Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe
By: Aomawa Shields
4.11
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A stunning and inspiring memoir charting a life as an astronomer, classically-trained actor, mother…
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1. Ammonite
By: Nicola Griffith
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Change or die. These are the only options available on the planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly… read more
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2. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
3. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
4. Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler
By: Ibi Zoboi
4.09
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse a… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- audiobook
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
6. Great Expectations
By: Vinson Cunningham
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more
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- audiobook
"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
7. The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
By: Jaime Green
4.02
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A dazzling cultural and scientific exploration of alien life and the cosmos, examining how the poss… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- audiobook
"We’re not alone because we’re not separate from the swirl of a galaxy’s arms or the way wind catches dust in a gyre. We’re no more an anomaly than an atom is."-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
"…science fiction writers may have been the first people to realize the unknowability of where technology would lead us… Where it used to be possible to set stories millennia in the future—affording h…"-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
8. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
By: Uché Blackstock
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more
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- science
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. The Little Book of Aliens
By: Adam Frank
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“With wit and brio, Frank separates current nonsense about aliens from the serious and fascinating … read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- audiobook
10. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- science
11. Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
By: Maggie Smith
3.89
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Marie Claire’s The 2020 Books You Should Pre-Order Now The Washington Post’s What to Read in 2020 B… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
"Do not be ashamed of the intensity of your emotion. That's your humanity. Grief can be feral, wild, frightening. Give it a safe place to live."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
"Everything is temporary. You can't keep a white-knuckled hold on what you love or on what has hurt you. Loosen your grip on your grief today, if only a bit."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
"Stop calling your heart broken; your heart works just fine. If you are feeling--love, anger, gratitude, grief--it is because your heart is doing its work. Let it."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
"It is not your job to make other people comfortable with who you are. Be wary of those who don't want you to change or grow. Grow anyway--there is no alternative."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
12. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
By: Christian Cooper
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
13. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
By: Kate Manne
4.25
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research t… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters
By: Susan Page
3.90
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a wo… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
15. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
By: Lisa Kaltenegger
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- audiobook
16. The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
By: Loren Grush
4.36
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and Code Girls, the remarkable true story of America… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- nonfiction
- womens
- space
- science
17. The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics
By: The Kao
4.37
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In this vibrant and affirming comics anthology, 29 trans & nonbinary comic artists share their pers… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
18. Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe
By: Philip Plait
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, bringing you up close and personal with t… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- audiobook
19. The Manicurist's Daughter
By: Susan Lieu
3.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free (A Feeding the Soul Book)
By: Tabitha Brown
4.19
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Feeding the Soul (Because It’s My Business) presents an… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
21. Another Word for Love: A Memoir
By: Carvell Wallace
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
By: Johan Eklöf
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why We Sleep and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent and insightful loo… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- science
"Moths have the animal world’s most exceptional sense of smell and can capture separate scent molecules with their antennae."-Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
"Moths have shown themselves to be at least as important pollinators as the diurnal bees and they even visit more kinds of flowers than bees do."-Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
23. Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing
By: Jen Soriano
4.34
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Activist Jen Soriano brings to light the lingering impacts of transgenerational trauma and uses sci… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- science
24. Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates
By: Katie Barnes
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A richly reported and provocative look at the history of women’s sports and the controversy surroun… read more
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- nonfiction
25. Moonshot: A NASA Astronaut’s Guide to Achieving the Impossible
By: Mike Massimino
4.30
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
Former NASA astronaut and New York Times bestselling author Mike Massimino—the first person to twee… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- space
- science
26. Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking―How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age
By: Caroline Paul
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl, a funny, inspiring, deeply researched… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- science
27. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.24
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more
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- space
- audiobook
28. Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
By: Amrou Al-Kadhi
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I was desperate to present as transgressive, but also to be entirely accepted within spaces that were anything but that."-Amrou Al-Kadhi, Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
"As a queer person, I believe almost dogmatically in difference, in the idea that every single person is unique, with their own innate sense of self, and that it is this difference which brings all of…"-Amrou Al-Kadhi, Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
"You might be questioning why I allowed Mason to treat me this way. I often do myself. But at the age of sixteen, and as someone who had not found true acceptance anywhere I turned, I was willing to a…"-Amrou Al-Kadhi, Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
29. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
By: Elle Reeve
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder
By: Alan Townsend
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A compassionate, vulnerable, and transformative exploration of the nurturing and spiritual power of… read more
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- science
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe
By: Aomawa Shields
4.11
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A stunning and inspiring memoir charting a life as an astronomer, classically-trained actor, mother… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
- astronomy
- space
- science
