6 must-read memoir books like Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir by Kathryn Davis

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Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir

By: Kathryn Davis

3.89

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Aurelia, Aurélia begins on a boat. The author, sixteen years old, is traveling to Europe at an age …

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1. A Horse at Night: On Writing

By: Amina Cain

4.03

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

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2. 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

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Kathryn Davis's Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir

  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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3. An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

By: Clarice Lispector

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

What to make of a writer who follows the metaphysical heights of her great Passion According to GH … read more

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"Ah "persona", como não te usar e ser!"

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

"Oh God! Having just one life was so little."

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

"Meu mistério é simples: eu não sei como estar viva."

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

"E digo: eu está apaixonada pelo teu eu. Então nós é."

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

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4. 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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"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

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5. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

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6. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

By: Lorrie Moore

3.31

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more

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"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

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7. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

By: Jenny Odell

3.61

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to th…"

-Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

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8. Kick the Latch

By: Kathryn Scanlan

4.11

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the … read more

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9. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

By: Melissa Febos

4.24

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Febos's Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative book and Kathryn Davis's Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

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10. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

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11. 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

Similar categories in Sheila Heti's Alphabetical Diaries book and Kathryn Davis's Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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12. The Possession

By: Annie Ernaux

3.75

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can … read more

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"The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city, the whole world, with a person you have never met."

-Annie Ernaux, The Possession

"Writing has been a way to save that which is no longer my reality – a sensation seizing me from head to foot, in the streets – but has become ''the possession,'’ a period of time, circumscribed and c…"

-Annie Ernaux, The Possession

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13. The Hearing Test

By: Eliza Barry Callahan

3.40

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

When the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a dee… read more

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"He said that... helplessnes could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some be…"

-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test

"He said that... helplessness could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some t…"

-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test

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14. Indelicacy

By: Amina Cain

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a … read more

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"I hated March more than any other month, with its promises of warmth that never came"

-Amina Cain, Indelicacy

"I would listen to a bird cry, or the cat and the dog scratching around. In those moments I felt like a giant ear."

-Amina Cain, Indelicacy

"In books I found even more strongly my desire to write, to write back to them and their jagged, perfect words. I found life that ran close to my own"

-Amina Cain, Indelicacy

"Why is empty space a comfort and a relief? It's not because I project myself there; it's because I can't. It shows me my projections, but they haven't left my mind. Empty space remains empty, always.…"

-Amina Cain, Indelicacy

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15. The Book (Wave Books, 110)

By: Mary Ruefle

4.57

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Following the acclaimed Dunce , which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle’s la… read more

Similar categories in Mary Ruefle's The Book (Wave Books, 110) book and Kathryn Davis's Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir

  • poetry
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16. Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

By: Lauren Elkin

4.16

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

'Destined to become a new classic'A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art book and Kathryn Davis's Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
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17. At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond

By: Ava Wong Davies

4.23

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

'There was something magical about the unplumbed depths, the moorhens, the dragonflies, the waterli… read more

Similar categories in Ava Wong Davies's At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond book and Kathryn Davis's Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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18. Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir

By: Kathryn Davis

3.89

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Aurelia, Aurélia begins on a boat. The author, sixteen years old, is traveling to Europe at an age … read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Davis's Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir book and Kathryn Davis's Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir

  • poetry
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • 21st century
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19. The Hypocrite

By: Jo Hamya

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more

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  • 21st century
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

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20. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

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21. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

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Transform Your Habits

A Horse at Night: On Writing

Amina Cain

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Splinters

Leslie Jamison

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

Jenny Odell

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

Melissa Febos

4.24

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Transform Your Habits

The Art of Memoir

Mary Karr

4.56

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Splinters

Leslie Jamison

3.86

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Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer

3.79

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Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

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