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Essay & Memoir

The Book of Delights: Essays By Ross Gay Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781643753287
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Published: Algonquin Books - August 16th, 2022

The Breaks By Julietta Singh Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781566896160
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Published: Coffee House Press - September 7th, 2021

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir By Michelle Zauner Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781984898951
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Published: Vintage - March 28th, 2023

Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir By Erika L. Sánchez Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780593296936
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Published: Viking - July 12th, 2022

Easy Beauty: A Memoir By Chloé Cooper Jones Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781982152000
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Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - April 4th, 2023

The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic: Revised and Expanded Edition By Jessica Hopper, Samantha Irby (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Jessica Hopper, Samantha Irby (Foreword by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780374538996
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Published: MCD x FSG Originals - July 6th, 2021

Girlhood By Melissa Febos Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9781635579314
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - May 24th, 2022

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations By Mira Jacob Cover Image
$22.00
ISBN: 9780399589065
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Published: One World - March 24th, 2020

Having and Being Had By Eula Biss Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780525537465
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Published: Riverhead Books - August 31st, 2021

Heart Berries: A Memoir By Terese Marie Mailhot Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781640091603
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Published: Counterpoint - April 9th, 2019

Heavy: An American Memoir By Kiese Laymon Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781501125669
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Published: Scribner - March 5th, 2019

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Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs By Sally Mann Cover Image
$21.99
ISBN: 9780316247757
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Published: Back Bay Books - April 26th, 2016

How To Write An Autobiographical Novel: Essays By Alexander Chee Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781328764522
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Published: Mariner Books - April 17th, 2018

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In the Dream House: A Memoir By Carmen Maria Machado Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781644450383
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Published: Graywolf Press - December 1st, 2020

Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner By Patti Smith Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780060936228
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Published: Ecco - November 2nd, 2010

Know My Name: A Memoir By Chanel Miller Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780735223721
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Published: Penguin Books - August 18th, 2020

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir By T Kira Madden Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781635574760
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - March 3rd, 2020

The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir By E. J. Koh Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781951142278
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Published: Tin House Books - January 19th, 2021

Mean By Myriam Gurba Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781566894913
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Published: Coffee House Press - November 7th, 2017

Men We Reaped: A Memoir By Jesmyn Ward Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781608197651
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Published: Bloomsbury USA - September 16th, 2014

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning By Cathy Park Hong Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781984820389
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Published: One World - March 2nd, 2021

Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays By Siri Hustvedt Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781982176402
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Published: Simon & Schuster - November 8th, 2022

Notes of a Native Son By James Baldwin, Edward P. Jones (Foreword by) Cover Image
By James Baldwin, Edward P. Jones (Foreword by)
$15.00
ISBN: 9780807006238
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Published: Beacon Press - November 20th, 2012

Orwell's Roses By Rebecca Solnit Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593083376
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Published: Penguin Books - October 18th, 2022

Pageboy: A Memoir By Elliot Page Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9781250878359
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Published: Flatiron Books - June 6th, 2023

Shrill By Lindy West Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780316348461
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Published: Hachette Books - February 28th, 2017

Solito: A Memoir By Javier Zamora Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593498064
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Published: Hogarth - September 6th, 2022

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (Vintage International) By Toni Morrison Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780525562795
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Published: Vintage - January 14th, 2020

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions By Valeria Luiselli, Jon Lee Anderson (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Valeria Luiselli, Jon Lee Anderson (Introduction by)
$13.95
ISBN: 9781566894951
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Published: Coffee House Press - April 4th, 2017

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us By Hanif Abdurraqib, Eve L. Ewing (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Hanif Abdurraqib, Eve L. Ewing (Foreword by)
$16.99
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ISBN: 9781937512651
Published: Two Dollar Radio - November 7th, 2017

Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through By T. Fleischmann Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781566895477
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Published: Coffee House Press - June 4th, 2019

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion By Jia Tolentino Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780525510567
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - July 14th, 2020

Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement By Tarana Burke Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250621740
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Published: Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book - September 13th, 2022

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir By Anna Wiener Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781250785695
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Published: Picador - January 5th, 2021

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We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays By Samantha Irby Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781101912195
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Published: Vintage - May 30th, 2017

We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival: Essays on Sex Work and Survival By Natalie West (Editor), Tina Horn (Associate Editor), Melissa Gira Grant (Contribution by) Cover Image
By Natalie West (Editor), Tina Horn (Associate Editor), Melissa Gira Grant (Contribution by)
$24.95
ISBN: 9781558612853
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Published: Feminist Press - February 9th, 2021

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma By Stephanie Foo Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593238127
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Published: Ballantine Books - February 21st, 2023

White Girls By Hilton Als Cover Image
$17.00
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ISBN: 9780143134756
Published: Penguin Books - July 9th, 2019

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life By Lulu Miller Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781501160349
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Published: Simon & Schuster - April 6th, 2021