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10 best books like Atlas of the Human Heart (Ariel Gore): Spit and Passion, The Flawless Skin of Ugly People, Ithaka: A Daughter's Memoir of Being Found, Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years, Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn't Stop Praying (Among Other Things), The Day I Became an Autodidact, On Subbing: The First Four Years, Inconsolable: How I Threw My Mental Health Out With the Diapers, Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels, Finding Angela Shelton

Spit and Passion
AuthorCristy C. Road
ISBN1558618074

"Cristy C. Road is a bad ass. She has a list of published work that leaves me awed and inspired."—Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day

"Road's writing has long brought to vivid life the experiences of a queer-identified Latina punk rocker."—Bitch magazine

At its core, Spit and...
The Flawless Skin of Ugly People
AuthorDoug Crandell
ISBN0753512998
Thanks to Ugly Betty, America is finally ready to read a love story about a couple who isn’t sleek, slick, tucked, pulled, or plastic.

Do we have to be beautiful to be loved? Hobbie—this novel’s darkly romantic hero—has been banished to homely man exile in the North Georgia Mountains,...
Ithaka: A Daughter's Memoir of Being Found
AuthorSarah Saffian
ISBN0385334516
The voice on the other end of the line was soft, yet forthright: "Sarah, my name is Hannah Morgan. I think I'm your birth mother."

The phone call, wholly unexpected, instantly turned Sarah Saffian's world upside-down, threatening her sense of family, identity, self. Adopted as an infant twenty-three...
Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years
AuthorDiane di Prima
ISBN0140231587
In Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but broke away from her roots to follow through on a lifelong commitment to become a poet, first made when she...
Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn't Stop Praying (Among Other Things)
AuthorAbby Sher
ISBN1416589457
Until the age of ten, Abby Sher was a happy child in a fun-loving, musical family. But when her father and favorite aunt pass away, Abby fills the void of her loss with rituals: kissing her father's picture over and over each night, washing her hands, counting her steps, and collecting sharp objects that...
The Day I Became an Autodidact
AuthorKendall Hailey
ISBN0440550130
This was an incredibly interesting book that I enjoyed far more than I initially thought I would. The premise is simple, teenager Kendall Hailey is highly dissatisfied about being told what to learn so decides to take control of her own education. What follows is a scattered journal illustrating the...
On Subbing: The First Four Years
AuthorDave Roche
On Subbing is a quiet classic. It's impossible to put down, or forget, Dave Roche's vivid, self-deprecating, tales of woe from working as a substitute teaching assistant in Portland's elementary schools in the early 2000s. He writes about the good days and the terrible ones, helping kids who can't...
Inconsolable: How I Threw My Mental Health Out With the Diapers
AuthorMarrit Ingman
ISBN1580051405
Marrit Ingman became a mother on February 27, 2002. She went crazy—also on February 27, 2002. Her journey began with a plate of carne guisada and led to an emergency cesarian, ankyloglossia, colic, gastroesphageal reflux, eczema, Zoloft, Paxil, peanut allergy, suicidal ideation, hepatitis,...
Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels
AuthorJustin Vivian Bond
ISBN1558617477
"Like Bond, the memoir is droll, pensive and filled with zingers teetering between funny and ferocious."—The New York Times

