Festival Days
By: Jo Ann Beard
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing and exhilarating new collection from the award-winning author of The Boys of My Youth and…
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1. Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
By: Patrick Modiano , None
3.68
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
Although originally published separately, Patrick Modiano’s three novellas form a single, compellin… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
"When daylight lasts until 10pm because of the time change, and the traffic noise has died down, I have the illusion that all I’d need to do is return to those faraway neighborhoods to find the people…"-Patrick Modiano, Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
2. To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
By: Phillip Lopate
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
A long-awaited new book on personal writing from Phillip Lopate--celebrated essayist, the director … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
3. Jane: A Murder
By: Maggie Nelson
3.93
Format: None pages,
Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
4. The Empathy Exams: Essays
By: Leslie Jamison
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Examsis a bold and brilliant collection; winner… read more
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- short stories
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
5. Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life
By: Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
4.44
Format: None pages, ebook
A memoir of reinvention after a stroke at age thirty-three. Christine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. The Worst Journey in the World
By: Apsley Cherry-Garrard , Caroline Alexander
4.38
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
The Worst Journey in the Worldrecounts Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole… read more
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7. Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
By: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In her extraordinary bestseller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the intricacies of the g… read more
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8. The Afterlife and Other Stories
By: John Updike
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
To the hero of the title story of this collection, all of England has the glow of an afterlife: "A … read more
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9. The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again
By: Sven Birkerts
3.18
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each b… read more
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10. The Faraway Nearby
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.84
Format: 523 pages, Hardcover
This personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy from award winner Rebecca Solnit is… read more
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11. 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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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
12. 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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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"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
13. Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
By: Emmeline Clein
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal cult… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
14. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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- nonfiction
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
15. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- contemporary
16. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
By: Dwight Garner
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
17. The Heart in Winter
By: Kevin Barry
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more
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- literary fiction
- audiobook
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
18. Dayswork
By: Chris Bachelder
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In wry, epigrammatic prose, Dayswork tells the story of a woman who spends the endless days of the … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- contemporary
19. Loved and Missed
By: Susie Boyt
4.30
Format: None pages, None
Ruth is a woman who believes in and despairs of the curative power of love. Her daughter, Eleanor, … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- contemporary
"I wanted it to be true so much it was true. Sometimes in life you have to let your heart and bones off the hook of yourself."-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"I thought of him as a long-lost relation. A sailor coming into port- agitated, sweat on his brow- who needed somewhere calm to lay his head. He was good company. And it was hard for me to feel I was …"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"You ever wish that you’d . . . ’ I waited for more, but her question politely disintegrated. But then, although no more words were forthcoming, she tilted her head slightly and suddenly what she’d as…"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"Jean’s capacity to bounce back in life always impressed me. The way she held herself in high regard. It was a form of personal, almost bodily optimism, you could say. Integrity that went deep and was…"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
20. After the Funeral and Other Stories
By: Tessa Hadley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tid… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- short stories
- contemporary
21. The Best American Essays 2023
By: Vivian Gornick
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Vivian Gornick. Vivian Gor… read more
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- memoir
- essays
22. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more
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- literary fiction
- contemporary
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
23. The Return of Faraz Ali
By: Aamina Ahmad
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"Stunning not only on account of the author's talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in… read more
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- audiobook
24. The Best American Essays 2022
By: Alexander Chee
3.98
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee. Alexand… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
25. Girlhood
By: Melissa Febos
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and … read more
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- memoir
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Nature isn't cruel, but unconcerned with human frailty."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
"My wonder was bottomless for the world empty of stories, mine alone to name."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
"I have since learned that recognizing the invisible parts of oneself in another person can feel like a radiant kind of love."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
"My poor body. My precious body. How had I let her be treated this way? My body was me. To hate my own body was to suffer from an autoimmune disease of the mind."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
26. First Love: Essays on Friendship
By: Lilly Dancyger
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly ar… read more
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- biography memoir
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- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
27. Like Love: Essays and Conversations
By: Maggie Nelson
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- essays
- audiobook
28. Make It Scream, Make It Burn
By: Leslie Jamison
3.93
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A new collection of essays about obsession and longing from Leslie Jamison, the New York Times best… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"I am human: nothing human is alien to me."-Leslie Jamison, Make It Scream, Make It Burn
"Every paradise is made possible by blindness."-Leslie Jamison, Make It Scream, Make It Burn
"Don't assume the contours of another person's heart. Don't assume its desires."-Leslie Jamison, Make It Scream, Make It Burn
"[...] one more definition of love: committing to a story you can't fully imagine when it begins."-Leslie Jamison, Make It Scream, Make It Burn
29. The Hypocrite
By: Jo Hamya
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- contemporary
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
30. Festival Days
By: Jo Ann Beard
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing and exhilarating new collection from the award-winning author of The Boys of My Youth and… read more
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- essays
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- audiobook
31. Verge
By: Lidia Yuknavitch
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- short stories
- contemporary
