One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival
By: Donald Antrim
3.79
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A searing and brave memoir that offers a new understanding of suicide as a distinct mental illness.…
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1. Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears
By: Pema Chödrön
3.86
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
In this book Pema Chodron shows us how to break free of destructive patterns in our lives and exper… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
2. My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir
By: Chris Offutt
3.87
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Chris Offutt owns one of the finest, surest prose styles around, ready and able to convey the harde… read more
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3. Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-deliverance & Assisted Suicide for the Dying
By: Derek Humphry
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
As the legal controversy continues--this newly revised and updated third edition of the landmark be… read more
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- medical
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- psychology
- death
4. This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
By: Daphne Merkin
4.03
Format: 166 pages,
A gifted and audacious writer confronts her lifelong battle with depression and her search for rele… read more
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5. The Sunlight Pilgrims
By: Jenni Fagan
3.59
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
It's November of 2020, and the world is freezing over, each day colder than the last. There's snow … read more
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6. Das siebte Kreuz
By: Anna Seghers
3.80
Format: 260 pages,
Dieser Roman, der zuerst 1942 in englischer Sprache, kurz darauf im mexikanischen Exilverlag El Lib… read more
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7. The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
By: Andrew Solomon
3.00
Format: None pages,
Sometimes, the legacy of depression includes a wisdom beyond one's years, a depth of passion unexpe… read more
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8. The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
By: Adyashanti
4.67
Format: 87 pages, Audio CD
For those serious about enlightenment, author and teacher Adyashanti has some advice: better know w… read more
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9. Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life
By: Melody Moezzi
2.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
With candor and humor, a manic-depressive Iranian-American Muslim woman chronicles her experiences … read more
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10. Private Citizens
By: Tony Tulathimutte
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
From a brilliant new literary talent comes a sweeping comic portrait of privilege, ambition, and fr… read more
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11. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
By: William Styron
4.24
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true acc… read more
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12. Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
By: Paul M. Buhle , Kate Evans
3.46
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Rosa tells the life story of philosopher, economist, publisher, writer, organizer, political leader… read more
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13. How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
By: Clancy Martin
3.71
Format: 431 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compu… read more
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- mental illness
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. The Hilarious World of Depression
By: John Moe
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For years John Moe, critically-acclaimed public radio personality and host of The Hilarious World o… read more
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"it makes sense when you think about the confluence of puberty hormones, stress from academics and the emergence of primitive appalling forms of dating, depression starts in your junior high."-John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression
"Novelist John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars among many other megaselling books, has struggled with [depression] for many years. "There is this weird perpetual hope," he told me, "not just a…"-John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression
"My dad loved telling ghost stories from the times he went camping with his father in Sweden. In one story they were driving on a country road at night and kept having to stop because they'd see feet …"-John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression
15. Everything Is Fine
By: Vince Granata
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Grief, mental illness, and the bonds of family are movingly explored in this extraordinary memoir “… read more
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- audiobook
"Eventually, I had no choice but to look at loss and pain, at all the pieces of my family's story that I didn't think I could ever understand. It was this process, recognizing the pieces, struggling t…"-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine
"In reality, memories are more feeling than fact. Though we want to think of our memories as one long record, the reel of our greatest hits, a memory is a constellation of infinitesimal changes, elect…"-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine
16. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
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- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
17. 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
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"...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
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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- death
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- audiobook
19. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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20. This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew
By: Daniel Wallace
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“A memoir wrapped in an elegy… [that] maps a strangely stunning life… [Wallace] imbues this chronic… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
By: Louise Aronson
3.97
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's E… read more
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- nonfiction
22. Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
By: Anna Mehler Paperny
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A vibrant, compelling memoir that bravely reveals the real-life havoc the depression wreaks and an … read more
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- biography
- memoir
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- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Depression affects everyone on the planet, directly or indirectly, in every possible sphere. its very ubiquity robs it of sexiness but not urgency."-Anna Mehler Paperny, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
"Suicidality and curiosity are anathema to each other: You can’t want to know things if you want to die. As long as I had questions I had reason to live, and when I was overwhelmed by a desire for dea…"-Anna Mehler Paperny, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
23. Easy Crafts for the Insane: A Mostly Funny Memoir of Mental Illness and Making Things
By: Kelly Williams Brown
3.81
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From the New York Times bestselling author of Adulting comes a story about how to make something wh… read more
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- audiobook
24. I'll Be Seeing You: A Memoir
By: Elizabeth Berg
4.20
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The beloved New York Times bestselling author tells the moving love story of caring for her parents… read more
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- audiobook
25. I Left My Homework in the Hamptons: What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent
By: Blythe Grossberg
3.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A captivating memoir about tutoring for Manhattan’s elite, revealing how a life of extreme wealth b… read more
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- audiobook
26. Sick: A Memoir
By: Porochista Khakpour
3.34
Format: 272 pages, ebook
In the tradition of Brain on Fire and Darkness Visible, an honest, beautifully rendered memoir of c… read more
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- audiobook
"And the deal with so many chronic illnesses is that most people won't want to believe you. They will tell you that you look great, that it might be in your head only, that it is likely stress, that e…"-Porochista Khakpour, Sick: A Memoir
"It is no coincidence then that doctors and patients and the entire Lyme community report—anecdotally, of course, as there is still a frustrating scarcity of good data on anything Lyme-related—that wo…"-Porochista Khakpour, Sick: A Memoir
27. Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic
By: Emma Goldberg
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The gripping account of six young doctors enlisted to fight COVID-19, an engrossing, eye-opening bo… read more
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28. One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival
By: Donald Antrim
3.79
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A searing and brave memoir that offers a new understanding of suicide as a distinct mental illness.… read more
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- death
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. Come Home, Indio
By: Jim Terry
4.26
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
A Native American cartoonist shares his journey from childhood, through struggles with alcoholism, … read more
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30. Feh: A Memoir
By: Shalom Auslander
4.12
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Foreskin’s Lament , a memoir of the author’s attempt to escape the bib… read more
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31. Stepping Back from the Ledge: A Daughter's Search for Truth and Renewal
By: Laura Trujillo
3.86
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In this “seismically moving memoir” ( The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice), one woman a… read more
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