I'm Not Broken
By: Jesse Leon
4.36
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In this unflinching and inspiring memoir, Jesse Leon tells an extraordinary story of resilience and…
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1. Writing My Wrongs
By: Shaka Senghor
3.86
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
In 1991, at the age of nineteen, Shaka Senghor shot and killed a man. He was a young drug dealer wi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
2. Drunk Mom
By: Jowita Bydlowska
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Three years after giving up drink, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagn… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"There's this parallel, perhaps less conscious desire, which is to numb myself to the world. To deal with the world tomorrow. Living is difficult. Dying is difficult."-Jowita Bydlowska, Drunk Mom
"It was too much happiness. Happiness puts you at too much risk - what if you were to lose it? Too much happiness is a paradox. It's a tragedy, even: getting something you've always wanted but being u…"-Jowita Bydlowska, Drunk Mom
3. My (Underground) American Dream: My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive
By: Julissa Arce
3.79
Format: 1 pages, Hardcover
For an undocumented immigrant, what is the true cost of the American Dream? Julissa Arce shares her… read more
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4. Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
By: Keri Blakinger
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“Brave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and rele… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Everything Is Fine
By: Vince Granata
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Grief, mental illness, and the bonds of family are movingly explored in this extraordinary memoir “… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Eventually, I had no choice but to look at loss and pain, at all the pieces of my family's story that I didn't think I could ever understand. It was this process, recognizing the pieces, struggling t…"-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine
"In reality, memories are more feeling than fact. Though we want to think of our memories as one long record, the reel of our greatest hits, a memory is a constellation of infinitesimal changes, elect…"-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine
6. 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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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- 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
7. Solito
By: Javier Zamora
4.48
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at th… read more
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- biography
- memoir
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"We nod, and I notice stars beginning to pop behind his head."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Puedo sentir El Viaje en las plantas de mis pies. Lo veo en mis sueños."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"My chest like hummingbirds fighting for the hibiscus in Abuelita's garden."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Mom to my left, Dad to my right, a mosquito net like a crown covering all of us."-Javier Zamora, Solito
8. 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
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
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. The Family Outing: A Memoir
By: Jessi Hempel
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A striking and remarkable literary memoir about one family's transformation, with almost all of the… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"As an adult, I'll come to understand that the price of belonging to a church community, or to any community, is accepting beliefs that you don't hold. Sometimes these beliefs are so incongruous with …"-Jessi Hempel, The Family Outing: A Memoir
"You'll know, even as I use the word "Evan," that Evan had a name before this. It's a name I won't tell you. To utter it would be to disrespect all the work he has done to find his way to Evan. The mo…"-Jessi Hempel, The Family Outing: A Memoir
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
- lgbt
- autobiography
- 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. Shut Up, This Is Serious
By: Carolina Ixta
4.15
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable YA debut about two Latina teens growing up in East Oakland as they discover that t… read more
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- audiobook
13. The Islands: Stories
By: Dionne Irving
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Powerful stories that explore the legacy of colonialism, and issues of race, immigration, sexual di… read more
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- audiobook
14. Why Didn't You Tell Me?
By: Carmen Rita Wong
3.76
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An immigrant mother’s long-held secrets upend her daughter’s understanding of her family, her ident… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood
By: Stephen Mills
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Memoir "An unparalleled achievement , a work of shatt… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- abuse
- audiobook
16. The Love You Save: A Memoir
By: Goldie Taylor
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings meets Educated in this harrowing, deeply hopeful memoir of family, … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. High-Risk Homosexual
By: Edgar Gomez
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
This witty memoir traces a touching and often hilarious spiralic path to embracing a gay, Latinx id… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. 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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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. I Cried to Dream Again: Trafficking, Murder, and Deliverance -- A Memoir
By: Sara Kruzan
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
There is perhaps no crime more disturbing than the abuse of a child—and no court cases as upsetting… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- abuse
- audiobook
20. I'm Not Broken
By: Jesse Leon
4.36
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In this unflinching and inspiring memoir, Jesse Leon tells an extraordinary story of resilience and… read more
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- biography
- memoir
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- lgbt
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- abuse
- audiobook
21. Filthy Beasts: A Memoir
By: Kirkland Hamill
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Running with Scissors meets Grey Gardens in this gripping, true riches-to-rags tale of a wealthy fa… read more
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- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- autobiography
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