Hailed as “the greatest cabaret artist of [V’s] generation” in the New Yorker, Mx. Justin Vivian Bond makes a brilliant literary debut with this candid and...
Finding Angela Shelton
AuthorAngela Shelton
ISBN0696239418
Years after seeing the documentary Searching For Angela Shelton, I now have a much better understanding of the filmmaker's life before, during, and since she made the movie. The book is a nonlinear memoir that includes scenes of her father sexually and physically abusing her & her siblings. It...
Doris: An Anthology, 1991-2001
AuthorCindy Gretchen Ovenrack Crabb
ISBN0972696784
Even the simplest, most common things—playing music, childhood, cooking, or sex—resonate with universal understanding in this collection of issues of the zine Doris. Making sense of more complex things, the essays touch on the satisfaction from doing useful work, natural curiosity, the ability...
Lessons in Taxidermy: A Compendium of Safety and Danger
AuthorBee Lavender
ISBN1888451793
It is one of the many charms of this book that Lavender is not only aware of the conventions of such autobiographies but that she consciously rejects them. Her powerful, elegant memoir should be read by everyone.... as an example of what truly well-written and unflinching self-examination can be like.
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Off the Map
AuthorHib Chickena
ISBN0970910134
A punk rock vision quest told in the tradition of the anarchist travel story, Off The Map is narrated by two young women as they discard their maps, fears, and anything resembling a plan, and set off to Europe. Wandering across that continent, the dozens of vignettes are the details of the whole - a squatted...
Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution
AuthorAlix Olson
ISBN1580052215
Female spoken word artists have become the spokeswomen for a new generation. This demanding oral poetry of the early 21st century has defined a vanguard of lithely muscled voices; women who think and act decisively to create their distinctive and desperately earned realities. The combination of...
The Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year in China
AuthorRosemary Mahoney
ISBN0618035494
One year before the protests in Tiananmen Square, Rosemary Mahoney participated in a teaching exchange between Harvard and Hangzhou University. At Hangzhou she was able to overcome her students' usual rigidity and achieve a rare and intimate glimpse of their culture and their attitudes. This remarkable...
The Chelsea Whistle
AuthorMichelle Tea
ISBN1580050735
In this gritty, confessional memoir, Michelle Tea takes the reader back to the city of her childhood: Chelsea, Massachusetts—a place where time and hope are spent on things not getting any worse. Tea’s girlhood is shaped by the rough fabric of the neighborhood and by its characters—the soft...
The Big Rumpus: A Mother's Tale from the Trenches
AuthorAyun Halliday
ISBN1580050719
Twenty years ago a woman named Erma Bombeck brought the suburban family out of the closet—dust bunnies and all. Her honest, hilarious accounts of family life, where the “grass is always greener over the septic tank,” became more than mere books; they became a philosophy. Ayun Halliday is a new...
Waiting for My Cats to Die: A Memoir
AuthorStacy Horn
ISBN0312287445
When Stacy Horn--single, deeply addicted to television, and hopelessly attached to two diabetic cats--turned forty, she free-falled into a mid-life crisis. Waiting for My Cats to Die is a passionately and profoundly honest look at what happens the moment you realize--beyond a shadow of a doubt--that...
Rollergirl: Totally True Tales from the Track
AuthorMelissa Joulwan
ISBN0743297156
The 1950s phenomenon of Roller Derby is back in full force, and it's definitely not your grandma's game anymore. With leagues in more than one hundred cities across the country, a national tournament, and major sponsors, the new wave of the sport has gone mainstream. No one is better qualified to tell...
Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker
AuthorAngela Bourke
ISBN1619027151
To be a staff writer at The New Yorker during its heyday of the 1950s and 1960s was to occupy one of the most coveted—and influential—seats in American culture. Witty, beautiful, and Irish-born Maeve Brennan was lured to such a position in 1948 and proceeded to dazzle everyone who met her, both in...
The Language of Blood
AuthorJane Jeong Trenka
ISBN1555974260
"A book that translates, and transcends, the eternal question of home, belonging, family, identity." —Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

My name is Jeong Kyong-Ah. My ancestry includes landowners, scholars, and government officials. I have six siblings. I am a citizen of the Republic of Korea....
A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth's Castle
AuthorLiza Campbell
ISBN0312374771
We grew up with the same parents in the same castle, but in many ways we each had a moat around us. Sometimes when visitors came they would say, 'You are such lucky children;' 'it's a fairytale life you live.' And I knew they were right, it was a fairytale upbringing. But fairy tales are dark and I had no way...
Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
AuthorErica Jong
ISBN1585424447
I discovered Jong's 1973 debut FEAR OF FLYING in my basement at 14, and it was the most thrilling overnight-read of my life. I spied it on a forgotten shelf on a private quest for a “sex book,” which was any book in which sex was implied, discussed, or— please, lord— described. The front cover featured...
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