Joy Enough: A Memoir
By: Sarah McColl
3.90
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A Belletrist Book of the Month, this “exquisite memoir” ( Los Angeles Times ) is the perfect balm f…
Want to Read $ 9.99"I never understood the term 'co-dependent'," she said. "Isn't that the nature of being human, to depend on each other?"-Sarah McColl, Joy Enough: A Memoir
"I never understood the term 'co-dependent'," she said. "Isn't that the nature of being human, to depend on each other?"-Sarah McColl, Joy Enough: A Memoir
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1. To Sir, With Love
By: E.R. Braithwaite
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The all-time Classic schoolroom drama - as relevant as today's headlines ... He shamed them, wrestl… read more
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2. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
3. So Sad Today: Personal Essays
By: Melissa Broder
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cyc… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
4. Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
By: Mary Oliver
3.31
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
"Joy is not made to be a crumb," writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of p… read more
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5. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
By: Asha Bandele , Patrisse Khan-Cullors
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The emotional and powerful story of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and how the moveme… read more
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6. Dog Songs
By: None , Mary Oliver
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Mary Oliver's Dog Songsis a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood th… read more
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7. The Ghost Notebooks
By: Ben Dolnick
3.92
Format: 256 pages, ebook
A supernatural story of love, ghosts, and madness as a young couple, newly engaged, become live-in … read more
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8. Difficult Women
By: Roxane Gay
4.24
Format: 128 pages,
Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State--w… read more
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9. Getting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction
By: Erica Garza
4.09
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A fiercely courageous account of one woman's unflinching, raw, and ultimately hopeful journey throu… read more
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10. 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
11. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
By: Kathleen Hanna
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
12. 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
- death
- 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
13. Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
By: Emmeline Clein
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal cult… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
14. Trust Exercise
By: Susan Choi
3.14
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high sch… read more
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"Neither can drive."-Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
"Possibly first love, despite all the fuss, is only mating with ideas attached."-Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
"Heartbreak doesn't flow through the heart but along that frail shallow canal of the sternum."-Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
"[..] said Sarah's broken and cynical mother, who for all her superior experience of life knew nothing about how to live."-Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
15. Rules for Visiting
By: Jessica Francis Kane
3.73
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on… read more
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- audiobook
"I'm aware not everyone feels the way I do about trees, but I have no idea why not."-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting
"Consider the word visit. It’s from the Old French visiter, which meant “to inspect, examine, or afflict."-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting
"Are we a family damaged beyond repair? I don't know. I do believe in the power of words and stories to make sense of things."-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting
"She was the kind of person who had multiple copies of the books she loved most. That way, she said, she could always give one away."-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting
16. Scribe
By: Alyson Hagy
3.19
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A haunting, evocative tale about the power of storytelling A brutal civil war has ravaged the co… read more
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17. Dying of Politeness: A Memoir
By: Geena Davis
4.04
Format: None pages, Audio CD
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
18. In the Land of Men: A Memoir
By: Adrienne Miller
3.27
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
A fiercely personal memoir about coming of age in the male-dominated literary world of the nineties… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
19. 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
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- 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
20. This Will Only Hurt a Little (A Bestselling Celebrity Memoir)
By: Busy Philipps
3.91
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
Busy Philipps’s autobiographical book offers the same unfiltered and candid storytelling that her I… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"No one is going to tell you all the things you want to hear all the time. You have to know them yourself."-Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little (A Bestselling Celebrity Memoir)
"Here's the thing: It's not easy to be a woman in this business. There will always be jokes about your body. There will always be guys who steal your best ideas and pass them off as their own. There w…"-Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little (A Bestselling Celebrity Memoir)
21. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds
By: Michelle Horton
4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Flat Broke with Two Goats
By: Jennifer McGaha
3.26
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Jennifer McGaha never expected to own a goat named Merle. Or to be setting Merle up on dates and na… read more
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- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"When I was growing up, my parents had created for my brother and me the perfect upper middle-class lifestyle. We had everything we needed, and most things we wanted. We took piano lessons. We went to…"-Jennifer McGaha, Flat Broke with Two Goats
"I realized that if someone told me right then that I could go back 10 years, have my old life back exactly as it was, a life where I never saw my husband, where our lives were always about becoming i…"-Jennifer McGaha, Flat Broke with Two Goats
23. Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
By: Chelsea Hodson
3.75
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
A highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, “bracingly good…refreshi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
"I’ve always liked men who look as if they’re from another time."-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
"I didn't keep a journal then. I was busy, or I thought I was, but mostly I thought anything important would stay with me."-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
"I’m trying to write something so good, so pure, so perfect that I’ll never have to have children; I’ll have created something that can stand in for me, that can live on after me.."-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
"Money can do that if you let it--if you close your eyes and enter its dream, the one where you are well dressed, fit, successful, in love with exactly the right person. The gym I used to belong to co…"-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
24. Sea Wife
By: Amity Gaige
3.65
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Meg Wolitzer, Lionel Shriver, Kate Atkinson, and Jennifer EganFrom the highly acclai… read more
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- audiobook
"Where does a mistake begin?"-Amity Gaige, Sea Wife
"Everyone is hard to love, if you do it for long enough."-Amity Gaige, Sea Wife
"Because love is tidal; it goes out, it comes in, it goes out."-Amity Gaige, Sea Wife
"You think this will solve all our problems. It’s magical thinking, Michael. It’s the way a child thinks."-Amity Gaige, Sea Wife
25. The Dreamers
By: Karen Thompson Walker
3.63
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
In an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a freshman girl stumbles into her … read more
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"His mind is like that: always mired in a terrible future."-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers
"But isn't the future always an imaginary thing before it comes?"-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers
"How expert we are at looking away from what we would rather not see."-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers
"Every one of her days hums with the possibility that she might be doing it wrong."-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers
26. 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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- memoir
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27. You Know You Want This
By: Kristen Roupenian
3.62
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex—and often darkly funny… read more
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- american
- audiobook
"I'm a nice guy, I swear to fucking God."-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This
"She wants what she wants," Kath says. Don't we all?"-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This
"Frankly, the whole concept was a little too New Age—y for me."-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This
"He had no faith in love's capacity to cause him anything but pain."-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This
28. Joy Enough: A Memoir
By: Sarah McColl
3.90
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A Belletrist Book of the Month, this “exquisite memoir” ( Los Angeles Times ) is the perfect balm f… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- research
- death
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
"I never understood the term 'co-dependent'," she said. "Isn't that the nature of being human, to depend on each other?"-Sarah McColl, Joy Enough: A Memoir
29. The Other's Gold
By: Elizabeth Ames
3.20
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Assigned to the same suite during their freshman year at Quincy-Hawthorne College, Lainey, Ji Sun, … read more
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"What she couldn't understand was people who didn't imagine everything."-Elizabeth Ames, The Other's Gold
30. Godspeed: A Memoir
By: Casey Legler
3.09
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the 2019 PEN/ESPN Literary Sports Writing Award “Raw and poetic…lean and ferocious.… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
31. The Most
By: Jessica Anthony
3.37
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more
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