The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography
By: Hilary Holladay
4.24
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive biography of Adrienne Rich, feminist and queer icon and internationally rev…
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1. The Dream of a Common Language
By: Adrienne Rich
4.33
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
"The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman's heart and mind in language for e… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
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- nonfiction
- womens
- queer
"and they still control the world, and you are not in my arms."-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
"I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings"-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
"but from here on I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening -from "A Woman Dead in Her Forties"-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
"We stayed mute and disloyal because we were afraid I would have touched my fingers to where your breasts had been but we never did such things"-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
2. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
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3. Between the Acts
By: Virginia Woolf
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more
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4. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
By: Sappho , Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more
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- poetry
- queer
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5. Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife
By: Pamela Bannos
4.10
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
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6. Journal of a Solitude
By: May Sarton
3.91
Format: 2 pages, Paperback
"I am here alone for the first time in weeks," May Sarton begins this book, "to take up my 'real' l… read more
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7. Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty
By: Phoebe Hoban
3.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Alice Neel liked to say that she wasthe century and in many ways she was. She was born into a prope… read more
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8. The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language
By: Natalie Goldberg
2.88
Format: 29 pages, ebook
Sit. Walk. Write. These are the barest bones of Natalie Goldberg's revolutionary writing and life p… read more
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9. The Franchise Affair (Inspector Alan Grant, #3)
By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Robert Blair was about to knock off from a slow day at his law firm when the phone rang. It was Mar… read more
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10. Thunderstruck
By: Erik Larson
3.77
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
The interwoven stories of two men whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal cases o… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
11. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more
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12. 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
- audiobook
13. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
14. Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
By: John Guy
4.16
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
“A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumst… read more
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- audiobook
15. More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
By: Molly Roden Winter
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An unputdownable memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that follows a happily married mother'… read more
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- audiobook
"There is something pathetic about crying within the first minute of therapy"-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
"I worry that things are going too well, that they're all going to come toppling down."-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
"Why do I keep doing this? Why can't I stop this stupid pleasing everyone bullshit? I'm so fucking sick of myself."-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
16. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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17. Last Summer on State Street
By: Toya Wolfe
4.22
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Brit Bennett, a striking coming-of-age debut about friendship, c… read more
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18. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
By: Jonathan Rosen
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more
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"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
19. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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- audiobook
20. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
By: Cathy Park Hong
4.21
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more
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"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
21. Strangers on a Train
By: Patricia Highsmith
3.73
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Hig… read more
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"The word “marriage"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"I know that Southern redhead type,"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm."-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
22. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
By: Heather Clark
4.58
Format: 1154 pages, ebook
The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material,… read more
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- biography
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- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I lust for him, and in my mind I am ripped to bits by the words he welds and wields...and glory in the temporary sun of his ruthless force."-Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
"She was, [Wilfrid Riley] recalled, "a very clever person, but you couldn't be at ease with her some way. She wasn't with you. She was up in the clouds, always studying poetry, what have you . . . You…"-Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
23. Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
By: Margo Jefferson
3.77
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperament… read more
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24. Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
By: Mary L. Trump
3.82
Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, M… read more
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- audiobook
25. Bear
By: Julia Phillips
3.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more
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"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."-Julia Phillips, Bear
"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"-Julia Phillips, Bear
26. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
By: Mark O'Connell
3.74
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more
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- biography
- audiobook
27. The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life
By: Mark Epstein
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable exploration of the therapeutic relationship, Dr. Mark Epstein reflects on one year's w… read more
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- memoir
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28. The Young H.G. Wells: Changing The World
By: Claire Tomalin
3.58
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed literary biographer Claire Tomalin, a complex and fascinating exploration of the ear… read more
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29. Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
By: Alexander Nemerov
3.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth-century's most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
30. Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
By: Heather Havrilesky
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating, poignant, and savagely funny examination of modern marriage from Ask Polly advice … read more
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- memoir
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"I wasn’t sure I wanted to spend forever with anyone, least of all myself."-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
"But we weren’t married yet, so he still thought he could do whatever he wanted."-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
"Forever is two immortal elves, sipping pink champagne by a burbling stream, then exploring the wild, gorgeous woods around them in everlasting harmony. Forever is set in New Zealand, not New Jersey."-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
"I wrote this book to explore that tedium, along with everything else that marriage brings: the feeling of safety, the creeping darkness, the raw fear and suspense of growing older together, the tiny …"-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
31. The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography
By: Hilary Holladay
4.24
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive biography of Adrienne Rich, feminist and queer icon and internationally rev… read more
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