Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood
By: Stephen Mills
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Memoir "An unparalleled achievement , a work of shatt…
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1. Never Say Never: Finding A Life That Fits
By: Ricki Lake
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The world first met Ricki Lake in 1988 as Tracy Turnblad in the film Hairspray. Weighing in at just… read more
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2. Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
By: Keri Blakinger
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“Brave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and rele… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land
By: Sally Denton
3.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of November 4, 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by mas… read more
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- nonfiction
- true crime
- audiobook
4. Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness
By: Melissa Bond
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Brain on Fire meets High Achiever in this “page-turner memoir chronicling a woman’s accidental desc… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
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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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings
By: Chrysta Bilton
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"One of the maddest memoirs you'll read this year... This beautiful, warm, funny book is a testamen… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. Everything Is Fine
By: Vince Granata
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Grief, mental illness, and the bonds of family are movingly explored in this extraordinary memoir “… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- true crime
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Eventually, I had no choice but to look at loss and pain, at all the pieces of my family's story that I didn't think I could ever understand. It was this process, recognizing the pieces, struggling t…"-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine
"In reality, memories are more feeling than fact. Though we want to think of our memories as one long record, the reel of our greatest hits, a memory is a constellation of infinitesimal changes, elect…"-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine
8. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
By: Rachel Louise Snyder
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
9. The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
By: Kyleigh Leddy
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
All Kait Leddy had ever wanted was a little sister. When Kyleigh was born, they were inseparable; K… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Only after we relinquish what is lost are we truly healed."-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
"For better and for worse, hope proves itself to be surprisingly resilient."-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
"No one tells you what a precious, fragile gift your mind is in the first place. No one tells you it can be lost."-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
"You wish there was an adequate term for what you are—like orphan or widower—a term that says “I once meant something to somebody."-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
10. Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir
By: Lacy Crawford
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A riveting, lucid memoir of a young woman's struggle to regain her sense of self after trauma, and … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- true crime
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Teachers refused to punish me, which is another way of saying that they refused to look after me."-Lacy Crawford, Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir
"Walking the path to classes, I had its beat in my head: Now get up and go. Now get up and go. There was no city, but I substituted a hazy notion of future. I liked to think there was a direction for …"-Lacy Crawford, Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir
"Walking the path to classes, I had its beat in my heard: Now get up and go. Now get up and go. There was no city, but I substituted a hazy notion of future. I liked to think there was a direction for…"-Lacy Crawford, Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir
11. 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
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Miss Memory Lane: A Memoir
By: Colton Haynes
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A brutally honest and moving memoir of lust, abuse, addiction, stardom, and redemption from Arrow a… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. README.txt
By: Chelsea Manning
4.23
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, revealing memoir from one of the most important activists of our time. While workin… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"With enough grief, adrenaline, and fear we can all become amoral- even malevolent."-Chelsea Manning, README.txt
14. Never Simple
By: Liz Scheier
3.73
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This gripping and darkly funny memoir “is a testament to the undeniable, indestructible love betwee… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Clearly I hadn't actually won the Shitty Family Olympics, just placed in the qualifiers. It could've been worse."-Liz Scheier, Never Simple
"Having a mentally ill parent meant simultaneously wrestling with a hard relationship while mourning the absence of the one you actually wanted."-Liz Scheier, Never Simple
15. Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime
By: Debora Harding
3.93
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-poin… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- true crime
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
By: Kelly Sundberg
3.83
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this brave and beautiful memoir, written with the raw honesty and devastating openness of The Gl… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- true crime
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- abuse
- audiobook
"I was only ever leaving. I was leaving when he hit me. Leaving when he screamed “You are a fucking cunt!"-Kelly Sundberg, Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
17. Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter
By: John Hendrickson
4.49
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, candid memoir about a lifelong struggle to speak. "Soulful...Profoundly moving."--… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood
By: Stephen Mills
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Memoir "An unparalleled achievement , a work of shatt… read more
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- memoir
- true crime
- jewish
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- abuse
- sociology
- audiobook
19. Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment
By: Susannah Breslin
2.77
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
What if your parents turned you into a human lab rat on the day you were born? Would that change th… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. I Cried to Dream Again: Trafficking, Murder, and Deliverance -- A Memoir
By: Sara Kruzan
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
There is perhaps no crime more disturbing than the abuse of a child—and no court cases as upsetting… read more
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- memoir
- true crime
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- abuse
- audiobook
21. I'm Not Broken
By: Jesse Leon
4.36
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In this unflinching and inspiring memoir, Jesse Leon tells an extraordinary story of resilience and… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- abuse
- audiobook
