What If This Were Enough?: Essays
By: Heather Havrilesky
3.65
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
By the author of the New York Times Love and Relationships bestseller How to Be a Person in the Wor…
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1. Spoiled Brats
By: Simon Rich
3.97
Format: 211 pages, Hardcover
In his collection SPOILED BRATS, Simon Rich takes his absurd, culture-skewering style to new height… read more
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- humor
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- short stories
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"The Benders had died in a helicopter explosion but were otherwise in perfect health."-Simon Rich, Spoiled Brats
2. Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
By: Bill Buford
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Bill Buford—author of the highly acclaimed best-selling Among the Thugs— had long thought of himsel… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do."-Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
"In normal life, "simplicity" is synonymous with "easy to do," but when a chef uses the word, it means "takes a lifetime to learn."-Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
"You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm."-Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
"Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season."-Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
3. Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
By: Kathleen Collins
3.84
Format: 192 pages, ebook
Humorous, poignant, perceptive, and full of grace, Kathleen Collins’s stories masterfully blend the… read more
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- short stories
- adult
- audiobook
"The South must be a terrible place."-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
"Louise lives on excellent terms with her solitude."-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
"Is it possible to imagine any greater amputation, any greater karmic debt, than reincarnation as a Negro?"-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
"I was never a pleasure to have around ... too moody ... an intimidating nuisance flyleafing his way across time on a whim, any old whim ..."-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
4. This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
By: Morgan Jerkins
3.87
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins' highly-anticipated collection of li… read more
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5. Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
By: Dani Shapiro
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, l… read more
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6. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
By: Dave Eggers
4.04
Format: 538 pages,
'When you read his extraordinary memoir you don't laugh, then cry, then laugh again; you somehow ex… read more
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7. Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World
By: Gretchen Rubin
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a … read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- self help
8. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- memoir
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
9. 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
10. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
11. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
By: Kate Baer
4.28
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Kate Baer returns with a collection of erasure poems created from notes she received from followers… read more
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- humor
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"I wanted art / poetry was hidden in so much in so many ways"-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
"women want to live without fear For thousands of years We were not believed this is what we carry"-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
"You were designed to find satisfaction in your excellence Your nature cannot be retrofitted to the male without permanent damage to the original design"-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
13. Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
By: Maggie Smith
3.89
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Marie Claire’s The 2020 Books You Should Pre-Order Now The Washington Post’s What to Read in 2020 B… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- psychology
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- self help
"Do not be ashamed of the intensity of your emotion. That's your humanity. Grief can be feral, wild, frightening. Give it a safe place to live."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
"Everything is temporary. You can't keep a white-knuckled hold on what you love or on what has hurt you. Loosen your grip on your grief today, if only a bit."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
"It is not your job to make other people comfortable with who you are. Be wary of those who don't want you to change or grow. Grow anyway--there is no alternative."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
"Stop calling your heart broken; your heart works just fine. If you are feeling--love, anger, gratitude, grief--it is because your heart is doing its work. Let it."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
14. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
By: Jia Tolentino
4.04
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges … read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- psychology
- nonfiction
- essays
- self help
"To communicate an identity requires some degree of self-delusion."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"Even if you avoid the internet completely—my partner does: he thought #tbt meant “truth be told"-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"People have been carping in this way for many centuries. Socrates feared that the act of writing would “create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"A woman is unruly if anyone has incorrectly decided that she’s too much of something, and if she, in turn, has chosen to believe that she’s just fine."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
15. How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone
By: Cameron Russell
3.79
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A fierce and innovative memoir that explores who holds the power in an image-obsessed culture, from… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
16. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
By: Olivia Laing
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more
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- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
