Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood
By: JoAnna Novak
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Rachel Cusk and Maggie Nelson, the rapturous memoir of a soon-to-be-mother whose obs…
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1. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
2. Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
By: Suzanne Scanlon
4.22
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once. When Su… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
- mental health
"Only in retrospect might I say I loved it there. I didn't love it. It became familiar. I got used to it. I became dependent upon it. This is not love."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"I became a writer because I believe in that part of me who is not limited by age or gender or time or disability - yet still I am afraid to say it. Yes, I was ill."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"I myself have internalized the self-loathing that at times can make me feel ashamed to be writing this book. But I also believe that, as my heroes have shown me, this is where a writer must go."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"What if, instead of being diagnosed—being called mentally ill—what if I had been able to receive care for its own sake. To be in distress, to ask for care, to receive it. What if there were space in …"-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
3. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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- mental health
4. Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
By: Lucy Jones
4.54
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and … read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
5. The Vulnerables
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more
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"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables
6. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- art
- feminism
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
7. The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays
By: Kelly McMasters
4.23
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A memoir in intimate essays navigating marriage and motherhood, art and ambition, grief and nostalg… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
8. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
By: Glynnis MacNicol
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
9. 1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round
By: Jami Attenberg
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by Jami Attenberg’s wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this writer’s gui… read more
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- nonfiction
10. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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- memoir
- mental health
11. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
12. The Nursery
By: Szilvia Molnar
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Um casal que vive em Nova York, uma gravidez, o nascimento da primeira filha. O enredo poderia ser … read more
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- mental health
"I want you as much as I fear you"-Szilvia Molnar, The Nursery
13. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
14. The Hearing Test
By: Eliza Barry Callahan
3.40
Format: 162 pages, Hardcover
When the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a dee… read more
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- art
"He said that... helplessnes could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some be…"-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test
"He said that... helplessness could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some t…"-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test
15. Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
By: Camonghne Felix
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When Camonghne Felix goes through a monumental breakup, culminating in a hospital stay, everything… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- mental health
"It is through living, then dying, and living to die again that we discover what being alive is supposed to mean at all."-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
"Pythagoreans believed that there are three ways humanity improves, one of which is dying. Death is biological, but where it is also metaphysical is where I find delight."-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
"Math is a form of faith, a faith of its own dynamic and complex language system, and to speak it is to agree to its principles: Input begets output. One becomes the other. One variable is subject to …"-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
"Nobody has to care about what hurts you because that's not their job. It's not the world's job to understand you, it's your job to understand the world. And the more you understand it, the more you l…"-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
16. Here After
By: Amy Lin
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Here After is an intimate story of deep love followed by dizzying loss; a stunning, taut memoir fro… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- mental health
17. I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art
By: Emily C. Bloom
4.27
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An eloquent and intimate debut memoir about navigating the gap between expectation and reality in m… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- memoir
18. With My Back to the World: Poems
By: Victoria Chang
4.08
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
*A Today Show Pick *Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection *Publisher's Weekly Starred Review a… read more
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- art
- feminism
- mental health
19. 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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- feminism
"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
20. The Light Room
By: Kate Zambreno
3.60
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in clo… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
21. Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood
By: JoAnna Novak
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Rachel Cusk and Maggie Nelson, the rapturous memoir of a soon-to-be-mother whose obs… read more
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- memoir
- feminism
- mental health
- nonfiction
