13 must-read memoir books like The Only Way Through Is Out by Suzette Mullen

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The Only Way Through Is Out

By: Suzette Mullen

4.53

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

Suzette Mullen had been raised to play it safe—and she hated causing others pain. With college and …

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Cover of Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward

1. Men We Reaped: A Memoir

By: Jesmyn Ward

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

'...And then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"But this grief, for all its awful weight, insists that he matters."

-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir

"But my father could be dark too. He was attracted to violence, to the basic beauty of fighting, the way it turned his body and those he fought into meticulously constructed machines."

-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir

"Men’s bodies litter my family history. The pain of the women they left behind pulls them from the beyond, makes them appear as ghosts. In death, they transcend he circumstances of this place that I l…"

-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir

"Some of them were my friends, and they never took up for me, for Black people, when I was in the room. And according to what some of them told me in private conversation, they didn't when I wasn't in…"

-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir

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2. I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This

By: Nadja Spiegelman

3.63

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A memoir of mothers and daughters--and mothers as daughters--traced through four generations, from … read more

Similar categories in Nadja Spiegelman's I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This book and Suzette Mullen's The Only Way Through Is Out

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

3. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina

By: Michaela DePrince , Elaine DePrince

3.80

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary memoir of Michaela DePrince, a young dancer who escaped war-torn Sierra Leone for… read more

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4. 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
  • memoir
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5. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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6. 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

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7. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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8. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

By: Uché Blackstock

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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9. Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)

By: Pooja Lakshmin

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From board-certified psychiatrist and women's mental health specialist Pooja Lakshmin, MD, comes a … read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

By: Laura McKowen

4.33

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

"A masterpiece. The truest, most generous, honest, and helpful sobriety memoir I’ve read. It’s goin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Maybe it’s helpful to linger there for a minute, in the terrible and the necessary. To start to see them as the same. Maybe in this way, pain is not such a problem"

-Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

"The typical question is, Is this bad enough for me to have to change? The question we should be asking is, Is this good enough for me to stay the same? And the real question underneath it all is, Am …"

-Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

"The truest story - the one that will always be truest - is that I am a human being, being human. Sometimes, I am my best self. Sometimes, not so much. But goddamn, I am trying to do better. I am alwa…"

-Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

"Lying and withholding is the cheapest, easiest way to control others. You control their perception, control their response to you, control who you need them to be, In telling the truth, I was surrend…"

-Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

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11. Did I Ever Tell You?

By: Genevieve Kingston

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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12. The Origins of You: How Breaking Family Patterns Can Liberate the Way We Live and Love

By: Vienna Pharaon

4.43

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From licensed therapist and popular Instagram relationship expert Vienna Phara… read more

Similar categories in Vienna Pharaon's The Origins of You: How Breaking Family Patterns Can Liberate the Way We Live and Love book and Suzette Mullen's The Only Way Through Is Out

  • nonfiction
Cover of End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir by Meghan Riordan Jarvis

13. End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

By: Meghan Riordan Jarvis

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized by loss? Esteemed trauma therapist Meghan Riord… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"If I could stop getting caught in the old cobwebs of disappointment and accept my dad as he was, I might enjoy myself too. In the emotional tumbling routine of my father slowly dying, I did manage to…"

-Meghan Riordan Jarvis, End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

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14. Consent: A Memoir

By: Jill Ciment

3.96

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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15. When We Were Silent

By: Fiona McPhillips

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An outsider threatens to expose the secrets at an elite private school in this suspenseful debut no… read more

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"I'm not here for prestige. I'm here for revenge."

-Fiona McPhillips, When We Were Silent

"The body remembers everything the mind wants to forget."

-Fiona McPhillips, When We Were Silent

"In the end, we're the ones who have to live with the stories we tell ourselves."

-Fiona McPhillips, When We Were Silent

"That was always the one thing Highfield valued more than grades, more than silverware or celebrity alumni: silence."

-Fiona McPhillips, When We Were Silent

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16. The Fixed Stars

By: Molly Wizenberg

3.69

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From a bestselling memoirist, a thoughtful and provocative story of changing identity, complex sexu… read more

Similar categories in Molly Wizenberg's The Fixed Stars book and Suzette Mullen's The Only Way Through Is Out

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"She walked the line between man and woman, smudged it under her foot."

-Molly Wizenberg, The Fixed Stars

"Do not marry someone who will not go to therapy, both on their own and with you. Refusing to go to therapy with your partner is like looking the other way when they're drowning."

-Molly Wizenberg, The Fixed Stars

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17. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

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18. Rejection: Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more

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"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"

-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction

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19. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

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20. The Only Way Through Is Out

By: Suzette Mullen

4.53

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

Suzette Mullen had been raised to play it safe—and she hated causing others pain. With college and … read more

Similar categories in Suzette Mullen's The Only Way Through Is Out book and Suzette Mullen's The Only Way Through Is Out

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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21. Sky Full of Elephants

By: Cebo Campbell

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college prof… read more

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15 Best nonfiction books like The Only Way Through Is Out by Suzette Mullen

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Men We Reaped: A Memoir

Jesmyn Ward

4.30

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I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This

Nadja Spiegelman

3.63

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Splinters

Leslie Jamison

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Transform Your Habits

My Friends

Hisham Matar

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Safekeep

Yael van der Wouden

4.08

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