Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else
By: Maeve Higgins
3.57
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Maeve Higgins was a bestselling memoirist and comedian in her native Ireland when, at the grand old…
Want to Read $ 12.99"This whole 'leaving' thing? It's in me."-Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else
"This whole 'leaving' thing? It's in me."-Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else
"Perfection, when contrived, is laughable."-Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else
"Perfection, when contrived, is laughable."-Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else
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1. Canada
By: Mike Myers
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Comedy superstar Mike Myers writes from the (true patriot) heart about his 52-year relationship wit… read more
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- biography
- memoir
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- comedy
- audiobook
"...the strength of a democracy is not how well we agree but how well we disagree."-Mike Myers, Canada
2. The Awakened Kingdom (The Inheritance Trilogy, #3.5)
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.01
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
The long awaited sequel to the Inheritance trilogy -- a novella by award winning author N. K. Jemis… read more
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- audiobook
"Women risk their lives enough to bear children and provide for them by tool or by blade; the least men can do is handle things after that."-N.K. Jemisin, The Awakened Kingdom (The Inheritance Trilogy, #3.5)
"I don’t want somebody who’s going to talk about me like I’m not here, or say things about one person when they really mean it about another person, or, or—"-N.K. Jemisin, The Awakened Kingdom (The Inheritance Trilogy, #3.5)
3. War for the Oaks
By: Emma Bull
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Acclaimed by critics and readers on its first publication in 1987, winner of the Locus Award for Be… read more
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"Those the brownies will not help, must learn to help themselves"-Emma Bull, War for the Oaks
"I love you like my own sister. Which is why I won't hesitate to tell you that I don't believe it."-Emma Bull, War for the Oaks
"I’ve told you that I’m a tricksy wight, and I am, my sweet. But there are those in the Seelie Court who would make me seem a very perfect knight."-Emma Bull, War for the Oaks
"Sex without love is like a goddamn business transaction. And sometimes both parties feel as if they got a good deal, but that doesn't make it any less so."-Emma Bull, War for the Oaks
4. The Well: David's Story (Logans, #2)
By: Mildred D. Taylor
4.11
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
During a drought, the Logan family shares their well water with all their neighbors, black and whit… read more
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- audiobook
5. The Wonder Trail: True Stories from Los Angeles to the End of the World
By: Steve Hely
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Steve Hely, writer for The Officeand American Dad!, and recipient of the Thurber Prize for American… read more
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- humor
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
6. This Is Not My Beautiful Life: A Memoir
By: Victoria Fedden
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
One of Publisher Weekly'sten most anticipated memoirs of the season. If you think it sucks to live … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle
By: Rachel Dratch
4.25
Format: None pages,
In this side-splitting memoir, the former Saturday Night Livestar recounts the hilarious adventures… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- nonfiction
- comedy
- audiobook
8. Eggshells
By: None
3.59
Format: 128 pages,
Vivian doesn't feel like she fits in - never has. She lives alone in a house in north Dublin that h… read more
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9. We Are Never Meeting In Real Life
By: Samantha Irby
3.14
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire. With We Are Never Meeting in R… read more
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10. Spill Simmer Falter Wither
By: Sara Baume
3.83
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. You're sellotaped to the inside pane of the j… read more
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11. The Glorious Heresies
By: Lisa McInerney
3.69
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
One messy murder affects the lives of five misfits who exist on the fringes of Ireland's post-crash… read more
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12. Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
By: Matthew Goodman
4.05
Format: 12 pages, Hardcover
1889: Two women, successful journalists and writers, set off in a desperate rate in opposite direct… read more
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13. 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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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- comedy
- audiobook
14. George: A Magpie Memoir
By: Frieda Hughes
3.83
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“ He was a hectic, unprincipled bird, but it was impossible not to love him.” From poet and painter… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The joy of such a purpose is that it gives you a reason to ignore everything else. There is nothing so effective in taking one's mind off the practical concerns of our lives as a living creature that…"-Frieda Hughes, George: A Magpie Memoir
15. Dolls of Our Lives
By: Mary Mahoney
3.53
Format: None pages, None
For Feiwel & Friends, Kat Brzozowski bought world rights to a currently untitled book by Allison Ho… read more
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- humor
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
16. Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome
By: Aparna Nancherla
3.60
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and insightful collection of essays exploring impostor syndrome, from the inside and ou… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- comedy
- audiobook
17. Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia
By: Natasha Lance Rogoff
4.15
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
"In this thrilling debut, television producer and filmmaker Rogoff recounts her mission to bring Se… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. The World Record Book of Racist Stories
By: Amber Ruffin
4.40
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling authors of You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey, comedia… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- nonfiction
- essays
- comedy
- audiobook
19. 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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- memoir
- humor
- nonfiction
- essays
- comedy
- audiobook
"[...] 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
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20. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]
By: Chelsea Devantez
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more
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- biography
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- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- comedy
- audiobook
21. Congratulations, the Best is Over!
By: R. Eric Thomas
4.07
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"If I'm not heading toward a place where I can feel joy, then hope in the present has nothing to hold on to."-R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, the Best is Over!
