9 must-read nonfiction books like The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain by Nina Lohman

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The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain

By: Nina Lohman

4.87

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

The Body Alone is an inquiry into the experience, meaning, and articulation of pain. It is a person…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain by Nina Lohman , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A sweeping collection of new and selected essays on the Obama era by the National Book Award-winnin… read more

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2. Big

By: Vashti Harrison

4.66

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

This deeply moving story shares valuable lessons about fitting in, standing out, and the beauty of … read more

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3. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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4. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"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

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5. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

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6. Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

By: Aja Barber

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Aja Barber wants change. In the 'learning' first half of the book, she will expose you to the … read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

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"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

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8. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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9. This Strange Eventful History

By: Claire Messud

3.63

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more

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"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

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10. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. Neighbors and Other Stories

By: Diane Oliver

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day… read more

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"Sometimes I wonder why more of us ain't dead."

-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories

"He loved them, he had to. After all, they were his, but sometimes loving became a burden. And if he had met them at the bus station, perhaps they would have become that to him."

-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories

"By giving woman the exalted position, the man takes away her freedom. By treating her like a goddess, he forces her to act like a goddess... but the man is then free to act like a human being."

-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories

"He's going to wonder why, and how are we going to tell him we're afraid of them?" Her father's hand clutched the coffee cup. "He's going to be fighting them the rest of his life. He's got to start so…"

-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories

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12. You Know What You Did

By: K.T. Nguyen

3.38

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

EDITORIAL REVIEWS A People Magazine Best Book of April 2024 | “The Most Anticipated Crime Fiction … read more

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13. Theophanies

By: Sarah Ghazal Ali

4.46

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Theophanies, selected as the Editors Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, is a testament to women… read more

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  • poetry
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14. Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

By: Kwei Quartey

4.09

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

When a whirlwind romance leads to a brutal murder and the disappearance of a young Nigerian woman, … read more

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"Truth never sells; only lies."

-Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

"She wasn’t everything to him. Money was."

-Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

"This is not an enemy issue, it’s a big-gun-small-dick issue."

-Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

"When love comes knocking like this, you can only let him in."

-Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

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15. Horror Stories: A Memoir

By: Liz Phair

3.71

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter behind the groundbreaking album Exile in Guyvi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Childhood is a time of curiosity and peril, and nobody comes out of it unscarred."

-Liz Phair, Horror Stories: A Memoir

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16. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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17. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

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18. Reproduction

By: Louisa Hall

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A lucid, genre-defying novel that explores the surreality of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood … read more

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19. Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America

By: Shefali Luthra

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, intimate investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall of Roe … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • health
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20. Sleep Well, My Lady (Emma Djan Investigation #2)

By: Kwei Quartey

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the follow-up to the acclaimed series debut The Missing American, PI Emma Djan investigates the … read more

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21. When the World Tips Over

By: Jandy Nelson

4.18

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

An explosive new novel brimming with love, secrets, and enchantment The Fall siblings live in h… read more

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"He liked trees more than people."

-Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over

"Why won’t you ever tell me about your parents?"

-Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over

"Sometimes platonic loves are the most profound."

-Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over

"Desiderium, n. an ardent desire for something lost."

-Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over

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22. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

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23. What Napoleon Could Not Do

By: D.K. Nnuro

3.43

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

America is seen through the eyes and ambitions of three characters with ties to Africa in this grip… read more

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24. Smothermoss

By: Alisa Alering

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A haunting, imaginative, and twisting tale of two sisters and the menacing, unexplained forces that… read more

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25. The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain

By: Nina Lohman

4.87

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

The Body Alone is an inquiry into the experience, meaning, and articulation of pain. It is a person… read more

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  • poetry
  • memoir
  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • disability
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26. Blue Light Hours

By: Bruna Dantas Lobato

4.08

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

One of Electric Literature’s “75 Books by Women of Color to Read in 2024” From the National Book… read more

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27. Five-Star Stranger

By: Kat Tang

3.36

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In Kat Tang’s exciting and resonant debut, a “Rental Stranger”—a companion hired under various guis… read more

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28. Small Rain

By: Garth Greenwell

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more

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  • health
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29. Haunt Sweet Home

By: Sarah Pinsker

3.47

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality in this spo… read more

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30. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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31. Another Woman

By: Hannah Bonner

4.78

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of confessional and lyrical poets like Cynthia Cruz, Linda Gregg, Sylvia Plath, an… read more

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  • poetry

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Transform Your Habits

Splinters

Leslie Jamison

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

Transform Your Habits

I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Alphabetical Diaries

Sheila Heti

4.02

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

Elizabeth Strout

4.46

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Bear

Julia Phillips

3.38

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Same As It Ever Was

Claire Lombardo

4.00

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