The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir
By: Cory Leadbeater
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer—struggling with depression, family issues, and addict…
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1. 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
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"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
2. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
3. Exhibit
By: R.O. Kwon
3.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more
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4. 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
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
5. Fi: A Memoir of My Son
By: Alexandra Fuller
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
6. Did I Ever Tell You?
By: Genevieve Kingston
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
7. I've Tried Being Nice: Essays
By: Ann Leary
3.90
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from t… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- mental health
8. Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
By: Elizabeth Beller
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in thi… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
9. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
By: Griffin Dunne
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
10. All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
By: Orlando Whitfield
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students d… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
11. Bear
By: Julia Phillips
3.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more
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"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."-Julia Phillips, Bear
"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"-Julia Phillips, Bear
12. Same As It Ever Was
By: Claire Lombardo
4.00
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more
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"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
13. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
By: Sara B. Franklin
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
14. The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir
By: Cory Leadbeater
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer—struggling with depression, family issues, and addict… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- literature
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
15. Consent: A Memoir
By: Jill Ciment
3.96
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
16. Long Island Compromise
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more
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17. JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography
By: RoseMarie Terenzio
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate, comprehensive look … read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
18. The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
By: Rachelle Bergstein
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her mos… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
19. The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards
By: Jessica Waite
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A widow’s life is turned upside when she uncovers the truth about her late husband in this lyrical,… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
20. Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant
By: Stephanie Kiser
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all… When S… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
