7 best-selling nonfiction books like Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik

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Didion and Babitz

By: Lili Anolik

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Joan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work on …

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1. Eve's Hollywood

By: Eve Babitz

3.44

Format: 213 pages,

Journalist, party girl, bookworm, muse, artist: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had been a… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

2. L.A. Woman

By: Eve Babitz

4.45

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

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3. The English Understand Wool

By: Helen DeWitt

4.10

Format: 69 pages, Hardcover

Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more

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4. Service

By: Sarah Gilmartin

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The waitress. The chef. The chef’s wife. Three different stories, but which one contains the truth?… read more

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5. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

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6. An Inventory of Losses

By: Judith Schalansky

3.36

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
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7. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir

By: Anna Marie Tendler

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the live… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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8. Consent: A Memoir

By: Jill Ciment

3.96

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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9. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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10. Didion and Babitz

By: Lili Anolik

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Joan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work on … read more

Similar categories in Lili Anolik's Didion and Babitz book and Lili Anolik's Didion and Babitz

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • womens
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11. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

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12. Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls

By: Susan Seidelman

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The funny and insightful first-person story of the trailblazing movie director of the 80s and 90s … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"The biggest takeaway from my long-distance relationship with Floyd Byars was that I optioned an original screenplay he had co-written with his writing partner, Laurie. Another takeaway was a case of …"

-Susan Seidelman, Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls

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13. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

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14. Blue Light Hours

By: Bruna Dantas Lobato

4.08

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

One of Electric Literature’s “75 Books by Women of Color to Read in 2024” From the National Book… read more

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15. Shred Sisters

By: Betsy Lerner

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A wry and riveting debut novel about family, mental illness, and a hard-won path between two sister… read more

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16. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

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17. Small Rain

By: Garth Greenwell

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more

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18. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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19. Set My Heart on Fire

By: Izumi Suzuki

3.59

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The long-awaited publication of Izumi Suzuki's debut novel. A young woman named Izumi, details h… read more

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20. A Voyage Around the Queen

By: Craig Brown

4.08

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

With equal measures of wit and wisdom, the author of 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret draws a deepl… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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21. Sister Snake

By: Amanda Lee Koe

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A glittering, bold, darkly funny novel about two sisters—one in New York, one in Singapore—who are … read more

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Eve Babitz

3.44

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Judith Schalansky

3.36

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Anna Marie Tendler

3.65

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Jill Ciment

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4.19

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4.10

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4.16

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