Attention: A Love Story
By: Casey Schwartz
3.10
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
What do we talk about when we talk about attention? We might start with the studies: the average Am…
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1. Dear Life: Stories
By: Alice Munro
2.50
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these tales abo… read more
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2. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
By: Steven Pinker
4.10
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupt… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
3. Exodus
By: Leon Uris
3.92
Format: 368 pages,
Exodusis an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most… read more
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4. The Suicide of Claire Bishop
By: None
4.36
Format: 39 pages, Hardcover
Greenwich Village, 1959. Claire Bishop sits for a portrait--a gift from her husband--only to discov… read more
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5. 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
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
6. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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- mental health
- audiobook
7. Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
By: Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
3.77
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A historian explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood in this “timely… read more
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- audiobook
- psychology
- nonfiction
- sociology
- self help
"Even after becoming a mother, fulfilling the role society demands of you, you still can't win."-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
"Parenthood is demanded of us, but we are asked to parent in isolated bubbles, supported--to put it crudely--by our bank accounts and little else."-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
"COVID-19 exposed what women with children and without both already knew: that despite the expectation we all become mothers, we receive little support once we do."-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
"In light of our failure to account for the pressures, anxieties, and dangers of modern life, it's possible to argue that the decision to opt out of parenthood is perfectly rational. The decision to h…"-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
8. Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
By: Alison Espach
3.80
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The summer before Sally Holt starts the eighth grade begins as a gloriously uneventful one. It's fu… read more
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- audiobook
"But I didn't remind you of this, because that was the fun of being sisters. Sometimes, you got to be younger than you were, and I got to be older."-Alison Espach, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
"We laughed a lot, but I don't remember about what. I just remember laughing. And wasn't that the most important thing? Wasn't that all a person wanted to remember?"-Alison Espach, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
9. Interior Chinatown
By: Charles Yu
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles … read more
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- audiobook
"LOVE STORY FOR A GENERIC ASIAN MAN???"-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"As everyone knows, water hates poor people."-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"If she could move freely between worlds, why can't you?"-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"IDK, I never represented someone for self-imprisonment before."-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
10. In Limbo
By: Deb J.J. Lee
4.18
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
A debut YA graphic memoir about a Korean-American girl's coming-of-age story—and a coming home stor… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- mental health
11. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more
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- audiobook
- self help
- health
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- sociology
- science
12. 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
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- 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
13. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
By: Mikki Kendall
4.37
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream femi… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"I tell you this story because sometimes the story of your life is the story of a lot of lives."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"Mainstream, white-centered feminism hasn't just failed women of color, it has failed white women."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn't set a standard that can protect any woman."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
14. ADHD is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD
By: Penn Holderness
4.32
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Hi, friend! Welcome to the ADHD club. You're here because, like me, you've been diagnosed with a… read more
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- self help
- health
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
By: Simone Stolzoff
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"Superb."—Oliver Burkeman A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives fro… read more
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- audiobook
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- self help
"We shouldn’t work less just because it allows us to be better workers. We should work less because it allows us to be better humans."-Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
16. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
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- audiobook
- self help
- memoir
- health
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- science
"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
17. 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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- biography
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- audiobook
18. The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
By: Simon Winchester
4.14
Format: 416 pages, ebook
The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industr… read more
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- science
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"From a book talk in Palo Alto for "The Perfectionists"; He pulled out his new iphone and told us that its Apple-designed chipset has 8 billion[!] transistors, and that someone at Intel told him that …"-Simon Winchester, The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
19. Sea Change
By: Gina Chung
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A novel about a woman tossed overboard by heartbreak and loss, who has to find her way back to stab… read more
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- audiobook
20. Bridge
By: Lauren Beukes
3.68
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A grieving daughter’s search for her mother becomes a journey across alternate realities in Bridge,… read more
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- audiobook
21. The Husbands
By: Chandler Baker
3.48
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Chandler Baker, the New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network, is back with The Husband… read more
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- audiobook
"We can elbow and push all we want for every packed lunch, picked-up towel, put-away pan, and scheduled doctor’s appointment, but until paternity leave is normalized, until schools call fathers about …"-Chandler Baker, The Husbands
22. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
By: Johann Hari
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more
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- self help
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- psychology
- nonfiction
- science
23. The Disappearing Act
By: Catherine Steadman
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A woman has gone missing But did she ever really exist? Mia Eliot has travelled from London to… read more
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- audiobook
24. Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
By: Carmela Ciuraru
3.57
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five famous writers, illuminating the … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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- audiobook
25. Have You Seen Her
By: Catherine McKenzie
3.59
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling and timely novel about three women with dark secrets whose lives intersect in the pictu… read more
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26. Familiaris
By: David Wroblewski
4.21
Format: 979 pages, Hardcover
The follow-up to the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic The Story of Edgar Sawtel… read more
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"Suppose you could do one impossible thing."-David Wroblewski, Familiaris
"Time is a snake-oil remedy if you ask me. Some wounds just keep hurting as bad as they ever did. That's what I think."-David Wroblewski, Familiaris
"John once claimed that the way to convince a person to do something outlandish was to ask them to do something even more outlandish."-David Wroblewski, Familiaris
"You can never watch too many pups climb through the straw for the first time, but there are just so many dogs you can bear watch to die."-David Wroblewski, Familiaris
27. Adult Drama: And Other Essays
By: Natalie Beach
3.14
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated Book in... Harper’s Bazaar Elle Bookpage Vulture’s “Into It” From the wri… read more
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28. The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward
By: Britt Frank
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A research-based tool kit for moving past what’s holding you back—in life, in love, and in work. W… read more
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- audiobook
- self help
- health
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- science
"Stuck on "on": how to manage a Sympathetic response 1. Say to yourself, "I am having trauma response. This is a physiological process. I'm not crazy." 2. Make a list of people, places, and things tha…"-Britt Frank, The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward
29. The Comeback
By: Ella Berman
3.74
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
A deep dive into the psyche of a young actress raised in the spotlight under the influence of a cha… read more
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- mental health
- audiobook
"I know that somebody hurt you. Now it's time for you to fuck shit up, baby lion."-Ella Berman, The Comeback
"It all seemed so fragile to me, the trust we put in others without thinking about it."-Ella Berman, The Comeback
"Surely there must be some limit to how many times you're allowed to hurt another human."-Ella Berman, The Comeback
"But what if every time something bad happens, it just makes your world a little smaller."-Ella Berman, The Comeback
30. Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable
By: Sarah Gerard
3.44
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and cutting yet compassionate prose … read more
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- biography
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31. Attention: A Love Story
By: Casey Schwartz
3.10
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
What do we talk about when we talk about attention? We might start with the studies: the average Am… read more
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- memoir
- health
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- mental health
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- sociology
- science
