The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit in
By: Ayser Salman
3.65
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An Immigrant Love-Hate Story of What it Means to Be American . "A rare voice that is both relatable…
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1. Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for Menstrual Equity
By: Jennifer Weiss-Wolf
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The first book to explore menstruation in the current cultural and political landscape and to inves… read more
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- nonfiction
2. Like No Other
By: Una LaMarche
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Fate brought them together. Will life tear them apart? Devorah is a consummate good girl who has n… read more
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- coming of age
- audiobook
3. The Rose of Fire (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2.5)
By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Set at the time of the Spanish Inquisition in the fifteenth century, "Rose of Fire" tells the story… read more
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4. New Year, Same Trash: Resolutions I Absolutely Did Not Keep
By: Samantha Irby
4.01
Format: None pages,
Comedian, blogger and essayist Samantha Irby is notgoing to be a better person this year than she w… read more
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5. In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
By: Michelle Burford , Diane Guerrero
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The star of Orange is the New Blackand Jane the Virginpresents her personal story of the real pligh… read more
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6. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
By: Allison Hoover Bartlett
3.87
Format: 288 pages,
In the tradition of 'The Orchid Thief', a compelling narrative set within the strange and genteel w… read more
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7. Calling a Wolf a Wolf
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more
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8. Looker
By: Laura Sims
3.07
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling, razor-sharp debut novel about a woman whose obsession with the beautiful actress on her… read more
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- audiobook
9. Thick: And Other Essays
By: Tressie McMillan Cottom
4.44
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Smart, humorous, and strikingly original thoughts on race, beauty, money, and more—by one of today'… read more
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"I fix myself, even when it causes great pain to do so, because I know that I cannot fix the way the world sees me."-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays
"Indeed, any system of oppression must allow exceptions to validate itself as meritorious. How else will those who are oppressed by the system internalize their own oppression?"-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays
"Smart is only a construct of correspondence between one's abilities, one's environment, and one's moment in history. I am smart in the right way, in the right time, on the right end of globalization."-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays
"The networks of capital, be they politics or organizations, work most effeciently when your lowedst status characteristic is assumed. And once these gears are in motion, you can never be competent en…"-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays
10. Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction
By: Gabrielle Moss
3.76
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A hilarious and nostalgic trip through the history of paperback pre-teen series of the '80s and '90… read more
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- humor
- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. You Can’t Be Serious
By: Kal Penn
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In this refreshingly candid memoir, Kal Penn recounts why he rejected the advice of his aunties and… read more
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- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- comedy
- audiobook
12. The Accidental Beauty Queen
By: Teri Wilson
3.64
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Charlotte Gorman loves her job as an elementary school librarian, and is content to experience life… read more
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- humor
- audiobook
"There's fire in my eyes and my lips are bee-stung, swollen with kisses. I look like a poem—something penned by Wordsworth, all dancing daffodils and smokeless air. I look like a woman in love."-Teri Wilson, The Accidental Beauty Queen
13. Reading Behind Bars: A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian
By: Jill Grunenwald
3.60
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
In December 2008, twentysomething Jill Grunenwald graduated with her master’s degree in library sci… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
14. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
By: Ahed Tamimi
4.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
16. The Ensemble
By: Aja Gabel
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"Pitch-perfect." — People "You won’t be able to quit these characters." —goop The addictive … read more
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- audiobook
"… you misunderstand ‘ease.’ I think whoever said that means joy, not the quality of being easy. And difficult things can bring joy. And joy can bring ease."-Aja Gabel, The Ensemble
"The story spanned the distance between their past and their future, and suddenly, briefly, they were two versions of themselves. And if they were two versions of themselves, they were also all the ve…"-Aja Gabel, The Ensemble
"She was sad, and she was angry with herself for being sad. She didn’t like wanting what she hadn’t intended to want as much as she didn’t like being denied what she hadn’t really wanted in the first …"-Aja Gabel, The Ensemble
17. Hearts Unbroken
By: Cynthia Leitich Smith
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith turns to realistic fiction with the though… read more
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- family
"Do you believe in God?' 'I believe in kissing you."-Cynthia Leitich Smith, Hearts Unbroken
