15 must-read memoir books like So Here’s the Thing…: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut by Alyssa Mastromonaco

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So Here’s the Thing…: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut

By: Alyssa Mastromonaco

3.74

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? comes a fun, frank …

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1. Unqualified

By: Anna Faris , Chris Pratt

3.47

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Anna Faris has advice for you. And it's great advice, because she's been through it all, and she wa… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"If your closest friends stop showing up to your barbecues, you're probably in a bad relationship."

-Anna Faris, Unqualified

"[Talking about Chatroulette] Unfortunately, like so many things, it got ruined by rampant penises."

-Anna Faris, Unqualified

2. Here Is New York

By: E.B. White , Barbara Cohen , Roger Angell , None

4.11

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential l… read more

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3. We Are Never Meeting In Real Life

By: Samantha Irby

3.14

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire. With We Are Never Meeting in R… read more

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4. Our Spoons Came from Woolworths

By: Barbara Comyns

3.40

Format: None pages,

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5. The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

By: Samantha Power

4.34

Format: 592 pages, ebook

Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, widely known as a relentless advocate for promoting human rig… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
"The world is filled with broken places. Pick your battles, and go win some."

-Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

"Agency. Self-determination. Dignity. Solidarity. We could not discount the potential impact of even one such altered perspective on a young girl, her family, and, eventually, on an entire community."

-Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

"The ugly political winds in the United States contrasted sharply with the earnest gravity of the occasion. Donald Trump had launched his campaign for president on a platform that blatantly stoked fea…"

-Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

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6. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

By: Dwight Garner

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."

-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."

-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

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7. Dolls of Our Lives

By: Mary Mahoney

3.53

Format: None pages, None

For Feiwel & Friends, Kat Brzozowski bought world rights to a currently untitled book by Allison Ho… read more

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  • memoir
  • feminism
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa  Arce

8. You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

By: Julissa Arce

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Nationally bestselling author Julissa Arce beautifully interweaves her own experiences with cultura… read more

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  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"White supremacy is persistent, but so are we."

-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

"We cannot make ourselves or allow others to make us small so we can fit in the minds and hearts of white people. America might never love us back, so we must love ourselves."

-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

"I learned the language, at the expense of my Spanish, only to find that in English I didn't exist. I read the American history textbooks in school that erased any trace of the deep Mexican roots in t…"

-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

"We learn that the United States is the pinnacle of democracy in the world, but how can freedom be made perfect when it was built upon the genocide of Indigenous people, the enslavement of Black peopl…"

-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

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9. Everyone But Myself

By: Julie Chavez

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Like so many mothers, Julie Chavez ran herself ragged trying to meet the needs of everyone else, un… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

By: Jen Psaki

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons s… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
"There was also a large crew of people who tried to nickname the previously mentioned Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework "BIF". If you would like your audience to start making fun of a big, serious, …"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

"I've spent time with a lot of very busy people - business leaders, prominent journalists, and multiple presidents. Despite the unusually high demands on their schedules, something they all have in co…"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

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11. The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House

By: Ben Rhodes

4.30

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

This is a book about two people making the most important decisions in the world. One is Barack Oba… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"For a moment, we all just stared out the window at the crowds. “I’m reading a good book now,"

-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House

"I watched the speech backstage on the teleprompter. Obama paused for a moment, and I saw the text freeze. “I’m going off script here for a second,"

-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House

"He said we had to find a way to reach Muslims who “didn’t think it was such a great thing to have a McDonald’s down the street and American pop culture on their television."

-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House

"And then Obama said what he believed: that people should be equal under the law; that citizens should be free to criticize their government and protest peacefully; that voters should have the freedom…"

-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House

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12. Count Me In

By: Varsha Bajaj

4.10

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An uplifting story, told through the alternating voices of two middle-schoolers, in which a communi… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. So Here’s the Thing…: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut

By: Alyssa Mastromonaco

3.74

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? comes a fun, frank … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
  • audiobook
Cover of Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer by John  Glynn

14. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Well, This Is Exhausting

By: Sophia Benoit

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Bustle columnist and Twitter sensation Sophia Benoit, this “charming and often laugh-out-loud … read more

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  • memoir
  • feminism
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
Cover of Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump by Dan Pfeiffer

16. Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump

By: Dan Pfeiffer

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From Obama's former communications director and current co-host of Pod Save America comes a colorfu… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"First and most important, our culture was a reflection of the man we served. Obama is at his core a really chill guy and I mean that in the most presidential way. He is a nice guy who expects his tea…"

-Dan Pfeiffer, Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump

"During the campaign, I supported and encouraged the Clinton campaign strategy, but in hindsight, I lost track of one of the core lessons of Obama's success--campaigns are about telling the American p…"

-Dan Pfeiffer, Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump

"Covering politics like sports has created a self-reinforcing incentive structure that is not dissimilar to the one the ESPN’S SportsCenter has on the fundamentals of basketball. There is a long-runni…"

-Dan Pfeiffer, Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump

Cover of Jell-O Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom

17. Jell-O Girls: A Family History

By: Allie Rowbottom

3.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stir… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again by Dan Pfeiffer

18. Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again

By: Dan Pfeiffer

4.21

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yes We (Still) Can and cohost of Pod Save America,… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Fighting and losing is sometimes politically preferable to surrendering in silence."

-Dan Pfeiffer, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again

"Politics is not that complicated, and it's in the economic interest of the pundits and consultants to make you believe you need a guru on an expensive retainer to understand it."

-Dan Pfeiffer, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again

"The goal of gerrymandering to this degree is not just to make your vote count less; it’s to make you know your vote doesn’t count in the hope that you won’t vote again. Because why put in the effort …"

-Dan Pfeiffer, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again

"Getting more people to vote more often is the most simple cure for the complex set of problems that plague America. A significant majority of Americans agree more with Democrats than Republicans, but…"

-Dan Pfeiffer, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again

Cover of Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps by Jon  Favreau

19. Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps

By: Jon Favreau

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From your friends at Pod Save America  and Crooked Media comes a useful and illustrated guide to sa… read more

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  • politics
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America by Dan Pfeiffer

20. Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America

By: Dan Pfeiffer

4.15

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

“BATTLING THE BIG LIE is an important read for anyone who’s wondering how the far right traffics in… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic by Emma Goldberg

21. Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic

By: Emma Goldberg

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The gripping account of six young doctors enlisted to fight COVID-19, an engrossing, eye-opening bo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook

18 must-read audiobook books like So Here’s the Thing…: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut by Alyssa Mastromonaco

Transform Your Habits

Unqualified

Anna Faris , Chris Pratt

3.47

Transform Your Habits

The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

Samantha Power

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

Dwight Garner

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Dolls of Our Lives

Mary Mahoney

3.53

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Big Chicas Don't Cry

Annette Chavez Macias

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

Melania Luisa Marte

4.36

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Too Soon for Adiós

Annette Chavez Macias

4.26

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Solito

Javier Zamora

4.48

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