Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say
By: Harriet Shawcross
3.51
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
'Compassionate' Guardian'Extremely affecting' ScotsmanAs a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped spea…
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1. So You've Been Publicly Shamed
By: Jon Ronson
3.93
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile pub… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
"The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"...all violence being a person’s attempt to replace shame with self-esteem."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"A wronged person is still a wronged person even if they're an unfashionable wronged person."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
By: Jean-Dominique Bauby , Jeremy Leggatt
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young child… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
3. Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
Laura Ingalls and her family live deep in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Their log cabin is surrounded… read more
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4. A Very Easy Death
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian
4.04
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"«A ella le gustaba la vida mundana y lo seguía alegremente»."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
"«No se muere de haber nacido, ni de haber vivido, ni de vejez. Se muere de "algo"»."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
"When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
"Sorumlusu olmadığım halde, benim olan, hiçbir zaman da bağışlatamayacağım bir günahın, umutsuzluk içinde, cezasını çekiyordum."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
5. Silver Sparrow
By: Tayari Jones
4.30
Format: None pages,
With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, "My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist," author Taya… read more
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6. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
By: Olivia Laing
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir and biography on the subject of loneliness told throu… read more
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7. When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
By: Gabor Maté
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In this accessible and groundbreaking book--filled with the moving stories of real people--medical … read more
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8. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
9. The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart
By: Ruth Behar
3.79
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Eloquently interweaving ethnography and memoir, award-winning anthropologist Ruth Behar offers a ne… read more
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10. Case Study
By: Graeme Macrae Burnet
3.60
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
“I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting … read more
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- psychology
"Forget about meaning’, he said. ‘Life’s not about meaning, it’s about experience."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"It is impossible to walk behind someone on a narrow cliff path without the idea of shoving them over the edge crossing one’s mind."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"To be in another country, speaking another language, was to be another person, and in being another person I felt for the first time that I was myself."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"Her handbag, he said, was found on the scene. I made a mental note to carry out a thorough spring clean of contents of my own bag before throwing myself in front of any trains."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
11. You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
By: Kate Murphy
4.08
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
Who listens to you? New York Times contributor Kate Murphy asked people on five continents this … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
"You’re not listening!"-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
"Silence is like white space in design, it surrounds what's important!"-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
"If someone is dull or uninteresting, it’s on you. You’re not listening."-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
"[E]verybody is interesting if you ask the right questions. If someone is dull or uninteresting, it's on you."-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
12. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
By: David von Drehle
4.00
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
One of our nation’s most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
13. Women & Power: A Manifesto
By: Mary Beard
4.03
Format: 115 pages, Hardcover
At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly att… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Nuestro modelo cultural y mental de persona poderosa sigue siendo irrevocablemente masculino"-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"I do wonder if, in some places, the presence of large numbers of women in parliament means that parliament is where the power is not."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"It was not all quite so simple, that real equality between women and men was still a thing of the future, and that there were causes for anger as well as for celebration."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"A verdade pura e dura é que as amazonas eram um mito grego masculino. (..) A ideia subjacente era que o dever dos homens consistia em salvar a civilização do domínio das mulheres."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
14. Elena Knows
By: Claudia Piñeiro
4.08
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individ… read more
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"¿Seguirá siendo madre ahora que no tiene hija?"-Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows
15. A Town Called Solace
By: Mary Lawson
4.02
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize A Town Called Solace--the brilliant and emotionally radian… read more
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"Here's a truth about marriage, he thought, staring at the ceiling at three in the morning. People should be warned: think twice before you take those vows, because there is nothing, absolutely nothin…"-Mary Lawson, A Town Called Solace
16. Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
By: Richard Shepherd
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
As the UK's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secre… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Although it is my job to be certain, I was unable that day, and am still unable, to escape a greater certainty: that there are always other possibilities."-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
"Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly…"-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
17. Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
By: Robin Ince
3.84
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with P… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"This is one of the wonders of books: the delight of being a species that can chronicle and preserve. I pick up a book from a shelf, and someone who is no more than ash or bone can still change me."-Robin Ince, Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
18. The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
By: Susannah Cahalan
3.64
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness-how do you diagnose it, how do you t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- psychology
19. The Leviathan
By: Rosie Andrews
3.48
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
She is awake... Norfolk, 1643. With civil war tearing England apart, reluctant soldier Thomas Tr… read more
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"Before leaving, I stopped to drip some water into my father’s mouth. I took one unresponsive hand in mine, willing him to understand. ‘A day, no more, and we will return with help for you. My oath up…"-Rosie Andrews, The Leviathan
20. Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
By: Christie Tate
3.81
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
The refreshingly original debut memoir of a guarded, over-achieving, self-lacerating young lawyer w… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- psychology
"If you can't say no in relationships, then you can't be intimate"-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
"I recognized the familiar feeling of warmth and safety that settled after the rush of emotional risk."-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
"I wept...for how deeply afraid I was that my life would never truly change or, worse, that true change would ask more of me than I could give."-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
"I released a secret, not caring who in my family. might abandon me, because I finally understood that keeping the secret was an act of abandoning myself."-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
21. The Safekeep
By: Yael van der Wouden
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more
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22. The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday
By: Rob Walker
3.78
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A thought-provoking, gorgeously illustrated gift book that will spark your creativity and help you … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
23. The Dinner List
By: Rebecca Serle
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
We’ve been waiting for an hour. That’s what Audrey says. She states it with a little bit of an edge… read more
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"It never occurred to me that fate might not be forever."-Rebecca Serle, The Dinner List
"Consistent contentment rarely makes for good storytelling."-Rebecca Serle, The Dinner List
"We're so close to the previous minute; how hard would it be to just turn back the clock? To just quickly undo what has just been done?"-Rebecca Serle, The Dinner List
"That's the thing about life -- these moments that define us emerge out of nothing. A missed call. A trip down the stairs. A car accident. They happen in a moment, a breath."-Rebecca Serle, The Dinner List
24. Sorrow and Bliss
By: Meg Mason
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
This novel is about a woman called Martha. She knows there is something wrong with her but she does… read more
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"We hugged each other like two people who had no practical experience of embracing, had only taught themselves the theory from a poorly worded manual."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"I have been unbearable but I have never been unloved. I have felt alone but I have never been alone and I've been forgiven for the unforgiveable things I have done."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"I have never understood why people think of champagne as celebratory rather than medicinal. (...) Surely the only time one needs one's blood effervesced is when life is utterly flat."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"After Barbara’s Contentious Divorce, Everyone Felt Genuinely Hurt, Including Justifiably Kin Left Melancholically Noting Or Perhaps Questioning Rumours Suggesting That, Unannounced, Vincent’d Wed an …"-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
25. The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind
By: Jonah Berger
3.93
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the author of New York Times bestsellers Contagious and Invisible Influence comes a revolution… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
"Letting potential hires choose which dimension is more important makes them feel like they have more of an active role in the process—and hopefully satisfies their need to negotiate. By letting candi…"-Jonah Berger, The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind
"Try to convince people to do something, and they spend a lot of time counterarguing. Thinking about all the various reasons why it’s a bad idea or why something else would be better. Why they don’t w…"-Jonah Berger, The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind
26. A Naturalist At Large: The Best Essays of Bernd Heinrich
By: Bernd Heinrich
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From one of the finest scientist/writers of our time comes an engaging record of a life spent in cl… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
27. Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say
By: Harriet Shawcross
3.51
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
'Compassionate' Guardian'Extremely affecting' ScotsmanAs a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped spea… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- nonfiction
- disability
