Acne
By: Laura Chinn
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the creator and star of Florida Girls comes a hilarious and profound memoir about family, happ…
Want to Read $ 15.99"We were not “ride or die"-Laura Chinn, Acne
"We were not “ride or die"-Laura Chinn, Acne
"We were not “ride or die"-Laura Chinn, Acne
"As I took in all the sick and injured babies around me, I could feel empathy being forced upon me and I did not like it."-Laura Chinn, Acne
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1. Rumble Tumble (Hap and Leonard, #5)
By: Joe R. Lansdale
4.16
Format: 1342 pages, Paperback
Bouncing at a local club by night and living by the grace of his best friend Leonard Pine and his g… read more
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- humor
2. Vanilla Ride (Hap and Leonard, #7)
By: Joe R. Lansdale
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"There's no bullshit in a Joe Lansdale book. There's everything a good story needs, and nothing it … read more
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- humor
3. Rusty Puppy (Hap and Leonard, #12)
By: Joe R. Lansdale
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Hap and Leonard investigate a racially motivated murder that threatens to tear apart their East Tex… read more
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4. Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
By: Keri Blakinger
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“Brave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and rele… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Stash: My Life in Hiding
By: Laura Cathcart Robbins
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive and vivid memoir—in the vein of Drinking: A Love Story and Somebody’s Daughter—about t… read more
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- self help
- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
6. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles
By: Kate Flannery
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent coll… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
7. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
By: Meg Kissinger
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. 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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- self help
- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- 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
9. Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings
By: Chrysta Bilton
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"One of the maddest memoirs you'll read this year... This beautiful, warm, funny book is a testamen… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
10. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
By: Maria Bamford
3.77
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
By: Annabelle Tometich
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Rows of orange people sit handcuffed in a beige room. One of them is my mother. When journalist … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)
By: Nora McInerny
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Nora McInerny does not dance like no one is watching. In fact, she dances like everyone is watching… read more
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- self help
- biography
- memoir
- humor
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"He can say he forgives me, sure, but I know better. In therapy, I work on forgiving myself."-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)
"How frightening to know that your brain can betray you this way, that the vessel for our sense of self is often faulty and prone to error. How awful to know that death may come for us over and over, …"-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)
"To admit this—a hopelessly unfashionable addiction to the appearance of my body—is a crime in some circles. It's much more becoming to "embrace your flaws" or—even better—to not see your body's flaws…"-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)
13. Easy Beauty
By: Chloé Cooper Jones
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Beauty is what we're told is beautiful and what we're told becomes the truth."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"Maybe then I would submit to it's rigid ideals if I were recognized as worthy of experiencing them."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"I care if you are happy. I'm in love with your happiness. My focus is on how you feel not what you do."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"You could have made me come home," I say. "No, I can only try to be the person you want to come home to."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
14. Between Two Trailers
By: J. Dana Trent
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
15. Sociopath: A Memoir
By: Patric Gagne
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
16. Uncultured: A Memoir
By: Daniella Mestyanek Young
4.08
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Daniella,"-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir
"The body keeps the score."-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir
"I can run and run, but I’m always still here."-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir
"...the only real friend I had, and would ever have, was myself."-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir
17. Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery
By: Casey Parks
4.10
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part sweeping journalistic saga: As Casey Parks follows the mystery of a stranger's pa… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
18. Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility
By: Michelle Tea
4.02
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From PEN/America Award winner, 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
19. I've Tried Being Nice: Essays
By: Ann Leary
3.90
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from t… read more
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- memoir
- humor
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures
By: Connie Wang
3.70
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"Hilarious, candid, and heartfelt . . . It's like Eat Pray Love meets The Amazing Race with hints o… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Acceptance: A Memoir
By: Emi Nietfeld
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, exami… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Any exclusive system is a system of exclusion."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
"Everyone who dealt with disadvantaged kids, from therapists to college admissions officers, treated us as if we could overcome any abuse or neglect with sheer force of will."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
"Adults viewed suicidal ideation as a pathology. But for me it was logic. Weighing the bad against the good, projecting forward to decide if life was worth sticking around for."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
22. All of This
By: Rebecca Woolf
3.93
Format: 256 pages, ebook
"Beautifully written, complex, provocative, painful, genuine...an unforgettable memoir."--ROXANE GA… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
23. Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career
By: Kristi Coulter
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon, from the… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. Everything/Nothing/Someone
By: Alice Carrière
4.02
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A powerful literary debut that tells of a young woman’s coming-of-age in the bohemian ’90s, as her … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After
By: Elizabeth Crane
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage an… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. Hysterical: A Memoir
By: Elissa Bassist
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts medical mystery, cultural criticism, and rallying cry, writer Elissa Bassist shares her… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I thought I could become normal by deciding, but thoughts are not facts; the body is facts. And if you silence the body, well, you can't."-Elissa Bassist, Hysterical: A Memoir
"Risk "no." Risk the double-text. Risk being unlikeable and being perceived as unreasonable and risk being called a fucking bitch. Risk "being a bitch." Risk "bad" words. Risk mistakes and risk being …"-Elissa Bassist, Hysterical: A Memoir
27. I'm More Dateable than a Plate of Refried Beans: And Other Romantic Observations
By: Ginny Hogan
3.50
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From comedian Ginny Hogan, this laugh-out-loud collection of humor observations explores all the up… read more
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- memoir
- humor
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
28. White on White
By: Aysegül Savas
3.65
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
A "marvelous" (Lauren Groff) and riveting novel about a woman who has come undone. A student mov… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"It wasn't often, she went on, that we could present ourselves to others, like a self-portrait. More often, we made portraits of the people around us, guessing at their features from occasional glimps…"-Aysegül Savas, White on White
"Among the strongest memories of her past, she went on, was watching her mother in the kitchen. Agnes had tried revisiting this place in her painting - that blue kitchen of her childhood and adolescen…"-Aysegül Savas, White on White
"The cousin was both real and fictional to her - an embodiment of all that Agnes wanted to be, fashioned from the particular details of her cousins tangible self. "We form ourselves through our double…"-Aysegül Savas, White on White
"Perhaps she was just old-fashioned, Agnes said, but it seemed to her that severe introspection was a sure way to get lost in the smallest issues, to reduce one's life to a list of grievances. For her…"-Aysegül Savas, White on White
29. Acne
By: Laura Chinn
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the creator and star of Florida Girls comes a hilarious and profound memoir about family, happ… read more
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- self help
- biography
- memoir
- humor
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"We were not “ride or die"-Laura Chinn, Acne
"As I took in all the sick and injured babies around me, I could feel empathy being forced upon me and I did not like it."-Laura Chinn, Acne
"One of my friends lost her virginity when she was twelve to her older brother’s nineteen-year-old friend. She said he crept into her bedroom in the middle of the night and took her virginity. At the …"-Laura Chinn, Acne
"Our family was an organic, free-range, humanely sourced kind of family. The kind of family who uses plant-based cleaners that aren’t strong enough to actually degrease anything so every pot and pan h…"-Laura Chinn, Acne
30. Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist
By: Jasmin Graham
4.15
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From a marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, a powerful debut the uplif… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. Sugar on the Bones (Hap and Leonard, #13)
By: Joe R. Lansdale
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
PI Duo Hap & Leonard investigate the untimely death of a woman whose family stood much to gain from… read more
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