The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life After Brain Damage
By: Drew Magary
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, darkly funny comeback story of learning to live with a broken mind after a near-fata…
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1. Skin
By: Kathe Koja
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Tess, a sculptor, and Bibi, a dancer, come together to create a new underground art form of metal a… read more
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- audiobook
2. The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
By: Jane Leavy
4.15
Format: None pages,
The acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Sandy Koufax returns with the biography of on… read more
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- autobiography
- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
3. Made in America
By: Kevin Allen , Chris Chelios
4.01
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From being inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2013, to serving in an executive role on the Detr… read more
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4. Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story
By: Steven Hatch
3.85
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six mon… read more
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5. Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
By: Bob Odenkirk
3.60
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
In this hilarious, heartfelt memoir, the star of Mr. Show, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Nob… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The 'better angels of our nature' may be the ones we want leading us forward, but the worser angels are the ones that we seem to want to watch onscreen."-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
"I figured I'd work in forestry, since I like the outdoors. In fact, in high school I filled out some kind of career-planning assessment and it said just that: 'Go into the forest and don't come back."-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
"Cads kill me. Men who go through life making wisecracks, being overtly rude, taking advantage, being self-obsessed disasters. They're just funny to me. Because of this hobbyhorse, one of my favorite …"-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
6. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
By: Jamie Loftus
3.92
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
7. The Nineties
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.87
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
8. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
By: Maria Bamford
3.77
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
By: Rax King
3.47
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture a… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. A Heart That Works
By: Rob Delaney
4.62
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
New York Times Bestseller * The New Yorker Best Books of 2022 * Entertainment Weekly Best Boo… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- medical
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through"-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works
"Why don't you just leave open the possibility that others love you, whether you like it or not, and that the people who'd like you to stick around aren't, to a man, wrong."-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works
11. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
By: Lawrence Ingrassia
4.41
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
By: Rob Harvilla
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
13. Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome
By: Aparna Nancherla
3.60
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and insightful collection of essays exploring impostor syndrome, from the inside and ou… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!
By: David Zucker
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
15. Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)
By: Dan Ozzi
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well tol… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
16. It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me
By: Rex Chapman
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Joyful Recollections of Trauma
By: Paul Scheer
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and humorous memoir-in-essays on coming… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
18. The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
By: Carl Elliott
3.99
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Shocking cases of abusive medical research and the whistleblowers who spoke out against them, somet… read more
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- medical
- medicine
- adult
- nonfiction
19. Hell Is a World Without You
By: Jason Kirk
4.59
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
Rarely has an Evangelical upbringing been depicted with the relentless honesty, wide-ranging empath… read more
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"It's a disorienting moment, when you realize the Christmas story you've read a hundred times has always included, hidden in plain sight, an anarchist manifesto."-Jason Kirk, Hell Is a World Without You
20. The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life After Brain Damage
By: Drew Magary
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, darkly funny comeback story of learning to live with a broken mind after a near-fata… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
21. Little Earthquakes: A Memoir
By: Sarah Mandel
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“Sarah Mandel has done something remarkable here. I found myself weeping, laughing with delight and… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Business Is Personal: The Truth about What It Takes to Be Successful While Staying True to Yourself
By: Bethenny Frankel
3.72
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Lessons on building a business and maintaining balance by the New York Times bestselling author, me… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
23. The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness
By: Andy McCullough
4.49
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The definitive biography of Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, based on exclusive interviews with Kershaw… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Volume 2
By: Larry Hama
4.07
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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25. Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
By: Craig Whitlock
4.39
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest publi… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
"After a decade of U.S. wars and surging defense budgets, an expectation of special treatment had taken root in the Navy. Many officers felt they were owed something extra for enduring long deployment…"-Craig Whitlock, Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
26. How to Baby: A No-Advice-Given Guide to Motherhood, with Drawings
By: Liana Finck
4.40
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A wryly personal and deeply relatable graphic memoir skewering the “traditional” parenting book to … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
27. Rethinking Fandom: How to Beat the Sports-Industrial Complex at Its Own Game
By: Craig Calcaterra
3.99
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
A fundamental reevaluation of how to be a sports fan by an acclaimed baseball writer. Sports fan… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
By: Samuel Moyn
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war. With little debate or discussion, t… read more
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- nonfiction
29. This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder
By: Alan Townsend
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A compassionate, vulnerable, and transformative exploration of the nurturing and spiritual power of… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- health
- medical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide
By: Rachel Zimmerman
4.41
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"This poignant, soul-baring memoir is truly one of the most moving accounts of grief, loss and resi… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
31. The Wrong Calamity: A Memoir
By: Marsha Jacobson
4.37
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Raised to believe she’s a no-account, Marsha Jacobson falls prey to an assistant dean at her colleg… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
