The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s
By: Maggie Doherty
4.05
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
An important debut work of narrative nonfiction: the timely, never-before-told story of five brilli…
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1. Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton
By: Linda Gray Sexton
3.97
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Linda Gray Sexton's critically acclaimed memoir is an honest, unsparing account of the anguish and … read more
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- poetry
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
2. Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
By: Susan Sontag , David Rieff
4.00
Format: 256 pages,
Renacida es el primer volumen de los diarios de Susan Sontag, editado por su hijo David Rieff. Ensa… read more
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- womens
- nonfiction
- biography
3. Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
By: Anne Sexton , Lois Ames
4.08
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
An expression of an extraordinary poet's life story in her own words, this book shows Anne Sexton a… read more
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- poetry
- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
4. The Complete Poems
By: Anne Sexton , Maxine Kumin
4.08
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the i… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- womens
5. Faithful and Virtuous Night
By: Louise Glück
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fe… read more
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- poetry
6. The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy
By: Rachel Cusk
4.35
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Casting off a northern winter and an orderly life, a family decides to sell everything and go to It… read more
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7. The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End
By: Katie Roiphe
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes a deeply researched account of the las… read more
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8. Autumn
By: Karl Ove Knausgård , Ingvild Burkey , Vanessa Baird
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the monumental My Struggleseries, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of con… read more
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9. LaRose
By: Louise Erdrich
3.15
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winn… read more
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10. The Trip to Echo Spring
By: Olivia Laing
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip o… read more
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11. Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X
By: Deborah Davis
3.47
Format: 288 pages,
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12. A Horse at Night: On Writing
By: Amina Cain
4.03
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more
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- art
- nonfiction
"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
13. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: William Egginton
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- history
14. 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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- feminism
- nonfiction
- biography
- history
"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
15. Uncanny Valley
By: Anna Wiener
3.64
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digita… read more
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- feminism
- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
"Tech, for the most part, wasn't progress. It was just business."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
"if personalised playlists were full of sad singers and song writers, I could only blame myself for getting algorithm depressed."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
"The platforms designed to accommodate and harvest infinite data inspired infinite scroll...people were saying nothing and saying it all the time."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
"I felt rising frustration and resentment. I was frustrated because I felt stuck, and I was resentful because I was stuck in an industry that was chipping away at so many things I cared about."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
16. The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
By: Karen Valby
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood,… read more
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- art
- biography
- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
17. Face It
By: Debbie Harry
3.61
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
‘I was saying things in songs that female singers didn’t really say back then. I wasn’t submissive … read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
"To this day, when the band separates at the airport and we all go our different ways, I still get that gut reaction. Separation. I hate parting with people and i hate goodbyes."-Debbie Harry, Face It
"I would just walk around, not looking for anything particular, looking for everything really, and ingesting and digesting it all. Art, music, theater, poetry, and the sense that everything was up for…"-Debbie Harry, Face It
"Coincidence: it's supposed to mean just these random, disconnected events that concur or collide. But coincidence is not that at all. It's the stuff that's meant to be. Things that are supposed to be…"-Debbie Harry, Face It
"I wanted to be platinum blond. On our black-and-white television and at the theater where they screened technicolor movies, there was something about platinum hair that was so luminescent and excitin…"-Debbie Harry, Face It
18. Rememberings
By: Sinéad O'Connor
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings
19. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
By: Sy Montgomery
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgome… read more
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- nonfiction
"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
20. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in th… read more
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- biography
- history
- historical
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
"I knew I had had no choice. I had had to fight with my mother in order to survive."-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"In an increasingly serious world, these young women had never been asked or expected to be serious. (p. 13)"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"There is a clarity about how children see the world that the complexities of adult life often muddy. And there is a fervor children feel when they believe adults have misled them or disguised or hidd…"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
21. Translating Myself and Others
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary transla… read more
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- nonfiction
"To translate is to look into a mirror and see someone other than oneself."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
"To translate is to alter one’s linguistic coordinates, to grab on to what has slipped away, to cope with exile."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
"Translation will open up entire realms of possibilities, unforeseen pathways that will newly guide and inspire the writer’s work, and possibly even transform it. For to translate is to look into a mi…"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
"We write books in a fixed moment in time, in a specific phase of our consciousness and development. That is why reading words written years ago feels alienating. You are no longer the person whose ex…"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
22. The Safekeep
By: Yael van der Wouden
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more
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- historical
23. The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press
By: Calvin Trillin
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, opinionated portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces c… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- history
24. Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton
By: Gail Crowther
3.80
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
A vividly rendered and empathetic exploration of how two of the greatest poets of the 20th century—… read more
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- poetry
- biography
- history
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
"Perhaps the sadness here is that Plath and Sexton somehow could not quite gather the strength to truly believe in their self-worth, and in the end neither gave themselves time to."-Gail Crowther, Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton
25. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- poetry
- historical
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
26. Consent: A Memoir
By: Jill Ciment
3.96
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more
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- art
- biography
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
27. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays
By: Elisa Gabbert
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
By: Natalie Dykstra
4.05
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The vivid and masterful story of an American original—a formidable art collector and builder of one… read more
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- art
- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
29. Long Island Compromise
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more
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- historical
30. The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s
By: Maggie Doherty
4.05
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
An important debut work of narrative nonfiction: the timely, never-before-told story of five brilli… read more
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- poetry
- art
- history
- biography
- historical
- feminism
- gender
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
31. 1974: A Personal History
By: Francine Prose
3.82
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The first memoir from critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose, about the close rela… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
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