This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire: A Memoir
By: Nick Flynn
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When Nick Flynn was seven years old, his mother set fire to their house. The event loomed large in …
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1. Hard Light (Cass Neary, #3)
By: Elizabeth Hand
3.89
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
As her passionately devoted fans know, Elizabeth Hand is a uniquely gifted storyteller. Readers wer… read more
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2. Sag Harbor
By: Colson Whitehead
3.33
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
The warm, funny, and supremely original new novel from one of the most acclaimed writers in America… read more
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3. Generation Loss (Cass Neary, #1)
By: Elizabeth Hand
3.00
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
Cass Neary made her name in the 1970s as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in… read more
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4. Autobiography of a Face
By: Lucy Grealy
3.69
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years bei… read more
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5. Goodbye, Vitamin
By: Rachel Khong
4.29
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Goodbye, Vitamin is the wry, beautifully observed story of a woman at a crossroads, as Ruth and her… read more
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6. This Boy's Life
By: Tobias Wolff
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff… read more
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7. Available Dark (Cass Neary, #2)
By: Elizabeth Hand
4.10
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
"Shimmers with gorgeous writing even as it scares the dickens out of you." --Tess Gerritsen Photogr… read more
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8. 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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"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
9. Family Meal
By: Bryan Washington
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel abo… read more
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10. An American Childhood
By: Annie Dillard
3.91
Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition
Annie Dillard remembers. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having… read more
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"I myself was both observer and observable, and so a possible object of my own humming awareness."-Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
"Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world."-Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
"Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit."-Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
"Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place; there are ideas worth dy…"-Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
11. Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
By: Isaac Fitzgerald
3.59
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, … read more
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12. Organ Meats
By: K-Ming Chang
3.35
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Two girls are bound by red string and canine heritage in this vivid tale about female companionship… read more
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13. Kill All Your Darlings
By: David Bell
3.66
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
After years of struggling to write following the deaths of his wife and son, English professor Conn… read more
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14. Girlhood
By: Melissa Febos
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and … read more
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"Nature isn't cruel, but unconcerned with human frailty."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
"My wonder was bottomless for the world empty of stories, mine alone to name."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
"I have since learned that recognizing the invisible parts of oneself in another person can feel like a radiant kind of love."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
"My poor body. My precious body. How had I let her be treated this way? My body was me. To hate my own body was to suffer from an autoimmune disease of the mind."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
15. To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories
By: Sarah Viren
3.52
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Part coming-of-age story, part psychological thriller, part philosophical investigation, this unfor… read more
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16. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir
By: Anna Marie Tendler
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the live… read more
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17. Heretic: A Memoir
By: Jeanna Kadlec
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of leaving the Evangelical church, reckoning with religious trauma while also interrogatin… read more
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"...Mary Lambert is singing "Love is patient, love is kind" from 1 Corinthians 13 over and over, repeating "Not crying on Sundays," and I am gone, head fully turned and staring out the car window, try…"-Jeanna Kadlec, Heretic: A Memoir
18. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
19. A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter
By: Carolyn Hays
4.22
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
A parent’s love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is. One ordinary day, … read more
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"Each time I offered boyhood, you rejected it. It was simple and easy for you. But for our culture, it was radical. What I was just beginning to understand in a blurry intuitive way, a series of sketc…"-Carolyn Hays, A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter
"At the first trans health conference I ever attended, a parent asked about long-term health risks for people taking hormones. The doctor gave a full assessment of issues that trans men face; many of …"-Carolyn Hays, A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter
20. Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir
By: Jeannie Vanasco
3.91
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Jeannie Vanasco has had the same nightmare since she was a teenager. She startles awake, saying his… read more
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21. This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire: A Memoir
By: Nick Flynn
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When Nick Flynn was seven years old, his mother set fire to their house. The event loomed large in … read more
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