Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
By: Catherine Cho
4.23
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
Inferno is the riveting memoir of a young mother who is separated from her newborn son and husband …
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1. The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
By: Elyn R. Saks
4.31
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"in my experience, the words “now just calm down"-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
"some truths that were too difficult and frightening to know."-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
"The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not"-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
"I needed to put two critical ideas together: that I could both be mentally ill and lead a rich and satisfying life."-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
2. Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
By: Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
4.42
Format: 216 pages,
In the tradition of "Darkness Visible", this book presents a moving and memorable testament to the … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
3. 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
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
4. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
5. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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- parenting
- audiobook
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
7. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
By: Stephanie Foo
4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. Sociopath: A Memoir
By: Patric Gagne
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
9. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
By: Audrey Clare Farley
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more
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- biography
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
By: Alexa Hagerty
4.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against h… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
11. Empty
By: Susan Burton
3.78
Format: 283 pages, Hardcover
An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Most people had a history in this region, but not my parents, and my early, defining relationship to my environment was a feeling of being not from here, even though I had never lived in any other pl…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"...it allowed me to engage with my experience intellectually instead of practically, to analyze it instead of trying to fix it. And it demonstrated how another woman, in another time, had struggled w…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"It showed me one thing that being an adult meant. You were no longer limited to observing the world: Now you can join in. Instead of just being a fan of things you loved, you could get inside them. Y…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"I was struck, though, that even as the women share their experiences, they seem to remain essentially alone in them. They tell their stories, but they do not seem to connect with the others in doing …"-Susan Burton, Empty
12. 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
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
13. Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy
By: Eilene B. Zimmerman
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A journalist pieces together the mysteries surrounding her ex-husband's unexpected death from drug … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
By: Catherine Cho
4.23
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
Inferno is the riveting memoir of a young mother who is separated from her newborn son and husband … read more
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- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
15. Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women
By: Ellen Atlanta
4.35
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An up-close and striking look at modern beauty culture―from Botox and Instagram filters to lip flip… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- mental health
"We invited each other into our spaces when parents would allow – girls only in these altars of beauty. We were christened into girlhood, not by holy water or the consumption of Christ’s body and bloo…"-Ellen Atlanta, Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women
16. The Poison Line: A True Story of Death, Deception and Infected Blood
By: Cara McGoogan
4.68
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The shocking true story of how a miracle cure became a deadly poison, and the lengths that big phar… read more
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- nonfiction
17. Ootlin
By: Jenni Fagan
4.67
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
The government told a story about me before I was born. Jenni Fagan was property of the state be… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
18. Kent State: An American Tragedy
By: Brian VanDeMark
4.42
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A definitive history of the fatal clash between Vietnam War protestors and the National Guard, illu… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. What Have I Done?: An Honest Memoir About Surviving Post-natal Mental Illness
By: Laura Dockrill
4.54
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
This is a raw and honest memoir about being devastated by post-partum psychosis and coming through … read more
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- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays)
By: Marlena Williams
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Never watch The Exorcist , Marlena Williams’s mother told her, just as she’d been told by her own … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
21. Birth Notes: A Memoir of Recovery
By: Jessica Cornwell
4.47
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Following the birth of her first children, twin boys, Jessica Cornwell collapsed in a fever. Rushed… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
