Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales
By: Sabrina Orah Mark
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully written memoir-in-essays on fairy tales and their surprising relevance to modern life…
Want to Read $ 11.99"We ask the child to drag around the unwieldy weight of magic. To clap wildly. To believe in what we believe in no longer. We ask the child to keep the awe we forgot how to hold. The fairy isn't the fairy. It's the child who is the fairy."-Sabrina Orah Mark, Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales
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1. Notes from No Man's Land
By: Eula Biss
4.18
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismWinner of the Graywolf Press Nonficti… read more
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- short stories
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"An apology is also an admission of guilt"-Eula Biss, Notes from No Man's Land
"Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent."-Eula Biss, Notes from No Man's Land
"Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared."-Eula Biss, Notes from No Man's Land
"If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent."-Eula Biss, Notes from No Man's Land
2. Mothers
By: Rachel Zucker
3.37
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Literary Nonfiction. "MOTHERs is a howling storm of a book. In this desperately digressive essay, t… read more
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3. 300 Arguments: Essays
By: Sarah Manguso
3.62
Format: 192 pages,
A brilliant and exhilarating sequence of aphorisms from one of our greatest essayists There will co… read more
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4. The Balloonists
By: Eula Biss
3.91
Format: 2 pages, Paperback
Poetry. "Eula Biss writes in spare brushstrokes that evoke an emotional universe, by turns funny, s… read more
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5. The Wonder Garden
By: Lauren Acampora
4.09
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
John likes to arrive first. He enjoys standing quietly with a house before his clients arrive, and … read more
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6. Crooked Seeds
By: Karen Jennings
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubling past in this taut and darin… read more
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- contemporary
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
- 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. 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
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- memoir
- autobiography
- 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
9. 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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- audiobook
- contemporary
"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
10. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
By: Kelly Link
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more
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- fairy tales
- short stories
- audiobook
"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
11. Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
By: Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
3.77
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A historian explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood in this “timely… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Even after becoming a mother, fulfilling the role society demands of you, you still can't win."-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
"Parenthood is demanded of us, but we are asked to parent in isolated bubbles, supported--to put it crudely--by our bank accounts and little else."-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
"COVID-19 exposed what women with children and without both already knew: that despite the expectation we all become mothers, we receive little support once we do."-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
"In light of our failure to account for the pressures, anxieties, and dangers of modern life, it's possible to argue that the decision to opt out of parenthood is perfectly rational. The decision to h…"-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
12. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
13. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
14. The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is back with a new c… read more
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- memoir
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"I've completed another year of delights. Or maybe I should say another year of delights has completed me."-Ross Gay, The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
15. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
16. 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
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- 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
17. How to Love Your Daughter
By: Hila Blum
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
18. 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
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
19. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
By: Camille T. Dungy
4.19
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
20. The Best American Essays 2023
By: Vivian Gornick
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Vivian Gornick. Vivian Gor… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
21. Sink: A Memoir
By: Joseph Earl Thomas
3.69
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous h… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Judas Goat: Poems
By: Gabrielle Bates
4.21
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more
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23. The Garden
By: Clare Beams
3.33
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The discovery of a secret garden with unknown powers fuels this page-turning and psychologically th… read more
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24. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive
By: Katie Farris
4.31
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Standing in the Forest of Being Alive is a memoir-in-poems that reckons with erotic love even as th… read more
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- memoir
25. To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories
By: Sarah Viren
3.52
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Part coming-of-age story, part psychological thriller, part philosophical investigation, this unfor… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
26. Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales
By: Sabrina Orah Mark
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully written memoir-in-essays on fairy tales and their surprising relevance to modern life… read more
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- fairy tales
- biography
- memoir
- jewish
- autobiography
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
- audiobook
"We ask the child to drag around the unwieldy weight of magic. To clap wildly. To believe in what we believe in no longer. We ask the child to keep the awe we forgot how to hold. The fairy isn't the f…"-Sabrina Orah Mark, Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales
27. The Coiled Serpent
By: Camilla Grudova
3.75
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
A little girl throws up Gloria-Jean's teeth after an explosion at the custard factory; Pax, Alexand… read more
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- short stories
- contemporary
28. Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories
By: Colombe Schneck
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning and best-selling French author, a woman personal journey through abortion, s… read more
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- audiobook
- short stories
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29. Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow: A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories
By: Steve Almond
4.54
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The long-awaited book about the craft of creative writing from Steve Almond, beloved teacher, mento… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"What we're doing as writers is convincing strangers to translate our specks of ink into stories capable of generating rescue."-Steve Almond, Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow: A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories
30. Holler Rat: A Memoir
By: Anya Liftig
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From a critically acclaimed performance artist, a funny, vivid, and ultimately heartbreaking memoir… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
31. Conjure
By: Rae Armantrout
3.79
Format: 135 pages, Hardcover
Rae Armantrout has always taken pleasure in uncertainties and conundrums, the tricky nuances of lan… read more
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