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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib

352 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0bela's review
nonfiction essays memoir sports emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

300 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0bela's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson

Small Worlds

Caleb Azumah Nelson

258 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0bela's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Family Meal by Bryan Washington

Family Meal

Bryan Washington

320 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0bela's review
fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty

272 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0bela's review
nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced
Little Weirds by Jenny Slate

Little Weirds

Jenny Slate

224 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0bela's review
nonfiction essays memoir adventurous funny reflective fast-paced
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

Lori Gottlieb

415 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0bela's review
nonfiction memoir psychology emotional reflective medium-paced
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Cheryl Strayed

354 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0bela's review
nonfiction essays memoir self help emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Love Hurts: Buddhist Advice for the Heartbroken by Lodro Rinzler

Love Hurts: Buddhist Advice for the Heartbroken

Lodro Rinzler

184 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0bela's review
nonfiction self help informative inspiring medium-paced
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

Mira Jacob

358 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0bela's review
nonfiction graphic novel lgbtqia+ memoir race emotional funny reflective medium-paced