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#1
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deeply disturbing memoirthe best memoir I have ever readvery frank and rawreally interestingMORE THAN EIGHT YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST
The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly) m...See Full Details
Liked The Glass Castle?
#2
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descriptive and complexdisturbing and truly heart-wrenchingclear and engagingsad and frightening#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER
One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a you...See Full Details
Liked Educated?
#3
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coming of age memoirfunny and touchingwrite me a letteran above average memoir#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
More than one million copies sold! A "brilliant" (Lupita Nyong'o, Time), "poignant" (Entertainment Weekly), "soul-nouri...See Full Details
Liked Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood?
#4
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important and meaningful bookhuman life and healthvery practical and educationaldirect and simple termsWe needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our...See Full Details
Liked Man's Search for Meaning?
#5
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stream of consciousnessspare and beautifula true talegrowing up in irelandA Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland.
"When I look b...See Full Details
Liked Angela's Ashes?
#6
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observational, almost detachedraw and brutala life changerunflinching and intenseA stunning "portrait of the enduring grace of friendship" (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful...See Full Details
Liked A Little Life?
#7
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her ...See Full Details
Liked Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail?
#8
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hard to put downaging and deathsaved my lifeworld weary innocenceIn 1906, I was barely over fourteen years old, and it was my wedding day. My older sister, Helen, came to my room, took me by the hand, and sat me dow...See Full Details
Liked Maude?
#9
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simple, stark prosecut and dried terrorsimple and spareheart wrenching bookIt is 1944. The Jews of Sighet, Hungary are rounded up and driven into Nazi concentration camps. For the next terrible year, young Elie Wiesel experie...See Full Details
Liked Night?
#10
At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning n...See Full Details
Liked The Fifth Season?
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