Runaway
By: Erin Keane
3.86
Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition
From Erin Keane, editor in chief at Salon, comes a touching memoir about the search for truths in t…
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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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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
2. 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
- 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
3. Memory Piece
By: Lisa Ko
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more
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- audiobook
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece
4. This Other Eden
By: Paul Harding
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more
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- audiobook
5. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.60
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"When someone loves loudly, with everything they have in them, the withholding of that loud love, even briefly, feels impossible to endure."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"If I am going to be afraid, I might as well do it honest. Arm in arm with everyone I love, adorned in blood and bruises, singing jokes on our way to the grave."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"I have wanted to die enough times in my life to understand the idea that wanting to die is not a foolish thing... I don't mean to prop up the idea of wanting an exit, but for me, not to imagine it as…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"Of the many things America loves to pat itself on the back about, one of the things is an obsession with exploration, or the desire to seek places beyond the places you are from or the places you hav…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
6. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. 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
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
8. The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays
By: Kelly McMasters
4.23
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A memoir in intimate essays navigating marriage and motherhood, art and ambition, grief and nostalg… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
9. 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
- audiobook
10. Did I Ever Tell You?
By: Genevieve Kingston
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. 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
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- 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
12. The Winner
By: Teddy Wayne
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Be prepared to fully lose yourself in The Winner—a book I started and then simply couldn’t stop re… read more
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- audiobook
13. Lark Ascending
By: Silas House
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A timely, powerful story of survival set in the not-too-distant future, reminding us to always hold… read more
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- audiobook
"The world became smaller, yet louder."-Silas House, Lark Ascending
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."-Silas House, Lark Ascending
"There was some comfort in knowing that, although the world was being torn in two, there were still remarkable things that went on being, that refused to lose their shine. Some days it was only the wo…"-Silas House, Lark Ascending
14. The Arsonists' City
By: Hala Alyan
4.31
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rend… read more
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- audiobook
15. 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
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
By: Lisa Kröger
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Fr… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
"What do queer activism and vampires have in common? Turns out, a lot."-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
"Perhaps the weirdest tale is how we’ve managed to forget the women who created such amazing stories."-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
"Haunted house fictions play upon the complex fears and concerns about domestic issues that women have long grappled with."-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
"There seems to be an unspoken assumption that women aren't interested in horror and speculative fiction, despite ample evidence to the contrary."-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
17. Rainbow Black
By: Maggie Thrash
3.96
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’9… read more
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18. We Are Too Many: A Memoir (Kind Of)
By: Hannah Pittard
3.69
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
“Hannah Pittard’s memoir is so exquisitely crafted ― I loved it.” ―Ann Napolitano, New York Times … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
19. Runaway
By: Erin Keane
3.86
Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition
From Erin Keane, editor in chief at Salon, comes a touching memoir about the search for truths in t… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Three Muses
By: Martha Anne Toll
3.85
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Three Muses is a love story that enthralls: a tale of Holocaust survival venturing through memory, … read more
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