The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation
By: Jodie Patterson
4.11
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by her transgender son, activist Jodie Patterson explores identity, gender, race, and auth…
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1. The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood
By: Richard Blanco
4.50
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, hilarious, and inspiring memoir from the first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet, wh… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
2. "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity
By: Beverly Daniel Tatum
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism-now fully revised and updated Walk into … read more
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3. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
By: Tara Brach
4.16
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hear… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom."-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am."-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live."-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?"-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
4. Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
By: Stephanie Land
3.85
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
At 28, Stephanie Land’s plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northw… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Our space was a home because we loved each other in it."-Stephanie Land, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
"Being poor, living in poverty, seemed a lot like probation - the crime being a lack of means to survive."-Stephanie Land, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
"Most of my friendships had faded over the last year because I’d isolated myself and hidden from the embarrassment of my daily life."-Stephanie Land, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
"My parents had moved on leaving me emotionally orphaned. I vowed to never put the same amount of physical and emotional space between Mia and me."-Stephanie Land, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
5. Fox & I
By: Catherine Raven
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A solitary woman’s inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative p… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I saw myself alone in the furthest future I could imagine."-Catherine Raven, Fox & I
"The habits and habitats of modern life are simply not evolutionarily stable. Metal and plastic. Electric lights blotting out stars. Ten-story buildings blocking sun and moon. Cars honking and everyth…"-Catherine Raven, Fox & I
6. 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
- family
- audiobook
"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
7. The Yellow House
By: Sarah M. Broom
3.90
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhoo… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"We own what belongs to us whether we claim it or not."-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"Absences allow us one power over them. They do not speak a word. We say of them what we want. Still, they hover, pointing fingers at our backs."-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"...the house was not tethered to its foundation, that what held the house to its foundation of sill on piers, wood on bricks, was the weight of us all in the house, the weight of the house itself, th…"-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"When the house fell down, it can be said, something in me opened up. Cracks help a house resolve internally its pressures and stresses, my engineer friend had said. Houses provide a frame that bears …"-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
8. Homebody
By: Theo Parish
4.43
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir abou… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"Being openly queer can feel intimidating. But every day just by being yourself you inspire the people around you. You don't have to be an influencer to influence!"-Theo Parish, Homebody
"There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to ca…"-Theo Parish, Homebody
"Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment…"-Theo Parish, Homebody
"Words are important. They allow us to communicate how we think and feel. Words help us to understand and to be understood. So, finally grasping the language you've been reaching for, to explain this …"-Theo Parish, Homebody
9. Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
By: Andrea Elliott
4.72
Format: 602 pages, Hardcover
The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, pov… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
".. they assume that intelligence is a pre-ordained trait, [...], their perceived destiny, which flows from another belief, that the poor are to blame for their condition. Poverty is the proof of defi…"-Andrea Elliott, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
10. Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
By: David Sheff
4.16
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
With a new afterword Now a Major Motion Picture What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our… read more
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- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
"You're as sick as your secrets."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
"I accept evil in order to participate in the miraculous."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
"That's when it struck me that I can't take my life as long as I can still laugh."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
"A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
11. A Place Called Home
By: David Ambroz
4.64
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
PORCHLIGHT BESTSELLER Zibby Owens 2022 Book of the Year A galvanizing, stirring memoir about gr… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun
By: Jonny Garza Villa
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
A poignant, funny, openhearted novel about coming out, first love, and being your one and only best… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"Intelligent people can still get into some stupid-ass foolery"-Jonny Garza Villa, Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun
"It only takes one person to live their truth before more people start realizing they can too."-Jonny Garza Villa, Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun
"It's not even about the more intimate moments that happened. Although I do miss those a lot too. A lot , a lot. What I crave most is being next to someone. My someone."-Jonny Garza Villa, Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun
