Dear Damage
By: Ashley Farmer
4.38
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Two weeks before her grandfather purchased a gun, Ashley Marie Farmer’s grandmother tripped as she …
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1. The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (An Inspirational Bestseller)
By: Marina Keegan
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Ya… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"I will live for love, and the rest will take care of itself."-Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (An Inspirational Bestseller)
"Aging is harder for beautiful people, and Anna was beautiful."-Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (An Inspirational Bestseller)
"I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again."-Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (An Inspirational Bestseller)
"We're so young. We can't, we MUST not loose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have."-Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (An Inspirational Bestseller)
2. Treasure Island!!!
By: Sara Levine
3.34
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper; gift wrapper; laziest ev… read more
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"Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal. We can have pancakes."-Sara Levine, Treasure Island!!!
"Don't tell me you're reading it,' she said, as if I were doing something to the book, whereas in fact the book was doing something to me."-Sara Levine, Treasure Island!!!
"If life were a sea adventure, I knew: I wouldn't be sailor, pirate, or cabin boy but more likely a barnacle clinging to the side of the boat."-Sara Levine, Treasure Island!!!
3. Shortcomings
By: Adrian Tomine
3.20
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
FROM THE PREEMINENT CARTOONIST OF HIS GENERATION, THE MOST ANTICIPATED GRAPHIC NOVEL OF 2007 Shortc… read more
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4. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
By: Brian Moore
3.76
Format: 234 pages,
'The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne' launched Brian Moore's distinguished literary career and also… read more
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5. Forest Primeval
By: Vievee Francis
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
"Another Anti-Pastoral," the opening poem of Forest Primeval, confesses that sometimes "words fail.… read more
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6. Silencer
By: Marcus Wicker
4.19
Format: 45 pages, Paperback
"Tough talk for tough times. Silenceris both lyrical and merciless-Wicker's mind hums in overdrive,… read more
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7. Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story
By: Debbie Tung
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sweet, funny, and quietlypoignant, Debbie Tung's comics reveal the ups and downs of coming of age a… read more
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8. Real Friends
By: Shannon Hale , LeUyen Pham
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
When best friends are not forever . . . Shannon and Adrienne have been best friends ever since the… read more
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9. Hocus Pocus
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the author of Timequake, this "irresistible" novel (Cleveland Plain Dealer) tells the story of… read more
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10. I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf
By: Grant Snider
3.74
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A look at the culture and fanaticism of book lovers, from the beloved New York Times illustrator … read more
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- nonfiction
"A book closed is just a block of paper."-Grant Snider, I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf
11. 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
- essays
"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
12. Heart Berries
By: Terese Marie Mailhot
3.84
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian … read more
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- memoir
"Pain expanded my heart."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"You are such a home to me."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Romanticism requires bravery and risk."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Sometimes suicidality doesn’t seem dark; it seems fair."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
13. If I Survive You
By: Jonathan Escoffery
3.69
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more
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"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
14. Happy-Go-Lucky
By: David Sedaris
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” ( Los Angeles Times ) returns with his first new collect… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
15. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
16. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
17. Easy Beauty
By: Chloé Cooper Jones
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"Beauty is what we're told is beautiful and what we're told becomes the truth."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"Maybe then I would submit to it's rigid ideals if I were recognized as worthy of experiencing them."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"I care if you are happy. I'm in love with your happiness. My focus is on how you feel not what you do."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"You could have made me come home," I say. "No, I can only try to be the person you want to come home to."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
18. The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
By: Kyleigh Leddy
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
All Kait Leddy had ever wanted was a little sister. When Kyleigh was born, they were inseparable; K… read more
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- memoir
"Only after we relinquish what is lost are we truly healed."-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
"For better and for worse, hope proves itself to be surprisingly resilient."-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
"No one tells you what a precious, fragile gift your mind is in the first place. No one tells you it can be lost."-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
"You wish there was an adequate term for what you are—like orphan or widower—a term that says “I once meant something to somebody."-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
19. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
By: Melissa Febos
4.24
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more
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- memoir
- essays
"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
20. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
21. Book Love
By: Debbie Tung
4.29
Format: 137 pages, Hardcover
Bookworms rejoice! These charming comics capture exactly what it feels like to be head-over-heels f… read more
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- nonfiction
22. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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- memoir
- essays
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
23. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
24. The Furrows
By: Namwali Serpell
3.21
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How do you grieve an absence? A brilliantly inventive novel about loss and belonging, from the awar… read more
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25. The Wrong End of the Telescope
By: Rabih Alameddine
4.04
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
By National Book Award and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woma… read more
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"Writing one’s story narcotizes it. Literature today is an opiate."-Rabih Alameddine, The Wrong End of the Telescope
"You still cling to romantic notions about writing, that you’ll be able to figure things out, that you will understand life, as if life is understandable, as if art is understandable. When has writing…"-Rabih Alameddine, The Wrong End of the Telescope
26. Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
By: Isaac Fitzgerald
3.59
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
27. Sugar Street
By: Jonathan Dee
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Publishing for the first time with Grove Atlantic, Pulitzer Prize finalist and celebrated author of… read more
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28. Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales
By: Sabrina Orah Mark
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully written memoir-in-essays on fairy tales and their surprising relevance to modern life… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"We ask the child to drag around the unwieldy weight of magic. To clap wildly. To believe in what we believe in no longer. We ask the child to keep the awe we forgot how to hold. The fairy isn't the f…"-Sabrina Orah Mark, Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales
29. Little Rabbit
By: Alyssa Songsiridej
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
When the unnamed narrator of Little Rabbit first meets the choreographer at an artists' residency i… read more
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30. Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
By: Jane Wong
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing u… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
31. Dear Damage
By: Ashley Farmer
4.38
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Two weeks before her grandfather purchased a gun, Ashley Marie Farmer’s grandmother tripped as she … read more
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