Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir (American Lives)
By: Aileen Weintraub
4.36
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
A laugh-out-loud memoir about a free-spirited, commitment-phobic Brooklyn girl who, after a whirlwi…
Want to Read $ 10.99"Somehow my father had managed to be both my dragon and my knight rolled into one."-Aileen Weintraub, Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir (American Lives)
"If you plant a garden with someone, you are basically saying to that person that you plan to be around to share the bounty."-Aileen Weintraub, Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir (American Lives)
"The phone rang, and I scrambled to answer it, hoping that whoever was on the other end would be my salvation. It was a telemarketer. Here, I thought, was an excellent opportunity to make new friends."-Aileen Weintraub, Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir (American Lives)
"I had often fantasized about a forced hiatus where I could catch up on the classics and while away the hours. But the dark secret about this fantasy is that you only end up on a forced hiatus if something bad is happening to you."-Aileen Weintraub, Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir (American Lives)
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1. The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
By: Elyn R. Saks
4.31
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"in my experience, the words “now just calm down"-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
"some truths that were too difficult and frightening to know."-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
"The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not"-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
"I needed to put two critical ideas together: that I could both be mentally ill and lead a rich and satisfying life."-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
2. Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
By: Keri Blakinger
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“Brave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and rele… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
3. Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels
By: Paul Pringle
4.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Spotlight and Catch and Kill comes a nonfiction thriller about corruption and betrayal … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
4. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
By: Andrea Lankford
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
5. Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness
By: Melissa Bond
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Brain on Fire meets High Achiever in this “page-turner memoir chronicling a woman’s accidental desc… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
6. 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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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
7. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles
By: Kate Flannery
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent coll… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
8. Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings
By: Chrysta Bilton
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"One of the maddest memoirs you'll read this year... This beautiful, warm, funny book is a testamen… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
9. 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
- nonfiction
- memoir
- 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
10. The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
By: Annabelle Tometich
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Rows of orange people sit handcuffed in a beige room. One of them is my mother. When journalist … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
11. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
By: Ricardo Nuila
4.38
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
12. 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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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
13. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
By: Rachel Louise Snyder
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
14. Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
By: Hadley Freeman
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass , comes a “riveting” ( The New York Times… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"Life, unfortunately, is not like an ‘80s movie, in which a character has an epiphany, a triumphal rock track plays on the soundtrack, and everyone smiles at one another: roll end credits. If my teena…"-Hadley Freeman, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
15. Uncultured: A Memoir
By: Daniella Mestyanek Young
4.08
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"Daniella,"-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir
"The body keeps the score."-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir
"I can run and run, but I’m always still here."-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir
"...the only real friend I had, and would ever have, was myself."-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir
16. The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery
By: David Poses
4.23
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
While his wife and two-year-old daughter watched TV in the living room, David Poses was in the kitc… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"From the beginning of high school, all other substances were readily available and liberally consumed by my friends, who used weed and booze like an essential garnish for activities. Peer pressure wa…"-David Poses, The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery
"I didn’t want to be sad, but I didn’t know why I was sad or how not to be sad or how to talk about it. I was broken. I felt broken. My body ached. My stomach hurt. I couldn’t sleep. Nothing was pleas…"-David Poses, The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery
17. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
18. Tell Me Everything
By: Minka Kelly
4.31
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A timely, urgent portrait of working-class American women.”—Gabrielle UnionMinka Kelly takes reade… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
19. Everyone But Myself
By: Julie Chavez
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Like so many mothers, Julie Chavez ran herself ragged trying to meet the needs of everyone else, un… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
20. Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature
By: Zibby Owens
3.63
Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply personal memoir about one woman’s journey to finding her voice and rewriting her story by … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
21. Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
By: Jennifer Vanderbes
4.40
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told st… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
By: Shane Bauer
4.23
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private p… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"When I get home, I draw a bath. I pour a glass of wine, then another, and another. I try to empty my mind. Inside me there is a prison guard and a former prisoner and they are fighting with each othe…"-Shane Bauer, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
"How many times have such meetings been held throughout American history? How many times have men. be they private prison executives or convict lessees, gotten together to perform this ritual? They si…"-Shane Bauer, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
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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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
24. American Daughter
By: Stephanie Thornton Plymale
4.20
Format: 288 pages, ebook
For 50 years, Stephanie Plymale kept her past a fiercely guarded secret. No one outside her immedia… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
25. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
By: Tia Levings
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
26. Love in the Archives: a patchwork of true stories about suicide loss
By: Eileen Vorbach Collins
4.96
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
When her fifteen-year-old daughter Lydia ends her life, Eileen finds support in a community of bere… read more
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- memoir
27. Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope
By: Patrick Dylan
4.45
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of seven awards, including a National Indie Excellence Award and Best Indie Book Award."Anyo… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
28. When She Comes Back : A Memoir
By: Ronit Plank
4.40
Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition
Ronit was six years old when her mother left her and her four-year-old sister for India to follow a… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
29. Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir (American Lives)
By: Aileen Weintraub
4.36
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
A laugh-out-loud memoir about a free-spirited, commitment-phobic Brooklyn girl who, after a whirlwi… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"Somehow my father had managed to be both my dragon and my knight rolled into one."-Aileen Weintraub, Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir (American Lives)
"If you plant a garden with someone, you are basically saying to that person that you plan to be around to share the bounty."-Aileen Weintraub, Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir (American Lives)
"The phone rang, and I scrambled to answer it, hoping that whoever was on the other end would be my salvation. It was a telemarketer. Here, I thought, was an excellent opportunity to make new friends."-Aileen Weintraub, Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir (American Lives)
"I had often fantasized about a forced hiatus where I could catch up on the classics and while away the hours. But the dark secret about this fantasy is that you only end up on a forced hiatus if some…"-Aileen Weintraub, Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir (American Lives)
30. The Byline Bible: Get Published in Five Weeks
By: Susan Shapiro
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Newspaper, magazine, and web editors are desperate for new voices and anyone, in any field, can bre… read more
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- nonfiction
