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The Bell Jar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,179,198 ratings — published 1963
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 21,753 ratings — published 2021
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 183,088 ratings — published 2000
America Is in the Heart: A Personal History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,756 ratings — published 1946
Uncanny Valley (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.64 — 35,029 ratings — published 2020
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 118,214 ratings — published 2014
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 615,947 ratings — published 2012
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.42 — 6,568 ratings — published 2006
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 716,312 ratings — published 2000
Bossypants (ebook)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,046,546 ratings — published 2011
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 511,184 ratings — published 2011
The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 21,059 ratings — published 2011
Madness: A Bipolar Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 14,721 ratings — published 2008
The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications (The ParentData Book 4)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 680 ratings — published
Your Brain on Pregnancy: A Guide to Understanding and Protecting Your Mental Health During Pregnancy and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 70 ratings — published
On the Outside Looking Indian: How My Second Childhood Changed My Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 3.36 — 594 ratings — published 2011
There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,013 ratings — published 2021
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 366,500 ratings — published 2000
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 58,438 ratings — published 2023
The Crete Trilogy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.50 — 20 ratings — published
Devica, kraljica, vdova, prasica (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 460 ratings — published 2021
Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wétiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 431 ratings — published 1979
Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 3.48 — 1,644 ratings — published 2022
The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,561 ratings — published 2006
Pregnancy Day by Day: Count Down Your Pregnancy Day by Day with Advice from a Team of Experts (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.30 — 46 ratings — published
The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 267 ratings — published 2005
To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 428 ratings — published 2025
The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,575 ratings — published 2012
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 32,559 ratings — published 2010
The Medium is the Massage (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 17,422 ratings — published 1967
Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 394 ratings — published 2023
Potty Time with Bean (Ms. Rachel) (Books by Ms. Rachel)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 91 ratings — published
Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 3.47 — 4,618 ratings — published 2022
The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,424 ratings — published 2018
Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 21,838 ratings — published 2015
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 12,552 ratings — published 2014
Work, Parent, Thrive: 12 Science-Backed Strategies to Ditch Guilt, Manage Overwhelm, and Grow Connection (When Everything Feels Like Too Much)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 334 ratings — published
The Emotional Life of the Toddler (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,219 ratings — published 1993
The Lover (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 3.71 — 70,031 ratings — published 1984
Alzheimer's Through the Stages: A Caregiver's Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 297 ratings — published 2019
Alzheimer's Early Stages: First Steps for Family, Friends and Caregivers, 2nd edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 90 ratings — published 2003
Mom Brain: Proven Strategies to Fight the Anxiety, Guilt, and Overwhelming Emotions of Motherhood―and Relax into Your New Self (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 123 ratings — published
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 25,409 ratings — published 2024
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 33,145 ratings — published 2022
The Island of Sea Women (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 160,037 ratings — published 2019
Incidental Inventions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 4,589 ratings — published 2019
Mean Boys: A Personal History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 335 ratings — published
The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 414 ratings — published 2023
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 52,957 ratings — published 1994
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 158,076 ratings — published 1995
“Time stretches and calms, but still we reach, for we belonged then. We want to know. Sometimes that knowledge is painful, or inconvenient, or even damning. But it is essential. It exposes us for what we have been, and can be.”
― The Gendarme
― The Gendarme
“We do not teach history; we recreate the experience. We follow the chain of consequences - the tracks of the beast in its forest. Look behind our words and you see the broad sweep of social behavior that no historian has ever touched.”
― Chapterhouse: Dune
― Chapterhouse: Dune
