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Matched genres: Memoir, Essays

Title Year Ratings Rating
Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Audiobook , Canada , Biography , Biography Memoir
Sarah Polley
2022 13.4K 4.31
Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger
Nonfiction , Feminism , Essays , Memoir , Womens , Psychology , Anthologies
Lilly Dancyger
2019 1.3K 4.30
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Nonfiction , Memoir , Poetry , Biography , Essays , Classics , Autobiography
Maya Angelou
1997 10.6K 4.30
Here Is New York
Nonfiction , New York , Essays , Travel , Classics , History , Memoir
E.B. White
2000 9.9K 4.30
Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing from America's Favorite Humorist
Humor , Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Biography , Comedy , Autobiography
Erma Bombeck
2000 2.3K 4.30
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
Feminism , Nonfiction , Essays , Race , Poetry , African American , Memoir
Alice Walker
2003 8.2K 4.29
Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project
Nonfiction , Memoir , History , Audiobook , Short Stories , Biography , Essays
Dave Isay
2007 4.2K 4.29
The Summer Game (Bison Book)
Baseball , Sports , Nonfiction , Essays , History , Journalism , Memoir
Roger Angell
2004 2.2K 4.29
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Prose
Feminism , Nonfiction , Essays , Race , Poetry , African American , Memoir
Alice Walker
1983 8.2K 4.29
One Man's Meat
Essays , Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Classics , Writing , Biography Memoir
E.B. White
2023 2.1K 4.28
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
Poetry , Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Race , School , Politics
Claudia Rankine
2004 6.0K 4.27
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature
Nonfiction , Feminism , Essays , Queer , LGBT , Class , Memoir
Dorothy Allison
1994 2.5K 4.26
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
Poetry , Essays , Nonfiction , Canada , Classics , Short Stories , Memoir
Anne Carson
2000 3.4K 4.26
Erosion: Essays of Undoing
Essays , Nonfiction , Nature , Environment , Memoir , Science , Politics
Terry Tempest Williams
2019 2.1K 4.25
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
Memoir , Nonfiction , LGBT , Queer , Essays , Biography , Biography Memoir
T Kira Madden
2019 10.1K 4.25
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
Memoir , Nonfiction , Disability , Essays , Social Justice , Feminism , Biography
Alice Wong
2022 3.3K 4.24
The Most of Nora Ephron
Nonfiction , Essays , Humor , Memoir , Biography , Biography Memoir , Feminism
Nora Ephron
2013 2.6K 4.24
A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
Nonfiction , Essays , Biography , Humor , Writing , Audiobook , Memoir
Terry Pratchett
2014 5.9K 4.24
Bird by Bird
Writing , Nonfiction , Memoir , Self Help , Essays , Reference , Audiobook
Anne Lamott
1995 106.7K 4.24
Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
Art , Nonfiction , Essays , Poetry , Memoir , Philosophy , Art History
Mark Doty
2002 2.1K 4.23
Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land
Poetry , Nonfiction , Nature , Memoir , Indigenous , Essays , Native American
N. Scott Momaday
2020 1.8K 4.23
Susan Sontag: The Complete Rolling Stone Interview
Nonfiction , Biography , Philosophy , Essays , Memoir , Art , Womens
Jonathan Cott
2013 2.4K 4.22
Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
Nonfiction , Memoir , Classics , Essays , Biography , Feminism , Literature
Virginia Woolf
1976 3.2K 4.22
De Profundis and Other Writings
Classics , Nonfiction , Essays , Poetry , Literature , Memoir , Philosophy
Oscar Wilde
1976 2.8K 4.22
Notes on Grief
Nonfiction , Memoir , Grief , Essays , Audiobook , Africa , Biography
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2021 36.3K 4.22
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
Nonfiction , Humor , Memoir , Audiobook , Essays , Biography , Comedy
David Sedaris
2021 17.6K 4.21
Loving in the War Years
Poetry , Feminism , Nonfiction , Queer , LGBT , Memoir , Essays
Cherríe L. Moraga
2000 1.1K 4.21
Moments of Being
Nonfiction , Memoir , Classics , Essays , Biography , Feminism , Literature
Virginia Woolf
1976 3.2K 4.21
Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
Memoir , Nonfiction , Feminism , Essays , Biography , Audiobook , Womens
Rebecca Solnit
2020 7.8K 4.21
The Faraway Nearby
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Biography , Writing , Philosophy , Feminism
Rebecca Solnit
2013 7.4K 4.21
I'm Afraid of Men.
Nonfiction , Feminism , LGBT , Queer , Memoir , Essays , Audiobook
Vivek Shraya
2018 11.8K 4.21
The Best of Me
Humor , Nonfiction , Audiobook , Essays , Memoir , Short Stories , Comedy
David Sedaris
2020 24.6K 4.21
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
Memoir , Nonfiction , Feminism , Essays , Poetry , Nature , Biography
Terry Tempest Williams
2012 8.9K 4.20
Holy the Firm
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Philosophy , Spirituality , Poetry , Nature
Annie Dillard
1998 5.2K 4.20
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Race , Audiobook , Social Justice , Asian Literature
Cathy Park Hong
2020 42.2K 4.20
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Feminism , Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Politics , Womens , Biography
Gloria Steinem
1995 5.0K 4.19
Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters
Nonfiction , Essays , Humor , Film , Memoir , Biography , Comedy
John Waters
1987 2.6K 4.19
We're Going to Need More Wine
Nonfiction , Memoir , Audiobook , Biography , Essays , Autobiography , Biography Memoir
Gabrielle Union
2017 36.5K 4.19
The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life
Writing , Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Biography Memoir , Biography , Books About Books
Ann Patchett
2011 2.1K 4.19
A History of My Brief Body
Nonfiction , Memoir , Queer , Poetry , Indigenous , Essays , LGBT
Billy-Ray Belcourt
2020 5.2K 4.19
Navigate Your Stars
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Audiobook , Self Help , Biography , African American
Jesmyn Ward
2020 3.5K 4.19
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Classics , History , Short Stories , Journalism
Joan Didion
2008 75.3K 4.19
Notes from No Man's Land
Essays , Nonfiction , Race , Memoir , History , Politics , Short Stories
Eula Biss
2009 3.8K 4.18
Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal: Not Exactly a Memoir
Memoir , Nonfiction , Humor , Essays , Biography , Audiobook , Biography Memoir
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
2016 5.1K 4.18
On Juneteenth
History , Nonfiction , Memoir , Race , Audiobook , Essays , African American
Annette Gordon-Reed
2021 9.9K 4.18
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Memoir , Parenting , Nonfiction , Humor , Biography , Biography Memoir , Essays
Anne Lamott
2005 25.8K 4.18
Gratitude
Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Psychology , Biography , Philosophy , Audiobook
Oliver Sacks
2015 23.0K 4.18
The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
Nonfiction , Memoir , Feminism , Biography , Essays , Autobiography , Womens
Deborah Levy
2018 20.2K 4.18
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs: The Nobel Lecture
Nonfiction , Essays , Writing , Memoir , Nobel Prize , Japan , Audiobook
Kazuo Ishiguro
2017 1.5K 4.18
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
Nonfiction , Queer , History , Memoir , New York , LGBT , Essays
Samuel R. Delany
2001 2.1K 4.18