11 must-read memoir books like Take You Wherever You Go by Kenny Leon

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Take You Wherever You Go

By: Kenny Leon

3.93

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From Tony Award-winning director and recipient of the prestigious Mr. Abbott Award, Kenny Leon, com…

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1. Lily and the Octopus

By: Steven Rowley

3.73

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Combining the emotional depth of The Art of Racing in the Rain with the magical spirit of The Life … read more

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"What’s wrong with Tuesdays?"

-Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus

"I have to be better about living in the not knowing."

-Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus

"There's no shame in surrender when it's time to stop fighting."

-Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus

"I always thought Peter Pan was death. An angel of death who came to collect children."

-Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus

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2. Our Town

By: Thornton Wilder , Donald Margulies , Tappan Wilder

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Our Townwas first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama… read more

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3. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

By: bell hooks

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between variou… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Dear Martin

By: Nic Stone

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Raw, captivating, and undeniably real, Nic Stone joins industry giants Jason Reynolds and Walter De… read more

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5. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

By: Sherman Alexie , Ellen Forney

3.70

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the… read more

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6. Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway

By: Michael Riedel

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

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  • nonfiction

7. Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

By: None , Mark Olshaker

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

He has hunted some of the most notorious and sadistic criminals of our time: The Trailside Killer i… read more

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8. Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

By: Jewel

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

New York Times best-selling poet and multiplatinum singer-songwriter Jewel explores her unconventio… read more

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9. Mockingbird

By: Kathryn Erskine

3.57

Format: 432 pages,

In Caitlin's world, everything is black or white. Things are good or bad. Anything in between is co… read more

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10. The Changeling

By: Victor LaValle

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

One man's thrilling journey through an enchanted world to find his wife, who has disappeared after … read more

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11. The Murder Rule

By: Dervla McTiernan

3.67

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

For fans of the compulsive psychological suspense of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a mother daughter s… read more

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"Because it has to be done. Because if you see something like this, and you can fix it, then it’s your mess to clean up."

-Dervla McTiernan, The Murder Rule

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12. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

By: Liz Cheney

4.60

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers be… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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13. My Name Is Barbra

By: Barbra Streisand

4.20

Format: 1040 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television. Barbra St… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Fame is a hollow trophy. No matter who you are, you can only eat one pastrami sandwich at a time."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"Once again I was struck by the power of music. Somehow, it can be the connective tissue between souls."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"There are some things I hope we can all agree upon: The antidote to lies is truth, the remedy to war is peace, and the solution to hate is love."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"Language gives us an insight into the way women are viewed in a male-dominated society . . . A man is commanding—a woman is demanding. A man is forceful—a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising—a wo…"

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

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14. Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

By: Henry Winkler

4.14

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply tho… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"It’s so funny about time - you get into these nice little grooves with people you love, and you think it’ll go on forever. But time goes so fast, and nothing goes on forever."

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

"If you don't nail your feet to the ground, you can just believe - and you want to believe. It's so enticing. It felt so good. You could just become a gigantic balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade a…"

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

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15. 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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16. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

By: Nikole Hannah-Jones

4.62

Format: 590 pages, Hardcover

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a revealing vision of the American past and present. … read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Ten Steps to Nanette

By: Hannah Gadsby

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared tha… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Nanette is basically Eat Pray Love for autistic queer folk."

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"So, I will just share it here, because I truly believe that the only universal “body"

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"It really is something when you can make collecting and organising objects boring to a young kid with autism spectrum disorder (but that’s exactly what Stamp Explorer managed to do)."

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"And I needed my audience to trust me because I needed my audience to feel safe, and I needed my audience to feel safe so that I could take that safety away and not give it back. Why? Because that is …"

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

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18. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

By: Heather McGhee

4.63

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

Heather McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the Am… read more

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  • nonfiction
"They have to make Americans afraid of one another. They're exploiting fear in America to sell guns."

-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

"Ultimately, an economy, the rules we abide by and set for what's fair and who merits what, is an expression of our moral understanding."

