Third Girl from the Left
By: Christine Barker
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
As a middle child in a large military family, Christine just wants to dance. Her parents support he…
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1. The Little House
By: Philippa Gregory
4.20
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A contemporary psychological thriller in the style of Ruth Rendell, from one of today's most versat… read more
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2. 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
- nonfiction
- memoir
3. After Annie
By: Anna Quindlen
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more
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4. When Harry Met Pablo: Truman, Picasso, and the Cold War Politics of Modern Art
By: Matthew Algeo
3.95
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Truman and Picasso were contemporaries and were both shaped by and shapers of the great events of t… read more
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- nonfiction
5. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.71
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more
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- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
6. 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
- nonfiction
- memoir
"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
7. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- historical
8. Leaving
By: Roxana Robinson
3.87
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? “I never thought I’d see you her… read more
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"Being a mother is paying it forward, sending that energy and feeling to someone who needed it at first to survive, but who, the older she becomes, needs you less. The older you become, the more irrel…"-Roxana Robinson, Leaving
"The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse cou…"-Roxana Robinson, Leaving
9. Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The tenth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Franci… read more
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- historical
- lgbt
10. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
By: Jonathan Rosen
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
11. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
By: Lucy Sante
3.70
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a st… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- lgbt
"(Although it is extremely exciting to have tits.)"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"I wanted to so badly to be a woman that I could not really understand anyone wanting anything else"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"It appeared that transitioning did not involve piling on additional stuff; rather it was a process of removal, dismantling the carapace of maleness that had kept me in its grip for so long."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"My secret poisoned my entire experience of life. There was never a moment when I didn't feel the acute shame of being me, even as I denied to myself that my secret had anything to do with it."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
12. Olivetti
By: Allie Millington
4.10
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks. Surrounded by books (notorious attention hogs) and r… read more
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13. My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's
By: Sandeep Jauhar
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“Blending the humor, compassion, and absorbing family drama of first-rate memoir with expert scienc… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
14. Fi: A Memoir of My Son
By: Alexandra Fuller
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
15. California Bear
By: Duane Swierczynski
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty new thriller from a "great storyteller" (Michael Connelly), California Bear follows four un… read more
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16. Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
By: Carl Safina
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A moving account of raising, then freeing, an orphaned owl, whose lasting friendship with the autho… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"As the offspring of Platonist-Abrahamic de-enchantment of nature, science bears the birth scar of a world unvalued. Through a kind of emotionally detached childhood, science grew strong but felt litt…"-Carl Safina, Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
"A forest is not just a bricolage of trees; it is an immensity of functional relationships and feedbacks whereby each thing makes other things possible within the dynamic and constantly adjusting suit…"-Carl Safina, Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
17. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
By: Griffin Dunne
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
18. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
By: Alua Arthur
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
19. Anything for a Friend
By: Kathleen M. Willett
3.82
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
For two old friends with so much to hide, playing catch-up is a dangerous game in a propulsive nove… read more
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20. The Seamstress of Acadie
By: Laura Frantz
4.41
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
As 1754 is drawing to a close, tensions between the French and the British on Canada's Acadian shor… read more
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- historical
21. Same As It Ever Was
By: Claire Lombardo
4.00
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more
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"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
22. Mary Not Broken (The Bishop Women - prequel)
By: Deborah L. King
4.38
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Bookshelf Writing 2nd Place in New ReleasesIn 1930s Mississippi, Mary Johnson hates the oppressive… read more
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23. The King of Diamonds: The Search for the Elusive Texas Jewel Thief
By: Rena Pederson
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The thrilling story of a brazen, uncatchable jewel thief who roamed the homes of Dallas high societ… read more
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- nonfiction
24. The Lost Van Gogh
By: Jonathan Santlofer
3.52
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the much-praised The Last Mona Lisa comes another thrilling story of masterpiece… read more
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- historical
25. Disorderly Men
By: Edward Cahill
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Three gay men in pre-Stonewall NYC find their fates thrown together in the police raid of a Village… read more
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- historical
- lgbt
26. The Purest Bond: Understanding the Human–Canine Connection
By: Jen Golbeck
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A feel-good, comprehensive exploration of the profound bond between humans and dogs from Jen Golbec… read more
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- nonfiction
27. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
By: Pamela Prickett
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Birds of Prey: The Harlan Coben Challenge
By: Harlan Coben
3.70
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
The world's greatest thriller writers prove they're up to a unique challenge in this exciting antho… read more
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29. I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness
By: Daniel Allen Cox
3.57
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
*LONGLISTED FOR THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE DE MONTREAL* “I spent eighteen years in a group that taugh… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- lgbt
30. Four Squares
By: Bobby Finger
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of The Old Place comes a tender, funny, and fresh novel spanning the 1990s … read more
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- historical
- lgbt
31. Third Girl from the Left
By: Christine Barker
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
As a middle child in a large military family, Christine just wants to dance. Her parents support he… read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
