The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis
By: Emma Bolden
4.51
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
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1. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
By: James Agee , Walker Evans
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignment for "Fortune" magazine to explore the d… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
2. The Love of a Good Woman
By: Alice Munro
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Alice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordi… read more
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3. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
By: Elaine Scarry
3.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original st… read more
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4. Pain and Prejudice: A Call to Arms for Women and Their Bodies
By: Gabrielle Jackson
4.16
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
A timely and powerful look at how our culture treats the pain and suffering of women. 'Women are… read more
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- memoir
- health
- medical
- feminism
- medicine
- nonfiction
5. How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual
By: Rebecca Burgess
4.15
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Brave, witty and empowering, this graphic memoir follows Rebecca as she navigates her asexual ident… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
6. Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
By: Suzanne Scanlon
4.22
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once. When Su… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Only in retrospect might I say I loved it there. I didn't love it. It became familiar. I got used to it. I became dependent upon it. This is not love."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"I became a writer because I believe in that part of me who is not limited by age or gender or time or disability - yet still I am afraid to say it. Yes, I was ill."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"I myself have internalized the self-loathing that at times can make me feel ashamed to be writing this book. But I also believe that, as my heroes have shown me, this is where a writer must go."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"What if, instead of being diagnosed—being called mentally ill—what if I had been able to receive care for its own sake. To be in distress, to ask for care, to receive it. What if there were space in …"-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
7. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
8. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
By: Lucy Sante
3.70
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a st… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"(Although it is extremely exciting to have tits.)"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"I wanted to so badly to be a woman that I could not really understand anyone wanting anything else"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"It appeared that transitioning did not involve piling on additional stuff; rather it was a process of removal, dismantling the carapace of maleness that had kept me in its grip for so long."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"My secret poisoned my entire experience of life. There was never a moment when I didn't feel the acute shame of being me, even as I denied to myself that my secret had anything to do with it."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
9. Rifqa
By: Mohammed El-Kurd
4.66
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa
10. Everything Is OK
By: Debbie Tung
4.31
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Quiet Girl in a Noisy World comes a gently humorous and poignant col… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- memoir
11. One Way Back: A Memoir
By: Christine Blasey Ford
4.30
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
12. And Then She Fell
By: Alicia Elliott
3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more
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- adult
"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
13. The Alternatives
By: Caoilinn Hughes
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more
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14. This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America
By: Navied Mahdavian
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A gorgeously illustrated and written debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a h… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
15. Fi: A Memoir of My Son
By: Alexandra Fuller
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
16. Did I Ever Tell You?
By: Genevieve Kingston
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
17. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- health
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
18. All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
By: Elizabeth Comen
4.43
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating history of women’s health as it’s never been told before. For as long as medicin… read more
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- health
- medical
- feminism
- medicine
- nonfiction
"The role of women was proscribed in medicine as in society, bolstered by the stereotype of the female nurturer: Doctors cured. Nurses cared."-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
"A man with high testosterone, it was understood, was virile, a warrior, a stud. A woman with too much estrogen, on the other hand, was just crazy."-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
"The idea was just this: that there is something beautiful, and wonderfully feminine, and powerful and empowering at once, about a woman who can’t breathe."-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
"Between the purported sex appeal of tuberculosis and its special deadliness in young people, being afflicted with the disease—or at least, looking like you were—became associated with a certain statu…"-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
19. Idlewild
By: James Frankie Thomas
4.14
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more
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- adult
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild
20. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
By: Alice Wong
4.25
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, and the editor of the acclaimed… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
21. You Better Be Lightning
By: Andrea Gibson
4.63
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- adult
- nonfiction
"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
22. Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
By: Abby Norman
3.93
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For any woman who has experienced illness, chronic pain, or endometriosis comes an inspiring memoir… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- health
- medical
- feminism
- medicine
- nonfiction
"I was not a ghost. I was a little girl with needs and wants and allergies. Still, I hung soundlessly, as weightlessly as I could, in the air. The living can haunt a house, too."-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
"In retrospect, that was the moment I realized my ignorance was going to exacerbate whatever the problem was, and that I had to prescribe myself some kind of medical education, at least as it pertaine…"-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
"So often we think that the truth is a static entity that exists only in a singular place--a place that we have to find. But I have come to realize that the answers I have been looking for, the truth …"-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
"Where a woman is in her menstrual cycle also influences how her body metabolizes, well, anything. Researchers know this: that's why, when they do include women in trials, they design the research so …"-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
23. Here After
By: Amy Lin
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Here After is an intimate story of deep love followed by dizzying loss; a stunning, taut memoir fro… read more
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- poetry
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
24. Golem Girl: A Memoir
By: Riva Lehrer
4.32
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
What do we sacrifice in the pursuit of normalcy? And what becomes possible when we embrace monstros… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
25. What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt
By: Tessa Miller
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What Doesn’t Kill You is the riveting account of a young journalist’s awakening to chronic illness,… read more
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- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
26. Hysterical: A Memoir
By: Elissa Bassist
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts medical mystery, cultural criticism, and rallying cry, writer Elissa Bassist shares her… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- health
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"I thought I could become normal by deciding, but thoughts are not facts; the body is facts. And if you silence the body, well, you can't."-Elissa Bassist, Hysterical: A Memoir
"Risk "no." Risk the double-text. Risk being unlikeable and being perceived as unreasonable and risk being called a fucking bitch. Risk "being a bitch." Risk "bad" words. Risk mistakes and risk being …"-Elissa Bassist, Hysterical: A Memoir
27. Housemates
By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more
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- adult
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates
28. Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
By: Kyo Maclear
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its af… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"A mother enters a story. But how does she enter? How does she walk across the pages of a book?"-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
"What is grief, if not the act of persisting and reconstituting oneself? What is its difficulty, if not the pressure to appear, once more, fully formed?"-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
"I could hear her saying: One day I will have a daughter and I will give her an unfinished story and it will be up to her to decide if it is a void or a gift."-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
"Knowledge is a beautiful sideways and sometimes upward spiral, but a tower of appeasement will not feed you. Merit badges will teach compliance with preset paths but will not teach pathfinding."-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
29. Letting in Air and Light
By: Teresa Tumminello Brader
4.57
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
From a double shotgun house in New Orleans comes a true story larger than life. Teresa Tumminello B… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"I feel haunted by hidden objects and absent people."-Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light
"... I was too young to realize that a physical absence can be felt."-Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light
"... through her struggles, Helen must have acquied not only patience, but the serenity that accompanies it when it is real."-Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light
"Already my memories seem fraudulent, yet they are true to the child I was. Memory is unreliable; it might as well be fiction."-Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light
30. The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis
By: Emma Bolden
4.51
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
For readers of Susannah Cahalan’s Brain on Fire and Porochista Khakpour’s Sick , this exquisitely w… read more
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- poetry
- biography
- memoir
- health
- medical
- feminism
- medicine
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
31. A Matter of Appearance: A Memoir
By: Emily Wells
4.09
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
“Instead of turning her pain into a performance, Wells made her illness into the basis for solidari… read more
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- medicine
- nonfiction
- memoir
