5 best-selling biography memoir books like A Year Right Here: Adventures with Food and Family in the Great Nearby by Jess Thomson

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A Year Right Here: Adventures with Food and Family in the Great Nearby

By: Jess Thomson

3.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Armed with "The Here List" and a Type-A personality, Seattle-based writer and cookbook author Jess …

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1. A Tale for the Time Being

By: Ruth Ozeki

4.06

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and h… read more

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"Maketa,"

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

"Live. For Now. For the time being."

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

"True freedom comes from being unknown."

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

"Forget the clock. It has no power over time."

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

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2. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

By: Sy Montgomery

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery… read more

Similar categories in Sy Montgomery's The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness book and Jess Thomson's A Year Right Here: Adventures with Food and Family in the Great Nearby

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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3. My Name Is Lucy Barton

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The profound mother-daughter bond is explored through a mother's hospital visit to her estranged da… read more

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4. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"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

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5. Our Wives Under the Sea

By: Julia Armfield

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more

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"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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6. Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion

By: Gabrielle Stanley Blair

4.51

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in p… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Stanley Blair's Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion book and Jess Thomson's A Year Right Here: Adventures with Food and Family in the Great Nearby

  • nonfiction
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7. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

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8. Happy-Go-Lucky

By: David Sedaris

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” ( Los Angeles Times ) returns with his first new collect… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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9. Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

By: Nora McInerny

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Nora McInerny does not dance like no one is watching. In fact, she dances like everyone is watching… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"He can say he forgives me, sure, but I know better. In therapy, I work on forgiving myself."

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

"How frightening to know that your brain can betray you this way, that the vessel for our sense of self is often faulty and prone to error. How awful to know that death may come for us over and over, …"

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

"To admit this—a hopelessly unfashionable addiction to the appearance of my body—is a crime in some circles. It's much more becoming to "embrace your flaws" or—even better—to not see your body's flaws…"

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

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10. The Personal Librarian

By: Marie Benedict

4.06

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780593101537.The remarkable, little-known story of … read more

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"They have no idea the fierceness that lurks within your petite frame."

-Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

"I am searching for one thing—a connection, however fleeting, to anchor me."

-Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

"And being a woman, I know that I must do my job twice as well as any man to be thought half as good."

-Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

"I feel him, too. I suppose he was always larger than life, so we shouldn’t expect death to eradicate him from our existence."

-Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

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11. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

By: Stephanie Foo

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma book and Jess Thomson's A Year Right Here: Adventures with Food and Family in the Great Nearby

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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12. Bewilderment

By: Richard Powers

3.92

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. A heartrending new novel from the … read more

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"Someday we'll learn again how to train on this living place, and holding still will be like flying."

-Richard Powers, Bewilderment

"Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom."

-Richard Powers, Bewilderment

"He wanted drama and showdown and righteous calls for justice from concerned citizens. Instead, he got America."

-Richard Powers, Bewilderment

"Apparently God had made life on one planet only, and only one country of that planet's dominant species needed to manage it."

-Richard Powers, Bewilderment

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13. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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14. Florida

By: Lauren Groff

3.77

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida—its lan… read more

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"All things nauseating and deadly are American, apparently. Well, okay, she can't disagree."

-Lauren Groff, Florida

"She's a novelist, which is tantamount to being a one woman card catalogue for useless knowledge."

-Lauren Groff, Florida

"Of all the places in the world, she belongs in Florida. How dispiriting to learn this of herself."

-Lauren Groff, Florida

"She is exhausting to everyone. She would take a break from herself, too, but she doesn't have that option."

-Lauren Groff, Florida

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15. And Yet: Poems

By: Kate Baer

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind… read more

Similar categories in Kate Baer's And Yet: Poems book and Jess Thomson's A Year Right Here: Adventures with Food and Family in the Great Nearby

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Let your life rest on what is already good."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

"It's just another day in the good-bad, bad-good earth machine."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

"We expect so much of children, hovering above them like giant, invincible gods. What a racket to discover as an adult, how little we have to pass down."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

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16. The Great Believers

By: Rebecca Makkai

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chic… read more

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"Ageism is the only self-correcting prejudice, isn’t it?"

-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

"Boys with hands in pockets, waiting for everything to begin"

-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

"Listen, direct action—direct action is the third best feeling in the world."

-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

"And when you came here from Heaven, you left the door open so he could go out."

-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

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17. A Year Right Here: Adventures with Food and Family in the Great Nearby

By: Jess Thomson

3.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Armed with "The Here List" and a Type-A personality, Seattle-based writer and cookbook author Jess … read more

Similar categories in Jess Thomson's A Year Right Here: Adventures with Food and Family in the Great Nearby book and Jess Thomson's A Year Right Here: Adventures with Food and Family in the Great Nearby

  • memoir
  • cookbooks
  • biography memoir
  • cooking
  • nonfiction
  • food

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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

Sy Montgomery

4.33

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Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer

3.79

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Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion

Gabrielle Stanley Blair

4.51

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David Sedaris

4.17

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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

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Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

Catherine Gildiner

4.46

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Meg Kissinger

4.28

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Sloane Crosley

3.91

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