This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home
By: Margot Kahn
4.02
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Home is a loaded word, a complex idea: it's a place that can be comforting, difficult, nourishing, …
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1. Meadowlands
By: Louise Glück
4.08
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Louise Glück sows the fertile subject ground of marital discord in harvesting this crop of gems. Th… read more
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- womens
"Watching you stare into space in the tidy rows of the vegetable garden, ostensibly working hard while actually doing the worst job possible, I think you are a small irritating purple thing and I woul…"-Louise Glück, Meadowlands
2. Horoscopes for the Dead
By: Billy Collins
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
WINNER--BEST POETRY--GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NEWSWEEK/T… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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4. Hallucinations
By: Oliver Sacks
3.97
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty hou… read more
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5. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
By: Elizabeth Gilbert
3.79
Format: 477 pages, Hardcover
Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert… read more
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6. The Good House
By: Ann Leary
3.12
Format: 56 pages,
A funny, poignant and revealing novel that's become a huge word-of-mouth hit in the US. How do you … read more
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7. Fierce Attachments: A Memoir
By: Jonathan Lethem , Vivian Gornick
3.61
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle wi… read more
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8. Belonging: A Culture of Place
By: bell hooks
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
>What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can… read more
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9. The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
By: Vivian Gornick
3.29
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachmentsand The End of the Novel… read more
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10. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
By: Audre Lorde
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more
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11. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
By: Julia Alvarez
3.63
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Uprooted from their family home in the Dominican Republic, the four Garcia sisters - Carla, Sandra,… read more
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12. The Hundred-Year House
By: Rebecca Makkai
4.29
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Meet the Devohrs: Zee, a Marxist literary scholar who detests her parents' wealth but nevertheless … read more
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13. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
By: Kara Swisher
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
14. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
15. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
By: David von Drehle
4.00
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
One of our nation’s most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
16. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
By: Meg Kissinger
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
17. It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
By: Mary Louise Kelly
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Operating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this new book by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"In his book "Being Mortal", the surgeon Atul Gawande accurately describes the joy that flows from being good at your work. 'You become a doctor for what you imagine to be the satisfaction of the work…"-Mary Louise Kelly, It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
18. These Precious Days: Essays
By: Ann Patchett
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"It is possible to love someone with all your heart and still know your union would never have survived having children together."-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays
"The future is not one thing. So many possibilities can arise as a result of intelligence, education, curiosity, and hard work. No one ever told me that, and I'm sorry it took this long for me to figu…"-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays
"People want you to want what they want. If you want the same things they want, then their want is validated. If you don’t want the same things, your lack of wanting can, to certain people, come acros…"-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays
"Without ever meaning to, my father taught me at a very early age to give up on the idea of approval. I wish I could bottle that freedom now and give it to every young writer I meet, with an extra bot…"-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays
19. The Air Raid Book Club
By: Annie Lyons
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn’t feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of he… read more
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"Quite. But Hedy has inherited her mother's skills as a seamstress. Very good. Tell her to come and see me. If you can't sew, can you knit? A little. Although I made my father a pair of socks once and…"-Annie Lyons, The Air Raid Book Club
20. Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
By: Maggie Smith
3.89
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Marie Claire’s The 2020 Books You Should Pre-Order Now The Washington Post’s What to Read in 2020 B… read more
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- memoir
- essays
"Do not be ashamed of the intensity of your emotion. That's your humanity. Grief can be feral, wild, frightening. Give it a safe place to live."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
"Everything is temporary. You can't keep a white-knuckled hold on what you love or on what has hurt you. Loosen your grip on your grief today, if only a bit."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
"Stop calling your heart broken; your heart works just fine. If you are feeling--love, anger, gratitude, grief--it is because your heart is doing its work. Let it."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
"It is not your job to make other people comfortable with who you are. Be wary of those who don't want you to change or grow. Grow anyway--there is no alternative."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
21. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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- memoir
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
22. All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
By: Elizabeth Comen
4.43
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating history of women’s health as it’s never been told before. For as long as medicin… read more
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- womens
- nonfiction
"The role of women was proscribed in medicine as in society, bolstered by the stereotype of the female nurturer: Doctors cured. Nurses cared."-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
"A man with high testosterone, it was understood, was virile, a warrior, a stud. A woman with too much estrogen, on the other hand, was just crazy."-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
"The idea was just this: that there is something beautiful, and wonderfully feminine, and powerful and empowering at once, about a woman who can’t breathe."-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
"Between the purported sex appeal of tuberculosis and its special deadliness in young people, being afflicted with the disease—or at least, looking like you were—became associated with a certain statu…"-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
23. How to Read Now
By: Elaine Castillo
4.03
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of som… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"When artists bemoan the rise of political correctness in our cultural discourse, what they’re really bemoaning is the rise of this unexpected reader. They’re bemoaning the arrival of someone who does…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
"When white readers claim to be made uncomfortable—as many I heard from claimed—by the presence of something like untranslated words in fiction, what they’re really saying is: I have always been the e…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
"I realize now that being an unexpected reader has turned out to be the most valuable gift of my intellectual life. The fact that I was an unexpected reader—an interloper, in so many worlds—meant that…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
"[T]he idea that some of us can simply opt out of politics—the idea that politics is something one chooses as a vocation, rather than something we have whether we choose it or not; something that enco…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
24. Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
By: Jennifer Vanderbes
4.40
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told st… read more
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25. Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity
By: Michele Norris
4.62
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Peabody Award–winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identi… read more
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- nonfiction
"Racism is a shape-shifter. It is not the same thing today as it was yesterday, and it will not be the same tomorrow or ten years from now. That’s shorthand for the academic definition that describes …"-Michele Norris, Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity
26. Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives
By: Darcy Eveleigh
4.62
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Hundreds of stunning images from black history have long been buried in The New York Times archive… read more
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27. 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
28. Landlock X: Poems
By: Sarah Audsley
4.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Sarah Audsley’s debut poetry collection, Landlock X , joins a growing body of adoptee poetics. By e… read more
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29. Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
By: Lars Horn
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Lars Horn’s Voice of the Fish, the latest Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize winner, is an interwoven … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"Where did they go, all the gods and the beasts? The jackals and winged horses, sphinxes and fish, all those creatures that weighed our organs in the afterlife, fed on years ill-lived? What do they to…"-Lars Horn, Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
30. Blood Farm: The Explosive Big Pharma Scandal That Altered the AIDS Crisis
By: Cara McGoogan
4.51
Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition
The shocking story of how corporate greed and political corruption turned a miracle cure for hemoph… read more
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- nonfiction
31. This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home
By: Margot Kahn
4.02
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Home is a loaded word, a complex idea: it's a place that can be comforting, difficult, nourishing, … read more
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- collections
- anthologies
- nonfiction
- essays
- womens
