The Light Streamed Beneath It: A Memoir of Grief and Celebration
By: Shawn Hitchins
4.05
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
A modern gay memoir exploring love, death, pain, and community that will resonate long after the la…
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1. Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
By: Johann Hari
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
New York TimesBestseller It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United St… read more
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- nonfiction
2. Swing Time
By: Zadie Smith
4.16
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: abou… read more
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- audiobook
3. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
4. Good Me, Bad Me
By: Ali Land
3.14
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Good Me Bad Me is dark, compelling, voice-driven psychological suspense by debut author Ali Land. H… read more
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5. More Happy Than Not
By: Adam Silvera
2.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Part Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, part Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Un… read more
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6. Making It So
By: Patrick Stewart
4.33
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From h… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. 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
8. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.37
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. 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
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
By: Amanda Montell
3.85
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultis… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Without language, there are no "cults"."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"Some say people who join cults are “lost."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"With words, we breathe reality into being."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"The nimble direct sales industry always finds a way to reinvent itself - the capitalist cockroach that just won't stop reincarnating."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
11. Pageboy
By: Elliot Page
3.75
Format: 271 pages, None
Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
12. Sociopath: A Memoir
By: Patric Gagne
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
13. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Five Little Indians
By: Michelle Good
4.48
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential sch… read more
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- audiobook
15. Butter Honey Pig Bread
By: Francesca Ekwuyasi
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tel… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
"Death is only a doorway."-Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread
16. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
17. A Place for Us: A Memoir
By: Brandon J. Wolf
4.32
Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of the most vital and passionate LGBTQ+ activists comes a powerful memoir about self-disco… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy―and the Sister She Betrayed
By: Jim Popkin
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
10 hours, 24 minutes The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most damaging female spy in U… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
19. Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum
By: Michael McCreary
3.78
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Slaying autism stereotypes with stand-up, one joke at a time. Like many others on the autism spectr… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Having autism is a characteristic, not a character."-Michael McCreary, Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum
"I was diagnosed with autism at the age of five. I wasn't diagnosed as a comedian until much later."-Michael McCreary, Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum
20. The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
By: Hadley Vlahos
4.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories of joy… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
21. Bestiary
By: K-Ming Chang
3.44
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this sp… read more
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- lgbt
"It was a relief to love something already dead."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"Don't tell me how it ends yet. Tell me that it doesn't."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"The fog smelled like fucking, like us, like our sweat fermented into sweet pudding"-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"The only man you should marry is the moon, [...], so you can divorce it every morning."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
22. Stone Fruit
By: Lee Lai
4.06
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-… read more
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- lgbt
23. Man o' War
By: Cory McCarthy
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An achingly honest and frequently hilarious coming-of-age novel about an Arab American trans swimme… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
"Not all trans people started out feeling like a different gender trapped in their skin. Some find themself a little at a time, a door inside that unlocks and reveals new doors, and new doors after th…"-Cory McCarthy, Man o' War
24. The Better Sister
By: Alafair Burke
3.79
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
From Alafair Burke—New York Times bestselling author of the runaway hit, The Wife—comes another twi… read more
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- audiobook
25. From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
By: Jesse Thistle
4.50
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle—once a high school dropout and now … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. Do You Mind If I Cancel?: Things That Still Annoy Me
By: Gary Janetti
3.50
Format: 159 pages, Hardcover
Gary Janetti, the writer and producer for some of the most popular television comedies of all time,… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
By: Alicia Elliott
4.42
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from award… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"If intergenerational trauma can alter DNA, why can’t intergenerational love?"-Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
28. Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult
By: Michelle Dowd
3.70
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A moving, heartbreaking, and inspiring true story of the author’s escape from an apocalyptic cult—a… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. The Farm
By: Joanne Ramos
3.49
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
Nestled in the Hudson Valley is a sumptuous retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, private … read more
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- audiobook
"The problem is that she is too pretty. When you are too pretty, the other parts of you do not become strong."-Joanne Ramos, The Farm
"And suddenly she is exhausted. And sad. A sadness so vast she feels like she is drowning in it... Because nothing is going to change."-Joanne Ramos, The Farm
30. Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service
By: Tajja Isen
3.88
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In nine daring essays, essayist and award-winning voice actor Tajja Isen explores the absurdity of … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
31. The Light Streamed Beneath It: A Memoir of Grief and Celebration
By: Shawn Hitchins
4.05
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
A modern gay memoir exploring love, death, pain, and community that will resonate long after the la… read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
