What Is a Dog?: A Memoir
By: Chloe Shaw
3.68
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
On the heels of her family’s beloved dog’s death, one woman returns to the canines of her past in o…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Clearly the Good Guy is also a Dog Guy."-Chloe Shaw, What Is a Dog?: A Memoir
"It's always felt curative, walking the dogs. Ever since middle school, when I took over the job of walking Agatha, I've felt many a problem solved in the quiet, steady transmissions through a leash. If having a child is like watching your heart walk around outside your body, then walking a dog is like walking your heart. In walking dogs, my heart endures. There is the satisfaction of offering them something so pleasurable to them, but it's also being witness to it, observing them from the inside out like a field scientist making rapt note of how a dog transcribes a road."-Chloe Shaw, What Is a Dog?: A Memoir
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1. Last Stop on Market Street
By: Matt de la Peña , Christian Robinson
4.30
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
"Sometimes when you're surrounded by dirt, CJ, you're a better witness for what's beautiful." CJ… read more
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"He wondered how his nana always found beautiful where he never even thought to look."-Matt de la Peña, Last Stop on Market Street
"Sometimes when you're surrounded by dirt...you're a better witness for what's beautiful."-Matt de la Peña, Last Stop on Market Street
"Nana, how come we don't got a car?' 'Boy, what do we need a car for? We got a bus that breathes fire, and old Mr. Daniels, who always has a trick for you."-Matt de la Peña, Last Stop on Market Street
2. Hannah Coulter
By: Wendell Berry
4.38
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more
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- audiobook
"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
3. The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
3.94
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of Outsidemagazine's "Literary All-Stars" comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boa… read more
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- nonfiction
4. 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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- audiobook
5. To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
By: Olivia Laing
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. On… read more
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6. Mothers of Sparta: A Memoir in Pieces
By: None
4.54
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
Discovered by Michael Ondaatje, Davies' dazzling literary memoir has shades of Mary Karr, Anne Lamo… read more
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7. Red Bird
By: Mary Oliver
2.83
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
Red bird came all winter / firing up the landscape / as nothing else could. So begins Mary Oliver's… read more
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8. Salvage the Bones
By: Jesmyn Ward
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for FictionA hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, … read more
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9. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
By: Margaret Atwood
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of … read more
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- audiobook
"Many things get broken in a war."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Holiness is a form of monstrosity"-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"They're dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
10. Little Witch Hazel: A Year in the Forest
By: Phoebe Wahl
4.64
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
An earthy and beautiful collection of four stories that celebrate the seasons, nature, and life, fr… read more
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- animals
11. Every Dog in the Neighborhood
By: Philip C. Stead
4.36
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Louis and his eccentric Grandma set out to count every dog in the neighborhood when they find out a… read more
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- animals
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12. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
By: Eve Babitz
4.10
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more
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"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
13. Between Two Trailers
By: J. Dana Trent
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more
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- memoir
- autobiography
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- audiobook
14. The Immortal King Rao
By: Vauhini Vara
3.67
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmer… read more
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- audiobook
15. I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
By: Anne Bogel
4.02
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our boo… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"Just as I’m all the ages I have been, I’m all the readers I have been."-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"For everyone who’s ever finished a book under the covers with a flashlight when they were supposed to be sleeping."-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"A good book, when we return to it, will always have something new to say. It's not the same book, and we're not the same reader"-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"With apologies to Kathleen Kelly, what I've come to learn is this: if my real life reminds me of something I read in a book , I'm reading well -- and I'm probably living well, too."-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
16. The Power of Ritual: How to Create Meaning and Connection in Everything You Do
By: Casper ter Kuile
3.88
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Ter Kuile, cohost of the podcast Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, demonstrates in his thoughtful d… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"That's what this book is all about--taking things we do every day and layering meaning and ritual onto them, even experiences as ordinary as reading or eating--by thinking of them as spiritual practi…"-Casper ter Kuile, The Power of Ritual: How to Create Meaning and Connection in Everything You Do
