This Really Isn't About You
By: Jean Hannah Edelstein
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In 2014 I moved back to the United States after living abroad for fourteen years, my whole adult li…
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1. Rapture
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Carol Ann Duffy's 'Rapture' is about the loss and rediscovery of love in all its aspects - erotic, … read more
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2. Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16
By: Moshe Kasher
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Rising young comedian Moshe Kasher is lucky to be alive. He started using drugs when he was just 12… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. The Terranauts
By: T. Coraghessan Boyle
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A powerful, affecting and hilarious deep-dive into human behavior in an intimate and epic story of … read more
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4. The Emperor and the Endless Palace
By: Justinian Huang
3.52
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
“What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recogniti… read more
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"Despair not. History is carved by men who did not have their fathers' favor."-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace
"You mean like a past life?' Calvin says. Garden snorts. 'Are you for real?' 'Excuse me, this is a "yes and" environment, G,' Calvin replies, 'and billions of people around the world believe in reinca…"-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace
"[River] 'Maybe he was just trying to shake me off. I mean, why would he want to be with me?' Without warning, Calvin bonks me on the side of my head, not hard, though it startles me, and some wine sp…"-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace
5. This Could Be Everything
By: Eva Rice
3.83
Format: None pages, Audiobook
From the author of ‘modern vintage classic’ The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets comes a feel-good nosta… read more
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- audiobook
6. Glittering a Turd: How surviving the unsurvivable taught me to live
By: Kris Hallenga
4.59
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Kris was living a totally normal life as a twenty-three-year-old: travelling the world, falling in … read more
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- memoir
- autobiography
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7. How to Live When You Could Be Dead
By: Deborah James
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER'Deborah James has captured the heart of the nation' - The Duke and… read more
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- biography
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- autobiography
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- audiobook
8. Absolutely and Forever
By: Rose Tremain
3.90
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more
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9. Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
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- audiobook
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
10. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
11. Big Swiss
By: Jen Beagin
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more
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"¿Habla más de un idioma?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"You bullied other bullies,"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
12. I Don't Need Therapy: and other lies I've told myself
By: Toni Lodge
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
A hilarious memoir of home truths and whatever the opposite of 'that girl energy' is, from one half… read more
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- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Small Pleasures
By: Clare Chambers
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
1957, south-east suburbs of London. Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointe… read more
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"The new and threatening would become the old and familiar in due course."-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures
"The journey into love was so effortless and graceful; the journey out such a long and laboured climb"-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures
"Previous experience taught her that the pain would not be unending - but neither would it subside smoothly, incrementally, but rather in a series of crashing waves, some of which might still knock he…"-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures
14. The Second Chance Store
By: Lauren Bravo
3.61
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
If clothes can get a second chance, why can’t we? Brimming with life, love, and the stories bound u… read more
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15. None of This Is Serious
By: Catherine Prasifka
3.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Dublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends. They've got everything figured out, and S… read more
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"I'm tired of crying over stupid boys who aren't worth it."-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious
"I'm trapped by the concept of the present, by the idea that time is moving forward and I'm witnessing it."-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious
"I need him, like this, right now. The problem is I can't need him any more. I don't want to stop being with him, but I can't be with him."-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious
"Isn't it weird to think that everything is so unstable? Like, we all believe in the magic of technology; it feels so permanent but, just like that, it's gone."-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious
16. Dominicana
By: Angie Cruz
4.11
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with… read more
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"Mamá has lived long enough to learn a man doesn’t know what he thinks until a woman makes him think it."-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
"César picks it up and pulls out a chicken by its neck. Welcome to America, he says. He hands it to me. I look into its glassed-over eyes. . . . I've held plenty of chickens before, plucked, chopped, …"-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
"When Juan gets mad, it's as if my dependence on him fuels the transformation in his body from concern, to anger, to fury. The veins in his neck swell, his eyes bulge, and he yells, You want trouble f…"-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
"Puffer fish inflate into a ball when they feel threatened as a warning to predators. The males work endlessly on designing their territories to attract a mate. Burrowing diligently with their fins, r…"-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
