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Matched genres: Memoir, Essays

Title Year Ratings Rating
Things I Don't Want to Know: On Writing
Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Writing , Feminism , Biography , Autobiography
Deborah Levy
2014 16.9K 4.08
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
Writing , Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Reference , Art , Philosophy
Ray Bradbury
1992 20.7K 4.08
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Humor , Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Short Stories , Audiobook , Comedy
David Sedaris
2008 214.0K 4.08
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Nonfiction , Nature , Memoir , Essays , Classics , Philosophy , Science
Annie Dillard
2000 28.6K 4.08
Role Models
Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Humor , Biography , Film , Audiobook
John Waters
2010 8.2K 4.07
High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Nature , Short Stories , Environment , Biography
Barbara Kingsolver
1996 12.6K 4.07
The Fragrance of Guava
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Spanish Literature , Writing , Essays , Literature
Gabriel García Márquez
1998 1.5K 4.06
My Body Is a Book of Rules
Memoir , Nonfiction , Essays , Mental Health , Biography Memoir , Indigenous , Feminism
Elissa Washuta
2014 1.2K 4.06
Letters to a Young Muslim
Nonfiction , Religion , Islam , Memoir , Audiobook , Philosophy , Essays
Omar Saif Ghobash
2017 2.7K 4.06
Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture
Nonfiction , LGBT , Queer , Memoir , Audiobook , Essays , Politics
Amelia Abraham
2019 1.9K 4.06
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
Nonfiction , Essays , Feminism , Audiobook , Memoir , Short Stories , Canada
Margaret Atwood
2022 2.6K 4.06
The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank
Humor , Nonfiction , Comedy , Memoir , Essays , Biography , Audiobook
Erma Bombeck
1995 11.8K 4.06
Bluets
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Philosophy , Contemporary , Poetry , Queer
Maggie Nelson
2009 52.7K 4.06
China in Ten Words
China , Nonfiction , History , Essays , Asia , Memoir , Politics
Yu Hua
2011 8.0K 4.05
Uncle of the Year: And Other Debatable Triumphs
Nonfiction , Memoir , Audiobook , Humor , LGBT , Queer , Essays
Andrew Rannells
2023 2.4K 4.05
You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Memoir , Nonfiction , Poetry , Audiobook , Biography Memoir , Biography , Essays
Maggie Smith
2023 32.5K 4.05
Congratulations, the Best is Over!
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Humor , Audiobook , LGBT , Short Stories
R. Eric Thomas
2023 7.0K 4.05
Moranifesto
Nonfiction , Feminism , Essays , Humor , Audiobook , Memoir , Politics
Caitlin Moran
2016 4.0K 4.05
The Crofter and the Laird: Life on an Hebridean Island
Nonfiction , Scotland , History , Travel , Memoir , Essays , Biography Memoir
John McPhee
1998 1.2K 4.05
Ten Years in the Tub: A Decade Soaking in Great Books
Nonfiction , Books About Books , Essays , Memoir , Humor , Writing , Literature
Nick Hornby
2013 1.4K 4.05
¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
Memoir , Nonfiction , LGBT , Queer , Essays , Audiobook , Humor
John Paul Brammer
2021 8.6K 4.05
Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories
Nonfiction , Short Stories , Anthologies , Memoir , Contemporary , Essays , Teen
Megan Kelley Hall
2011 2.5K 4.05
The Principles of Uncertainty
Art , Nonfiction , Graphic Novels , Memoir , Philosophy , Comics , Essays
Maira Kalman
2007 9.9K 4.05
Ten Years in the Tub
Nonfiction , Books About Books , Essays , Memoir , Humor , Writing , Literature
Nick Hornby
2013 1.4K 4.05
Cinema Speculation
Nonfiction , Film , Media Tie In , Memoir , History , Essays , Audiobook
Quentin Tarantino
2022 12.7K 4.05
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Nonfiction , Nature , Essays , Memoir , Science , Poetry , Animals
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
2020 22.4K 4.05
A Small Place
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , History , School , Classics , Travel
Jamaica Kincaid
2000 16.5K 4.05
All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps
Nonfiction , Short Stories , Memoir , Romance , Audiobook , Essays , Biography
Dave Isay
2012 2.8K 4.04
Like Brothers
Memoir , Nonfiction , Audiobook , Humor , Biography , Film , Essays
Mark Duplass
2018 3.5K 4.04
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
Nonfiction , Feminism , Essays , Memoir , Race , Social Justice , Audiobook
Morgan Jerkins
2018 6.7K 4.04
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
Nonfiction , Books About Books , Essays , Politics , Memoir , Audiobook , History
Azar Nafisi
2022 1.8K 4.04
Festival Days
Essays , Short Stories , Nonfiction , Memoir , Contemporary , Animals , Literary Fiction
Jo Ann Beard
2021 1.1K 4.04
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Nonfiction , Memoir , Spirituality , Religion , Essays , Faith , Christian
Anne Lamott
2006 21.2K 4.04
The White Album
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Classics , History , Journalism , Biography
Joan Didion
2009 45.0K 4.04
How to Read Now
Nonfiction , Essays , Books About Books , Audiobook , Writing , Memoir , Literary Criticism
Elaine Castillo
2022 1.8K 4.03
Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
Nonfiction , Essays , Food , Memoir , Poetry , Short Stories , Audiobook
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
2024 1.8K 4.03
If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits?
Humor , Nonfiction , Comedy , Memoir , Essays , Biography , Biography Memoir
Erma Bombeck
1985 14.6K 4.03
Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Audiobook , Humor , LGBT , Queer
R. Eric Thomas
2020 13.1K 4.03
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
Nonfiction , Nature , Art , Travel , Memoir , Essays , Anthropology
Ellen Meloy
2002 1.8K 4.03
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit
Nonfiction , Nature , Art , Travel , Memoir , Essays , Anthropology
Ellen Meloy
2002 1.8K 4.03
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Nonfiction , Essays , Feminism , Memoir , Audiobook , Self Help , Psychology
Jia Tolentino
2019 75.4K 4.03
Loitering: New & Collected Essays
Essays , Nonfiction , Memoir , Short Stories , Literature , Biography , Writing
Charles D'Ambrosio
2014 1.5K 4.03
The Soul of a Woman
Nonfiction , Feminism , Memoir , Audiobook , Biography , Womens , Essays
Isabel Allende
2021 31.5K 4.03
Small Wonder
Nonfiction , Essays , Nature , Memoir , Environment , Short Stories , Audiobook
Barbara Kingsolver
2003 11.1K 4.03
Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
Essays , Nonfiction , Memoir , Poetry , Short Stories , Feminism , Writing
Durga Chew-Bose
2017 5.6K 4.02
Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Journal , Diary , Essays , Queer
Susan Sontag
2008 3.9K 4.02
A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Short Stories , Anthologies , Biography , Social Justice
Nicole Chung
2020 1.1K 4.02
I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
Nonfiction , Books About Books , Essays , Memoir , Audiobook , Writing , Biography Memoir
Anne Bogel
2018 19.7K 4.02
Broken
Nonfiction , Humor , Memoir , Audiobook , Mental Health , Biography , Essays
Jenny Lawson
2021 44.2K 4.02
The Argonauts
Nonfiction , Memoir , Queer , Feminism , LGBT , Essays , Biography
Maggie Nelson
2015 53.2K 4.02