22. Joyful Recollections of Trauma
By: Paul Scheer
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and humorous memoir-in-essays on coming… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- comedy
- audiobook
"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
23. Eagle Drums
By: Nasugraq Rainey Hopson
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A magical realistic middle grade debut about the origin story of the Iñupiaq Messenger Feast, a Nat… read more
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- audiobook
24. Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
By: Séamas O'Reilly
4.13
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
A heart-warming and hilarious family memoir of growing up as one of eleven children raised by a sin… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"Ann was as steady as rain and implacable as taxes. The kind of strong rooted Donegal woman you could imagine blithely tutting if her hair caught fire."-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
"It was this story, delivered in Robert's signature south Derry monotone, that had my dad in literal and figurative stitches in the amputation ward. Despite being a Catholic who loved and admired Pope…"-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
"It seems blasphemous that my mother's death even existed in the same reality as those moments that subsequently came to define my youth; taking the long way home from Nixon's Corner so I could listen…"-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
25. You're Doing Great!: And Other Reasons to Stay Alive
By: Tom Papa
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Comedian and “Live from Here” head writer Tom Papa, author of Your Dad Stole My Rake, tackles the m… read more
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- memoir
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- audiobook
"Try and be strong. Try and be better. Try to enjoy."-Tom Papa, You're Doing Great!: And Other Reasons to Stay Alive
"Social media is like a photo album with all the bad parts taken out."-Tom Papa, You're Doing Great!: And Other Reasons to Stay Alive
"Life isn’t easy. It’s actually extremely difficult, with only one guaranteed ending. But you should refuse to waste it, if not for yourself, then for everyone around you."-Tom Papa, You're Doing Great!: And Other Reasons to Stay Alive
"We're all somewhat unpleasant--which is another way of saying disgusting--and we're all flawed. All of us. That's what love is. Finding someone whose flaws you can put up with."-Tom Papa, You're Doing Great!: And Other Reasons to Stay Alive
26. Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else
By: Maeve Higgins
3.57
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Maeve Higgins was a bestselling memoirist and comedian in her native Ireland when, at the grand old… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- ireland
- irish literature
- comedy
- audiobook
"This whole 'leaving' thing? It's in me."-Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else
"Perfection, when contrived, is laughable."-Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else
"Small talk needs to get big at some phase."-Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else
"Is there any greater compliment than someone thinking you’re too gorgeous to be yourself?"-Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else
27. The Age-Proof Brain
By: Marc Milstein
4.28
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Improve your brain health—now and in the future. While there’s no magic pill that will turn an a… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People
By: Ian Karmel
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Comedian Ian Karmel, with help from sister Dr. Alisa Karmel, opens up about the daily humiliations … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- comedy
- audiobook
"You're a raw nerve in that era of your existence. Life hurts, and that isn't unique to fat people or to any one group, really. Pretty much everyone goes through some version of young-adult malaise. T…"-Ian Karmel, T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People
29. The Lost Book of Adana Moreau
By: Michael Zapata
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The mesmerizing story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript … read more
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- audiobook
"His father was a pirate."-Michael Zapata, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau
"Every telling of an event is a portrait of the teller and not the event itself."-Michael Zapata, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau
30. An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work
By: Charlotte Shane
3.28
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a provocative and tende… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. The Factory Witches of Lowell
By: C.S. Malerich
3.33
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
C. S. Malerich's The Factory Witches of Lowell is a riveting historical fantasy about witches going… read more
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"You don't know women, do you? They'll last for weeks on spite alone."-C.S. Malerich, The Factory Witches of Lowell
"All magic is mastery and command, isn't it? You have to have a claim to something before you can cast spells over it, even your own self."-C.S. Malerich, The Factory Witches of Lowell
"Flog them, hang them, drown them like rats. It won’t change the facts: we are the ones who poured our sweat and souls into your looms. We have rights to expect a little loyalty."-C.S. Malerich, The Factory Witches of Lowell
"We were crushed’ said Judith; ‘for lack of resolution more than lack of numbers. A strike is nothing if a worker may pledge herself to it today and return to the factory tomorrow. So we gather here; …"-C.S. Malerich, The Factory Witches of Lowell
