No Happy Endings
By: Nora McInerny Purmort
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The author of It’s Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking—interv…
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1. Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
By: Kate Bowler
3.80
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of… read more
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- self help
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I was immediately worn out by the tyranny of prescriptive joy."-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
"I failed to love what was present and decided to love what was possible instead."-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
"They would find something simple and that would be the end of it. I'd just have to schedule my life around a surgery, nothing major."-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
"A lot of Christians like to remind me that heaven is my true home, which makes me want to ask them if they would like to go home first."-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
2. Songs Without Words
By: Ann Packer
3.73
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
This stunning follow-up to the bestselling The Dive from Clausens Pier takes readers on a journey i… read more
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3. Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You
By: Jen Hatmaker
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
No more hiding or people-pleasing up in here, sisters. No more being sidelined in your own life. It… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
4. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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- self help
- biography
- memoir
- death
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
5. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- audiobook
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"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
6. 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
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)
By: Nora McInerny
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Nora McInerny does not dance like no one is watching. In fact, she dances like everyone is watching… read more
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- self help
- biography
- memoir
- humor
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"He can say he forgives me, sure, but I know better. In therapy, I work on forgiving myself."-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)
"How frightening to know that your brain can betray you this way, that the vessel for our sense of self is often faulty and prone to error. How awful to know that death may come for us over and over, …"-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)
"To admit this—a hopelessly unfashionable addiction to the appearance of my body—is a crime in some circles. It's much more becoming to "embrace your flaws" or—even better—to not see your body's flaws…"-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)
8. A Heart That Works
By: Rob Delaney
4.62
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
New York Times Bestseller * The New Yorker Best Books of 2022 * Entertainment Weekly Best Boo… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- death
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through"-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works
"Why don't you just leave open the possibility that others love you, whether you like it or not, and that the people who'd like you to stick around aren't, to a man, wrong."-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works
9. 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
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
10. One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
By: Kate Kennedy
3.78
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millenni… read more
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- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Why would I ever let someone who drafts make-believe football teams make me believe I should be embarrassed by my interests?"-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
"Pregnancy loss...is an open wound with the most vulnerable scab, forced to constantly replenish its surface-level protection as it's picked at daily, not by you, but inadvertently by other people's j…"-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
"I'm a weird contradiction of someone who pursues and values traditions but tries to reject the parts that are oppressive, unfair or unnecessary, because we can adapt things to who we are, not to who …"-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
"That's the thing about girlhood. You and your friends have to take yourselves seriously, because no one else will. We had to keep our emotional behavior to diary pages and fangirl in private, perform…"-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
11. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
12. How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone
By: Cameron Russell
3.79
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A fierce and innovative memoir that explores who holds the power in an image-obsessed culture, from… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
13. 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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- memoir
- humor
- death
- mental health
- biography memoir
- 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
14. Look Alive Out There
By: Sloane Crosley
3.77
Format: 256 pages, None
From the New York Times-bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out There―a brand-new co… read more
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- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Everyone knows WebMD is a Choose Your Own Adventure book in which all roads lead to death."-Sloane Crosley, Look Alive Out There
"There are few things sadder than an off-duty earlobe that’s been trained to accommodate a human fist"-Sloane Crosley, Look Alive Out There
"I think by now we can all agree that the foundation of world travel goes something like "Bring a cardigan."-Sloane Crosley, Look Alive Out There
"My roommate came running out of the closet and did not stop until he reached Los Angeles. I knew this day would come. Sometimes it's easier to be your actual self where nothing of your alleged self e…"-Sloane Crosley, Look Alive Out There
15. BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found
By: Christie Tate
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
* “A love story about the miracle of friendship.” —Maggie Smith * “Fearless and unflinching.” — Pit… read more
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- biography
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- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Soundtrack of Silence: Love, Loss, and a Playlist for Life
By: Matt Hay
4.18
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring memoir of a young man who discovered he was going completely deaf just at the moment h… read more
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- memoir
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- audiobook
17. No Happy Endings
By: Nora McInerny Purmort
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The author of It’s Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking—interv… read more
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- self help
- biography
- memoir
- humor
- death
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
18. Bad Moms: The Novel
By: Nora McInerny
4.07
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The writers behind the blockbuster hits Bad Moms and A Bad Moms Christmas and the acclaimed author … read more
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- humor
- audiobook
19. Different after You: Rediscovering Yourself and Healing after Grief and Trauma
By: Michele Neff Hernandez
4.25
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A Life-Affirming Process That Provides Transformative Support No one who lives and loves will be i… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
20. Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives
By: Sami Sage
4.13
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A whip-smart combo of self-help and political manifesto that is perfect for anyone who wants to sav… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"There's a small handful of very wealthy and powerful people who actively strategize and spend a lot of money (numbers with multiple commas) to make sure that you ignore politics and neglect your priv…"-Sami Sage, Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives
