Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses
By: Sarah Fay
3.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning debut--both a memoir and a work of investigative journalism--writer Sarah Fay expl…
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1. Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness
By: Stephen P. Hinshaw
4.04
Format: 9 pages, Hardcover
Glenn Close says: "Another Kind of Madnessis one of the best books I've read about the cost of stig… read more
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- mental health
- mental illness
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2. Whip Smart: A Memoir
By: Melissa Febos
3.97
Format: 12 pages, Hardcover
A dark, wild, powerful memoir about a young woman's transformation from college student to professi… read more
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3. The End of Days
By: Susan Bernofsky , Jenny Erpenbeck
4.09
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the… read more
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4. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
By: Greg Lukianoff
3.93
Format: 432 pages, ebook
A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-ne… read more
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- psychology
- audiobook
"Mistakes abound when groupthink goes unchallenged."-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
"There is nothing about standing up for an underdog (or simply claiming to be) that means you're right."-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
5. Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
By: Kelly Vincent
3.51
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
Imposter syndrome—the irrational self-doubt we feel despite obvious success—can strike at any time,… read more
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- nonfiction
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6. Easy Beauty
By: Chloé Cooper Jones
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction … read more
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"Beauty is what we're told is beautiful and what we're told becomes the truth."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"Maybe then I would submit to it's rigid ideals if I were recognized as worthy of experiencing them."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"I care if you are happy. I'm in love with your happiness. My focus is on how you feel not what you do."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"You could have made me come home," I say. "No, I can only try to be the person you want to come home to."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
7. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
By: Stephanie Foo
4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more
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8. We, Jane
By: Aimee Wall
3.41
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A remarkable debut about intergenerational female relationships and resistance found in the unlikel… read more
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- audiobook
9. The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
By: Kyleigh Leddy
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
All Kait Leddy had ever wanted was a little sister. When Kyleigh was born, they were inseparable; K… read more
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- audiobook
"Only after we relinquish what is lost are we truly healed."-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
"For better and for worse, hope proves itself to be surprisingly resilient."-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
"No one tells you what a precious, fragile gift your mind is in the first place. No one tells you it can be lost."-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
"You wish there was an adequate term for what you are—like orphan or widower—a term that says “I once meant something to somebody."-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
10. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
By: Melissa Febos
4.24
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more
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"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
11. Alice Sadie Celine
By: Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
3.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
It’s opening night, but Alice’s performance in the local Bay Area production of The Winter’s Tale i… read more
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- audiobook
12. Anchored
By: Deb Dana
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Discover your body’s neural pathways to calmness, safety, and connection. An intense conversation,… read more
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- health
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- audiobook
13. A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
By: Sara Manning Peskin
4.21
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the ve… read more
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- mental health
- nonfiction
14. The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.94
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot), New York Times bestselling story of how… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Today we are familiar with the funereal abbreviation “RIP"-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"Because of the open nature of polytheism, there was virtually no such thing as “conversion."-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"atheism was an exceedingly rare phenomenon in antiquity: very few people believed there were literally no gods. The word “atheism"-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"Ancient people, whether pagans, Jews, or Christians, did not neatly differentiate between the religious and the political. They would have had a hard time understanding the difference."-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
15. How We Live Is How We Die
By: Pema Chodron
4.30
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment—the end of a breath, the end of a… read more
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- psychology
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16. Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s
By: Sarah Ditum
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s, and the sexist, expl… read more
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- biography
- audiobook
17. August Into Winter
By: Guy Vanderhaeghe
4.11
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The first novel in nearly a decade from the three-time Governor General's Award‒winning author of T… read more
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18. Miseducated: A Memoir
By: Brandon P. Fleming
4.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring memoir of one man's transformation through literature and debate from a delinquent, dr… read more
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- audiobook
19. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
By: A.J. Jacobs
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more
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- audiobook
20. Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
By: Jen Gunter
4.25
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Jen Gunter fights myths and fear-mongering with real science, inclusive facts, and shame-free a… read more
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- medicine
- nonfiction
- health
"Reproducing a human is a massive biological effort. Energy-wise, it's on par with the limits of the most extreme sports, for example, running 5,000 km (3,000 miles) over 120 days or cycling the Tour …"-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
"When it comes to painful periods, there is an epidemic of undertreatment. Women's pain is undertreated in general, as compared to men's, but painful periods have historically been seen as a "woman th…"-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
"Unfortunately, instead of a world where those who bear the physical burdens of reproduction—whether they reproduce or not—have equal footing, we have the opposite. The Ancient Greeks, the originators…"-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
21. It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)
By: Karen Tang
4.34
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An inclusive and essential guide to reproductive health—including period problems, pelvic pain, men… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
23. Natural History
By: Carlos Fonseca
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic epic of art, politics, and hidden realitiesJust… read more
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24. Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be
By: Timothy P. Carney
4.09
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
The bestselling author of Alienated America traveled the country asking families and experts the sa… read more
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25. The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
By: Yrsa Daley-Ward
4.18
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
From an explosive new literary talent, a searing, moving memoir of family, adolescence and sexualit… read more
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"We're thinking, does life owe us anything. Did we get it wrong? And time is an animal, man. The years. Time is killing us it has us in its teeth."-Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
"Time is an illusion, say the scientists. It is molecular, it is bendable or liquid, it is soldered metal; or it is droplets of memory. I imagine it looks like mercury, silver and elusive...Burn all t…"-Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
"I am somewhere else now. I am part human, part metaphysics, and I still haven't worked out which parts of me are which. I love this new form. I can feel space traveling through me. I am porous and wo…"-Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
26. How Magicians Think: Misdirection, Deception, and Why Magic Matters
By: Joshua Jay
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
There’s a saying: The door to magic is closed, but it’s not locked. In How Magicians Think, profess… read more
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- biography
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27. I Am More Than My Body: The Body Neutral Journey
By: Bethany C. Meyers
3.77
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
From the founder and CEO of the be.come project comes an inspiring introduction to "body neutrality… read more
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- health
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- audiobook
28. Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses
By: Sarah Fay
3.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning debut--both a memoir and a work of investigative journalism--writer Sarah Fay expl… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World
By: Prentis Hemphill
4.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more
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- health
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- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
By: Bonnie Badenoch
4.46
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
How each of us can become a therapeutic presence in the world. Images and sounds of war, natural di… read more
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- nonfiction
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"we are adaptive rather than disordered"-Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
"We humans are always seeking the warmest attachments we can imagine"-Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
"the implicit is awakening in search of healing rather than trying to harm us"-Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
"our brains are continuously yearning for the arrival of a co-organizing other"-Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
31. The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards
By: Jessica Waite
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A widow’s life is turned upside when she uncovers the truth about her late husband in this lyrical,… read more
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