"Damn it, Lou!' Two hours later, Cam pounded at the steering wheel of his SUV, which was parked in my driveway. 'Stop being so dramatic. I can't second-guess every fucking word that flies out of my fu…"-Cynthia Leitich Smith, Hearts Unbroken
18. Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
By: Laila Lalami
4.27
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Humanity is fundamentally a story of migration."-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
"White" is seen as the default, the absence of race. ...Whiteness, then, is shrouded in silence. To speak about it openly is to break a taboo."-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
"All immigrants walk around with a scar left behind by their crossing into a new country, an invisible mark of the exile that became their condition when they were uprooted."-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
"From my mother and grandmother, I learned about faith as a private relationship with the cosmic, which did not need to be measured by adherence to strict rules and rituals."-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
19. Mother Land
By: Leah Franqui
3.71
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of America for Beginners, a wonderfully insightful, witty, and… read more
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- family
- audiobook
"An unattended husband is always a bad thing..."-Leah Franqui, Mother Land
"...nothing could give her purpose; she had to take it."-Leah Franqui, Mother Land
"It was so easy to be sure of things when you were twenty."-Leah Franqui, Mother Land
"Gossip was like malaria, highly contagious, and eternal in the body."-Leah Franqui, Mother Land
20. How to Date Men When You Hate Men
By: Blythe Roberson
3.21
Format: None pages, Audio CD
From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is… read more
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- comedy
- audiobook
"There do exist reasons to internet stalk someone that aren't sad or creepy: maybe you just remembered this person for the first time in fifteen years, maybe you're going on a first date and want to m…"-Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men
"Even more than I hate commodifying myself, I hate men judging me as a commodity. For thousands of years, women have been throughout their lives reduced to their worth as sexual objects (slash domesti…"-Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men
21. Scout's Honor
By: Lily Anderson
3.79
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Prudence Perry is a third-generation Ladybird Scout who must battle literal (and figurative) monste… read more
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22. Ramón and Julieta (Love & Tacos, #1)
By: Alana Albertson
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
When fate and tacos bring Ramón and Julieta together on the Day of the Dead, the star-crossed pair … read more
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"Julieta inhaled the rose that the sexy man had given her. The floral scent made her woozy. Or maybe her giddy state was because she was high on his testosterone."-Alana Albertson, Ramón and Julieta (Love & Tacos, #1)
"Ramón gasped at the sight of her. The tight red dress she wore hugged her curves, worshipped them as if her body was a church. I feel a religious experience coming on ."-Alana Albertson, Ramón and Julieta (Love & Tacos, #1)
"How had they possibly kept the spark alive for so many years? Julieta doubted that she would ever know. The only songs men sang these days were on TikTok. And even those were lip-synched. Romance was…"-Alana Albertson, Ramón and Julieta (Love & Tacos, #1)
"And Mexican regional specialties had originated in other cultures anyway---pan dulces were influenced by the French, and al pastor was based on lamb shawarma from the Lebanese. Cooking was about expe…"-Alana Albertson, Ramón and Julieta (Love & Tacos, #1)
23. Let's Make Ramen!: A Comic Book Cookbook
By: Hugh Amano
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A comic book cookbook with accessible ramen recipes for the home cook, including simple weeknight b… read more
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24. Take A Moment
By: Nina Kaye
3.94
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
Meet Alex. She has a wonderful fiancé, a job she thrives in, and a best friend she’s known since ch… read more
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25. What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine
By: Erin Williams
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“A humane and gripping work that illuminates how (and why) our treatments of chronic illness fail, … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
26. The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit in
By: Ayser Salman
3.65
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An Immigrant Love-Hate Story of What it Means to Be American . "A rare voice that is both relatable… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- coming of age
- humor
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- comedy
- audiobook
27. Catalina
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more
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- coming of age
- audiobook
28. All the Things We Don't Talk About
By: Amy Feltman
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A “big-hearted, lively, and expansive portrait of a family” that follows a neurodivergent father, h… read more
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- audiobook
29. Would I Lie to You?
By: Aliya Ali-Afzal
3.67
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
When money and lies come between Faiza and her husband, Faiza will do anything to fix it, even if i… read more
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- audiobook
30. A Product of Genetics (And Day Drinking)
By: Jess H. Gutierrez
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A frank, raucous, and bawdy collection of essays about coming of age through the oddest jobs, misad… read more
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- humor
- nonfiction
- memoir
31. Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong
By: Georgina Lawton
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From The Guardian’s Georgina Lawton, a moving examination of how racial identity is constructed—thr… read more
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- memoir
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
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