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Matched genres: Memoir, Essays

Title Year Ratings Rating
That's Mental: Painfully Funny Things That Drive Me Crazy About Being Mentally Ill
Nonfiction , Memoir , Mental Health , Psychology , Essays , Audiobook , Humor
Amanda Rosenberg
2019 1.0K 4.17
Upstream: Selected Essays
Poetry , Essays , Nonfiction , Nature , Memoir , Short Stories , Writing
Mary Oliver
2016 22.8K 4.17
Happy-Go-Lucky
Humor , Nonfiction , Audiobook , Memoir , Essays , Comedy , Short Stories
David Sedaris
2022 45.9K 4.17
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Nonfiction , Memoir , Feminism , Essays , Audiobook , Humor , Biography
Lindy West
2016 62.5K 4.17
You Deserve a Drink: Boozy Misadventures and Tales of Debauchery
Nonfiction , Humor , Memoir , Biography , Comedy , Autobiography , Essays
Mamrie Hart
2015 7.1K 4.16
Yearbook
Nonfiction , Audiobook , Memoir , Humor , Biography , Comedy , Essays
Seth Rogen
2021 76.8K 4.16
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar
Nonfiction , Self Help , Memoir , Essays , Audiobook , Psychology , Personal Development
Cheryl Strayed
2022 134.9K 4.16
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Nonfiction , Self Help , Memoir , Essays , Audiobook , Psychology , Personal Development
Cheryl Strayed
2012 134.9K 4.16
More Than a Woman
Nonfiction , Feminism , Memoir , Audiobook , Humor , Biography , Essays
Caitlin Moran
2020 10.3K 4.15
Raising Demons
Nonfiction , Memoir , Humor , Biography , Classics , Parenting , Essays
Shirley Jackson
1994 2.9K 4.15
This Is Not Miami
Short Stories , Nonfiction , Essays , Spanish Literature , Crime , Memoir , Latin American
Fernanda Melchor
2013 5.0K 4.15
The Wreckage of My Presence
Memoir , Nonfiction , Audiobook , Essays , Humor , Comedy , Biography
Casey Wilson
2021 19.0K 4.14
Inciting Joy: Essays
Essays , Nonfiction , Poetry , Memoir , Audiobook , Short Stories , Self Help
Ross Gay
2022 4.9K 4.14
Serve It Forth
Food , Nonfiction , Food Writing , Essays , Cooking , Memoir , History
M.F.K. Fisher
2002 1.0K 4.14
Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life
Writing , Nonfiction , Self Help , Reference , Memoir , Poetry , Essays
Natalie Goldberg
1990 6.5K 4.14
For the Time Being: Essays
Nonfiction , Essays , Philosophy , Spirituality , Nature , Religion , Memoir
Annie Dillard
2000 4.3K 4.14
The Book of Delights: Essays
Essays , Nonfiction , Poetry , Memoir , Audiobook , Short Stories , Biography Memoir
Ross Gay
2019 18.5K 4.14
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Nonfiction , Memoir , Spirituality , Religion , Faith , Christian , Essays
Anne Lamott
2000 48.1K 4.14
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Nonfiction , Essays , Humor , Short Stories , Memoir , Philosophy , American
David Foster Wallace
1998 51.6K 4.14
Gift from the Sea
Nonfiction , Memoir , Classics , Essays , Spirituality , Self Help , Inspirational
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
1991 53.7K 4.14
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Psychology , Mental Health , Mental Illness , Disability
Esmé Weijun Wang
2019 19.3K 4.13
Untold Stories
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Autobiography , Essays , Humor , Diary
Alan Bennett
2005 1.9K 4.13
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
Essays , Nonfiction , Books About Books , Memoir , Literature , Short Stories , Biography
Anne Fadiman
2007 2.2K 4.12
Aunt Erma's Cope Book: How To Get From Monday to Friday... in 12 Days
Humor , Nonfiction , Comedy , Memoir , Self Help , Essays , Biography
Erma Bombeck
1985 2.4K 4.12
The Boys of My Youth
Memoir , Essays , Nonfiction , Short Stories , Biography Memoir , Biography , Autobiography
Jo Ann Beard
1999 5.7K 4.12
At Large and at Small: Confessions of a Literary Hedonist
Essays , Nonfiction , Books About Books , Memoir , Literature , Short Stories , Biography
Anne Fadiman
2007 2.2K 4.12
Mortality
Nonfiction , Philosophy , Memoir , Biography , Essays , Death , Atheism
Christopher Hitchens
2012 28.7K 4.12
If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
Nonfiction , Memoir , Feminism , Food , Essays , Audiobook , Humor
Geraldine DeRuiter
2024 2.3K 4.11
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
Nonfiction , Psychology , Mental Health , Memoir , Audiobook , Science , Essays
Rachel Aviv
2022 13.1K 4.11
Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
Food , Nonfiction , Memoir , Cookbooks , Cooking , Essays , Food Writing
Laurie Colwin
2000 8.4K 4.11
1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories
Nonfiction , History , Essays , Memoir , Journalism , Biography , Southern
Chris Rose
2006 3.9K 4.11
Calypso
Nonfiction , Humor , Memoir , Audiobook , Essays , Short Stories , Comedy
David Sedaris
2018 140.1K 4.11
The Witches Are Coming
Nonfiction , Feminism , Essays , Audiobook , Politics , Memoir , Humor
Lindy West
2019 25.3K 4.11
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Humor , Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Short Stories , Comedy , Audiobook
David Sedaris
2004 284.4K 4.11
Notes To Self
Nonfiction , Essays , Feminism , Memoir , Audiobook , Biography , Irish Literature
Emilie Pine
2018 19.6K 4.10
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs
Essays , Nonfiction , Nature , Memoir , Westerns , History , Environment
Wallace Stegner
2002 2.0K 4.10
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
Nonfiction , Science , Memoir , Essays , Queer , LGBT , Nature
Sabrina Imbler
2022 12.6K 4.10
The Little Virtues
Essays , Nonfiction , Italy , Italian Literature , Memoir , Short Stories , Classics
Natalia Ginzburg
1985 9.0K 4.10
Vesper Flights
Nonfiction , Nature , Essays , Science , Memoir , Animals , Birds
Helen Macdonald
2020 7.9K 4.10
Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Poetry , Short Stories , Audiobook , Self Help
Jonny Sun
2021 5.6K 4.10
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Nonfiction , Books About Books , Essays , Memoir , Biography , Writing , Humor
Anne Fadiman
2000 13.8K 4.10
A Man Without a Country
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Humor , Classics , Biography , Politics
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2007 48.1K 4.10
Naked
Humor , Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Short Stories , Comedy , Biography
David Sedaris
1998 269.5K 4.10
Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting
Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Parenting , Biography , Family , Relationships
Anna Quindlen
2019 4.2K 4.09
Letter to My Daughter
Nonfiction , Poetry , Memoir , Essays , Feminism , Audiobook , Biography
Maya Angelou
2008 33.2K 4.09
Rick Steves' Travel As a Political Act
Travel , Nonfiction , Politics , History , Memoir , Audiobook , Essays
Rick Steves
2009 3.8K 4.09
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
Nonfiction , Self Help , Essays , Inspirational , Philosophy , Memoir , Personal Development
J.K. Rowling
2015 28.6K 4.09
Letters
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Autobiography , Biography Memoir , Essays , Literature
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2012 1.7K 4.08
I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression
Humor , Nonfiction , Parenting , Comedy , Memoir , Family , Essays
Erma Bombeck
1995 1.2K 4.08
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Race , Anti Racist , Biography , African American
Emily Bernard
2019 3.0K 4.08