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Educated
The Glass Castle
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Crying in H Mart
Becoming
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Eat, Pray, Love
Bossypants
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Night
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
When Breath Becomes Air
The Diary of a Young Girl
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerBury Me Standing by Isabel FonsecaThe Longest Way Home by Andrew McCarthyThe Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel EhrlichDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Itchy Bone Marrow
15 books — 4 voters

Dance Demons by Juliet M. SampsonA Tempest Soul by Oliver PhippsTaking Flight by Michaela DePrince84 Ribbons by Paddy EgerAstonish Me by Maggie Shipstead
Into the World of Dance
104 books — 27 voters

Caroline Knapp
I once heard a woman who'd lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from her world: the dog had introduced to her field of vision some previously unavailable hue, and without the dog, that color was gone. That seemed to capture the experience of loving a dog with eminent simplicity. I'd amend it only slightly and say that if we are open to what they have to give us, dogs can introduce us to several colors, with names like wildness and nurturance and trust and joy. ...more
Caroline Knapp

We can make entire worlds and literally rewrite history through the magic of writing. We have the power to occupy the mind and I appreciate the gravity of that situation, you should also.
Shelley Hernandez, Take a look inside of me.: Volume 1

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