All Happy Families
By: Jeanne Mcculloch
3.34
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The Glass Castle meets The Nest in this stunning debut, an intimate family memoir that gracefully b…
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1. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
By: Ann Fessler
4.24
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
A powerful and groundbreaking revelation of the secret history of the 1.5 million women who surrend… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"Secrets keep families sick. You never keep secrets in families because even if the child doesn't know what the secret is, they will always know there is a secret."-Ann Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
"We were not criminals. We're mothers. The difference was I was not an authenticated mother. I was an illegal mother. I was a denied mother. And I had to come home and live my life after being robbed …"-Ann Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
2. Maine
By: J. Courtney Sullivan
3.40
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
In her best-selling debut, Commencement, J. Courtney Sullivan explored the complicated and contradi… read more
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- family
- audiobook
"And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went."-J. Courtney Sullivan, Maine
"Vielleicht war das Bild, das die eigene Familie von einem hatte, zu sehr mit ihren Hoffnungen und Ängsten vermischt, als dass sie einen jemals wirklich als die Person sehen konnten, die man war."-J. Courtney Sullivan, Maine
3. We Are Called to Rise
By: Laura McBride
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
“Your heart will break…then soar” (Redbook) when, far from the neon lights of the Vegas strip, thre… read more
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- audiobook
"...I'd rather live knowing I made a mistake than wondering if I could have made a difference if I'd tried. The way I see it, nothing in life is a rehersal. It's not preparation for anything else. The…"-Laura McBride, We Are Called to Rise
4. 3,096 Days
By: Natascha Kampusch , None
3.75
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
On 2 March 1998 ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was snatched off the street by a stranger and bundle… read more
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- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
5. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
By: Jean-Dominique Bauby , Jeremy Leggatt
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young child… read more
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- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
6. The Wild Truth: A Memoir
By: Carine McCandless
4.16
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
The spellbinding story of Chris McCandless, who gave away his savings, hitchhiked to Alaska, walked… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
7. Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir
By: Natalie Goldberg
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
In her first book to focus solely on writing since her classic work Writing Down the Bones, Goldber… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
8. That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row
By: Jarvis Jay Masters
3.91
Format: None pages,
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- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
9. The Far Pavilions
By: M.M. Kaye
3.97
Format: 12 pages,
A magnificent romantic/historical/adventure novel set in India at the time of mutiny. The Far Pavil… read more
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10. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
By: Kara Swisher
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
11. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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- new york
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
By: Jamie Loftus
3.92
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
13. Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
By: Tove Ditlevsen
4.37
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
Called a masterpiece by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Every person has their own truth just as every child has their own childhood."-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
"My classmates find me unceasingly, overwhelmingly comical, and I've gotten used to the clown role and even find a sad comfort in it, because together with my confirmed stupidity, it protects me again…"-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
14. Stash: My Life in Hiding
By: Laura Cathcart Robbins
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive and vivid memoir—in the vein of Drinking: A Love Story and Somebody’s Daughter—about t… read more
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- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
By: Meg Kissinger
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
16. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
17. Heart Berries
By: Terese Marie Mailhot
3.84
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"Pain expanded my heart."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"You are such a home to me."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Romanticism requires bravery and risk."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Sometimes suicidality doesn’t seem dark; it seems fair."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
18. Dinosaurs
By: Lydia Millet
3.88
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new… read more
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- family
- audiobook
"They say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but don’t we all?"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that’s not enough either. If there’s too much poison around. We’re talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anywa…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn’t have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligen…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said wh…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
19. The Wives: A Memoir
By: Simone Gorrindo
3.79
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A captivating memoir that tells the story of one woman’s experience of joining a community of army … read more
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- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. All That Remains: A Life in Death
By: Sue Black
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
21. Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
By: Whoopi Goldberg
4.33
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influ… read more
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- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
"Listen. The confines of this neighbourhood do not represent the confines of your life. You can go and do and be whatever you want. But, whatever you choose, be yourself."-Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
22. I've Tried Being Nice: Essays
By: Ann Leary
3.90
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from t… read more
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- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in th… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"I knew I had had no choice. I had had to fight with my mother in order to survive."-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"In an increasingly serious world, these young women had never been asked or expected to be serious. (p. 13)"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"There is a clarity about how children see the world that the complexities of adult life often muddy. And there is a fervor children feel when they believe adults have misled them or disguised or hidd…"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
24. Private Equity: A Memoir
By: Carrie Sun
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A gripping memoir of one woman’s self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indict… read more
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- new york
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"A gift weighed down by the imposition of gratitude becomes an expectation; over time, it becomes debt."-Carrie Sun, Private Equity: A Memoir
25. The Winner
By: Teddy Wayne
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Be prepared to fully lose yourself in The Winner—a book I started and then simply couldn’t stop re… read more
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- audiobook
26. Victim
By: Andrew Boryga
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more
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- audiobook
27. Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
By: Natasha Trethewey
4.25
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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"Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?"-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
"To survive trauma one must be able to tell a story about it."-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
"For my father, the myth of Cassandra had been just another way he sought to guide me toward what he thought I needed to know. In some versions, Cassandra's fate is that she is merely misunderstood--n…"-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
"My whole life people have wondered "what" I am, what race or nationality. ... It's happened again and again: someone looking at me furtively, or calling me "exotic" and asking me "What's your heritag…"-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
28. 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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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
29. Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences
By: Jedidiah Jenkins
4.03
Format: 221 pages, Hardcover
When his mother, Barbara, turns seventy, Jedidiah Jenkins is reminded of a sobering fact: Our pare… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
"In my midthirties, I realized that my parents would die soon. Not like a terminal illness. I just mean in the flow of time. It hit me hardest when my mother turned seventy. I did a quick bit of math.…"-Jedidiah Jenkins, Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences
"I wondered about my friendship with my mom. Is it friendship? How can it be? Friendship is chosen. Friendship is discovered. But a mother and a son have a bond that is necessary. If the son exists, t…"-Jedidiah Jenkins, Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences
30. Omega Farm: A Memoir
By: Martha McPhee
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist—a candid, riveting account of her complicated,… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
31. All Happy Families
By: Jeanne Mcculloch
3.34
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The Glass Castle meets The Nest in this stunning debut, an intimate family memoir that gracefully b… read more
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- new york
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