6 must-read biography memoir books like Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee

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Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life

By: Christine Hyung-Oak Lee

4.44

Format: None pages, ebook

A memoir of reinvention after a stroke at age thirty-three. Christine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a …

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1. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

By: William Greider , Randy Shilts

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life

By: Christine Hyung-Oak Lee

4.44

Format: None pages, ebook

A memoir of reinvention after a stroke at age thirty-three. Christine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

3. So Much for That

By: Lionel Shriver

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Shep Knacker has long saved for "the Afterlife," an idyllic retreat in the Third World where his ne… read more

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4. The Light of the World

By: Elizabeth Alexander

4.22

Format: 649 pages, Hardcover

In The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the… read more

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5. It's Okay to Laugh

By: Nora McInerny Purmort

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Joining the ranks of Let's Pretend This Never Happenedand Carry On, Warrior, a fierce, hysterically… read more

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6. Jacob Have I Loved

By: Katherine Paterson

3.69

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Esau have I hated . . . Sara Louise Bradshaw is sick and tired of her beautiful twin Caroline. Ever… read more

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"Thinking about myself as a crazy, independent old woman made me feel almost happy."

-Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved

"Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied"

-Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved

"In February the weather sometimes gave us a vacation, in August, never. We just got up earlier every morning until finally we met ourselves going to bed."

-Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved

"Don't tell me no one ever gave you a chance. You don't need anything given to you. You can make your own chances. But first you have to know what you're after, my dear."

-Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved

7. Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality

By: Pauline W. Chen

3.84

Format: 95 pages,

A brilliant young transplant surgeon brings moral intensity and narrative drama to the most powerfu… read more

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8. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

By: Erika Engelhaupt

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more

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  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"

-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

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9. American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption

By: Gabrielle Glaser

4.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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10. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

By: Peggy Orenstein

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."

-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

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11. Sex Object: A Memoir

By: Jessica Valenti

3.66

Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition

Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gend… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Still, somehow, inexplicably, “man-hater"

-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

"What is crazy about killing a woman in a culture that tells you that women's lives are worth nothing?"

-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

"Because while my daughter lives in a world that knows what happens to women is wrong, it has also accepted this wrongness as inevitable."

-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

"Because even subversive sarcasm adds a cool-girl nonchalance, an updated, sharper version of the expectation that women be forever pleasant, even as we're eating shit."

-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

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12. Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

By: Danyel Smith

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

American pop music is arguably this country’s greatest cultural contribution to the world, and its … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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13. Crying in the Bathroom

By: Erika L. Sánchez

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly or… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

By: Esmé Weijun Wang

4.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
"In the language of cancer, people describe a thing that “invades"

-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

"The psychiatric hierarchy decrees who can and cannot be high-functioning and “gifted."

-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

"Someday, we'll be able to trace all mental illnesses to autoimmune disorders. But we're not there yet."

-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

"The line between insanity and mysticism is thin; the line between reality and unreality is thin. Liminality as a spiritual concept is all about the porousness of boundaries."

-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

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15. Your House Will Pay

By: Steph Cha

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful and taut novel about racial tensions in L.A., following two families—one Korean-American… read more

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  • audiobook
"Don’t martyr yourself. Your workers’ comp won’t cover it.' --Shawn's boss, Manny."

-Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay

"But she held tight to all her principles, and the most important of these was that family came first."

-Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay

"Every day there had been rotten cops in the news and still she had been bamboozled. ‘I mean, they’re supposed to protect people, right? How can they be so bad at their jobs?’ ‘They protect people fro…"

-Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay

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16. The Other Mother

By: Rachel M. Harper

3.97

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning generational saga about a young man's search for a parent he never knew, and a movi… read more

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  • audiobook
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17. All the Colour in the World

By: C.S. Richardson

3.74

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The story of the restorative power of art in one man's life, set against the sweep of the twentieth… read more

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  • audiobook
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18. Global

By: Eoin Colfer

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Time is running out for Sami and Yuki. Sami and his grandfather live in a village along the Indian … read more

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19. Why Didn't You Tell Me?

By: Carmen Rita Wong

3.76

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An immigrant mother’s long-held secrets upend her daughter’s understanding of her family, her ident… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Save Yourself

By: Cameron Esposito

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From standup comic Cameron Esposito, a memoir that tackles sexuality, gender and equality--and how … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I'm mad at the religion I grew up in. I'm mad that Catholic doctrine still swims in my mind, that I think in Bible stories, regard Sundays as sacred, and love when radio stations start playing Christ…"

-Cameron Esposito, Save Yourself

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21. If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity

By: Justin Gregg

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“A dazzling, delightful read on what animal cognition can teach us about our own mental shortcoming… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

13 Best audiobook books like Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee

4.44

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Erika Engelhaupt

4.09

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American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption

Gabrielle Glaser

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

Peggy Orenstein

3.89

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Ruha Benjamin

4.47

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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

3.54

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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib

4.60

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Danyel Smith

4.06

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