7 best-selling memoir books like Dandelions by Thea Lenarduzzi

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Dandelions

By: Thea Lenarduzzi

3.96

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

In  Dandelions , her extraordinary debut, Thea Lenarduzzi pieces together her family history throug…

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Cover of Possessed: The Secret of Myslotch by Witold Gombrowicz, J.A. Underwood

1. Possessed: The Secret of Myslotch

By: Witold Gombrowicz , J.A. Underwood

3.80

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

"Smuggling the most up-to-the-minute contraband in antiquated charabancs-that's what I like doing,"… read more

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2. Gentleman Overboard

By: Herbert Clyde Lewis

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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3. All Our Yesterdays

By: Natalia Ginzburg , Angus Davidson

3.59

Format: 464 pages,

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4. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

By: Terry Tempest Williams

3.07

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The beloved author of Refugereturns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebra… read more

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5. Long Live the Post Horn!

By: Vigdis Hjorth

3.67

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Ellinor, a 35-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she's not been feeling much … read more

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"A letter is practically a gift."

-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!

"What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?"

-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!

"What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?’ . . . .accept that there’s so much we’ll never understand intellectually and try to live with things which don’t add up, that…"

-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!

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6. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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7. August Blue

By: Deborah Levy

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more

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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"

-Deborah Levy, August Blue

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8. Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

By: Deborah Levy

4.29

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

'Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • essays
"É difícil reivindicar fragilidade e força em igual proporção, mas é essa mistura que nos constitui a todos"

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

"A história neste livro era sobre uma mulher que oferece a sua vida a um homem. Não se deve tentar isso em casa, mas é normalmente aí que acontece."

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

"The story in this book was about a woman who has gifted her life to a man. This is not something to be tried at home but it is usually where it happens."

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

"One of these men told me at a book festival that if he did not transgress too many boundaries in his marriage, there would always be a comforting pair of slippers warming for him by the fire...Will t…"

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

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9. Pity

By: Andrew McMillan

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and … read more

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10. La straniera

By: Claudia Durastanti

3.57

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

"La storia di una famiglia somiglia più a una cartina topografica che a un romanzo, e una biografia… read more

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  • italy
  • italian literature
"O que ocorre com o atordoamento de quem não sabe nada de uma cidade e se ilude que cada descoberta feita o seja pela primeira vez? Que espaço tem o desejo quando tudo é feito tão transparente?"

-Claudia Durastanti, La straniera

"A autobiografia, e a da minha mãe não é uma exceção, é a bastarda entre os gêneros literários, porque baixa o limiar: está nas mãos dos refugiados, mulheres, deficientes, sobreviventes do Holocausto,…"

-Claudia Durastanti, La straniera

"Enquanto eu tentava estabelecer alguma ordem com a escrita, eles continuavam se comunicando com os astros superiores e as substâncias ingovernáveis, reforçando sempre em mim a suspeita de que as pala…"

-Claudia Durastanti, La straniera

"Podemos fracassar numa história de amor, na relação com a mãe. Mas quando uma cidade nos repele, quando não conseguimos entrar em seus mecanismos mais profundos e estamos sempre do outro lado do vidr…"

-Claudia Durastanti, La straniera

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11. Still Born

By: Guadalupe Nettel

4.13

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize! For readers of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, … read more

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"Thoughts are like clouds moving in the sky, you know? Before you know it, they change shape or they just aren't there anymore."

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"There is a word to describe someone who loses their spouse, and a word for children who are left without parents. There is no word, however, for a parent who loses their child."

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

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12. Scenes from a Childhood

By: Jon Fosse

3.67

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

One of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, Jon Fosse is famed for the minimalist and … read more

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13. The Birthday Party

By: Laurent Mauvignier

3.75

Format: 454 pages, Paperback

A painter contends with the ghosts of the French countryside in a psychological literary thriller b… read more

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14. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • essays
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15. Small Bodies of Water

By: Nina Mingya Powles

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Nina Mingya Powles first l… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • essays
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16. In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

By: Elena Ferrante

3.81

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter In 202… read more

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  • italy
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • italian literature
"Literary work couldn't seriously force the whirlpool of debris that constituted the real into any grammatical or syntactical order."

-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

"Dealings with the world, yes, at any time they are entirely ours. But the words--the written form in which we enclose them, attentive to the red margins of our notebooks--are not. We have to accept t…"

-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

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17. Getting Lost

By: Annie Ernaux

3.44

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The diary of one of France’s most important, award-… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"I write in lieu of love, to fill that empty space above death."

-Annie Ernaux, Getting Lost

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18. Arrangements in Blue

By: Amy Key

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • essays
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19. Ruth & Pen

By: Emilie Pine

3.69

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Dublin, 7th October 2019. One day, one city, two women - Ruth and Pen. Neither known to the other, … read more

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20. Radical Intimacy

By: Sophie K. Rosa

4.23

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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21. Dandelions

By: Thea Lenarduzzi

3.96

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

In  Dandelions , her extraordinary debut, Thea Lenarduzzi pieces together her family history throug… read more

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  • italy
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • italian literature

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4.14

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