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10 best books like The Boys of My Youth (Jo Ann Beard): The Witches Are Coming, The Liars' Club, Autobiography of a Face, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence, Make it Scream, Make it Burn, Orange World and Other Stories, Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life, The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative

The Witches Are Coming
AuthorLindy West
ISBN0316449881
In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era.

THIS IS A WITCH HUNT.
WE’RE WITCHES,
AND WE’RE HUNTING YOU.

From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo...
The Liars' Club
AuthorMary Karr
ISBN0143035746
When it was published in 1995, Mary Karr's The Liars Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, as well as bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karr's comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salinger's—a...
Autobiography of a Face
AuthorLucy Grealy
ISBN0060569662
I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor...
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
AuthorT Kira Madden
ISBN1635571855
Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where she found cult-like privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant...
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
AuthorMichele Filgate
ISBN1982107340
*Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, The Week, and Elle.com*

Fifteen brilliant writers explore what we don’t talk to our mothers about, and how it affects us, for better or for worse.

As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started...
Make it Scream, Make it Burn
AuthorLeslie Jamison
ISBN0316259632
A new collection of essays about obsession and longing from Leslie Jamison, the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams. A combination of memoir, criticism, and journalism, Make It Scream, Make It Burn is Leslie Jamison's profound exploration of the oceanic depths...
Orange World and Other Stories
AuthorKaren Russell
ISBN1984892215
From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell's extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination.

Karen Russell's...
Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
AuthorAbigail Thomas
ISBN0385720556
A beautifully crafted and inviting account of one woman’s life, Safekeeping offers a sublimely different kind of autobiography. Setting aside a straightforward narrative in favor of brief passages of vivid prose, Abigail Thomas revisits the pivotal moments and the tiny incidents that have shaped...
The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion
AuthorMeghan Daum
ISBN0374280444
Winner of the 2015 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction

"Daum is her generation's Joan Didion." —Nylon

Nearly fifteen years after her debut collection, My Misspent Youth, captured the ambitions and anxieties of a generation, Meghan Daum returns to the personal...
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
AuthorVivian Gornick
ISBN0374528586
A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love

All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can...
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
AuthorPhillip Lopate
For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the  detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay...
One with Others: [a little book of her days]
AuthorC.D. Wright
ISBN1556593244
"Wright belongs to a school of exactly one."—The New York Times Book Review

"Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle."—The New Yorker

Investigative journalism is the poet's realm when C.D. Wright returns...
Family of Origin
AuthorC.J. Hauser
ISBN0385544626
When Nolan Grey receives news that his father, a once-prominent biologist, has drowned off Leap's Island, he calls on Elsa, his estranged, older half-sister, to help pick up the pieces. This, despite the fact that it was he and Elsa who broke the family in the first place. The Greys have been avoiding...
Excavation: A Memoir
AuthorWendy C. Ortiz
ISBN1892061708
Wendy C. Ortiz was an only child and a bookish, insecure girl living with alcoholic parents in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Her relationship with a charming and deeply flawed private school teacher fifteen years her senior appeared to give her the kind of power...
Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays
AuthorEula Biss
ISBN1555975186
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize

A frank and fascinating exploration of race and racial identity

Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays begins with a series of lynchings and ends with a series of apologies....
A Three Dog Life
AuthorAbigail Thomas
Before reading:
Maybe what happens in this book is difficult, but I have the feeling it will have a hopeful message. I need to read something with dogs. You can rely on dogs being there for you when you need them. After the last book read I am so depressed with people.

On completion:
This...
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