Somebody's Daughter
By: Ashley C. Ford
4.04
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: …
Want to Read $ 11.99"I wanted to be seen, but I didn't want to be watched."-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter
"There are few words worthy of the wonders they describe, but sunrise sounds like it feels. A u sunken to the bottom of one's throat, and an i, pointing upward and onward to a warm beyond."-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter
"I wanted to assert my own style, which posed a problem, because I didn't really have any style. Grandma would shake her head at me and say, "Someday baby, you'll really understand how to dress. I'm just gonna pray on that for you."-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter
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1. Tom Lake
By: Ann Patchett
3.99
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- family
- contemporary
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
2. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
By: Meg Kissinger
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
3. Beautiful Country
By: Qian Julie Wang
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when sev… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
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- adult
- audiobook
"Words rolled out of my mouth one after another and I do not dare to interrupt them with a breath. They are new words, foreign words but familiar all the same because they have been sitting at my thro…"-Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country
4. Take My Hand
By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
4.37
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in po… read more
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- race
- adult
- audiobook
"There wasn’t any justice for little Black girls, and never had been."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"The world was an enigma. My country was an enigma. Still, she was mine. And I loved every square inch of her."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"The past doesn't work that way. You can't just make it disappear. You can't pretend certain things didn't happen."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"She wore a belted yellow dress that screamed springtime even though it was chilly out. Anybody in a dress that bright had to be doing some good in the world, I decided."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
5. Hello Beautiful
By: Ann Napolitano
4.16
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
An emotionally layered and engrossing story of a family that asks: Can love make a broken person wh… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- family
- contemporary
"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
6. Olga Dies Dreaming
By: Xóchitl González
3.98
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- family
- contemporary
"It's a myth about motherhood, Olga felt, that the time in utero imbues mothers with a lifelong understanding of their children. Yes, they know their essences, this she didn't doubt, but mothers are s…"-Xóchitl González, Olga Dies Dreaming
7. Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
By: Tarana Burke
4.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the founder and activist behind the largest movement of the twentieth and twenty-first centuri… read more
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- race
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- audiobook
"Maybe community creates courage. What if courage creates community? Maybe empathy creates courage. How can you express empathy towards others if you can't empathize with your own self? Is the core of…"-Tarana Burke, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
"Maybe community creates courage. What if courage creates community? Maybe empathy creates courage. How can you express empathy towards others if you can’t empathize with your own self? Is the core of…"-Tarana Burke, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
"Never let anyone touch your private parts, they’d say. But I wasn’t told why I had to protect my private parts, just that it was imperative that I did. Because of this, when I thought of my experienc…"-Tarana Burke, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
8. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
By: Stephanie Foo
4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. Somebody's Daughter
By: Ashley C. Ford
4.04
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: … read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I wanted to be seen, but I didn't want to be watched."-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter
"There are few words worthy of the wonders they describe, but sunrise sounds like it feels. A u sunken to the bottom of one's throat, and an i, pointing upward and onward to a warm beyond."-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter
"I wanted to assert my own style, which posed a problem, because I didn't really have any style. Grandma would shake her head at me and say, "Someday baby, you'll really understand how to dress. I'm j…"-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter
10. 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
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"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
11. Finding Me
By: Viola Davis
4.55
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-cha… read more
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- biography
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- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
12. I'm Glad My Mom Died
By: Jennette McCurdy
4.46
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her strugg… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I feel like the world is divided into two types of people: people who know loss and people who don't."-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died
"My grandma frequently refers to me as "bitch". She always throws a little extra salt on the word too, for effect."-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died
"Even if that thing makes you very uncomfortable at times. Even if that thing puts a lot of pressure on you. Even if that thing is very stressful. Sometimes it’s just nice to feel good at something."-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died
"She wanted this. And I wanted her to have it. I wanted her to be happy. But now that I have it, I realize that she’s happy and I’m not. Her happiness came at the cost of mine. I feel robbed and explo…"-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died
13. Crying in H Mart
By: Michelle Zauner
4.26
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unfli… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"what procellous awesomeness does not in you abound"-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
"It felt wrong to talk to anyone, to smile or laugh or eat again knowing that she was dead."-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
"I could almost feel in the embrace that my concerns had been her concerns, my pain had been her pain."-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
"Maybe I was just terrified that I might be the closest thing she had to leaving a piece of herself behind."-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
14. True Biz
By: Sara Nović
4.08
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
TRUE BIZ (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk Tr… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- contemporary
"No one is comforted by salad."-Sara Nović, True Biz
"maybe standing for something wasn't always a choice"-Sara Nović, True Biz
"Reason is for people who still have something to fear."-Sara Nović, True Biz
"fewer things were more motivating than a fear of one's own extinction."-Sara Nović, True Biz
15. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- adult
- audiobook
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
16. 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
- adult
- 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
17. Maame
By: Jessica George
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the TikTok Book Awards in the Book of the Year, 2023 and the Goodreads Debut and Fi… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- family
- contemporary
"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist."-Jessica George, Maame
"I can't comprehend living to work, but then I'm afraid of working just to live."-Jessica George, Maame
"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist. Because there’s levels to that sh*t. Like a lasagna."-Jessica George, Maame
"It's about what love is. Which is trust, commitment, empathy, and respect. It means really giving a shit about the other person."-Jessica George, Maame
18. Black Cake
By: Charmaine Wilkerson
4.10
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become? In present-day California, Ele… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- family
- contemporary
"But trying to undo the worry is like trying to undo his blackness."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"More people’s lives have been shaped by violence than we like to think. And more people’s lives have been shaped by silence than we think."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"Some people think surfing is a relationship with the sea...but surfing is really a relationship between you and yourself. The sea is going to do whatever it wants."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"Young people had always wanted to do things their own way, and Bert had been no different. Only nowadays, there seemed to be this compulsion to eat up everything that was available to you and to let …"-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
19. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
By: Suleika Jaouad
4.43
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"To learn to swim in the ocean of not-knowing- this is my constant work."-Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
"It's a funny thing, coming home. Everything smells the same, looks the same, feels the same, but you are different; the contrast between who you were when you left and who you are now is heightened a…"-Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
"If you need to reach me, or send me anything I'll hopefully have access to email, but who knows how alert I'll be...Please don't ask too many questions about what the logistics look like, or where an…"-Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
20. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
By: Lara Love Hardin
4.46
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
21. Know My Name
By: Chanel Miller
4.70
Format: 384 pages, ebook
She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had b… read more
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- biography
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- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"No matter how awful and long your journey, I can promise you the turn. One day it will lift."-Chanel Miller, Know My Name
"I am a victim, I have no qualms with this word, only with the idea that it is all that I am."-Chanel Miller, Know My Name
"This book does not have a happy ending. The happy part is there is no ending, because I’ll always find a way to keep going."-Chanel Miller, Know My Name
"We force her to think hard about what this will mean for his life, even though he never considered what his actions would do to her."-Chanel Miller, Know My Name
