What Comes Next and How to Like It
By: Abigail Thomas
3.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of A Three Dog Life, which "shines with honest intelligence" (Elizabeth…
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2. What Comes Next and How to Like It
By: Abigail Thomas
3.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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3. The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
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4. Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
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Format: None pages, Hardcover
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5. Mother Noise
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A poignant, “raw[,] and tender” ( The New York Times Book Review ) memoir told in essays and graphi… read more
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6. You Only Call When You're in Trouble
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Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Is it ever okay to stop caring for others and start living for yourself? After a lifetime of tak… read more
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7. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
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8. Fencing with the King
By: Diana Abu-Jaber
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Cr… read more
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9. Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
By: Pam Houston
4.08
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
“I’ve always had this thing for cowboys, maybe because I was born in New Jersey,” says the narrator… read more
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"I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake."-Pam Houston, Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
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"And even though I knew in my head there’s nothing a man can do that a woman can’t, I also knew in my heart we can’t help doing it for different reasons. And just like a man will never understand exac…"-Pam Houston, Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
10. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
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4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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11. Rental Person Who Does Nothing
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Format: 160 pages, ebook
Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more
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"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing
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12. Be Mine
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3.99
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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13. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
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4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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14. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
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Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in th… read more
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"I knew I had had no choice. I had had to fight with my mother in order to survive."-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
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"There is a clarity about how children see the world that the complexities of adult life often muddy. And there is a fervor children feel when they believe adults have misled them or disguised or hidd…"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
15. The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
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3.89
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
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16. The Best American Essays 2022
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Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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17. This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After
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3.67
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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18. Bad Animals
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19. Tiny Tales: Stories of Romance, Ambition, Kindness, and Happiness
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3.52
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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20. Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir (Machete)
By: Thomas C. Gannon
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Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition
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21. Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
By: Pam Houston
4.33
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it m… read more
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"How to hang on to that full-body joy I knew I was capable of and still understand it as elegy."-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
"I pause over the words "Wilderness Ranch Subdivision." What the fuck, I wonder, what in the fuck is wrong with us anyway."-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
"We call such a limited number of relationships love in our lives, but there is always love around us—it’s as ubiquitous as oxygen."-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
"And even if the jig is up, even if it is really game over, what better time to sing about the earth than when it is critically, even fatally, wounded at our hands."-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
