Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
By: David Sheff
4.16
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
With a new afterword Now a Major Motion Picture What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our…
Want to Read $ 15.99"You're as sick as your secrets."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
"You're as sick as your secrets."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
"I accept evil in order to participate in the miraculous."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
"I accept evil in order to participate in the miraculous."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
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1. Bones & All
By: Camille DeAngelis
3.56
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Maren Yearly doesn’t just break hearts, she devours them. Since she was a baby, Maren has had w… read more
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- adult
"That night I learned there are two kinds of hunger. The first I can satisfy with cheeseburgers and chocolate milk, but there’s a second part of me, biding it’s time. It can go on like that for months…"-Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All
2. The Virgin Suicides
By: Jeffrey Eugenides
3.79
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out… read more
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- adult
- mental health
"She was the still point in the turning world."-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
"During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water."-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
"In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life."-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
"Aloft, he looked frail, diseased, and temperamental, as we expected a European to look."-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
3. Dead Poets Society
By: N.H. Kleinbaum
4.18
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since thei… read more
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"Carpe Diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary."-N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society
"Chaos screaming, chaos dreaming, gotta do more, gotta be more!"-N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society
"That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse."-N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society
"Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone. "-N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society
4. Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
By: Nic Sheff
3.34
Format: 320 pages,
Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularl… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction
By: Nic Sheff
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In his bestselling memoir Tweak, Nic Sheff took readers on an emotionally gripping roller-coaster r… read more
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6. The Bell Jar
By: Sylvia Plath
4.06
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented… read more
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- adult
- psychology
- mental health
"I woke to the sound of rain."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
7. Call Me by Your Name
By: André Aciman
3.94
Format: 450 pages, Paperback
Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolesc… read more
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8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
By: Stephen Chbosky
4.23
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see wha… read more
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- mental health
"We accept the love we think we deserve."-Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."-Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
"I would die for you. But I won't live for you."-Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
"It’s much easier not to know things sometimes."-Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
9. A Little Life
By: Hanya Yanagihara
4.58
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're… 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. Schizo
By: Nic Sheff
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The fascinating, shocking, and ultimately quite hopeful story of one teen's downward spiral into me… read more
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12. Girl, Interrupted
By: Susanna Kaysen
3.37
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
"Searing . . . captures an exquisite range of self-awareness between madness and insight." First pu… read more
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13. Just Kids
By: Patti Smith
4.21
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-befor… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"There's always new stuff, that's for sure."-Patti Smith, Just Kids
"Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?"-Patti Smith, Just Kids
"I knew he didn't love me, but I adored him anyway."-Patti Smith, Just Kids
"Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself."-Patti Smith, Just Kids
14. Speak
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The first ten lies they tell you in high school. "Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you… read more
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- mental health
"Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating."-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
"I have never heard a more eloquent silence."-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
"To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door."-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
"Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance."-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
15. Lie With Me
By: Philippe Besson
4.26
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"I also know how much of yourself you have to leave behind in order to look like everyone else."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"You get used to everything, even the defection of those you thought you were bound to forever."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
16. My Year of Rest and Relaxation
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.63
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman’s efforts… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- mental health
"What next? I couldn't imagine."-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
"I wasn't an insomniac, but I was miserable."-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
"Life was repetitive, resonated at a low hum."-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
"I just wanted to sleep all the time. I had a plan."-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
17. Normal People
By: Sally Rooney
3.81
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"People are a lot more knowable than they think they are."-Sally Rooney, Normal People
"I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me."-Sally Rooney, Normal People
"No. I was frustrated sometimes but not lonely. I never feel lonely when I'm with you."-Sally Rooney, Normal People
"Most people go through their whole lives, without ever really feeling that close with anyone."-Sally Rooney, Normal People
18. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
By: Ocean Vuong
4.04
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when th… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"It was beauty, I learned, that we risked ourselves for."-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
"To look at something is to fill your whole life with it, if only briefly."-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
"What were you before you met me?" "I think I was drowning" "And what are you now?" "Water"-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
"A page, turning, is a wing lifted with no twin, and therefore no flight. And yet we are moved."-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
19. Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
By: David Sheff
4.16
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
With a new afterword Now a Major Motion Picture What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our… read more
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- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- adult
- audiobook
"You're as sick as your secrets."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
"I accept evil in order to participate in the miraculous."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
"That's when it struck me that I can't take my life as long as I can still laugh."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
"A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
20. Everything I Know About Love
By: Dolly Alderton
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, g… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
"Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
"No matter how uncertain and unpredictable life gets, some people really do walk next to you for ever."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
"She knows where to find everything in me and I know where all her stuff is too. She is, in short, my best friend."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
"I don't need any words or looks or comments from a man to believe I'm visible; to believe I'm here. don't need to run away from discomfort and into a male eyeliner. That's not where I come alive."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
21. Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2)
By: André Aciman
3.26
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Elio believes he has left behind his first love - but as an affair with an older man intensifies, h… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"It belongs to the past,"-André Aciman, Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2)
"Oh, but we do age. We don’t grow up."-André Aciman, Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2)
"If I could, I would kiss your voice."-André Aciman, Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2)
"It's not death I refuse, but extinction."-André Aciman, Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2)
