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Biography & Memoir Books

In My Life: AAPI Memoirs

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Horse Barbie bookcover
A Man of Two Faces bookcover
Know My Name bookcover
Dear America bookcover
Good Talk bookcover
What My Bones Know bookcover
Boat Baby bookcover
Connie bookcover
Unassimilable bookcover
Taipei at Daybreak bookcover
I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying bookcover
How to Stand Up to a Dictator bookcover
Fetishized bookcover
Dirty Kitchen bookcover
Where Every Ghost Has a Name bookcover
You're That Bitch bookcover
The Night Parade bookcover
Crying in H Mart bookcover
The Loneliest Americans bookcover
Fairest bookcover
House of Sticks bookcover
The Woman Warrior bookcover
Advocate bookcover
The Translator's Daughter bookcover
Restaurant Kid bookcover
The Manicurist's Daughter bookcover

memoirs & biographies

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I Can't Stop Thinking About Horses and Sex bookcover
Momtistic bookcover
Two Women Living Together bookcover
We Will Be Jaguars (Reese's Book Club Pick) bookcover
Cosmic Music bookcover
Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! bookcover
Adult Braces bookcover
Mega Milk bookcover
Into the Jungle bookcover
This Unruly Witness bookcover
Love Will Save Us, Right? bookcover
Pageboy bookcover
Magical/Realism bookcover
We Loved It All bookcover
To Rob a Bank Is an Honor bookcover
The Afterlife Is Letting Go bookcover
Learning to Think bookcover
The Mango Tree bookcover
A Sentimental Education bookcover
The Manicurist's Daughter bookcover
The House of Hidden Meanings bookcover
Possums Run Amok bookcover
Enjoy Me Among My Ruins bookcover
Lesbian Love Story bookcover
I Just Keep Talking bookcover
Another Appalachia bookcover
Drinking Games bookcover
Rivermouth bookcover
You Sound Like a White Girl bookcover
The Undocumented Americans bookcover

Memoir Musts

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Famesick bookcover
I Heard Her Call My Name bookcover
Real Estate bookcover
Grief Is for People bookcover
The Many Lives of Mama Love (Oprah's Book Club) bookcover
Sex with a Brain Injury bookcover
Forager bookcover
Stay True (Pulitzer Prize Winner) bookcover
Getting Lost bookcover
The Complete Persepolis bookcover
Crying in H Mart bookcover
Truth & Beauty bookcover
The Liars' Club bookcover
Lakota Woman bookcover
The Color of Water bookcover
H Is for Hawk bookcover
Hunger bookcover
On Writing bookcover
Write for Your Life bookcover
Persepolis bookcover
Children of the Land bookcover
A Long Way Gone bookcover
Poet Warrior bookcover
Between the World and Me bookcover
In Love bookcover
Night bookcover
Just Kids bookcover
An American Childhood bookcover
Notes of a Native Son bookcover
Educated bookcover

Food Writing | Memoirs & Biographies

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Tart bookcover
Tart bookcover
A Really Big Lunch bookcover
What Could Possibly Go Right? bookcover
The Girl Who Became King bookcover
Eat Bitter bookcover
The Table Where We Meet bookcover
The Secret Menu bookcover
Love, Finally bookcover
On Eating bookcover
Extra Sauce bookcover
The Bottomless Cup bookcover
Where There's Smoke, There's Dinner: Confessions of a Cartoonist Cook bookcover
Between Two Waters bookcover
Will This Make You Happy bookcover
Fireproof bookcover
Care and Feeding bookcover
Cooking for the Culture bookcover
Strong Roots bookcover
The Editor bookcover
The Evin Prison Bakers' Club bookcover
House of Smoke bookcover
A Season for That bookcover
Carême bookcover
Cold Kitchen bookcover
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Tenth Anniversary Edition bookcover
Hunger Like a Thirst bookcover
Dirty Kitchen bookcover
Pinch Me bookcover
Accidentally on Purpose bookcover