White Magic
By: Elissa Washuta
3.79
Format: 432 pages, None
Bracingly honest and powerfully affecting, White Magic establishes Elissa Washuta as one of our bes…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Sometimes I think I'm near the end of my energy for living. I plot to travel to another world because this one seems too decimated by the white men who wanted money and skin, too dangerous to navigate because of the sentinels still roaming, raping, and gouging out the earth to maintain power."-Elissa Washuta, White Magic
"Sometimes I think I'm near the end of my energy for living. I plot to travel to another world because this one seems too decimated by the white men who wanted money and skin, too dangerous to navigate because of the sentinels still roaming, raping, and gouging out the earth to maintain power."-Elissa Washuta, White Magic
"If I'm going to die, I want to fight. I've been fighting the colonizer's whispers that I am not wanted here, not worthy of protection, nothing but a body to be pummeled and played with and threatened into submission. I have not died yet. My whole body is a fire, lit back when the world was complete, never extinguished by anybody."-Elissa Washuta, White Magic
"If I'm going to die, I want to fight. I've been fighting the colonizer's whispers that I am not wanted here, not worthy of protection, nothing but a body to be pummeled and played with and threatened into submission. I have not died yet. My whole body is a fire, lit back when the world was complete, never extinguished by anybody."-Elissa Washuta, White Magic
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1. Abandon Me: Memoirs
By: Melissa Febos
3.64
Format: 221 pages,
For readers of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, a fierce and dazzling personal narrative that expl… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
2. Gorilla, My Love
By: Toni Cade Bambara
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
In these fifteen superb stories, written in a style at once ineffable and immediately recognizable,… read more
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3. Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art
By: Carl Hoffman
3.80
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in New Guinea in 1961 has kept the world and hi… read more
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4. Cogewea, The Half Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range
By: Mourning Dove , Dexter Fisher , None
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the first known novels by a Native American woman, Cogewea(1927) is the story of a half-bloo… read more
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5. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By: Shane Hawk
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more
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- audiobook
6. Heart Berries
By: Terese Marie Mailhot
3.84
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- indigenous
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Pain expanded my heart."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"You are such a home to me."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Romanticism requires bravery and risk."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Sometimes suicidality doesn’t seem dark; it seems fair."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
7. Brutalities: A Love Story
By: Margo Steines
4.16
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
"Brutalities is electric with insight, riveted by its commitments—to love and bewilderment, to bear… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"N, still new to me, coming inside and sitting down, me thinking that we would have sex and he would leave and it would be whatever, but instead we kissed a little bit and then started talking and I h…"-Margo Steines, Brutalities: A Love Story
8. The Extinction of Irena Rey
By: Jennifer Croft
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more
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- audiobook
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
9. Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
By: Jane Alison
4.09
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"Doctors don't imitate Galen. Why should writers follow Aristotle? Jane Alison in her fresh, origin… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"So often fictions that experiment formally do so at the expense of feeling. They toy on surfaces or are purely cerebral affairs, don’t explore human complexities. But the mostly unconventional narrat…"-Jane Alison, Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
10. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
By: Jenn Shapland
4.09
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is an audacious new form of nonfiction that remakes the bounda… read more
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- biography memoir
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11. The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more
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- race
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- essays
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"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
12. Tomboyland: Essays
By: Melissa Faliveno
3.98
Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition
A fiercely personal and startlingly universal essay collection about the mysteries of gender and de… read more
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- biography
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- essays
- audiobook
13. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
By: Melissa Febos
4.24
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more
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- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
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- audiobook
"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
14. Goth: A History
By: Lol Tolhurst
3.68
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Following his memoir Cured , a fascinating deep dive into the dark Romanticism of Goth music, a mi… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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- audiobook
15. Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
By: Matthew Salesses
4.47
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking resource for fiction writers, teachers, and students, this manifesto and practica… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Workshops operate on the golden-rule policy: do for others as you want for yourself. Your fellow classmates will see from your comments what kind of feedback to give no matter how much of a push the …"-Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
"You should ask macro questions and point out macro opportunities. Which means, for example, you might state your understanding (or not) of the story, list observations that seem especially juicy, ask…"-Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
"When you are workshopped, it is important to remember that you will not connect with everything that is said. You shouldn’t! Don’t listen to everything; don’t take every suggestion—trust your instinc…"-Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
16. Making Love with the Land: Essays
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.11
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more
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- memoir
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
17. Night of the Living Rez
By: Morgan Talty
3.91
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
How do the living come back to life? Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more
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- audiobook
- indigenous
"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez
18. Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
4.14
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of… read more
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- memoir
- indigenous
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. Empire of Wild
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.74
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the YA-crossover hit The Marrow Thieves, a propulsive, stunning and sensuous nov… read more
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- audiobook
- indigenous
20. Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
By: Margo Jefferson
3.77
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperament… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. White Horse
By: Erika T. Wurth
3.51
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut from Erika T. Wurth about an Indigenous woman who must face … read more
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- audiobook
- indigenous
22. Organ Meats
By: K-Ming Chang
3.35
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Two girls are bound by red string and canine heritage in this vivid tale about female companionship… read more
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23. The Best American Essays 2022
By: Alexander Chee
3.98
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee. Alexand… read more
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- memoir
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- audiobook
24. Thunder Song: Essays
By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more
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- memoir
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
25. Girlhood
By: Melissa Febos
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and … read more
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- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
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- audiobook
"Nature isn't cruel, but unconcerned with human frailty."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
"My wonder was bottomless for the world empty of stories, mine alone to name."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
"I have since learned that recognizing the invisible parts of oneself in another person can feel like a radiant kind of love."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
"My poor body. My precious body. How had I let her be treated this way? My body was me. To hate my own body was to suffer from an autoimmune disease of the mind."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
26. 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
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- biography
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- audiobook
27. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
By: Ananda Lima
3.52
Format: 181 pages, Hardcover
At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more
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28. White Magic
By: Elissa Washuta
3.79
Format: 432 pages, None
Bracingly honest and powerfully affecting, White Magic establishes Elissa Washuta as one of our bes… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- mental health
- indigenous
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Sometimes I think I'm near the end of my energy for living. I plot to travel to another world because this one seems too decimated by the white men who wanted money and skin, too dangerous to navigat…"-Elissa Washuta, White Magic
"If I'm going to die, I want to fight. I've been fighting the colonizer's whispers that I am not wanted here, not worthy of protection, nothing but a body to be pummeled and played with and threatened…"-Elissa Washuta, White Magic
29. The Witches of Bellinas
By: J. Nicole Jones
3.08
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A dreamy California Gothic about a woman who moves to the mysterious town of Bellinas to save her m… read more
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30. The Insatiable Volt Sisters
By: Rachel Eve Moulton
3.31
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
From the author of Tinfoil Butterfly, a blazingly original novel about sisters who return to the re… read more
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- audiobook
31. A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter
By: Carolyn Hays
4.22
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
A parent’s love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is. One ordinary day, … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Each time I offered boyhood, you rejected it. It was simple and easy for you. But for our culture, it was radical. What I was just beginning to understand in a blurry intuitive way, a series of sketc…"-Carolyn Hays, A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter
"At the first trans health conference I ever attended, a parent asked about long-term health risks for people taking hormones. The doctor gave a full assessment of issues that trans men face; many of …"-Carolyn Hays, A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter
