The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia
By: David Stuart MacLean
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
"Brilliant and painful and hilarious." --Antonya Nelson On October 17, 2002, David MacLean "woke up…
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1. Teacher Man (Frank McCourt, #3)
By: Frank McCourt
3.75
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
McCourt's long-awaited book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a wr… read more
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"Teaching is bringing the news."-Frank McCourt, Teacher Man (Frank McCourt, #3)
"I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching."-Frank McCourt, Teacher Man (Frank McCourt, #3)
"Nobody ever told them they had a right to an opinion."-Frank McCourt, Teacher Man (Frank McCourt, #3)
"If everyone moved on and up and out who would teach the children?"-Frank McCourt, Teacher Man (Frank McCourt, #3)
2. Until I Say Goodbye: A Book about Living
By: Susan Spencer-Wendel
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In June 2011, Susan Spencer-Wendel learned she had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)--Lou Gehrig'… read more
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"I wanted to drop the emotional hammer on Steph and tell her my thought: that I would very much like for her to try to find her birth mother before I die, so that I might meet her and say, "Your broug…"-Susan Spencer-Wendel, Until I Say Goodbye: A Book about Living
3. The Iceberg
By: Marion Coutts
3.98
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
In 2008, Marion Coutts' husband, the art critic Tom Lubbock, was diagnosed with a brain tumour, and… read more
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"Childbirth is nothing. Death is mighty. The 0 to our 1. There is nothing in the world like it. But there is nothing in it that is not like the world."-Marion Coutts, The Iceberg
"How do we recognise another person? At its most basic, by shape, by colour, by outline, by dark and light, by smell. Or by nuances of tone, by the way the face looks in repose, the cadences of the vo…"-Marion Coutts, The Iceberg
"So what did you do when death came to your house? We continued in the same way as before. What is that, a failure of the imagination? Are you in denial? This is not wholly true; we continue in the sa…"-Marion Coutts, The Iceberg
"I learn so much that I previously did not know about the world of the immobile that it is hard to believe it all takes place over a few hours. At random: I learn about the casual indifference of the …"-Marion Coutts, The Iceberg
4. Home Before Morning
By: Lynda Van Devanter
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
On June 8, 1969, a patriotic, happy-go-lucky young nurse fresh out of basic training arrived in Vie… read more
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5. A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
By: Jen Waite
3.90
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
What do you do when you discover that the person you've built your life around never existed? When … read more
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6. Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
By: John Elder Robison
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he w… read more
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7. To the Edge of the Sky: A Story of Love, Betrayal, Suffering, and the Strength of Human Courage
By: Anhua Gao
3.21
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
To the "Edge of the Sky" is the harrowing account of a remarkable woman's life in communist China-a… read more
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8. Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir
By: Molly Brodak
4.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Raw, poetic and compulsively readable. In Molly Brodak's dazzling memoir, Bandit, her eye is so ho… read more
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9. The Secret Life of Cows
By: Rosamund Young
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cows can love, play games, bond and form strong, life-long friendships. They can sulk, hold grudges… read more
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10. The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia
By: David Stuart MacLean
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
"Brilliant and painful and hilarious." --Antonya Nelson On October 17, 2002, David MacLean "woke up… read more
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11. Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
By: Michelle Williams
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Michelle Williams is young and attractive, with close family ties, a busy social life . . . and an … read more
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12. North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
By: Cea Sunrise Person
3.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castleand Wild,Cea Sunrise Person's compel… read more
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13. A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea
By: Eunsun Kim , Sébastien Falletti , David Tian
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the moder… read more
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14. Everything You Want Me to Be
By: Mindy Mejia
2.83
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
No one knows who she really is... Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the g… read more
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15. Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
By: M.E. Thomas
3.92
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
The first memoir of its kind, Confessions of a Sociopathis an engrossing, highly captivating narrat… read more
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16. Stash: My Life in Hiding
By: Laura Cathcart Robbins
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive and vivid memoir—in the vein of Drinking: A Love Story and Somebody’s Daughter—about t… read more
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17. The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch
By: Melinda Taub
3.81
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sparkling, witchy reimagining of Pride and Prejudice, told from the perspective of the troublesom… read more
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18. The House of Hidden Meanings
By: RuPaul
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more
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"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
19. The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
By: Barbara K. Lipska
3.88
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Neuroscientist Lipska was diagnosed early in 2015 with metastatic melanoma in her brain's frontal l… read more
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"Ich hoffe, dass meine persönliche Erfahrung wenigstens Zu der Erkenntnis beiträgt, dass psychisch kranke Menschen ebenso wenig für ihre Krankheit verantwortlich sind wie Krebskranke und dass die best…"-Barbara K. Lipska, The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
20. Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training
By: Adam Stern
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Adam Stern was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train as a psychiatry r… read more
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21. The World Outside My Window
By: Clare Swatman
3.97
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
Laura is watching the world go by without her. Unable to leave her house since suffering a trauma, … read more
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22. This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
By: Taylor Harris
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A Black mother bumps up against the limits of everything she thought she believed—about science and… read more
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23. Jackie After Jack: Portrait of the Lady (The Jackie [Kennedy] Chronicles)
By: Christopher Andersen
4.28
Format: 526 pages, Kindle Edition
Compelling." ---People "Undeniably a guilty pleasure." ---Newsweek "Comes closest to making Jacki… read more
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24. Acceptance: A Memoir
By: Emi Nietfeld
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, exami… read more
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"Any exclusive system is a system of exclusion."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
"Everyone who dealt with disadvantaged kids, from therapists to college admissions officers, treated us as if we could overcome any abuse or neglect with sheer force of will."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
"Adults viewed suicidal ideation as a pathology. But for me it was logic. Weighing the bad against the good, projecting forward to decide if life was worth sticking around for."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
25. On Animals
By: Susan Orlean
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer and the author of the New York Times bestseller Th… read more
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"I know now that even though dogs break your heart, they fill it up, even when they're gone."-Susan Orlean, On Animals
26. A Very Private School: A Memoir
By: Charles Spencer
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age ei… read more
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27. House of Sticks
By: Ly Tran
4.38
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
New York City Book Awards Hornblower Award Winner One of Vogue and NPR’s Best Books of the Year T… read more
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28. Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences
By: Jedidiah Jenkins
4.03
Format: 221 pages, Hardcover
When his mother, Barbara, turns seventy, Jedidiah Jenkins is reminded of a sobering fact: Our pare… read more
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"In my midthirties, I realized that my parents would die soon. Not like a terminal illness. I just mean in the flow of time. It hit me hardest when my mother turned seventy. I did a quick bit of math.…"-Jedidiah Jenkins, Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences
"I wondered about my friendship with my mom. Is it friendship? How can it be? Friendship is chosen. Friendship is discovered. But a mother and a son have a bond that is necessary. If the son exists, t…"-Jedidiah Jenkins, Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences
29. Losing Music
By: John Cotter
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“I was in the car the first time music seemed strange: the instruments less distinct, the vocals le… read more
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30. Last to Eat, Last to Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women
By: Pashtana Durrani
4.39
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
“Pashtana’s story highlights the resourcefulness and bravery of young women in Afghanistan. I hope … read more
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31. In the Enemy's House: The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies
By: Howard Blum
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminate… read more
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