17. Witness: Stories
By: Jamel Brinkley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a National Book Award finalist, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken an… read more
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- short stories
- audiobook
"According to the terms of her personal lexicon, a woman was a lady only if she was fascinating and ungovernable, and my mother considered herself nothing if not a lady."-Jamel Brinkley, Witness: Stories
18. Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
By: Barbara Ehrenreich
3.26
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
"A thing cannot be conscious without having agency, but it can have agency without being conscious."-Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
"Once I realized I was old enough to die, I decided that I was also old enough not to incur any more suffering, annoyance, or boredom in the pursuit of a longer life."-Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
"NK, or natural killer, cells, which, like macrophages, attack targets like microbes, do not always kill. A 2013 article reports that about half of the NK cells sit out the fight, leaving a minority o…"-Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
"Poor whites had always had the comfort of knowing that someone was worse off and more despised than they were; racial subjugation was the ground under their feet, the rock they stood upon, even when …"-Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
19. The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
By: Katherine Morgan Schafler
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From psychotherapist Katherine Morgan Schafler, an invitation to every “recovering perfectionist” t… read more
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- self help
- psychology
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Energy management beats time management."-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
"Feeling less in danger is not the same as feeling safe."-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
"Enthusiasm itself will not be enough to sustain an endeavor."-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
"Forgiveness is not a line you cross, it's a path you walk on."-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
20. Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures
By: Connie Wang
3.70
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"Hilarious, candid, and heartfelt . . . It's like Eat Pray Love meets The Amazing Race with hints o… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
21. Look Alive Out There
By: Sloane Crosley
3.77
Format: 256 pages, None
From the New York Times-bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out There―a brand-new co… read more
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- memoir
- humor
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- audiobook
"Everyone knows WebMD is a Choose Your Own Adventure book in which all roads lead to death."-Sloane Crosley, Look Alive Out There
"There are few things sadder than an off-duty earlobe that’s been trained to accommodate a human fist"-Sloane Crosley, Look Alive Out There
"I think by now we can all agree that the foundation of world travel goes something like "Bring a cardigan."-Sloane Crosley, Look Alive Out There
"My roommate came running out of the closet and did not stop until he reached Los Angeles. I knew this day would come. Sometimes it's easier to be your actual self where nothing of your alleged self e…"-Sloane Crosley, Look Alive Out There
22. The Urge: Our History of Addiction
By: Carl Erik Fisher
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction--a phenomenon that remains b… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- psychology
- audiobook
"Diagnosis is the art of discernment, of distinguishing one state from another. But how exactly do we define the boundaries of what is normal? This question has dominated the scientific investigation …"-Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction
"Does history give us any hope for this kind of pragmatic and pluralistic perspective? . . .Today, amid our latest addiction epidemics, we are faced with another precious and rare opportunity for synt…"-Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction
23. Teenager
By: Bud Smith
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Two teenagers, in love and insane, journey across the United States in this Bonnie and Clyde-like a… read more
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- audiobook
24. You Get What You Pay For: Essays
By: Morgan Parker
4.18
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the trauma and beauty of existing as a Black woman… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
25. What If This Were Enough?: Essays
By: Heather Havrilesky
3.65
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
By the author of the New York Times Love and Relationships bestseller How to Be a Person in the Wor… read more
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- memoir
- humor
- psychology
- philosophy
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- self help
26. The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
By: Elizabeth Rush
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Risi… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"It occurred to me... I ought to treat Antarctica not as a desolate outpost at the end of the earth but as a place where life begins."-Elizabeth Rush, The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
27. Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood
By: Satya Doyle Byock
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An innovative psychotherapist tackles the overlooked stage of Quarterlife--the years between adoles… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
28. Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer
By: John Glynn
3.70
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of May 2019 A TIME Magazine Best Book of May 2019 A Cosmopolit… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
29. Doxology
By: Nell Zink
3.45
Format: 416 pages, ebook
Pam, Daniel, and Joe might be the worst punk band on the Lower East Side. Struggling to scrape toge… read more
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- audiobook
30. Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women
By: Lyz Lenz
4.26
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An impassioned and irreverent argument for dismantling our cultural narratives around pregnancy. Th… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
31. The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
By: Michael Waters
4.48
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today’s culture… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
