The Wreck: A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother
By: Cassandra Jackson
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts investigative and deeply introspective, The Wreck is a profound memoir about recognizin…
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1. 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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- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
2. 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
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
3. More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
By: Molly Roden Winter
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An unputdownable memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that follows a happily married mother'… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"There is something pathetic about crying within the first minute of therapy"-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
"I worry that things are going too well, that they're all going to come toppling down."-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
"Why do I keep doing this? Why can't I stop this stupid pleasing everyone bullshit? I'm so fucking sick of myself."-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
4. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
By: Stephanie Land
3.62
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
5. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
6. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
7. Leslie F*cking Jones
By: Leslie Jones
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Som… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- african american
"Dad"-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
8. 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
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
9. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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- race
- nonfiction
10. I Must Be Dreaming
By: Roz Chast
3.65
Format: 118 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's new graphic narrativ… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
11. Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
By: Hadley Freeman
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass , comes a “riveting” ( The New York Times… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Life, unfortunately, is not like an ‘80s movie, in which a character has an epiphany, a triumphal rock track plays on the soundtrack, and everyone smiles at one another: roll end credits. If my teena…"-Hadley Freeman, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
12. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
13. One Way Back: A Memoir
By: Christine Blasey Ford
4.30
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
14. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
By: Deborah Jackson Taffa
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
15. Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir
By: Beth Nguyen
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter r… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
16. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds
By: Michelle Horton
4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
17. How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
By: Esau McCaulley
4.62
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"There is no Black faith that doesn't wrestle with the problem of evil. My reply to these questions is: We who have suffered must have some say in how that suffering is interpreted. We won the right, …"-Esau McCaulley, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
18. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
By: Camille T. Dungy
4.19
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
19. The Mythmakers
By: Keziah Weir
3.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A must-read twisty literary mystery. A journalist searches for answers after discovering herself i… read more
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20. What Kind of Mother
By: Clay McLeod Chapman
3.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Bran… read more
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21. Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
By: Toni Jensen
4.25
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in s… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"When we police a woman's affect, when we privilege it or equate it with her actions, with what she actually does, we're engaging in our most pervasive and yet our most quiet form of sexism, our most …"-Toni Jensen, Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
22. Hell If We Don't Change Our Ways: A Memoir
By: Brittany Means
4.30
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Brittany Means’s childhood was filled with abuse, neglect, violence, and instability, in part cause… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
23. The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
By: Kaitlyn Schiess
4.30
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
How do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today? What can we learn fro… read more
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- nonfiction
"The Bible is not a free-floating book of ageless wisdom, an interesting historical document, or a weapon that can be put in the service of any political goal. The Bible is a gift from God to the chur…"-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
"What is government? What is the relationship between theology and politics? How should Christians think about their political participation? These questions typically get lost in our conversations. W…"-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
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
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
25. Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir
By: Pidgeon Pagonis
4.37
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
From intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis comes a candid and life-affirming true story of identity, li… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Hey, hey, listen,"-Pidgeon Pagonis, Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir
"The system didn’t want to say that I’m intersex. That I’m not female or male. The doctors wanted to choose a gender for me and then make my body agree with their ideas about who I should be."-Pidgeon Pagonis, Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir
26. Here After
By: Amy Lin
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Here After is an intimate story of deep love followed by dizzying loss; a stunning, taut memoir fro… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
27. Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping
By: Shane McCrae
3.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and ra… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- african american
"When she told me why she was divorcing my grandfather, I was surprised - all my life, I had thought he could do anything he wanted. But after a few long moments of silence, I realized: he had only ev…"-Shane McCrae, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping
28. I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir
By: Susan Kiyo Ito
4.61
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
“Susan Kiyo Ito is like a surgeon operating on herself. She is delicate, precise, and at times cutt… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
29. Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
By: Tania De Rozario
4.18
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
“A penetrating series of personal essays… a memoir that scratches a layer deeper than expected. The… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"No wonder they come to your house looking for ghosts. Ghosts are spilling out of the walls."-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
"What they do not understand when they come to your house is that you have lived your whole life with ghosts."-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
"But her smile is vacant. Placid. A Stepford Wife smile. The tears fall but there is nothing behind them. She’s a mannequin crying on command."-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
"There is nothing like a horror film to reveal the cultural anxieties of one’s time and place. And if horror has taught me anything, it is that nothing has been as enduringly terrifying across time an…"-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
30. The Wreck: A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother
By: Cassandra Jackson
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts investigative and deeply introspective, The Wreck is a profound memoir about recognizin… read more
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- race
- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- african american
31. City of Books
By: Nicole Meier
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Jo Waterstone knows what you should read next. She’s honed the skill of sizing up a person and reco… read more
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