Uneducated: A Memoir of Flunking Out, Falling Apart, and Finding My Worth
By: Christopher Zara
3.93
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
67% of Americans do not have a college degree. Christopher Zara is one of them. Boldly honest, wry…
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1. 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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2. 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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"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
3. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story
By: Max Marshall
3.50
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more
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- journalism
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- sociology
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4. 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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5. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
By: Dwight Garner
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more
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"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
6. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
By: Rob Harvilla
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more
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"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
7. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
By: Rachel Louise Snyder
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more
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"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
8. The Last Book On The Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History's Most Notorious Serial Killers
By: Ben Kissel
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An equal parts haunting and hilarious deep-dive review of history’s mo… read more
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"Learning how to be human by attending a frat is like learning how to ride a horse by going to a Tijuana donkey show."-Ben Kissel, The Last Book On The Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History's Most Notorious Serial Killers
"Learning how to be a human to be human by attending a frat is alike learning how to ride a horse by going to a Tijuana donkey show."-Ben Kissel, The Last Book On The Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History's Most Notorious Serial Killers
"Dahmer was as manipulative and calculating as the other killers we've covered in this book, demonstrating a keen understanding of how to evade capture the vast majority of his victims were Black men,…"-Ben Kissel, The Last Book On The Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History's Most Notorious Serial Killers
9. The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
By: Edward Humes
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer—and exposed a looming bat… read more
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10. While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students
By: J. Reuben Appelman
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “Univers… read more
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11. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
By: Audrey Clare Farley
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more
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12. 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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13. Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life
By: Amber Scorah
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A riveting memoir of losing faith and finding freedom while a covert missionary in one of the world… read more
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"There is no human so bold as the preacher. Or so blind. For they do all of the talking, and none of the asking."-Amber Scorah, Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life
"I have called a truce with the unknown, and I am learning to live with the disquiet. I do not attempt to pray to a god who will not answer."-Amber Scorah, Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life
14. Tweakerworld
By: Jason Yamas
4.34
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Meet Jason: a college educated documentary film producer, cat parent of two, and one of San Francis… read more
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15. Up Home: One Girl's Journey
By: Ruth J. Simmons
4.03
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring, indelible memoir from the daughter of sharecroppers in East Texas who became the firs… read more
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- education
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"I was born at a crossroads: a crossroads in history, a crossroads in culture, and a geographical crossroads in North Houston County in East Texas."-Ruth J. Simmons, Up Home: One Girl's Journey
16. Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light
By: Helen Ellis
3.61
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with a viciously funny,… read more
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"but there were ceiling fans, which is my idea of nature."-Helen Ellis, Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light
"first choice had been to rent a cabin in the woods, but that is too much nature. I don't do cabins in the woods because I have seen too many movies about cabins in the woods. If someone wants to murd…"-Helen Ellis, Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light
17. 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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18. 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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19. Undercooked: How I Let Food Become My Life Navigator and How Maybe That's a Dumb Way to Live
By: Dan Ahdoot
3.72
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A collection of hilarious essays about how food became one man's obsession and coping mechanism, an… read more
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20. Uncle of the Year: And Other Debatable Triumphs
By: Andrew Rannells
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Candid, hilarious essays from the star of The Book of Mormon, Girls, and Big Mouth on anxiety, ambi… read more
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21. Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital
By: Elise Hu
4.10
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
An audacious journalistic exploration of the present and future of beauty through the lens of South… read more
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22. To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories
By: Sarah Viren
3.52
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Part coming-of-age story, part psychological thriller, part philosophical investigation, this unfor… read more
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23. Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night
By: Lisa Belkin
3.77
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the … read more
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24. Swipe Up for More!: Inside the Unfiltered Lives of Influencers
By: Stephanie McNeal
3.20
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An unfiltered, colorful romp through the IRL world of influencers that spills the tea on the multib… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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25. Midlife Bites: Anyone Else Falling Apart, Or Is It Just Me?
By: Jen Mann
3.95
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
A smart, personal, darkly funny examination of what it's like to be at the crossroads of a midlife … read more
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26. Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
By: Jacob Tobia
4.07
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure… read more
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"Plainly put, the imperative to “be professional"-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
"No one trans story is better or inherently more “radical"-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
"Oh, and it should go without saying, but fuck capitalism."-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
"and patriarchy deems all things feminine to be less intelligent."-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
27. Heretic: A Memoir
By: Jeanna Kadlec
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of leaving the Evangelical church, reckoning with religious trauma while also interrogatin… read more
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"...Mary Lambert is singing "Love is patient, love is kind" from 1 Corinthians 13 over and over, repeating "Not crying on Sundays," and I am gone, head fully turned and staring out the car window, try…"-Jeanna Kadlec, Heretic: A Memoir
28. The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
By: Melissa S. Kearney
3.88
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
The surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country’s biggest econ… read more
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- sociology
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29. Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why
By: Alexandra Petri
3.82
Format: 211 pages, Hardcover
These impossibly cheerful essays on the routine horrors of the present era explain everything from … read more
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"At the end of the day, there is only one way to parent: wrong."-Alexandra Petri, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why
"[That five-year-old refugee] has plans to grow up to become the most terrifying thing in the world: an American."-Alexandra Petri, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why
"A little child was in the audience [at Donald Trump’s inauguration], and he started to cry, because the emperor was wearing so many clothes."-Alexandra Petri, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why
"The good news about approaching a black hole is that you will live a very long time. The bad news about approaching a black hole is that you will never die."-Alexandra Petri, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why
30. Uneducated: A Memoir of Flunking Out, Falling Apart, and Finding My Worth
By: Christopher Zara
3.93
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
67% of Americans do not have a college degree. Christopher Zara is one of them. Boldly honest, wry… read more
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- journalism
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31. The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
By: Rachelle Bergstein
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her mos… read more
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