Not My White Savior: A Memoir in Poems
By: Julayne Lee
3.84
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A provocative and furious book about race, culture, identity and what it means to be an inter-count…
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1. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.80
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded sea… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
2. Take Me with You
By: Andrea Gibson
3.57
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
For readers of Rupi Kaur (Milk and Honey) and Atticus (Love Her Wild), a book small enough to carry… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
3. There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
By: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya , Anna Summers , Keith Gessen
5.00
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
The literary event of Halloween: a book of otherworldly power from Russia's preeminent contemporary… read more
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4. The Book of My Lives
By: Aleksandar Hemon
3.43
Format: 232 pages,
Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, a small, blissful city where a young boy's life is cons… read more
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5. Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
By: Dr. Seuss
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Library Binding
In this hilarious book, featuring three timeless fables, Dr. Seuss explores the pitfalls of growing… read more
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6. Palimpsest
By: Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom
4.00
Format: 300 pages,
Lisa ar adopterad fran Korea. Som de flesta undrar hon om sin bakgrund, sarskilt nar hon sjalv skaf… read more
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7. On the Same Page
By: Haley Cass
4.40
Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition
Riley Beckett met Gianna Mäkinen – drop-dead gorgeous influencer, trilingual, daughter of world-fam… read more
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- adult
8. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
By: Kathleen Hanna
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more
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- biography
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"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
9. Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir
By: Rebecca Carroll
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful st… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- adoption
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
10. More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
By: Molly Roden Winter
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An unputdownable memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that follows a happily married mother'… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"There is something pathetic about crying within the first minute of therapy"-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
"I worry that things are going too well, that they're all going to come toppling down."-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
"Why do I keep doing this? Why can't I stop this stupid pleasing everyone bullshit? I'm so fucking sick of myself."-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
11. 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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- race
- biography
- memoir
- adoption
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
"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
12. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
By: Cathy Park Hong
4.21
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- asian literature
- anti racist
"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
13. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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- nonfiction
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
14. Above Ground
By: Clint Smith
4.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- adult
15. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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- poetry
- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
16. Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There
By: Tara Schuster
3.89
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Brutally honest, often hilarious, hard-won lessons in learning to love and care for yourself from a… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Life is not a series of crises to be endured. Life is to be enjoyed."-Tara Schuster, Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There
"The thing about moving," he said, "is it's a good way to shake loose whatever old baggage you have, or the old things that were true about yourself, and decide what you want to be true about yourself…"-Tara Schuster, Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There
"I think we all suffer from the societal pressure to always be occupied. Busy is worn as a badge of honor these days, the busier we are, the more important we feel. But busy doesn't mean important, bu…"-Tara Schuster, Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There
17. I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money
By: Madeline Pendleton
4.61
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A big-hearted, no-bullshit memoir from the TikTok superstar about her j… read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- biography
- memoir
"Don't listen if anyone ever tells you it's a dog-eat-dog world. Dogs are pack animals. We're stronger together."-Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money
18. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
19. Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
4.14
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
20. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
By: Ahed Tamimi
4.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
21. The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging
By: Samira Mehta
3.98
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings mixed-race people face in family spaces… read more
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- biography
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- adoption
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
22. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- memoir
23. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
By: Alice Wong
4.25
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, and the editor of the acclaimed… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
24. Theophanies
By: Sarah Ghazal Ali
4.46
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Theophanies, selected as the Editors Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, is a testament to women… read more
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- poetry
25. Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family
By: Mitchell S. Jackson
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying, dazzlingly written reckoning and an essential addition to the national conversatio… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- anti racist
26. Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band
By: Christian Staebler
3.84
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Experience the riveting, powerful story of the Native American civil rights movement and the result… read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- biography
27. I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir
By: Susan Kiyo Ito
4.61
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
“Susan Kiyo Ito is like a surgeon operating on herself. She is delicate, precise, and at times cutt… read more
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- memoir
- adoption
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- asian literature
28. Dot
By: Ron Padgett
3.98
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
IN A NEW POETRY COLLECTION, PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST RON PADGETT ILLUMINATES THE WONDERS INSIDE EVEN… read more
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- poetry
29. A Bánh Mì for Two
By: Trinity Nguyen
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In this sweet sapphic romance about two foodies in love, Vivi meets Lan while studying abroad in Vi… read more
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- asian literature
30. 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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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
31. Not My White Savior: A Memoir in Poems
By: Julayne Lee
3.84
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A provocative and furious book about race, culture, identity and what it means to be an inter-count… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- adoption
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- asian literature
- adult
- anti racist
