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But what about the rest of the world of travel memoirs, grief memoirs, mental health memoirs?
These memoirs you’ve never heard of have 1,000 or fewer ratings on Goodreads, which is not a
Most were published by small presses, and they deserve all the praise in the world
Tour the world through these stories and the variety of voices that tell them
While she was laid up, she read endlessly and got stuck on this line from Death in
” She decided that she would walk again (despite her doctor’s suspicions), and she would go to
All the Way to the Tigers is her stunning travel memoir that came out of that healing
Carl spent his first 50 years living as a girl and queer woman before realizing he was not
This gorgeous memoir will blow you away with its honesty about society, bodies, and gender
Leslie Gray Streeter finally met her person when she was in her late 30s
They had spent a handful of years together, moving in and getting married and adopting their son,
Carry is a powerful memoir about living as an Indigenous woman in America, told through the lens
But now the guns are pointed at her, people like her, and people who live on neighboring
At 40, Myriam Steinberg realized she was done waiting to be a mother
She suffered multiple miscarriages and struggled to decide whether going the route of sperm donor or medical
When Paolina Milana gets the chance to go to an out-of-state school, escaping the rampant mental illness
When her father dies suddenly, she heads back home to care for her schizophrenic mother
Committed is a memoir about resilience in the name of familial mental illness
Alysia Sawchyn was disanosed with bipolar I when she was 18, but found out seven years later that
It’s funny and smart and full of medical and mental health references from history, literature, art,
Headstrong is the story of her healing and what it’s like to live in fear of
The Heart and Other Monsters is a moving memoir about the opioid crisis
Rose Andersen’s younger sister became addicted to heroin and died of an overdose at 24
She goes on a heartwrenching emotional journey trying to piece together her sister’s final days while
High-Risk Homosexual — the title comes from a diagnosis he received from an actual doctor — is a delightfully
Khalida Brohi grew up in a world where arranged marriage was the norm; her parents were married
Khalida was on a unique path toward empowerment when the unexpected happened: her cousin was murdered in
Sara Faith Alterman grew up in a house where sex was never discussed and bad words were
Decades later, her father began acting strange, lost his job, and decided to revive his writing career
As her father sinks into the tidal waves of Alzheimer’s, Alterman struggles to navigate the waters
Let’s Never Talk About This Again is a funny and weird and sad memoir about a
But when her Gram dies, Theresa is again stuck with her destructive Ojibwe mother and white stepfather,
Gabriela Wiener is thrilled when she finds herself pregnant at 30, because it gives her a giant new
The Peruvian essayist dives into all the information and misinformation surrounding pregnancy, and all the things no
Packed with humor and truth, Nine Moons turns the classic idea of pregnancy upside down
Brett takes a hammer to the taboo, telling her story with snark and candor in PMSL
Now, in The Rumi Prescription, she’s sharing her journey to recovery aided by the poems of
She translated his works, focusing on isolation, distraction, depression, fear, and the most important: love
Zoe Zolbrod didn’t tell anyone about her childhood molestation for nearly a decade
The Telling tells her truth and also goes a step further, detailing research that encourages sexual abuse
The Party’s Dead is the kind of travel memoir that will likely change the way you
Kelly always had a hunch that her family life wasn’t normal
Most kids don’t live with their grandparents or sleep on a boat in the marina, surrounded
We Are All Shipwrecks is a moving memoir about family and history and how we all fit
The guru preached that children were the problem in society and encouraged his followers to get sterilized
Luckily, her father came to rescue Ronit and her younger sister, settling in New Jersey
But being the elder daughter came with a price: She filled the role of partner and confidant
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