Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence
By: Tanya Selvaratnam
3.70
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Award-winning filmmaker Tanya Selvaratnam bravely recounts the intimate abuse she suffered from for…
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1. Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
By: Dani Shapiro
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, l… 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
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
3. The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia
By: Samantha Leach
3.22
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Three suburban girls meet at a boarding school for troubled teens. Eight years later, they were de… read more
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- crime
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4. How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
By: Clancy Martin
3.71
Format: 431 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compu… read more
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- psychology
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. 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
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
- 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
6. Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist
By: Sesali Bowen
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From funny and fearless entertainment journalist Sesali Bowen, Bad Fat Black Girl combines rule-bre… read more
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7. Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss
By: Stephanie Wittels Wachs
4.29
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
The space between life and death is a moment. But it will remain alive in me for hundreds of thousa… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I often wonder when this will all end, but there is no end to grief. There's only navigating the way to a new normal."-Stephanie Wittels Wachs, Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss
"I noted how small I was compared to the sky. I saw that the world is beautiful. I heard my daughter say, "Wow." And I felt grateful."-Stephanie Wittels Wachs, Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss
"I finally understand the meaning of acceptance on the grief chart. It’s not that the bereaved ever accepts the death of the loved one—I will never accept your death—it’s that you come to accept that …"-Stephanie Wittels Wachs, Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss
"I think we're all just doing our best to survive the inevitable pain and suffering that walks alongside us through life. Long ago, it was wild animals and deadly poxes and harsh terrain. I learned ab…"-Stephanie Wittels Wachs, Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss
8. Finding Baby Holly: Lost to a Cult, Surviving My Parents' Murders, and Saved by Prayer
By: Holly Marie
3.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Holly Marie was forty-two years old the day she found out she was missing. At ten months old, H… read more
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- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
9. Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession
By: Sarah Weinman
3.59
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and… read more
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- crime
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
By: Rachel Louise Snyder
4.50
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In No Visible Bruises, journalist Rachel Louise Snyder frames this urgent and immersive account of … read more
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- feminism
- psychology
- nonfiction
- womens
- crime
"Michelle saw was what so many other women before her had seen: that an abuser appears more powerful than the system."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
"The average batterer, Adams told me, “is more likable than his victim, because domestic violence affects victims a lot more than it affects batterers."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
"When I questioned whether she believed he really had changed, she said yes, but she also said she believed she could probably trigger him again in a minute."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
"The very fact that intimate partner violence is so often addressed in civil court, rather than criminal court, gives insight into how we as a society still view it."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
11. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
By: Anna Akbari
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
12. Everything is Perfect: A Memoir
By: Kate Nason
4.17
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Seven years into her second marriage, Kate Nason discovered her husband was cheating on her. Then, … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
13. Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
By: Michelle Bowdler
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
She Said meets Know My Name in Michelle Bowdler's provocative debut, telling the story of her rape … read more
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- feminism
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- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
14. 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
- feminism
- 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
15. Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
By: Rachel Monroe
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A provocative and original investigation of our cultural fascination with crime, linking four arche… read more
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- feminism
- crime
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Sometimes women’s attraction to true crime is dismissed as trashy and voyeuristic (because women are vapid!). Sometimes it is unquestioningly celebrated as feminist (because if women like something, …"-Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
16. Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence
By: Tanya Selvaratnam
3.70
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Award-winning filmmaker Tanya Selvaratnam bravely recounts the intimate abuse she suffered from for… read more
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- feminism
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- abuse
- womens
- crime
- audiobook
17. Relationship OCD: A CBT-Based Guide to Move Beyond Obsessive Doubt, Anxiety, and Fear of Commitment in Romantic Relationships
By: Sheva Rajaee
4.43
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
A powerful CBT approach to help you find freedom from obsessive relationship anxiety, doubt, and fe… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
"We must respond to life's most difficult questions by humbly conceding 'I don't know the answer, and that's okay."-Sheva Rajaee, Relationship OCD: A CBT-Based Guide to Move Beyond Obsessive Doubt, Anxiety, and Fear of Commitment in Romantic Relationships
18. You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession
By: Piper Weiss
3.27
Format: 368 pages, ebook
A highly unsettling blend of true crime and coming-of-age memoir— The Stranger Beside Me meets Prep… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
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- crime
- audiobook
19. See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
By: Jess Hill
4.66
Format: 402 pages, Paperback
At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria’s dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone … read more
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- feminism
- psychology
- nonfiction
- womens
- crime
- audiobook
"I don't bash you with my fists, I bash you with my emotions, to keep you under control."-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
"I explain patriarchy as a dual system of power: men's power over women, and some men's power over other men. - Michael Kimmel"-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
"Mangan is adamant: women's violence may cause distress to men in abusive relationships, but men are almost never in danger of being killed."-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
"Whether perpetrators abuse strategically or on impulse, however, they usually have one thing in common: a supercharged sense of entitlement."-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
20. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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- biography
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- audiobook
21. Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism (Gender and Justice Book 8)
By: Leigh Goodmark
4.66
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
A profound, compelling argument for abolition feminism--to protect criminalized survivors of gender… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
