Spilt Milk: Memoirs
By: Courtney Zoffness
3.93
Format: 211 pages, Hardcover
What role does a mother play in raising thoughtful, generous children? In her literary debut, inter…
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1. Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife
By: Peggy Vincent
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
An inspiring collection of birth stories by a charming midwife. Each time she knelt to "catch" anot… read more
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3. A Dying Colonialism
By: Frantz Fanon , Haakon Chevalier
4.02
Format: None pages, Paperback
An incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria … read more
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- nonfiction
4. This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
By: Morgan Jerkins
3.87
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins' highly-anticipated collection of li… read more
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5. Dept. of Speculation
By: Jenny Offill
4.60
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysterie… read more
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6. Wear It Well: Reclaim Your Closet and Rediscover the Joy of Getting Dressed
By: Allison Bornstein
4.03
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Define your style and use fashion as a tool for self-discovery using the Three-Word Method and AB … read more
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- nonfiction
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7. 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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"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
8. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
9. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
10. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
11. frank: sonnets
By: Diane Seuss
4.50
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more
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"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets
12. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
By: Jenn Shapland
4.09
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is an audacious new form of nonfiction that remakes the bounda… read more
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13. River East, River West
By: Aube Rey Lescure
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more
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"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
14. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
By: Kit Heyam
4.30
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today’s narratives about trans people … read more
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"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
15. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
By: Melissa Febos
4.24
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more
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"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
16. 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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17. 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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18. Feelings: A Story in Seasons
By: Manjit Thapp
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeous visual journey through one young woman's year of emotions--from the saturated highs of e… read more
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19. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
20. Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
By: Andrea Gibson
4.43
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In Andrea Gibson's latest collection, they continue their artful and nuanced looks at gender, roman… read more
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"There will be music for you one day."-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
"My "yes" never fit into the "no" of this world."-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
"Come tender as the trees forgiving the books for asking to be made."-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
"It isn't that you don't like boys. It's that you only like boys you want to be"-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
21. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
By: Emil Ferris
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most ins… read more
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"Courage isn't about not being scared... It's about carrying your fear into battle."-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
"No, I do not want any kind of censorship. Anka always said, "The minute they tell you that you should not see something, that is the minute you should make it your business to see or read it or whate…"-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
"All my life I have seen pictures that show women as being what you call 'sexy' when they are being hurt. That sends send me a message and I think that the message is, women are at their best when the…"-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
22. Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World
By: Daniel Sherrell
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
From a millennial climate activist, an exploration of how young people live in the shadow of catast… read more
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"I knew that I loved you then, and that love could feel a little like fury."-Daniel Sherrell, Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World
"I no longer believe that grief and resistance are mutually exclusive: I think the former is necessary to the latter, that honest sorrow is perhaps the only thing that makes a real fight even possible…"-Daniel Sherrell, Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World
23. Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures
By: Jason Adam Katzenstein
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A New Yorker cartoonist illustrates his lifelong struggle with OCD in cartoon vignettes frank and f… read more
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24. 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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25. Another Word for Love: A Memoir
By: Carvell Wallace
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more
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26. All This & More
By: Peng Shepherd
3.47
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Cartographers and The Book of M comes an i… read more
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27. 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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- audiobook
"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
28. Spilt Milk: Memoirs
By: Courtney Zoffness
3.93
Format: 211 pages, Hardcover
What role does a mother play in raising thoughtful, generous children? In her literary debut, inter… read more
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- memoir
- jewish
- feminism
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- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
29. 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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30. What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice
By: Anastasia Berg
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A modern argument grounded in philosophy and culture about childbearing ambivalence and how to over… read more
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- parenting
