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10 best books like The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order (Joan Wickersham): Territory of Light, How to Be an Antiracist, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father, The Body in Question, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, Abandon Me: Memoirs, My Body Is a Book of Rules, The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones, All Souls: A Family Story from Southie

Territory of Light
AuthorYūko Tsushima
ISBN0241312191
Territory of Light is the luminous story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her three-year-old daughter. Its twelve, stand-alone fragments follow the first year of her separation from her husband. The novel is full of light, sometimes comforting and sometimes dangerous: sunlight streaming...
How to Be an Antiracist
AuthorIbram X. Kendi
ISBN0525509283
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist...
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...
The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
AuthorJanny Scott
"[A] poignant addition to the literature of moneyed glamour and its inevitable tarnish and decay...like something out of Fitzgerald or Waugh."--The New Yorker

A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly...
The Body in Question
AuthorJill Ciment
5 hours, 26 minutes

From the author of Heroic Measures (“Smart and funny and completely surprising . . . I loved every page” —Ann Patchett), Act of God (“A feat of literary magic”—Booklist) and, with Amy Hempel, The Hand That Feeds You (“An unnerving, elegant page-turner”...
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
AuthorAnne Fadiman
ISBN0374527229
Anne Fadiman is—by her own admission—the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material...
Abandon Me: Memoirs
AuthorMelissa Febos
ISBN1632866579
For readers of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, a fierce and dazzling personal narrative that explores the many ways identity and art are shaped by love and loss.

In her critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart, Melissa Febos laid bare the intimate world of the professional dominatrix, turning...
My Body Is a Book of Rules
AuthorElissa Washuta
ISBN1597099694
As Elissa Washuta makes the transition from college kid to independent adult, she finds herself overwhelmed by the calamities piling up in her brain. When her mood-stabilizing medications aren’t threatening her life, they’re shoving her from depression to mania and back in the space of an hour....
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
AuthorAnthony Bourdain
ISBN1582344515
New York Times Bestseller

The good, the bad, and the ugly, served up Bourdain-style.

Bestselling chef and No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain has never been one to pull punches. In The Nasty Bits, he serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from...
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
AuthorMichael Patrick MacDonald
Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in "the best place in the world"--the Irish-American Old Colony projects of South Boston--where 85% of the residents collect welfare in an area with the highest concentration of impoverished whites in the U.S.

In All Souls, MacDonald takes us deep into the...
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...
Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love
AuthorDebra Gwartney
ISBN0547054475
An intensely emotional and redemptive memoir about a mother's mission to rescue her runaway daughters

 

After a miserably failed marriage, Debra Gwartney moves with her four young daughters to Eugene, Oregon, for a new job and what she hopes will be a new life for herself and her family....
Patrimony
AuthorPhilip Roth
ISBN0679752935
Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old father—famous for his vigor, charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections—battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son, full of love,...
A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir
AuthorDaisy Hernández
ISBN0807014486
A coming-of-age memoir by a Colombian-Cuban woman about shaping lessons from home into a new, queer life
 
In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her mother warns her about...
The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship
AuthorPaul Lisicky
ISBN1555977286
In The Narrow Door, Paul Lisicky creates a compelling collage of scenes and images drawn from two long-term relationships, one with a woman novelist and the other with his ex-husband, a poet. The contours of these relationships shift constantly. Denise and Paul, stretched by the demands of their writing...
Thrown
AuthorKerry Howley
ISBN1936747928
In this darkly funny work of literary nonfiction, a bookish young woman insinuates herself into the lives of two cage fighters—one a young prodigy, the other an aging journeyman. Acclaimed essayist Kerry Howley follows these men for three years through the bloody world of mixed martial arts as they...
One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported
AuthorE.J. Dionne Jr.
ISBN1427292698
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -- read by the authors.

A call to action from three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists, One Nation After Trump offers the definitive work on the threat posed by the Trump presidency and how to counter it.

American democracy...
The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel
AuthorPaulo Coelho
ISBN0062024329
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho continues to change the lives of its readers forever. With more than two million copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has established itself as a modern classic, universally admired.

Paulo Coelho’s masterpiece tells the magical story of Santiago,...
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