
By: Joan Didion , David Thomson
3.92
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of a… read more
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- literature
- american
"The letter is still in my makeup box but I am careful not to read it unless I am drunk"-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still believe in cause-effect. Carter and Helene also believe that people are either sane or insane."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
2. 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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- american
- nonfiction
- memoir
"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
3. 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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- american
- nonfiction
- memoir
"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
4. 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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- literature
- american
"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
5. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
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- american
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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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- american
- nonfiction
- memoir
"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. Concrete Island
By: J.G. Ballard
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over th… read more
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- literature
8. The Writing Life
By: Annie Dillard
3.26
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood;… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
9. Run River
By: Joan Didion
3.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and b… read more
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- american
10. 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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11. Victory
By: Joseph Conrad , Robert Hampson
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself of… read more
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12. 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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13. 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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- american
- nonfiction
- memoir
"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
14. 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
"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
15. Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
By: Janet Malcolm
3.94
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
“Superb . . . [The] final, splendid, most personal work of [Janet Malcolm’s] long career.” ―Charles… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"La autobiografía es un género de nombre errado; la memoria recita solo algunas de sus líneas."-Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
"Los recuerdos con trama son, por supuesto, los que cometen el pecado original de la autobiografía, lo que le da la vitalidad, si no la razón de ser."-Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
16. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History
By: Nellie Bowles
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
17. The Orange and Other Poems
By: Wendy Cope
4.19
Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition
My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more
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- nonfiction
18. My First Book
By: Honor Levy
3.27
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From groundbreaking debut author Honor Levy, stories to delight and ensnare Walking the wire betwe… read more
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- literature
- american
"I HAV3 CHOS3N T3H WAY OF FA3THFUL3SS"-Honor Levy, My First Book
"Nerf is a verb now. I'm gonna nerf all you faggots, give me that grenade."-Honor Levy, My First Book
"1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer."-Honor Levy, My First Book
"Zoe laughs like Tinkerbell, the air whistling between the gaps in her teeth. She’s definitely not a dog."-Honor Levy, My First Book
19. On Women
By: Susan Sontag
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on ag… read more
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- nonfiction
"Dividing time into Past, Present, and Future suggests that reality is distributed equally among three parts, but in fact the past is the most real of all. The future is, inevitably, an accumulation o…"-Susan Sontag, On Women
20. A Book of Days
By: Patti Smith
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
21. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
22. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
23. Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver
By: Mary Oliver
4.52
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
A celebration of the beloved, award-winning poet Mary Oliver, narrated by actress and activist Soph… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
24. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
"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
25. Brave New World: A Graphic Novel
By: Fred Fordham
3.65
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Available in graphic novel form for the first time, Aldous Huxley's classic novel of authoritariani… read more
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26. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
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27. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
28. Joan Didion: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
By: Melville House
4.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conver… read more
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- literature
- american
- nonfiction
- memoir
29. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
30. 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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"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
31. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
