The Didion Files: Fifty Years of Friendship with Joan Didion
By: Sara Davidson
4.01
Format: 99 pages, Kindle Edition
Before the full catastrophe of life struck her broadsides, the writer Joan Didion led a shining, pr…
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1. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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- biography
- essays
"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
2. Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
By: Craig Brown , None
3.34
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humili… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
3. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
By: Alexandra Fuller
2.86
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
In Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
4. The Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1)
By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published in Norwegian in 1920 and set in fourteenth-century Norway, The Wreath chronicl… read more
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5. After Henry
By: Joan Didion
3.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Ange… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
6. Run River
By: Joan Didion
3.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and b… read more
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7. The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion
By: Tracy Daugherty
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
In New York Timesbestselling The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author o… read more
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8. Blue Nights
By: Joan Didion
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly… read more
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9. The Patron Saint of Liars
By: Ann Patchett
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
Since her first publication in 1992, celebrated novelist Ann Patchett has crafted a number of elega… read more
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10. Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
By: Seneca , James Romm
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed classical historian, author of Ghost on the Throne ("Gripping . . . the narrative ve… read more
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11. When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
By: Monica Wood
4.06
Format: 32 pages,
1963, Mexico, Maine. The Wood family is much like its close, Catholic, immigrant neighbors, all dep… read more
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12. Leaving Before the Rains Come
By: Alexandra Fuller
3.69
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller "One of the gutsiest memoirs I've ever read. And the writing--oh my god t… read more
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13. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
By: Isabel Wilkerson
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chroni… read more
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14. The Year of Magical Thinking
By: Joan Didion
4.44
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her min… read more
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15. Let Me Tell You What I Mean
By: Joan Didion
3.84
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces t… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- essays
"Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"In short I had no past, and, every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at noon in Dwinelle Hall, it seemed increasingly clear to me that I had no future."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or so I thought, another story."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"Well, there it was. I got out fast then, before anyone could say "serenity" again, for it is a word I associate with death, and for several days after that meeting I wanted only to be in places where…"-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
16. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By: Patrick Bringley
4.07
Format: 240 pages, ebook
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
17. The Details
By: Ia Genberg
3.90
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the ve… read more
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"La fiducia resta lettera morta, se non la si sente nelle ossa."-Ia Genberg, The Details
"L'io , o meglio, il cosidetto "io", non è altro che questo: ciò che resta delle persone a cui ci siamo stretti."-Ia Genberg, The Details
"La vita mi ha regalato la mia buona dose di magia, e il più delle volte è successo all'incontro con gli altri. Lì c'è qualcosa. Lì, soltanto lì."-Ia Genberg, The Details
"Per i morti la successione del tempo non ha importanza, l'unica cosa che conta sono i dettagli, la densità, il come e il cosa e tutto ciò che riguarda il chi."-Ia Genberg, The Details
18. The Library Book
By: Susan Orlean
3.89
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the mo… read more
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"You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?"-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"German poet Heinrich Heine [warned], 'There where one burns books, one in the end burns men."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"Writing a book, just like building a library, is an act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"The water dumped on the fire was now as much a problem as a solution. The librarians always worried more about floods than fire, and now they had both."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
19. Enough
By: Cassidy Hutchinson
4.31
Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition
Cassidy Hutchinson’s desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American h… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
20. Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life
By: Delia Ephron
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-lif… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
21. Jackie: Public, Private, Secret
By: J. Randy Taraborrelli
4.17
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling loo… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
22. Magic Words
By: Jonah Berger
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB 'MUST-READ' New York Times bestselling author Jonah Berger’s cutting-edge rese… read more
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23. Grey Bees
By: Andrey Kurkov
4.07
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
49-year-old safety inspector-turned-beekeeper Sergey Sergeich, wants little more than to help his b… read more
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24. Two Women Walk into a Bar
By: Cheryl Strayed
4.06
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
Cheryl Strayed, the bestselling author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things , finds humor and connecti… read more
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- biography
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25. Fly Girl: A Memoir
By: Ann Hood
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of gla… read more
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- biography
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26. Wandering through Life: A Memoir
By: Donna Leon
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Theinternationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells herown adventurous life… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
27. The Bordeaux Book Club
By: Gillian Harvey
4.03
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
Love books? The Bordeaux Book Club is seeking new members! When Leah and her husband moved to Fr… read more
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28. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
By: Griffin Dunne
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more
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- biography
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"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
29. The Beauty of Living Twice
By: Sharon Stone
3.70
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Sharon Stone, one of the most renowned actresses in the world, suffered a massive stroke that cost … read more
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- biography
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"No one can ever make your dream perfect but you."-Sharon Stone, The Beauty of Living Twice
"If only we could know our parents when we are children."-Sharon Stone, The Beauty of Living Twice
"I needed to grieve alone, not as a group and not as a spectacle."-Sharon Stone, The Beauty of Living Twice
"Thus, the benefit of travel and open-mindedness: one can find one's own tribe."-Sharon Stone, The Beauty of Living Twice
30. Joan Didion: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
By: Melville House
4.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conver… read more
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31. The Didion Files: Fifty Years of Friendship with Joan Didion
By: Sara Davidson
4.01
Format: 99 pages, Kindle Edition
Before the full catastrophe of life struck her broadsides, the writer Joan Didion led a shining, pr… read more
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- female authors
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
