House of Sticks
By: Ly Tran
4.38
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
New York City Book Awards Hornblower Award Winner One of Vogue and NPR’s Best Books of the Year T…
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1. Janesville: An American Story
By: None , Amy Goldstein
4.10
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A Washington Post reporter’s intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors’ … read more
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- nonfiction
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2. The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia
By: David Stuart MacLean
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
"Brilliant and painful and hilarious." --Antonya Nelson On October 17, 2002, David MacLean "woke up… read more
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3. Moonlight on Linoleum: A Daughter's Memoir
By: None
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
"I invited the child I was once to have her say in these pages. I am the one who came out on the ot… read more
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4. Beautiful Country
By: Qian Julie Wang
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when sev… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"Words rolled out of my mouth one after another and I do not dare to interrupt them with a breath. They are new words, foreign words but familiar all the same because they have been sitting at my thro…"-Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country
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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- adult
- 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. Real Americans
By: Rachel Khong
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
7. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
By: Stephanie Foo
4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more
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8. Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more
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"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
9. Solito
By: Javier Zamora
4.48
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at th… read more
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"We nod, and I notice stars beginning to pop behind his head."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Puedo sentir El Viaje en las plantas de mis pies. Lo veo en mis sueños."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"My chest like hummingbirds fighting for the hibiscus in Abuelita's garden."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Mom to my left, Dad to my right, a mosquito net like a crown covering all of us."-Javier Zamora, Solito
10. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
11. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
By: Deborah Jackson Taffa
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more
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"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
12. They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
By: Prachi Gupta
4.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in t… read more
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- audiobook
"We abide by their story because we think that is how we gain acceptance in America. But we cannibalize our bodies, our spirits and our minds to feed a hunger that never abates. We struggle under a we…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"The world we live in, which demands perfection and achievement, teaches us we cannot love ourselves as we are. The myth teaches us to think greatness always resides outside us instead of within us. W…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"We had each been raised to believe that every unknown could be resolved through willpower and intellect, a message reinforced by America's rigid conception of who we are supposed to be. The truth is,…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
13. Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life
By: Kao Kalia Yang
4.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety told fr… read more
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14. Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room
By: Paul Seward
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A boy is pulled from a river and brought back to life: Will he be the same child he was? A priest o… read more
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15. House of Sticks
By: Ly Tran
4.38
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
New York City Book Awards Hornblower Award Winner One of Vogue and NPR’s Best Books of the Year T… read more
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- adult
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16. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewind… read more
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- nonfiction
- asian literature
17. Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
By: Phuc Tran
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and mo… read more
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"Teenagers and truck drivers: We're all on our way to somewhere else."-Phuc Tran, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
"The vessel of my heart couldn't hold both my rage for my father and my love for my mother. Like glass subjected to heat and cold, I cracked."-Phuc Tran, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
"Was this the real me? Stripped of the ability to look like a punk- what defined me as one? Not my jacket. Not my clothes. My friends? My enemies? No. What I did determined who I was, not what I looke…"-Phuc Tran, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
18. Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
By: Kat Chow
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Helen Macdonald and Elizabeth Alexander, an intimate and haunting portrait of grief … read more
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"Our time with our mother was a past life—some version of ourselves from which we’d become estranged."-Kat Chow, Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
"But, Mommy, grief is a container of contradictions. I want to expel something, though I do not know what. I want to rid myself of this heaviness, just as much as I want to keep your ghosts."-Kat Chow, Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
"I often tell myself, I am young, my body is strong, and I delay making appointment after appointment, physical after physical, until I think about my mother, and I schedule something for the next wee…"-Kat Chow, Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
"My father often talks of survival - do whatever is necessary to succeed - but where in this idea does satisfaction factor? Mommy, I am asking about your happiness - and yet, I am only able to reach a…"-Kat Chow, Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
19. Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
By: Elizabeth Miki Brina
4.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A “hauntingly beautiful memoir about family and identity” (NPR) and a young woman's journey to unde… read more
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"My mother and I speak different languages. Her native language is Japanese. My native language is English. This might seem like a mundane fact about us. It’s not. It dictates everything. Because even…"-Elizabeth Miki Brina, Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
"My mother and I speak different languages. Her native language is Japanese. My native language is English. This might seem like a mundane fact about us. It's not. It dictates everything. Because even…"-Elizabeth Miki Brina, Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
20. Molly: The True Story of the Amazing Dog Who Rescues Cats
By: Colin Butcher
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Molly: The True Story of the Amazing Dog Who Rescues Cats tells the heartwarming story of the man-a… read more
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21. Kamala's Way: An American Life
By: Dan Morain
3.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory biography of the first Black woman to stand for Vice President, charting how the daugh… read more
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