Hysterical: A Memoir
By: Elissa Bassist
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts medical mystery, cultural criticism, and rallying cry, writer Elissa Bassist shares her…
Want to Read $ 15.99"I thought I could become normal by deciding, but thoughts are not facts; the body is facts. And if you silence the body, well, you can't."-Elissa Bassist, Hysterical: A Memoir
"I thought I could become normal by deciding, but thoughts are not facts; the body is facts. And if you silence the body, well, you can't."-Elissa Bassist, Hysterical: A Memoir
"Risk "no." Risk the double-text. Risk being unlikeable and being perceived as unreasonable and risk being called a fucking bitch. Risk "being a bitch." Risk "bad" words. Risk mistakes and risk being corrected and risk losing those who won't forgive. Risk refusal. Risk acknowledgement. Risk trouble. Risk the question. Risk demanding care. Risk a voice that doesn't demure, a voice that is difficult, unaesthetic, charged, forthright, sappy. Risk it, or risk living a half-a-person life."-Elissa Bassist, Hysterical: A Memoir
"Risk "no." Risk the double-text. Risk being unlikeable and being perceived as unreasonable and risk being called a fucking bitch. Risk "being a bitch." Risk "bad" words. Risk mistakes and risk being corrected and risk losing those who won't forgive. Risk refusal. Risk acknowledgement. Risk trouble. Risk the question. Risk demanding care. Risk a voice that doesn't demure, a voice that is difficult, unaesthetic, charged, forthright, sappy. Risk it, or risk living a half-a-person life."-Elissa Bassist, Hysterical: A Memoir
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1. The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life
By: Marion Roach Smith
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
A recent study revealed that the Number 1 thing that baby boomers want to do in retirement is write… read more
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2. Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America
By: Rebecca Solnit , Cheryl Strayed , Jamia Wilson , Katha Pollitt , Jessica Valenti , Jill Filipovic , Jude Ellison S. Doyle , Samantha Irby , Randa Jarrar , Kera Bolonik , Kate Harding , Carina Chocano , Sarah Hepola , Alicia Garza , Nicole Chung , None , Samhita Mukhopadhyay , None , None , Mary Kathryn Nagle , Meredith Talusan , None , None
3.80
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Twenty-Three Leading Feminist Writers on Protest and Solidarity When 53 percent of white women vote… read more
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3. 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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4. Pain and Prejudice: A Call to Arms for Women and Their Bodies
By: Gabrielle Jackson
4.16
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
A timely and powerful look at how our culture treats the pain and suffering of women. 'Women are… read more
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5. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
By: Meg Kissinger
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more
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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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"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. On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good
By: Elise Loehnen
3.80
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exploration of the ancient rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considere… read more
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"When you don't stop, you don't have to feel."-Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good
8. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
9. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
By: Maria Bamford
3.77
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more
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10. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
11. Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails
By: Camper English
3.81
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
"At last, a definitive guide to the medicinal origins of every bottle behind the bar! This is the c… read more
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12. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
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"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
13. 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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"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
14. The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays
By: Kelly McMasters
4.23
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A memoir in intimate essays navigating marriage and motherhood, art and ambition, grief and nostalg… read more
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15. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
By: Kate Manne
4.25
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research t… read more
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16. Quietly Hostile: Essays
By: Samantha Irby
3.70
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more
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"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
17. A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging
By: Lauren Markham
4.08
Format: 263 pages, ebook
A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of migrations past is intimately… read more
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18. What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
By: Cole Kazdin
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Blending personal narrative and investigative reporting, Emmy Award-winning journalist Cole Kazdin … read more
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"I loved a good bulimia joke and even sometimes initiated them, like after a dinner out with friends, "I'd better run home and throw this up." We all laughed; my girlfriends said similar things. But I…"-Cole Kazdin, What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
19. Pretty Baby
By: Chris Belcher
4.03
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A queer teen rebel escapes small-town Appalachia and becomes Los Angeles’s Renowned Lesbian Dominat… read more
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20. The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (And How I Got Out)
By: Tina Nguyen
3.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An explosive, first-person account of the alt-right from acclaimed political journalist Tina Nguyen… read more
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21. BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found
By: Christie Tate
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
* “A love story about the miracle of friendship.” —Maggie Smith * “Fearless and unflinching.” — Pit… read more
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22. Basura
By: Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny
4.18
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Alicia fue abandonada de niña en el basurero municipal de Ciudad Juárez; su diario rascar en busca … read more
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"Hogar es donde uno va, hogar es uno, es su frase favorita."-Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny, Basura
"Mi tía les demostró lo que nuestra sociedad se niega a entender: una mujer sola es capaz de mucho. De todo."-Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny, Basura
"No sé cómo lo imaginé, supongo que esperaba silencio o gritos, porque así se comunican la rabia y la tristeza."-Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny, Basura
"Tú me ves aquí como santa matrona del trabajo en esa esquina a la que ni el olvido llega, pero ya te dije que yo tenía una vida soñada."-Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny, Basura
23. She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good
By: Mia Mercado
3.27
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
AN NPR BOOK-OF-THE-DAY • A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STAFF PICK • A NYLON MUST-READ • A FORTUNE NEW BOOK T… read more
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24. Hysterical: A Memoir
By: Elissa Bassist
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts medical mystery, cultural criticism, and rallying cry, writer Elissa Bassist shares her… read more
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- womens
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"I thought I could become normal by deciding, but thoughts are not facts; the body is facts. And if you silence the body, well, you can't."-Elissa Bassist, Hysterical: A Memoir
"Risk "no." Risk the double-text. Risk being unlikeable and being perceived as unreasonable and risk being called a fucking bitch. Risk "being a bitch." Risk "bad" words. Risk mistakes and risk being …"-Elissa Bassist, Hysterical: A Memoir
25. America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
By: Elizabeth Hinton
4.22
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapol… read more
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26. Fighting for Our Friendships: The Science and Art of Conflict and Connection in Women's Relationships
By: Danielle Bayard Jackson
4.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Why do women's friendships feel complicated? Friendship coach and educator Danielle Bayard Jackson … read more
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27. See: Loss. See Also: Love.
By: Yukiko Tominaga
3.64
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A tender, slyly comical, and shamelessly honest debut novel following a Japanese widow raising her … read more
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28. Acne
By: Laura Chinn
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the creator and star of Florida Girls comes a hilarious and profound memoir about family, happ… read more
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"We were not “ride or die"-Laura Chinn, Acne
"As I took in all the sick and injured babies around me, I could feel empathy being forced upon me and I did not like it."-Laura Chinn, Acne
"One of my friends lost her virginity when she was twelve to her older brother’s nineteen-year-old friend. She said he crept into her bedroom in the middle of the night and took her virginity. At the …"-Laura Chinn, Acne
"Our family was an organic, free-range, humanely sourced kind of family. The kind of family who uses plant-based cleaners that aren’t strong enough to actually degrease anything so every pot and pan h…"-Laura Chinn, Acne
29. Why Sinéad O'Connor Matters (Music Matters, #11)
By: Allyson McCabe
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A stirring defense of Sinéad O'Connor's music and activism, and an indictment of the culture that c… read more
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30. Nearly Departed: Adventures in Loss, Cancer, and Other Inconveniences
By: Gila Pfeffer
4.55
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
How far would you go to save your own life? In this funny and heartfelt memoir, Gila Pfeffer recoun… read more
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31. How to Be a (Young) Antiracist
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.32
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestseller that sparked international dialogue is now a book for young adults… read more
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