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Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,795,006 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.49 — 785,441 ratings — published 2016
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,169,700 ratings — published 2018
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 468,191 ratings — published 2012
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 99 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,045,216 ratings — published 2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 791,773 ratings — published 2010
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 744,800 ratings — published 2003
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 493,017 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 359,329 ratings — published 2015
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 387,892 ratings — published 2010
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 550,466 ratings — published 2014
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 121,733 ratings — published 2018
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,335,258 ratings — published 2005
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 855,056 ratings — published 2012
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 77 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 510,828 ratings — published 2011
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,341,391 ratings — published 1956
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 431,276 ratings — published 2017
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,826,140 ratings — published 2006
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 993,365 ratings — published 2010
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,379,515 ratings — published 2022
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 776,537 ratings — published 2016
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 851,070 ratings — published 2008
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 715,672 ratings — published 2000
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.62 — 256,507 ratings — published 2014
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 235,867 ratings — published 2003
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 355,219 ratings — published 2013
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 62 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,172,818 ratings — published 1996
Modern Romance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 189,525 ratings — published 2015
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 846,968 ratings — published 2000
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 438,721 ratings — published 1998
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 555,401 ratings — published 1997
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 888,928 ratings — published 2005
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 178,980 ratings — published 2016
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.24 — 566,674 ratings — published 2021
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 391,129 ratings — published 2019
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 51 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 170,742 ratings — published 2018
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 51 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 259,439 ratings — published 2018
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 715,116 ratings — published 1966
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 216,454 ratings — published 2011
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 616,720 ratings — published 2005
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 164,960 ratings — published 2021
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.53 — 157,465 ratings — published 2020
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 172,167 ratings — published 2015
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 199,255 ratings — published 2012
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.51 — 162,182 ratings — published 2013
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 214,565 ratings — published 2013
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 43 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 234,488 ratings — published 2012
Untamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 503,199 ratings — published 2020
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)
by (shelved 42 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 157,669 ratings — published 2016
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as adult-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 323,184 ratings — published 2012
“I’ve never been with a boy who hasn’t seen me naked.
It’s always the squeaky futon, bear-it-all, turn-off-the-lights quickstep.
Don’t chalk it up to “daddy issues.”
Maybe I’m sick of keeping private parts private.
I don’t want rainwater secrets on my lips, tasting of “don’t make too much noise”.
October’s dust in my lungs, maybe I don’t want bits of four AM lingering in my subconscious.
Smokers breathe in fire, coat their insides in ash. Is that suicide or arson?
Listen to me, listen to me. I’m alive. I’M ALIVE.
I’m naked and bruised, but I’m alive.
I’m not a piece of fruit. Don’t press into my flesh, looking for soft spots.
My whole body is tender and rotten, but I’m alive.
I’m alive and just because you can see it all, doesn’t mean you know it all”
― Sixteenth Notes: the breaking of the rose-colored glasses
It’s always the squeaky futon, bear-it-all, turn-off-the-lights quickstep.
Don’t chalk it up to “daddy issues.”
Maybe I’m sick of keeping private parts private.
I don’t want rainwater secrets on my lips, tasting of “don’t make too much noise”.
October’s dust in my lungs, maybe I don’t want bits of four AM lingering in my subconscious.
Smokers breathe in fire, coat their insides in ash. Is that suicide or arson?
Listen to me, listen to me. I’m alive. I’M ALIVE.
I’m naked and bruised, but I’m alive.
I’m not a piece of fruit. Don’t press into my flesh, looking for soft spots.
My whole body is tender and rotten, but I’m alive.
I’m alive and just because you can see it all, doesn’t mean you know it all”
― Sixteenth Notes: the breaking of the rose-colored glasses
“The smell of cigarette smoke in the air in a tavern that changes names often,
a bar cursed because of a girl who died of a drug overdose
in the basement, we put a few coins in the jukebox;
chose “Angel Band” by Johnny Cash and sat down at the bar,
ordered a soda, you wanted a whiskey on the rocks.
We saw the coal miner who moved here from West Virginia
knocking back liquor like I drink sweet tea.
No one asked why he was so solemn today.
It was warm. It was relatively quiet.
To anyone else, this place could feel sinister.
But to us, it was freedom. It was a hiding place.
No one was ever here long enough to know us.
And we liked it that way.”
― Sixteenth Notes: the breaking of the rose-colored glasses
a bar cursed because of a girl who died of a drug overdose
in the basement, we put a few coins in the jukebox;
chose “Angel Band” by Johnny Cash and sat down at the bar,
ordered a soda, you wanted a whiskey on the rocks.
We saw the coal miner who moved here from West Virginia
knocking back liquor like I drink sweet tea.
No one asked why he was so solemn today.
It was warm. It was relatively quiet.
To anyone else, this place could feel sinister.
But to us, it was freedom. It was a hiding place.
No one was ever here long enough to know us.
And we liked it that way.”
― Sixteenth Notes: the breaking of the rose-colored glasses
