Stepping Back from the Ledge: A Daughter's Search for Truth and Renewal
By: Laura Trujillo
3.86
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In this “seismically moving memoir” ( The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice), one woman a…
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1. Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
By: Keri Blakinger
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“Brave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and rele… read more
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- memoir
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
2. Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness
By: Melissa Bond
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Brain on Fire meets High Achiever in this “page-turner memoir chronicling a woman’s accidental desc… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. Mother Noise
By: Cindy House
3.84
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, “raw[,] and tender” ( The New York Times Book Review ) memoir told in essays and graphi… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
4. Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings
By: Chrysta Bilton
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"One of the maddest memoirs you'll read this year... This beautiful, warm, funny book is a testamen… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
6. How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
By: Clancy Martin
3.71
Format: 431 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compu… read more
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- memoir
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. Sandy Hook
By: Elizabeth Williamson
4.29
Format: 482 pages, Hardcover
Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. The Hilarious World of Depression
By: John Moe
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For years John Moe, critically-acclaimed public radio personality and host of The Hilarious World o… read more
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- audiobook
"it makes sense when you think about the confluence of puberty hormones, stress from academics and the emergence of primitive appalling forms of dating, depression starts in your junior high."-John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression
"Novelist John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars among many other megaselling books, has struggled with [depression] for many years. "There is this weird perpetual hope," he told me, "not just a…"-John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression
"My dad loved telling ghost stories from the times he went camping with his father in Sweden. In one story they were driving on a country road at night and kept having to stop because they'd see feet …"-John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression
9. Everything Is Fine
By: Vince Granata
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Grief, mental illness, and the bonds of family are movingly explored in this extraordinary memoir “… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Eventually, I had no choice but to look at loss and pain, at all the pieces of my family's story that I didn't think I could ever understand. It was this process, recognizing the pieces, struggling t…"-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine
"In reality, memories are more feeling than fact. Though we want to think of our memories as one long record, the reel of our greatest hits, a memory is a constellation of infinitesimal changes, elect…"-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine
10. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
By: Rachel Louise Snyder
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more
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- audiobook
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
11. The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
By: Kyleigh Leddy
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
All Kait Leddy had ever wanted was a little sister. When Kyleigh was born, they were inseparable; K… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Only after we relinquish what is lost are we truly healed."-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
"For better and for worse, hope proves itself to be surprisingly resilient."-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
"No one tells you what a precious, fragile gift your mind is in the first place. No one tells you it can be lost."-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
"You wish there was an adequate term for what you are—like orphan or widower—a term that says 'I once meant something to somebody."-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
12. Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life
By: Delia Ephron
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-lif… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience
By: Jay Wellons
4.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
By: Meghan O'Rourke
4.03
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"As the chronically ill know, to be alive is to be in uncertainty."-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"Knowledge brings the hope of treatment or cure. And even if there is no cure, a diagnosis is a form of knowing (the word “diagnosis"-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"And so it is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of vague symptoms like fatigue and pain will be in search of a doctor who believes she is actually sick ."-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"Is illness, in any way, a lesson? Illness is a travesty; illness is shit; illness is not redemptive unless it happens to be for a particular ill person, for reasons that are not replicable nor should…"-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
15. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds
By: Michelle Horton
4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Fi: A Memoir of My Son
By: Alexandra Fuller
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
17. Acceptance: A Memoir
By: Emi Nietfeld
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, exami… read more
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- mental health
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Any exclusive system is a system of exclusion."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
"Everyone who dealt with disadvantaged kids, from therapists to college admissions officers, treated us as if we could overcome any abuse or neglect with sheer force of will."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
"Adults viewed suicidal ideation as a pathology. But for me it was logic. Weighing the bad against the good, projecting forward to decide if life was worth sticking around for."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
18. Beautiful Things: A Memoir
By: Hunter Biden
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love,” Hunter Bide… read more
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"I felt the astonishing luck of a man who'd agreed to meet a woman for coffee when it was all but impossible for him to leave a hotel room without a crack pipe in his hand, and who then fell in love a…"-Hunter Biden, Beautiful Things: A Memoir
"Dad swiftly learned that if he didn't put an opponent's character front and center, he often could find a way to change minds or work out a compromise. No one walks out of a meeting when you say, "I …"-Hunter Biden, Beautiful Things: A Memoir
19. Never Simple
By: Liz Scheier
3.73
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This gripping and darkly funny memoir “is a testament to the undeniable, indestructible love betwee… read more
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- memoir
- mental health
- mental illness
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Clearly I hadn't actually won the Shitty Family Olympics, just placed in the qualifiers. It could've been worse."-Liz Scheier, Never Simple
"Having a mentally ill parent meant simultaneously wrestling with a hard relationship while mourning the absence of the one you actually wanted."-Liz Scheier, Never Simple
20. The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice
By: Benjamin Gilmer
4.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A rural physician learns that a former doctor at his clinic committed a shocking crime, leading him… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
21. Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable
By: Zain E. Asher
4.43
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain E. Asher pays tribute to her mother’s strength… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After
By: Elizabeth Crane
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage an… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
By: Maud Newton
3.34
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her wildly unconventional Southern family–an… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing
By: Kathleen Buhle
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Kathleen Buhle shares her story of resilience and self-discovery after her marriage to Hunter Biden… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. 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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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live
By: Heather B. Armstrong
4.02
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Author and blogger Heather B. Armstrong writes about her experience as one of only a few people to … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"And just in case you didn't know this little tidbit about social interaction, let me fill you in on something: Do not ever comment on how or what or when a woman is eating anything. Don't do it. Beca…"-Heather B. Armstrong, The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live
27. By the Time You Read This: The Space between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words
By: April Simpkins
4.18
Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition
By the Time You Read This is the story former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst was about to publish before he… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival
By: Donald Antrim
3.79
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A searing and brave memoir that offers a new understanding of suicide as a distinct mental illness.… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. Nearly Departed: Adventures in Loss, Cancer, and Other Inconveniences
By: Gila Pfeffer
4.55
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
How far would you go to save your own life? In this funny and heartfelt memoir, Gila Pfeffer recoun… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
30. Stepping Back from the Ledge: A Daughter's Search for Truth and Renewal
By: Laura Trujillo
3.86
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In this “seismically moving memoir” ( The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice), one woman a… read more
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- memoir
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. Cher: The Memoir, Part One
By: Cher
4.47
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
THERE IS ONLY ONE CHER … … and for seven decades she has been showing us why. Cher holds the att… read more
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