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Matched genres: Memoir, Essays

Title Year Ratings Rating
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Audiobook , Short Stories , Biography , Writing
Ann Patchett
2013 37.6K 4.01
Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016
Nonfiction , Essays , Writing , Books About Books , Memoir , Literary Criticism , Feminism
Ursula K. Le Guin
2016 1.5K 4.01
It Gets Worse: A Collection of Essays
Nonfiction , Humor , Memoir , Biography , Essays , LGBT , Short Stories
Shane Dawson
2016 7.9K 4.01
About Alice
Memoir , Nonfiction , Biography , Biography Memoir , Audiobook , Essays , Marriage
Calvin Trillin
2006 6.9K 4.01
No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Writing , Biography , Philosophy , Audiobook
Ursula K. Le Guin
2017 8.2K 4.01
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Short Stories , Comedy , Humor , Audiobook
David Sedaris
2001 710.0K 4.01
Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death
Nonfiction , Feminism , Humor , Essays , Memoir , Audiobook , Comedy
Erin Gibson
2018 4.6K 4.00
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
Nonfiction , Memoir , Humor , Audiobook , Essays , Biography , Comedy
W. Kamau Bell
2017 6.6K 4.00
The Face
Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Philosophy , Biography , Short Stories , Buddhism
Ruth Ozeki
2015 2.9K 4.00
Pulphead
Essays , Nonfiction , Short Stories , Journalism , Memoir , Music , Pop Culture
John Jeremiah Sullivan
2011 7.8K 4.00
World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music
Music , Nonfiction , Memoir , Audiobook , Biography , Biography Memoir , Essays
Jeff Tweedy
2023 2.9K 4.00
I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
Nonfiction , Memoir , Self Help , Audiobook , Christian , Essays , Faith
Shauna Niequist
2022 13.0K 4.00
The Library at Night
Nonfiction , Books About Books , History , Essays , Philosophy , Literature , Memoir
Alberto Manguel
2008 3.9K 3.99
The Library at Night
Nonfiction , Books About Books , History , Essays , Philosophy , Literature , Memoir
Alberto Manguel
2008 3.9K 3.99
My Body
Nonfiction , Memoir , Feminism , Audiobook , Essays , Biography , Womens
Emily Ratajkowski
2021 78.2K 3.99
Possible Side Effects
Memoir , Nonfiction , Humor , Essays , Short Stories , Biography , Biography Memoir
Augusten Burroughs
2007 48.0K 3.99
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
Nonfiction , Memoir , Audiobook , Biography , Essays , Biography Memoir , Short Stories
Maggie O'Farrell
2017 48.3K 3.99
Love's Work
Philosophy , Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Biography , Love , Autobiography
Gillian Rose
1995 1.4K 3.98
Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Spirituality , Self Help , Religion , Audiobook
Anne Lamott
2021 10.5K 3.98
It Chooses You
Nonfiction , Memoir , Art , Short Stories , Essays , Biography , Biography Memoir
Miranda July
2011 29.5K 3.98
The Writing Life
Writing , Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Crafts , Biography , Art
Annie Dillard
2013 17.8K 3.98
Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History
Nonfiction , Politics , History , Audiobook , Essays , Cultural , Memoir
Nellie Bowles
2024 2.3K 3.98
Intimations
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Short Stories , Audiobook , Contemporary , Biography
Zadie Smith
2020 28.0K 3.98
Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem
Humor , Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Biography , Comedy , Audiobook
Laurie Notaro
2022 13.6K 3.97
The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
Queer , Nonfiction , LGBT , Essays , Transgender , Gender , Memoir
S. Bear Bergman
2009 1.0K 3.97
I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are
Nonfiction , Memoir , Audiobook , Humor , Essays , Biography , Mental Health
Rachel Bloom
2020 15.2K 3.97
Survival Lessons
Nonfiction , Memoir , Self Help , Essays , Health , Biography , Audiobook
Alice Hoffman
2013 3.9K 3.96
Little Labors
Essays , Nonfiction , Memoir , Parenting , Biography , Poetry , Biography Memoir
Rivka Galchen
2019 2.2K 3.96
Swimming Studies
Nonfiction , Memoir , Sports , Essays , Art , Biography , Biography Memoir
Leanne Shapton
2012 2.2K 3.96
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
Nonfiction , Essays , Audiobook , Short Stories , Writing , Biography , Memoir
Neil Gaiman
2016 16.3K 3.96
Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers Of Southern Living
Humor , Nonfiction , Memoir , Southern , Short Stories , Essays , Biography
Bailey White
1993 5.0K 3.96
Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living
Humor , Nonfiction , Memoir , Southern , Short Stories , Essays , Biography
Bailey White
1994 5.0K 3.96
Magical Thinking: True Stories
Memoir , Nonfiction , Humor , Short Stories , Essays , Biography , Biography Memoir
Augusten Burroughs
2005 57.0K 3.96
The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language
Writing , Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Self Help , Spirituality , Buddhism
Natalie Goldberg
2013 1.6K 3.95
Walden and Other Writings
Classics , Philosophy , Nonfiction , Essays , Nature , Literature , Memoir
Henry David Thoreau
2000 4.8K 3.95
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
Nonfiction , Memoir , Humor , Biography , Biography Memoir , Essays , Autobiography
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
2005 7.1K 3.95
Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002
Nonfiction , Memoir , Humor , Audiobook , Essays , Biography , Biography Memoir
David Sedaris
2017 35.2K 3.95
People Change
Nonfiction , Queer , Memoir , LGBT , Essays , Audiobook , Canada
Vivek Shraya
2022 1.6K 3.94
The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life
Nonfiction , Memoir , Writing , Biography , Essays , Biography Memoir , China
Amy Tan
2004 8.6K 3.94
Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood
Humor , Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Chick Lit , Comedy , Biography
Laurie Notaro
2003 9.4K 3.94
On Immunity: An Inoculation
Nonfiction , Science , Essays , Health , Medicine , History , Memoir
Eula Biss
2014 11.6K 3.94
Café Europa: Life After Communism
Nonfiction , History , Essays , Travel , Politics , Memoir , Sociology
Slavenka Drakulić
1999 3.0K 3.94
Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
Nonfiction , Biography , Journalism , Politics , Memoir , Essays , History
Hunter S. Thompson
2003 10.0K 3.94
Blue Nights
Memoir , Nonfiction , Biography , Audiobook , Grief , Biography Memoir , Essays
Joan Didion
2011 44.2K 3.94
The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend
Memoir , Nonfiction , Grief , Death , Literature , Essays , Biography
Sarah Manguso
2012 1.1K 3.93
Population: 485
Nonfiction , Memoir , Humor , Biography , Biography Memoir , Essays , Audiobook
Michael Perry
2003 5.8K 3.93
I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies): True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl
Humor , Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Chick Lit , Comedy , Biography
Laurie Notaro
2004 11.1K 3.93
Assassination Vacation
Nonfiction , History , Humor , Travel , Audiobook , Essays , Memoir
Sarah Vowell
2006 46.9K 3.93
Loud and Clear
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Biography , Anthologies , Politics
Anna Quindlen
2005 1.3K 3.92
Now I Can Die in Peace: How ESPN's Sports Guy Found Salvation, with a Little Help from Nomar, Pedro, Shawshank and the 2004
Sports , Nonfiction , Baseball , Humor , Essays , Pop Culture , Memoir
Bill Simmons
2006 8.7K 3.92