If There Are Any Heavens: A Memoir
By: Nicholas Montemarano
4.63
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
Written with visceral urgency in the earliest days of grief, If There Are Any Heavens resists it i…
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1. The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
By: Michael Wells , Jason De León
4.55
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Jason De León s… read more
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- nonfiction
2. Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone
By: Richard Lloyd Parry
4.58
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of nort… read more
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3. Shutter
By: Ramona Emerson
3.80
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller,… read more
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"Downtown Village was one of the oldest apartment buildings in Albuquerque, rising five stories above the street below. The first four floors housed six small apartments, each just like the one next t…"-Ramona Emerson, Shutter
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
5. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By: Patrick Bringley
4.07
Format: 240 pages, ebook
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
6. E.R. Nurses
By: James Patterson
4.19
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
James Patterson and Matt Eversmann present the medical frontline heroes who work to save our lives … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"My job isn't just taking care of patients. I take care of families too. It is the greatest gift."-James Patterson, E.R. Nurses
"Nursing, I realize, isn't just about medicine. It's also about making---and preserving--- that human connection."-James Patterson, E.R. Nurses
"I don't think people realize the fight that goes on in nurses' hearts--- sticking to a hospital's legal policy versus acting on humanitarian impulses."-James Patterson, E.R. Nurses
7. Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
By: Ada Calhoun
4.02
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A staggering memoir from New York Times bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relation… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
8. The Crane Husband
By: Kelly Barnhill
3.88
Format: 118 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to The Crane Husband, a raw, powerf… read more
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"Your mother doesn't know these things,"-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband
"But Michael was only six. He should be worrying about learning how to tie his shoes, not about our mother’s checking account."-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband
"I was, as I said, only nine. But my mother often spoke to me as though I were a peer rather than a child and expected me to understand things for which I did not yet have context. I didn’t know then …"-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband
"My dad told me stories of weavers who stitched the world and spun fortunes and pulled on strings to change someone's fate. Was there a string I could pull to stop my father from dying? Was there a pa…"-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband
9. Salt Slow
By: Julia Armfield
3.99
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
This collection of stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bo… read more
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"She was a gentle sort of horror,"-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"The night is wide, uncurving, like the earth might be flat and walkable from end to distant end."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"Occasionally, I convinced myself I had made it all up — love, attraction, all of it — that I had made it up with everyone I'd ever met."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
10. Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more
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- memoir
"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
11. Everything Is Fine
By: Vince Granata
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Grief, mental illness, and the bonds of family are movingly explored in this extraordinary memoir “… read more
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- memoir
"Eventually, I had no choice but to look at loss and pain, at all the pieces of my family's story that I didn't think I could ever understand. It was this process, recognizing the pieces, struggling t…"-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine
"In reality, memories are more feeling than fact. Though we want to think of our memories as one long record, the reel of our greatest hits, a memory is a constellation of infinitesimal changes, elect…"-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine
12. You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
By: Julissa Arce
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Nationally bestselling author Julissa Arce beautifully interweaves her own experiences with cultura… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"White supremacy is persistent, but so are we."-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"We cannot make ourselves or allow others to make us small so we can fit in the minds and hearts of white people. America might never love us back, so we must love ourselves."-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"I learned the language, at the expense of my Spanish, only to find that in English I didn't exist. I read the American history textbooks in school that erased any trace of the deep Mexican roots in t…"-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"We learn that the United States is the pinnacle of democracy in the world, but how can freedom be made perfect when it was built upon the genocide of Indigenous people, the enslavement of Black peopl…"-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
13. Crying in the Bathroom
By: Erika L. Sánchez
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly or… read more
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- memoir
14. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
By: Amy Bloom
4.27
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two… read more
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- memoir
15. Tastes Like War
By: Grace M. Cho
3.92
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess… read more
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16. The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
By: Meghan O'Rourke
4.03
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise… read more
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"As the chronically ill know, to be alive is to be in uncertainty."-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"Knowledge brings the hope of treatment or cure. And even if there is no cure, a diagnosis is a form of knowing (the word “diagnosis"-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"And so it is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of vague symptoms like fatigue and pain will be in search of a doctor who believes she is actually sick ."-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"Is illness, in any way, a lesson? Illness is a travesty; illness is shit; illness is not redemptive unless it happens to be for a particular ill person, for reasons that are not replicable nor should…"-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
17. Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
By: Mira Jacob
4.46
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
Mira Jacob's touching, often humorous, and utterly unique graphic memoir takes readers on her journ… read more
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- memoir
"The trouble began when my 6-year-old son, Z, became obsessed with Michael Jackson."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
"There's a particular kind of close you get when you find someone you can trust in a space you don't."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
"Sometimes, you don’t know how confused you are about something important until you try explaining it to someone else."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
"We took bets on what would bring him down, which is what you do when you're trying to break your own heart before your country does it for you."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
18. Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture
By: Virginia Sole-Smith
4.31
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that “fat” is b… read more
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19. The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
By: C.J. Hauser
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
CJ Hauser expands on her viral essay sensation, "The Crane Wife," in a brilliant collection of essa… read more
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- memoir
"What were you told had to happen in a story for it to feel complete?"-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
"The Story rules are coming from inside the house. And the house always wins."-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
"How do we talk about the loss of a thing for which their is no word? The lack of a word implies that it was never anything. It was never real."-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
"How can we be surrounded by friends of many genders and still have people look at us and think that because we are unpartnered, we are alone? Sometimes even we forget."-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
20. If There Are Any Heavens: A Memoir
By: Nicholas Montemarano
4.63
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
Written with visceral urgency in the earliest days of grief, If There Are Any Heavens resists it i… read more
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21. How to Piss Off Men: 106 Things to Say to Shatter the Male Ego
By: Kyle Prue
4.28
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
BE NO MAN'S PEACE. Have you ever been badgered by an annoying pick-up artist at the bar? Ever fe… read more
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"One thing at a time, guys. I’m not a miracle worker; I’m a collection of thirty rats operating a person suit via tiny levers and pulleys."-Kyle Prue, How to Piss Off Men: 106 Things to Say to Shatter the Male Ego