13. The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew
By: Maggie Bullock
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
One of Vogue's most anticipated books of 2023. A quintessentially American fashion narrative abo… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts, #3)
By: Nnedi Okorafor
4.21
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
From the moment Sunny Nwazue discovered she had magic flowing in her blood, she sought to understan… read more
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- audiobook
"There are times where you have all the tools you need and all there is to do is to do it."-Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts, #3)
"There are places where you belong, where blood gives you access. However, they aren't always the best places to go."-Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts, #3)
"Common sense is the result of the truest education. Education is like wine. It takes time. It's a process. The young sometimes have to go through it. And sometimes, they die trying. Sincerely, The Ob…"-Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts, #3)
15. Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
4.14
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. The Perks of Loving a Wallflower (The Wild Wynchesters, #2)
By: Erica Ridley
3.99
Format: 346 pages, Mass Market Paperback
As a master of disguise, Thomasina Wynchester can be a polite young lady—or a bawdy old man. Anythi… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
17. Marigold and Rose
By: Louise Glück
3.65
Format: 55 pages, Hardcover
Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück. … read more
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- audiobook
18. 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
- lgbt
- 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
19. This Telling
By: Cheryl Strayed
3.95
Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition
Audible narration by Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars) A genealogy test sparks a woman’s reflection on … read more
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- audiobook
20. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
By: Ahed Tamimi
4.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
By: Andrew Leland
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
22. The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
By: Alexandra Robbins
4.19
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
The hit national bestseller - a New York Times Spring Nonfiction Pick, USA Today "Hottest New Book… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
"Teachers deserve a well-defined, realistic job description and enough protected school day planning time to fulfill that job within their paid contracted hours."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"Teachers deserve to helm every committee determining school operations rather than policymakers who proclaim what should happen in the classroom despite never having taught in one."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"Teachers deserve a safe working environment in which violence is not tolerated from students, parents, or staff, and educators can report it and other transgressions without fear of retaliation."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"By the fall of 2021, schools across the country had lost a staggering number of teachers, paraeducators, substitutes, bus drivers, and other staff who quit, retired early, got sick, or died because o…"-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
23. The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City
By: Kim Foster
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
James Beard Award–winning author Kim Foster reveals a new portrait of hunger and humanity in Americ… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
24. He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
By: Schuyler Bailar
4.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes th… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
25. That Summer Feeling
By: Bridget Morrissey
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Turns out you're never too old for a summer camp romance. Or a change of heart. When a divorced wom… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"Signs didn't just exist to tell me where to go. Sometimes signs reminded me of what I needed to avoid."-Bridget Morrissey, That Summer Feeling
"That's who I was to my core---a person who believed in magic. Who found secrets tucked into the fabric of the universe. Who wished on shooting stars and took leaps of faith based on nothing but feeli…"-Bridget Morrissey, That Summer Feeling
"I'd always known to my parents, love meant suffering. It meant enduring everything, no matter how bad. Only something publicly shameful was worth splitting up over. Even then, a case could be made fo…"-Bridget Morrissey, That Summer Feeling
"Ethan sat besides me, watching as he always did. An observer of life not unlike my sister. A lot of the time, I'd felt it was up to me to be the one who shimmered enough for the both of us. And I did…"-Bridget Morrissey, That Summer Feeling
26. If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing
By: Kathleen Buhle
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Kathleen Buhle shares her story of resilience and self-discovery after her marriage to Hunter Biden… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
By: Scott Harrison
4.45
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us a… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. Director's Cut
By: Carlyn Greenwald
3.63
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Oscar-winning Valeria Sullivan finds herself trapped in a battle of wits with a sexy professor, but… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
29. What We Carry: A Memoir
By: Maya Shanbhag Lang
4.32
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In caring for her aging mother and her own young daughter, writer Maya Shanbhag Lang--"a new voice … read more
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- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
30. The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation
By: Jodie Patterson
4.11
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by her transgender son, activist Jodie Patterson explores identity, gender, race, and auth… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- parenting
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- queer
31. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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- memoir
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