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Matched genres: Memoir, Essays

Title Year Ratings Rating
My Life as a Villainess
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Audiobook , Biography Memoir , Biography , Writing
Laura Lippman
2020 1.5K 3.69
I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual
Nonfiction , Humor , Essays , Audiobook , Feminism , Self Help , Memoir
Luvvie Ajayi
2016 14.2K 3.69
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
Nonfiction , Humor , Memoir , Biography , Essays , Science , Audiobook
A.J. Jacobs
2009 9.9K 3.69
Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
Nonfiction , Essays , Writing , Books About Books , Memoir , Literature , Literary Criticism
Michael Chabon
2008 4.3K 3.69
Quietly Hostile: Essays
Nonfiction , Essays , Humor , Memoir , Audiobook , LGBT , Queer
Samantha Irby
2023 18.5K 3.68
This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
Nonfiction , Self Help , Memoir , Humor , Psychology , Audiobook , Essays
Augusten Burroughs
2012 13.1K 3.68
My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places
Nonfiction , Humor , Science , Essays , Short Stories , Audiobook , Memoir
Mary Roach
2013 3.9K 3.67
The Empathy Exams
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Psychology , Short Stories , Feminism , Medicine
Leslie Jamison
2014 15.5K 3.67
Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch: Tales from a Bad Neighborhood
Memoir , Humor , Nonfiction , Essays , Biography Memoir , Biography , Autobiography
Hollis Gillespie
2005 1.1K 3.67
You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl: Observations on Life from the Shallow End of the Pool
Humor , Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Southern , Chick Lit , Comedy
Celia Rivenbark
2011 2.0K 3.66
The Pedant in the Kitchen
Nonfiction , Food , Essays , Cooking , Humor , Memoir , British Literature
Julian Barnes
2004 2.0K 3.66
The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives
Self Help , Audiobook , Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Biography , Business
Katie Couric
2011 3.9K 3.66
Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember
Nonfiction , Audiobook , Memoir , Humor , Biography , Essays , Biography Memoir
Lauren Graham
2022 32.3K 3.66
Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Essays , Audiobook , Humor , Autobiography
Dick Cavett
2014 1.0K 3.65
Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
Nonfiction , Books About Books , Memoir , Biography , Essays , Biography Memoir , Literature
Susan Hill
2009 4.0K 3.65
Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman
Humor , Nonfiction , Memoir , Audiobook , Essays , Short Stories , Chick Lit
Lisa Scottoline
2009 5.4K 3.65
Queen of the Oddballs: And Other True Stories from a Life Unaccording to Plan
Memoir , Humor , Nonfiction , Biography , LGBT , Queer , Essays
Hillary Carlip
2006 1.2K 3.65
People Are Unappealing: Even Me
Humor , Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Biography Memoir , Comedy , Biography
Sara Barron
2009 2.7K 3.65
Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us
Music , Nonfiction , Memoir , Humor , Essays , Pop Culture , Biography
Steve Almond
2010 1.1K 3.65
Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir
Memoir , Nonfiction , Biography , Writing , British Literature , Biography Memoir , Essays
Penelope Lively
2014 1.3K 3.64
Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading
Nonfiction , Books About Books , Essays , Memoir , Pop Culture , Literary Criticism , Writing
Lizzie Skurnick
2009 1.2K 3.64
Craigslist Confessional: A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous Strangers
Nonfiction , Audiobook , Memoir , Essays , Biography , Anthologies , True Crime
Helena Dea Bala
2020 2.9K 3.63
Particularly Cats and More Cats
Cats , Nonfiction , Animals , Memoir , Biography , Essays , Nobel Prize
Doris Lessing
1989 1.1K 3.63
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting and Living with Books
Nonfiction , Books About Books , Essays , Memoir , Literary Criticism , Audiobook , Literature
Michael Dirda
2015 1.3K 3.63
Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Humor , LGBT , Audiobook , Queer
Zach Zimmerman
2023 2.2K 3.62
People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Competitive Crafters, Drop-Off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourges
Humor , Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Audiobook , Comedy , Parenting
Jen Mann
2014 13.5K 3.62
Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat?: True Stories and Confessions (The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman, 6)
Humor , Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Chick Lit , Audiobook , Short Stories
Lisa Scottoline
2015 2.8K 3.61
The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Nonfiction , Essays , Humor , Memoir , New York , Audiobook , Comedy
Fran Lebowitz
1994 9.1K 3.61
My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Short Stories , Humor , Biography , Audiobook
Davy Rothbart
2012 2.3K 3.61
SeinLanguage
Humor , Nonfiction , Comedy , Biography , Memoir , Autobiography , Essays
Jerry Seinfeld
1994 10.0K 3.61
White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World
Travel , Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Short Stories , Biography , Journalism
Geoff Dyer
2016 1.2K 3.59
Southern Lady Code: Essays
Nonfiction , Essays , Humor , Memoir , Audiobook , Short Stories , Southern
Helen Ellis
2019 9.6K 3.59
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
Memoir , Nonfiction , Essays , Audiobook , Biography , Biography Memoir , Humor
Isaac Fitzgerald
2022 7.3K 3.59
Farther Away
Essays , Nonfiction , Literature , Short Stories , Audiobook , American , Memoir
Jonathan Franzen
2012 3.9K 3.59
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption
Nonfiction , Essays , History , Audiobook , Psychology , Memoir , Art
Katy Kelleher
2023 1.1K 3.58
Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went from Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things
Nonfiction , Memoir , Humor , Mental Health , Audiobook , Psychology , Essays
Courtenay Hameister
2018 2.1K 3.58
How to Be Alone
Essays , Nonfiction , Short Stories , Memoir , Literature , Philosophy , American
Jonathan Franzen
2003 12.2K 3.58
Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women
Nonfiction , Essays , Humor , Memoir , Feminism , Womens , Biography
Nora Ephron
2000 2.4K 3.57
I Know I Am, But What Are You?
Humor , Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Audiobook , Comedy , Essays
Samantha Bee
2010 11.3K 3.57
Stranger than Fiction
Nonfiction , Essays , Short Stories , Memoir , Contemporary , Biography , Humor
Chuck Palahniuk
2004 22.8K 3.57
Non-Fiction:
Nonfiction , Essays , Short Stories , Memoir , Contemporary , Biography , Humor
Chuck Palahniuk
2004 22.8K 3.57
Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books
Books About Books , Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Biography , Writing , Literature
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
1997 1.3K 3.57
Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-up Years
Nonfiction , Humor , Essays , Memoir , Biography , Audiobook , Short Stories
Cathy Guisewite
2019 2.1K 3.56
Songbook
Music , Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Short Stories , Contemporary , Pop Culture
Nick Hornby
2003 14.1K 3.56
Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
Humor , Nonfiction , Memoir , Comedy , Biography , Essays , Audiobook
Patton Oswalt
2011 10.9K 3.55
What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal
Nonfiction , Feminism , Memoir , Humor , Essays , Audiobook , Biography
E. Jean Carroll
2019 1.4K 3.55
A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary
Nonfiction , Travel , Philosophy , Essays , Memoir , Aviation , Sociology
Alain de Botton
2010 4.5K 3.54
Thinking In Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math
Nonfiction , Science , Mathematics , Essays , Philosophy , Psychology , Memoir
Daniel Tammet
2013 1.9K 3.53
The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage
Nonfiction , Feminism , Essays , Memoir , Womens , Anthologies , Parenting
Cathi Hanauer
2003 3.3K 3.53
How Did You Get This Number: Essays
Humor , Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Audiobook , Short Stories , Biography
Sloane Crosley
2010 13.0K 3.52