Educated
By: Tara Westover
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mounta…
Want to Read $ 14.99"An education is not so much about making a living as making a person."-Tara Westover, Educated
"I would never again be made a foot soldier in a conflict I did not understand."-Tara Westover, Educated
"I believed then--and part of me will always believe--that my father's words ought to be my own."-Tara Westover, Educated
"I could stay, and search for what had been home, or I could go, now, before the walls shifted and the way out was shut."-Tara Westover, Educated
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1. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
By: Trevor Noah
4.49
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
The memoir of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"You didn’t know your dog was deaf?"-Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
"Don't fight the system, mock the system"-Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
"Relationships are built in the silences."-Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
"Don't fight the system. Mock the system."-Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
2. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
By: Laura Hillenbrand
4.38
Format: 475 pages, Hardcover
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeare… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Without dignity, identity is erased."-Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
"A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain."-Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
"Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen."-Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
"I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled."-Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
3. The Kite Runner
By: Khaled Hosseini
4.35
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and … read more
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- adult
"Bareh tu hazar dafa!"-Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
"It hurts to say that,"-Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
"Sad stories make good books"-Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
"For you, a thousand times over"-Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
4. When Breath Becomes Air
By: Abraham Verghese , Paul Kalanithi
4.40
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely obse… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?"-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air
"It’s very easy to be number one: find the guy who is number one, and score one point higher than he does."-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air
"Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito."-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air
"Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?" "Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. …"-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air
5. Bossypants
By: Tina Fey
2.74
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl wit… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. The Help
By: Kathryn Stockett
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women: Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home a… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone book and Tara Westover's Educated
- adult
- audiobook
8. The Nightingale
By: Kristin Hannah
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Despite their differences, sisters Vianne and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isab… read more
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- audiobook
9. All the Light We Cannot See
By: Anthony Doerr
3.68
Format: 189 pages, Hardcover
A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths c… read more
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10. The Glass Castle
By: Jeannette Walls
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that, despite its profound flaws, gave the … read more
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11. Eat, Pray, Love
By: Elizabeth Gilbert
4.14
Format: None pages,
A celebrated writer's irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure… read more
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12. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
By: Cheryl Strayed
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, h… read more
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13. The Women
By: Kristin Hannah
4.64
Format: 471 pages, Hardcover
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more
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- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
14. Where the Crawdads Sing
By: Delia Owens
4.38
Format: 384 pages, ebook
For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet fishing village. Kya Clark is b… read more
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- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"We are married. Like the geese."-Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
"Sand keeps secrets better than mud."-Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
"Imagination grows in the lonliest of soils"-Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
"How much do you trade to defeat lonesomeness?"-Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
15. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
By: Gail Honeyman
4.23
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She stru… read more
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- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"It’s SpongeBob, Eleanor,"-Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
"You can't have too much dog in a book."-Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
"In the end, what matters is this: I survived."-Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
"In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder."-Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
16. Remarkably Bright Creatures
By: Shelby Van Pelt
4.39
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's u… read more
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- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
17. Lessons in Chemistry
By: Bonnie Garmus
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to poi… read more
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- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Sometimes I think," she said slowly, "that if a man were to spend a day being a woman in America, he wouldn't make it past noon."-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry
"(On religion) "I think it lets us off the hook. I think it teaches us that nothing is really our fault; that something or someone else is pulling the strings; the ultimately, we're not to blame for t…"-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry
"Whenever you feel afraid, just remember. Courage is the root of change - and change is what we're chemically designed to do. So when you wake up tomorrow, make this pledge. No more holding yourself b…"-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry
18. Yellowface
By: R.F. Kuang
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more
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- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
19. Becoming
By: Michelle Obama
4.45
Format: 426 pages, Hardcover
In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most ico… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"When they go low, we go high"-Michelle Obama, Becoming
"Grief and resilience live together."-Michelle Obama, Becoming
"I've learned that it's harder to hate up close."-Michelle Obama, Becoming
"At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be."-Michelle Obama, Becoming
20. Educated
By: Tara Westover
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mounta… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- religion
- nonfiction
- family
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"An education is not so much about making a living as making a person."-Tara Westover, Educated
"I would never again be made a foot soldier in a conflict I did not understand."-Tara Westover, Educated
"I believed then--and part of me will always believe--that my father's words ought to be my own."-Tara Westover, Educated
"I could stay, and search for what had been home, or I could go, now, before the walls shifted and the way out was shut."-Tara Westover, Educated
21. 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
- 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