-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

"Instead of being blind to race, color blindness makes people blind to racism, unwilling to acknowledge where its effects have shaped opportunity or to use race-conscious solutions to address it."

-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

"It's often unconscious, but their perception of The Other as undeserving is so important to their perception of themselves as deserving that they'll tear apart the web that supports everyone, includi…"

-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

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19. Anthem

By: Noah Hawley

3.51

Format: 427 pages, Hardcover

An epic literary thriller set where America is right now, in which a band of unlikely heroes sets o… read more

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20. Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

By: Lulu Miller

4.16

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

A wondrous debut from an extraordinary new voice in nonfiction, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"There is grandeur in this view,"

-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

"In every organism at which you gaze, there is complexity you will never comprehend."

-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

"We are specks, flickering in and out of existence, with no significance to the cosmos."

-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

"When people have this feeling of personal inefficiency, compulsive collecting helps them in feeling better."

-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

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21. Joan Is Okay

By: Weike Wang

3.67

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be… read more

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"I wasn't a genius in the end, but a girl could still hope."

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

"A woman who twirls her hair while speaking is a woman never to be taken seriously"

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

"The average Joe in America is expected to move 11.3 times in his life. Who knows about Average Jane."

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

"Proud to be an American, a feeling that I lacked but also a phrase that I didn't think applied to me."

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

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22. The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet

By: Nell McShane Wulfhart

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The empowering true story of a group of spirited stewardesses who "stood up to huge corporations an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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23. We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

By: Simu Liu

4.35

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Marvel's newest recruit shares his own inspiring and unexpected origin story, from China to the bri… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Nobody forced us to come here,"

-Simu Liu, We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

"Canada is not unilaterally friendly, nor is “friendly"

-Simu Liu, We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

"Acting, like life, gets a bit stale when you only make safe choices."

-Simu Liu, We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

"Jared had taught me the value of swinging for the fences and being the master of my own destiny."

-Simu Liu, We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

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24. The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

By: Jamie Ford

3.87

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Washington’s former poet laureate, that’s how sh… read more

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"Don't change. Instead change the world."

-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

"We don't have to grieve only those we know. Sometimes we grieve for that which was lost. That which was never allowed to be."

-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

"The bandleader sang 'Every time I see a crowd of people, just like a fool, I stop and stare. It's really not the proper thing to do, but maybe you'll be there."

-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

"Karma is more like a suitcase. You have to be unafraid to open it up and look at what's inside, to unpack the things you do not need. Karma is the climate of the past which shapes how much leeway we …"

-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

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25. A Children's Bible

By: Lydia Millet

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A Children’s Bible follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their… read more

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"The nuclear threat. So quaint."

-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible

"Once we lived in a summer country."

-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible

"I felt an itch and thought, Is there a tick crawling on me? Right this minute? Burrowing into my skin? And then I thought, Wait. Forget the tick. Why are we always complaining? We get to be alive."

-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible

"If you could be nothing, you could also be everything. Once my molecules had dispersed, I would be here forever. Free. Part of the timeless. The sky and the ocean would also be me. Molecules never di…"

-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible

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26. Land of Milk and Honey

By: C Pam Zhang

3.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more

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" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

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27. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

By: Anderson Cooper

3.77

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting histor… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life by Sutton Foster

28. Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life

By: Sutton Foster

4.10

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

From the 2-time Tony Award-winner and the star of TV’s Younger , funny and intimate stories and ref… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of So Happy for You by Celia Laskey

29. So Happy for You

By: Celia Laskey

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A wedding weekend spirals out of control in this bold, electrifying, hilarious novel about the comp… read more

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Cover of Conversations with People Who Hate Me: 12 Things I Learned from Talking to Internet Strangers by Dylan Marron

30. Conversations with People Who Hate Me: 12 Things I Learned from Talking to Internet Strangers

By: Dylan Marron

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

​From the host of the award-winning, critically acclaimed podcast Conversations with People Who Hat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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31. Take You Wherever You Go

By: Kenny Leon

3.93

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From Tony Award-winning director and recipient of the prestigious Mr. Abbott Award, Kenny Leon, com… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

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