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We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
Samantha Irby | 2017 | Essays, Humor & Comedy
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"This one is a memoir consisting of essays. Very real, dark at times, but the wit and candor snagged me from the start. Laugh-out-loud funny but also very realistic and honest."

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You're Better Than Me
You're Better Than Me
Bonnie McFarlane | 2016 | Biography, Essays, Humor & Comedy
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"Unfuck yourself and get Bonnie McFarlane’s excellent memoir, You’re Better Than Me. Every second that you are not reading this amazing, hilarious, painfully funny, extraordinary book should feel like the ninth circle of hell."

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The Centre Cannot Hold: A Memoir of My Schizophrenia
The Centre Cannot Hold: A Memoir of My Schizophrenia
Elyn R. Saks | 2014 | Biography
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"This truly remarkable memoir chronicles the experiences of lawyer and professor Elyn Saks, who lives with schizophrenia. She writes about her times in hospitals and on the analytic couch with incredible clarity, honesty, and curiosity."

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Hunger
Hunger
Roxane Gay | 2017 | Biography
9.7 (3 Ratings)
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"A life-changing book, Gay’s memoir tells the horrific story of how she was gang-raped aged 12 and the aftermath that led to her using her body as both a shield and an act of defiance."

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The Face
The Face
Ruth Ozeki | 2015
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In this short non-fiction piece, Ozeki takes on the Zen exercise of staring at her face for three hours. Read my review of this interesting memoir here https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2015/08/18/facing-three-hours/