Smile: The Story of a Face
By: Sarah Ruhl
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A People Best Book of the Year. Time and The Washington Post's Most Anticipated List. Longliste…
Want to Read $ 12.99"When diseases and stories are chronic, doctors and writers often both run for the hills"-Sarah Ruhl, Smile: The Story of a Face
"When diseases and stories are chronic, doctors and writers often both run for the hills"-Sarah Ruhl, Smile: The Story of a Face
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1. Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness
By: Pete Earley , Jessie Close
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Close sisters are descended from very prominent and wealthy ancestors. When the Close sisters w… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- medical
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
2. Heart Earth
By: Ivan Doig
3.96
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Ivan Doig grew up with only a vague memory of his mother, Berneta, who died on his sixth birthday. … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. 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
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
4. 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
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
5. Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings
By: Chrysta Bilton
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"One of the maddest memoirs you'll read this year... This beautiful, warm, funny book is a testamen… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. Smile: The Story of a Face
By: Sarah Ruhl
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A People Best Book of the Year. Time and The Washington Post's Most Anticipated List. Longliste… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
"When diseases and stories are chronic, doctors and writers often both run for the hills"-Sarah Ruhl, Smile: The Story of a Face
7. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
8. Absolution
By: Alice McDermott
3.81
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more
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- audiobook
9. 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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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
10. Easy Beauty
By: Chloé Cooper Jones
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction … read more
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- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
"Beauty is what we're told is beautiful and what we're told becomes the truth."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"Maybe then I would submit to it's rigid ideals if I were recognized as worthy of experiencing them."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"I care if you are happy. I'm in love with your happiness. My focus is on how you feel not what you do."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"You could have made me come home," I say. "No, I can only try to be the person you want to come home to."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
11. Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life
By: Delia Ephron
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-lif… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- medical
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
By: Amy Bloom
4.27
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- health
- medical
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. 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
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
14. One Way Back: A Memoir
By: Christine Blasey Ford
4.30
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
By: Jami Attenberg
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and e… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. 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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- biography
- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
17. The Lonely Book
By: Meg Grehan
4.20
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A warm and loving story about how a non-binary person comes to understand and accept themselves by … read more
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18. The Beauty of Dusk
By: Frank Bruni
4.06
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir abo… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- health
- medical
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
19. What It Takes to Save a Life: A Veterinarian's Quest for Healing and Hope
By: Kwane Stewart
4.46
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Mountains Beyond Mountains meets Tattoos On the Heart in this unforgettable, powerful, and stunn… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives
By: Mary Laura Philpott
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink comes a poignant and powerful memoir that ta… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Lost & Found: A Memoir
By: Kathryn Schulz
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & F… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"For now, at least, the world is ours to notice and to change, and that seems to me sufficient. It is true that loss will ultimately part us from it, but it is also true, as I said earlier, that we ha…"-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir
"One consequence of losing a parent—obvious enough, although it hadn't occurred to me beforehand—is that it reconfigures the rest of your family. All my life, it had been the four of us; to the extent…"-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir
"What an astonishing thing it is to find someone. Loss may alter our sense of scale, reminding us that the world is overwhelmingly large while we are incredibly tiny. But finding does the same; the on…"-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir
22. Little Earthquakes: A Memoir
By: Sarah Mandel
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“Sarah Mandel has done something remarkable here. I found myself weeping, laughing with delight and… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. 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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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
24. There's Going to Be Trouble
By: Jen Silverman
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A woman is pulled into a love affair with a radical activist, unknowingly echoing her family's dang… read more
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- audiobook
25. Junket
By: Lauren Groff
2.47
Format: 27 pages, Audiobook
In these over-busy, stress-rich days, what sounds better than a stay at a high-end spa, complete wi… read more
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26. Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World
By: Craig Foster
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
“ Amphibious Soul is an important book. . . . This book isn't about learning how to be wild but rat… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Profiles in Mental Health Courage
By: Patrick J. Kennedy
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Profiles in Mental Health Courage portrays the dramatic journeys of a diverse group of Americans wh… read more
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- nonfiction
- health
28. Tasha: A Son's Memoir
By: Brian Morton
4.15
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of the Year In the spirit of Fierce Attachments and The End… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl
By: Hyeseung Song
4.13
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
For readers of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings as well as lovers of the film Minari comes a sea… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. Hidden Demons: Evil Visits A Small New England Town
By: Margery B. Metzger
3.86
Format: 259 pages, ebook
Evil Visits A Small New England Town, a True Crime On January 7, 1994, residents of the Berkshir… read more
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- nonfiction
31. American Mother: A Life Reclaimed
By: Colum McCann
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In late 2021 Diane Foley sat at a table across from Alexanda Kotey. A member of the ISIS group know… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Listening is the quiet soul of storytelling"-Colum McCann, American Mother: A Life Reclaimed
"Even the worst of humans demand a portion of love."-Colum McCann, American Mother: A Life Reclaimed
"Turning your back will not change the direction of the knife."-Colum McCann, American Mother: A Life Reclaimed
"He didn’t just want to be at the edge, he wanted to become the edge."-Colum McCann, American Mother: A Life Reclaimed
