Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning
By: Claire Dederer
3.69
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times best-selling author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, a ferocio…
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1. Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning
By: Claire Dederer
3.69
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times best-selling author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, a ferocio… read more
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- biography
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- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- womens
2. The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
By: Leslie Jamison
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
By the New York Timesbestselling author of THE EMPATHY EXAMS, an exploration of addiction, and the … read more
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3. Dept. of Speculation
By: Jenny Offill
4.60
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysterie… read more
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4. 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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- biography
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5. 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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"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
6. Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex
By: Sophia Giovannitti
4.07
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An exploration into the very similar work of selling art and selling sex, from a luminous new voice… read more
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- biography
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7. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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- biography
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"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
8. 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
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"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
9. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
By: Becca Rothfeld
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed debut author's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
10. Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
By: Emmeline Clein
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal cult… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
11. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
12. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
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- nonfiction
- womens
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
13. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
By: Lucy Sante
3.70
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a st… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"(Although it is extremely exciting to have tits.)"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"I wanted to so badly to be a woman that I could not really understand anyone wanting anything else"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"It appeared that transitioning did not involve piling on additional stuff; rather it was a process of removal, dismantling the carapace of maleness that had kept me in its grip for so long."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"My secret poisoned my entire experience of life. There was never a moment when I didn't feel the acute shame of being me, even as I denied to myself that my secret had anything to do with it."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
14. Wellness
By: Nathan Hill
4.00
Format: 611 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about mar… read more
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"It's an altogether manic and ceaseless conversation, a conversation that feels sometimes like falling down stairs, barely keeping upright, taken by gravity, skipping, grasping, and then somehow landi…"-Nathan Hill, Wellness
"Behind curtains, this, he thinks, is what lovers do—they are alchemists and architects; pioneers and fabulists; they make one thing another; they invent the world around them. So he says, ‘Yes I beli…"-Nathan Hill, Wellness
15. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History
By: Nellie Bowles
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
16. 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
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"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
17. Butcher
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’… read more
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- feminism
18. Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture
By: Sara Petersen
3.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
On Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance, generating bil… read more
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- feminism
- womens
- nonfiction
19. We Were the Universe
By: Kimberly King Parsons
3.68
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desir… read more
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"It’s an unusual question, though not as unusual as you might think amongst women who have had children. Once you’ve been slit open by a surgeon or taken a shit in a birthing tub, a whole glittering w…"-Kimberly King Parsons, We Were the Universe
20. Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir
By: Alexandra Auder
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“Don’t Call Me Home is about madness and love. Alexandra tells the best stories about her extraordi… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
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21. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
22. Gone to the Wolves
By: John Wray
3.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author John Wray dives deep into the wild, risky world of heavy metal in the 1980… read more
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23. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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24. Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera
By: Jena Friedman
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
For fans of the perceptive comedy of Hannah Gadsby, Lindy West, and Sarah Silverman, Academy Award–… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
25. Blue Ruin
By: Hari Kunzru
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more
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26. MOTHERCARE: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence
By: Lynne Tillman
3.49
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Brilliantly original novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman became one of nearly 53 million Ame… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
27. Everything/Nothing/Someone
By: Alice Carrière
4.02
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A powerful literary debut that tells of a young woman’s coming-of-age in the bohemian ’90s, as her … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
28. Nothing Good Can Come from This
By: Kristi Coulter
3.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
"Can you ask the bartender to make me something nonalcoholic that isn't sweet?'... What he got was a coupe glass filled with something that tasted a little like tea, a little like soda, and a lot like…"-Kristi Coulter, Nothing Good Can Come from This
"Yes, he had a temper that left at least one hole in our walls before he went to therapy and got a handle on it. But he treated me like a superhero princess and was also warm, responsible, hilarious, …"-Kristi Coulter, Nothing Good Can Come from This
"This is why I drank, you know. Because I wanted every day to be like that. I wanted every day to feel like a movie montage, or at least to end in an epiphany, or at least to have a clear narrative ar…"-Kristi Coulter, Nothing Good Can Come from This
"Because I just don't really care about what the liquid in my glass says about me anymore. I'd like to tell you it's because sobriety cured my need for specialness. I'd like to tell you I invented the…"-Kristi Coulter, Nothing Good Can Come from This
29. Consent: A Memoir
By: Jill Ciment
3.96
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
30. You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples
By: Patricia Marx
3.56
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
Everyone’s heard the old advice for a healthy relationship: Never go to bed angry. Play hard to ge… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir
By: Nina St. Pierre
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riveting memoir about a daughter’s investigation into the wirings of her loving, unpredictable mo… read more
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- biography
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