"I am convinced we are in the midst of a paradigm shift. That what used to hold us in community no longer works. That the spiritual offerings of yesteryear no longer help us thrive. And that, just lik…"-Casper ter Kuile, The Power of Ritual: How to Create Meaning and Connection in Everything You Do
17. Separation Anxiety
By: Laura Zigman
3.34
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author Laura Zigman, a hilarious novel about a wife and mother whose life is unrav… read more
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- animals
- dogs
- audiobook
18. The Beauty of Dusk
By: Frank Bruni
4.06
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir abo… read more
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- autobiography
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD
By: Jason Kander
4.53
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From political wunderkind and former army intelligence officer Jason Kan… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"PTSD is an injury. That’s all it is."-Jason Kander, Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD
"Reader, let’s talk about ambition. First of all, the word is almost always used against young people—especially women. No one calls Bernie Sanders ambitious, but the man ran for president twice. When…"-Jason Kander, Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD
20. No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
By: Rachel Louise Snyder
4.50
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In No Visible Bruises, journalist Rachel Louise Snyder frames this urgent and immersive account of … read more
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- nonfiction
"Michelle saw was what so many other women before her had seen: that an abuser appears more powerful than the system."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
"The average batterer, Adams told me, “is more likable than his victim, because domestic violence affects victims a lot more than it affects batterers."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
"When I questioned whether she believed he really had changed, she said yes, but she also said she believed she could probably trigger him again in a minute."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
"The very fact that intimate partner violence is so often addressed in civil court, rather than criminal court, gives insight into how we as a society still view it."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
21. American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
By: Kevin Hazzard
4.57
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the fi… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Lightly: How to Live a Simple, Serene, and Stress-free Life
By: Francine Jay
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Do you ever feel like life is weighing you down? Like the stuff in your home, the to-dos in your sc… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Perfection can be styled, but rarely sustained."-Francine Jay, Lightly: How to Live a Simple, Serene, and Stress-free Life
23. Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All
By: Chanel Miller
4.48
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author and artist Chanel Miller tells a fun, funny, and poignant story o… read more
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- audiobook
24. Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir
By: Brianna Madia
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning and triumphant memoir, the author of the New York Times bestseller Nowhere for Ver… read more
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- animals
- dogs
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"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
26. Calm the F*ck Down: How to Control What You Can and Accept What You Can't So You Can Stop Freaking Out and Get On With Your Life (A No F*cks Given Guide)
By: Sarah Knight
3.42
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The no-f*cks-given guide to taming anxiety and taking back control of your life, from the bestselli… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship
By: Martha Teichner
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
*An Instant New York Times Bestseller!* A memoir of love and loss, of being in the right pl… read more
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- memoir
- animals
- dogs
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"And I need at least one dog walking along beside me, even better, two, as I push my grocery cart east, across town, and then back. Without a dog or two beside me, I feel incomplete. I catch myself ta…"-Martha Teichner, When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship
"Bull terriers are odd dogs. With their egg-shaped heads, slitty eyes, and pointy ears, they’re funny looking. Think Spuds MacKenzie or the Target dog. BTs are opinionated, exuberant, stubborn, extrem…"-Martha Teichner, When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship
28. London's Number One Dog-Walking Agency
By: Kate MacDougall
3.72
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
The irresistibly charming memoir of a young woman who started her own business as a dog walker for … read more
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- memoir
- animals
- dogs
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Working life seemed to be one enormous con to me, a deception so brilliant that it had reeled in entire generations of wide-eyed graduates bursting with ideas and energy and youthful enthusiasm, only…"-Kate MacDougall, London's Number One Dog-Walking Agency
29. Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide
By: Rachel Zimmerman
4.41
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"This poignant, soul-baring memoir is truly one of the most moving accounts of grief, loss and resi… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
30. Writing in Color: Fourteen Writers on the Lessons We've Learned
By: Nafiza Azad
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Rethink the way you approach writing in this revolutionary and informative new anthology from fourt… read more
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- nonfiction
31. What Is a Dog?: A Memoir
By: Chloe Shaw
3.68
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
On the heels of her family’s beloved dog’s death, one woman returns to the canines of her past in o… read more
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- audiobook
"Clearly the Good Guy is also a Dog Guy."-Chloe Shaw, What Is a Dog?: A Memoir
"It's always felt curative, walking the dogs. Ever since middle school, when I took over the job of walking Agatha, I've felt many a problem solved in the quiet, steady transmissions through a leash. …"-Chloe Shaw, What Is a Dog?: A Memoir
