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The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
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Augusten Burroughs · 304 pages
Fans of Augusten Burroughs's darkly funny memoir Running with Scissors were left wondering at the end of that book what would become of young Augusten after his squalid and fascinating childhood ended. In Dry, we find that although adult Augusten is doing well professionally, earning a handsome living as an ad writer for a top New York agency, Burroughs's personal life is a disaster. His apartment
Prozac Nation
Elizabeth Wurtzel · 336 pages
Full of promise is how anyone would have described Elizabeth Wurtzel at age ten, a bright-eyed little girl who painted, wrote stories, and excelled in every way. By twelve she was cutting her legs in the girls' bathroom and listening to scratchy recordings of the Velvet Underground. College was marked by a series of breakdowns, suicide attempts, and hospitalizations before she was finally given P
Love Warrior
Glennon Doyle Melton · 272 pages
Traces the author's journey of self-discovery after the dissolution of her marriage, revealing how she found healing by rejecting gender standards and refusing to settle for a "good-enough" life.
I Am Jennie
Jennie Ketcham · 342 pages
A memoir from the former porn star and addict Jennie Ketcham, whose stage name was Penny Flame.
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
Lena Dunham · 287 pages
"If I could take what I've learned and make one menial job easier for you, or prevent you from having the kind of sex where you feel you must keep your sneakers on in case you want to run away during the act, then every misstep of mine was worthwhile. I'm already predicting my future shame at thinking I had anything to offer you, but also my future glory in having stopped you from trying an expens
Paying for It
Chester Brown · 286 pages
"Brown calmly lays out the facts of how he became not only a willing participant in but also a vocal proponent of one of the world's most hot-button topics--prostitution. Paying For It offers an entirely contemporary exploration of sex work--from the timid john who rides his bike to meet his escorts, wonders how to tip so as not to offend, and reads Dan Savage for advice, to the modern-day transac
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel · 236 pages
A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's
Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music
James Rhodes · 304 pages
A Million Little Pieces
James Frey · 430 pages
"The most lacerating tale of drug addiction since William S. Burroughs' Junky." --The Boston Globe"Again and again, the book delivers recollections that leave the reader winded and unsteady. James Frey's staggering recovery memoir could well be seen as the final word on the topic."--San Francisco Chronicle"A brutal, beautifully written memoir."--The Denver Post"Gripping . . . A great story . . . Y
Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
Daniel B. Smith · 212 pages
In "Monkey Mind," Daniel Smith brilliantly articulates what it is like to live with anxiety, defanging the disease with humor, traveling through its demonic layers, evocatively expressing both its painful internal coherence and its absurdities.
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed · 315 pages
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she'd lost everything when her mother died young of cancer. Her family scattered in their grief, her marriage was soon destroyed, and slowly her life spun out of control. Four years after her mot
The Burn Journals
Brent Runyon · 379 pages
BRENT RUNYON WAS 14 years old when he set himself on fire. This is a true story.In The Burn Journals, Runyon describes that devastating suicide attempt and his recovery over the following year. He takes us into the Burn Unit in a children's hospital and through painful burn care and skin-grafting procedures. Then to a rehabilitation hospital, for intensive physical, occupational, and psychological
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
Chelsea Handler · 213 pages
Whip Smart: The True Story of a Secret Life
Melissa Febos · 288 pages
A woman goes on a journey of self-discovery, starting with heroin addition, running through professional domination, and ending at Sarah Lawrence.
Confessions of a Latter-day Virgin: A Memoir
Nicole Hardy · 295 pages
Nicole Hardy, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, explores how she came, at the age of thirty-five, to a crossroads regarding her faith and her identity.
Insatiable: Porn - A Love Story
Asa Akira · 248 pages
An actress in the porn industry describes her unusual life and discusses her views on women and sexuality as well as offering an inside look into the industry and her relationships with other actors, including her husband.
More Fun With Dick And Shane
Gillibran Brown · 270 pages
The Art of Sleeping Alone: Why One French Woman Suddenly Gave Up Sex
Sophie Fontanel · 153 pages
The novelist and fashion writer with French Elle magazine has penned an autobiographical tale of her renunciation of sex and the death of the desire that typically precedes the physical act. In a country that prides itself on the status of the French lover-- or "hot rabbits," as sexually "adventurous" politicians are often described-- Fontanel's declaration is akin to heresy. Complaining that she
44 Chapters About 4 Men
B.B. Easton · 352 pages
School psychologists aren’t supposed to write books about sex. Doing so would be considered “unethical” and “a fireable offense.” Lucky for you, ethics was never my strong suit. After spending years trying to spice up my sex life, I gave up and took to my journal. Perhaps my gorgeous, cold, number crunching husband simply wasn’t capable of the kind of passion I’d come to expect. After all, my e
Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles
Robin Baker · 358 pages
"Using a series of fictional scenes involving some form of sexual contact, followed by an interpretation of the behavior from the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist," the author explains how the "old programming [prompts] sexual behavior that is often in conflict with ... rational plans."--Jackets.
How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale
Jenna Jameson, Neil Strauss · 585 pages
The Happy Hooker
Xaviera Hollander, Robin Moore, Yvonne Dunleavy