11 must-read biography memoir books like The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays by Athena Dixon

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The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

By: Athena Dixon

3.55

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

I am overwhelmingly lonely. And I cannot believe that doesn’t matter and I will not believe there a…

If you liked the biography memoir plot in The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays by Athena Dixon , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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2. 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

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"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

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3. Creep: Accusations and Confessions

By: Myriam Gurba

4.37

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and tox… read more

Similar categories in Myriam Gurba's Creep: Accusations and Confessions book and Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles a…"

-Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

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4. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

By: Ashley Shew

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more

Similar categories in Ashley Shew's Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement book and Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • essays
  • audiobook
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5. The Liberators

By: E.J. Koh

3.46

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be marr… read more

Similar categories in E.J. Koh's The Liberators book and Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

  • audiobook
Cover of Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business by Roxane Gay

6. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business

By: Roxane Gay

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Po… read more

Similar categories in Roxane Gay's Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business book and Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
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7. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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8. 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

Similar categories in Sheila Heti's Alphabetical Diaries book and Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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9. No Judgment: Essays

By: Lauren Oyler

3.30

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

From the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new piece… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Oyler's No Judgment: Essays book and Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
  • audiobook
"I’m told I should smoke more weed, which I don’t like, or else “do something nice for yourself,"

-Lauren Oyler, No Judgment: Essays

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10. Nonfiction

By: Julie Myerson

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This is definitely not a ghost story. But for a while after you’re gone, I see you everywhere. E… read more

Similar categories in Julie Myerson's Nonfiction book and Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

  • mental health
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11. Ordinary Notes

By: Christina Sharpe

4.55

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more

Similar categories in Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes book and Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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12. Idlewild

By: James Frankie Thomas

4.14

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more

Similar categories in James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild book and Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

  • audiobook
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"

-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild

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13. 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

Similar categories in Morgan Parker's You Get What You Pay For: Essays book and Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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14. The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

By: Athena Dixon

3.55

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

I am overwhelmingly lonely. And I cannot believe that doesn’t matter and I will not believe there a… read more

Similar categories in Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays book and Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

  • memoir
  • unfinished
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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15. The Night Parade

By: Jami Nakamura Lin

4.28

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeousl… read more

Similar categories in Jami Nakamura Lin's The Night Parade book and Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Adult Drama: And Other Essays

By: Natalie Beach

3.14

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated Book in... Harper’s Bazaar Elle Bookpage Vulture’s “Into It” From the wri… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Beach's Adult Drama: And Other Essays book and Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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17. First Love: Essays on Friendship

By: Lilly Dancyger

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly ar… read more

Similar categories in Lilly Dancyger's First Love: Essays on Friendship book and Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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18. Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery

By: Annie Liontas

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Meghan O’Rourke’s The Invisible Kingdom , Esme Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophr… read more

Similar categories in Annie Liontas's Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery book and Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

  • memoir
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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19. Concerning the Future of Souls

By: Joy Williams

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“Quite possibly America's best living writer of short stories.”—NPR“Williams is a writer for our b… read more

Similar categories in Joy Williams's Concerning the Future of Souls book and Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

  • audiobook
Cover of Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go by Cleo Qian

20. Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go

By: Cleo Qian

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The electric, unsettling, and often surreal stories in Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go explore the alien… read more

Similar categories in Cleo Qian's Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go book and Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

21. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

Similar categories in Jesselyn Cook's The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family book and Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook

19 Top audiobook books like The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays by Athena Dixon

Transform Your Habits

Splinters

Leslie Jamison

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Creep: Accusations and Confessions

Myriam Gurba

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Ashley Shew

4.30

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Transform Your Habits

Loving Day

Mat Johnson

3.54

Transform Your Habits

Wednesday's Child: Stories

Yiyun Li

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Bliss Montage

Ling Ma

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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