17. Dear Dolly
By: Dolly Alderton
3.83
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
'What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-professional problem-solver was that t… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"Pero, ¿quién se enamora de lo correcto?"-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly
"Watching a best friend become a parent is a magical thing. It can open up a part of their personality that you've never seen before and it can also open a new chapter of your friendship."-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly
"...romantics are, ironically, the worst culprits for being relationship avoidant. This is for two reasons. The first being that committing to someone would mean they would have to call off the search…"-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly
18. Weirdo
By: Sara Pascoe
3.28
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Tonight, Sophie is working at a pub, about to wrap cutlery, when she turns to find Chris ordering t… read more
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19. I Hope This Finds You Well
By: Natalie Sue
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this wildly funny and heartwarming office comedy, an admin worker accidentally gains access to h… read more
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"All the shit inside me hardens."-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well
"Shit. This is already a toothpaste-out-of-the-tube situation."-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well
"You can't legally brag about your son since you named him "Carl"."-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well
"He nods and names everyone he passes like the damn president of Clown Town."-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well
20. This Is Not A Pity Memoir
By: Abi Morgan
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What happens when your partner of twenty years suddenly believes you’re nothing but a stranger? Wh… read more
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- medical
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21. We All Want Impossible Things
By: Catherine Newman
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Who knows you better than your best friend? Who knows your secrets, your fears, your desires, your … read more
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"In the end there’s more beauty in the imperfection."-Catherine Newman, We All Want Impossible Things
22. Saltwater
By: Jessica Andrews
3.79
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
Lucy is lost. Growing up in the north east she wanted more. When others were thinking about the Nis… read more
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"I want it and I do not want it. I want to be visible and I want to be invisible, or perhaps I want to be visible to some people and not to others. It seems unfair that I can't choose."-Jessica Andrews, Saltwater
"I would like to have something to believe in, but it is difficult. Everything my generation was promised got blown away like clouds of smoke curling from the ends of cigarettes in the mouths of polit…"-Jessica Andrews, Saltwater
23. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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- memoir
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- nonfiction
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24. This Is How You Remember It
By: Catherine Prasifka
4.11
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you sp… read more
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25. Why Did You Stay?: A Memoir About Self-Worth
By: Rebecca Humphries
4.03
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Actor, writer and hopeless romantic Rebecca Humphries had often been called crazy by her boyfriend.… read more
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- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. Where We Go From Here
By: Lucas Rocha
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An absorbing debut novel about three gay young adults in Brazil whose lives become intertwined in t… read more
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27. Notes To Self
By: Emilie Pine
4.10
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
`The person who loves the addict exhausts and renews their love on a daily basis' In this vivid and… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
"He triat ser feliç. Aquesta felicitat no és perfecta ni exempta de dolor. A dins hi porta un dol. Però justament per això és més intensa."-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self
"I like that I have ten things on the go, all at once. I like that I'm always planning for the next thing. I like that I bring a high energy to my life, that I see it as a challenge. I like that my fa…"-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self
"I am fearful and hopeful and shameful. I worry that I am empty, or that I am full of the wrong things. I worry that I am disappearing, eroding, failing. I do not know what to do with all these feelin…"-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self
"For three decades I have lived within a silence that declares periods too embarrassing, too unwanted, too female to talk about out loud. I have done this for so long that I almost no longer notice it…"-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self
28. Notes on Heartbreak
By: Annie Lord
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Fierce, funny and raw, this unflinchingly honest exploration of heartbreak is so much more than a b… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Why suffer for something ordinary?"-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
"That's the thing about pain: we forget it."-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
"I'll try my best to forget, but I think I'll love you for all my life."-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
"Knowing Mary has gone through the same thing makes me feel less alone with my pain."-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
29. Better Left Unsent
By: Lia Louis
3.57
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
So many ways to torpedo your career and your love life…So little time. A woman accidentally reve… read more
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30. Nuclear Family
By: Kate Davies
3.91
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Polari Prize-winning author of IN AT THE DEEP END When Lena buys DNA testing kits for her … read more
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31. This Really Isn't About You
By: Jean Hannah Edelstein
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In 2014 I moved back to the United States after living abroad for fourteen years, my whole adult li… read more
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