Stray
By: Stephanie Danler
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Sweetbitter, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies an…
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1. The Folded Clock: A Diary
By: Heidi Julavits
3.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Like many young people, Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she found her old diaries in a s… read more
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2. How I Helped O.J. Get Away With Murder: The Shocking Inside Story of Violence, Loyalty, Regret, and Remorse
By: Mike Gilbert
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
You Don't Know the Full Truth About O.J. Simpson and the Murders that Gripped a Nation. But Mike Gi… read more
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3. 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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4. Essays of E.B. White
By: E.B. White
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
The classic collection by one of the greatest essayists of our time. read more
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5. 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
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. 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
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- 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
7. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
8. All-Night Pharmacy
By: Ruth Madievsky
3.52
Format: 304 pages, ebook
*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy
9. The Guest
By: Emma Cline
3.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"-Emma Cline, The Guest
10. Thirst for Salt
By: Madelaine Lucas
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A Bustle, LitHub, Debutiful, and NYLON Most Anticipated Book of 2023 A Goodreads Buzziest Book of t… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"As if it were possible to circumnavigate memory."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"I like you as you are, he said. Even if you're going to wear me out."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"As lovers learn, when love ends, you lose the future as well as the past."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"The trouble is that our dreams, like our memories, are not immune to revision."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
11. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
12. Down the Drain
By: Julia Fox
4.40
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Julia Fox is famous for many her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut G… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I want to love him but I often find myself wishing he could just be an asshole all the time. This way I wouldn't have all these inner battles with myself. I learn to navigate my way through shattered…"-Julia Fox, Down the Drain
13. Three Women
By: Lisa Taddeo
3.72
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
A riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Women shouldn't judge each others lives, if we haven't been through one another's fires."-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women
"It's more than fandom when a story touches you so hard that you wish the characters were your family"-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women
"He's usually so quiet, but he's talking now, and when quiet people open their mouths the whole world listens."-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women
"The problem, she's starting to understand, is that a man will never let you fall completely into hell. He will scoop you up right before you drop the final inch so that you cannot blame him for sendi…"-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women
14. Daddy
By: Emma Cline
3.31
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The stories in Emma Cline’s stunning first collection consider the dark corners of human experience… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
15. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
By: Glynnis MacNicol
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
16. Big Swiss
By: Jen Beagin
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"You bullied other bullies,"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
17. Drinking Games
By: Sarah Levy
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir and part social critique, Drinking Games is about how one woman drank and lived — until… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Ripe
By: Sarah Rose Etter
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
19. Sugar, Baby
By: Celine Saintclare
3.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Luster and Queenie , an unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work in the age of th… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"It's so deeply entrenched in me, the Fear of God, so much more strongly than the belief."-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
"The thought of having a relationship with my kids like the one I have with my mum, a scam on both sides, makes me want to vomit."-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
"It is all beginning to make sense; the gifts he gives like offerings, the golden temple of a Miami house. Oracles, orgies, lusty Greek and Roman gods, apples and pomegranates. Ceremonial robes as des…"-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
"You're young and that counts for a lot,' she says. 'And you're pretty. It's like currency, like...a bunch of casino chips in the game of life. You can keep them locked up in the back of a drawer and …"-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
20. Everything/Nothing/Someone
By: Alice Carrière
4.02
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A powerful literary debut that tells of a young woman’s coming-of-age in the bohemian ’90s, as her … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Ghost Lover
By: Lisa Taddeo
3.28
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
“Raw and searching...Taddeo returns with more ruthless explorations of the feminine mystique.” — En… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
22. Katerina
By: James Frey
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Million Little Pieces and Bright Shiny Morning come… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"Our heart is an organ that pumps our blood through our body, but our heart is also an organ that fills that blood with whatever we are feeling and the blood, the blood, the blood moves through every …"-James Frey, Katerina
23. In the Garden: Essays on Nature and Growing
By: Niellah Arboine
4.02
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
An essay collection about gardening and our relationship to nature, following on from the successfu… read more
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- nonfiction
24. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir
By: Anna Marie Tendler
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the live… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
25. Stray
By: Stephanie Danler
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Sweetbitter, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies an… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- adult
- audiobook
26. Perfect Tunes
By: Emily Gould
3.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Have you ever wondered what your mother was like before she became your mother, and what she gave u… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
27. We Are Too Many: A Memoir (Kind Of)
By: Hannah Pittard
3.69
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
“Hannah Pittard’s memoir is so exquisitely crafted ― I loved it.” ―Ann Napolitano, New York Times … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
29. Leave Out the Tragic Parts: A Grandfather's Search for a Boy Lost to Addiction
By: Dave Kindred
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Dave Kindred's extraordinary investigation of the death of his grandson yields a powerful memoir of… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
30. Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable
By: Sarah Gerard
3.44
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and cutting yet compassionate prose … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
31. Madwoman
By: Chelsea Bieker
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A gripping story of motherhood and motherloss and the brutal, mighty things women do to keep themse… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
