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Let Me Tell You What I Mean Joan Didion · 2021 · ★ 4.4 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. Here are six pieces written in 1968 from the "Points West" Saturday Evening Post column Joan Didion shared from 1964 to 1969 with her husband, John Gregory… Shares American essays, New York Times reviewed, Biography & Memoir

Telling Tales Kylie Cardell · 2015 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Authorship, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Here Lies Eric Ambler · 1985 · 234p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Authorship, Authors, New York Times reviewed, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Committed Elizabeth Gilbert · 2010 · ★ 3.5 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate At the end of her bestselling memoir "Eat, Pray, Love", Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe - a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both survivors of difficult divorces. Enough said.) But… Shares Personal Memoirs, Authors, Women, New York Times reviewed

A Mother's Reckoning Sue Klebold · 2016 · ★ 4.1 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. In a matter of minutes, they killed twelve students and a teacher and wounded twenty-four others before taking their own lives. For the last sixteen years, Sue Klebold, Dylan's mother, has lived with the indescribable grief and shame of that day. How could her child, the promising young… Shares Psychological aspects, Women, New York Times reviewed, Biography & Memoir

Take the cannoli Sarah Vowell · 2000 · ★ 4.3 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "While tackling subjects such as identity, politics, religion, art, and history, these autobiographical tales are written with a biting humor, placing Vowell solidly in the tradition of Mark Twain and Dorothy Parker. Vowell searches the streets of Hoboken for traces of the town's favorite son, Frank Sinatra. She goes under cover of heavy makeup in an investigation of goth culture, blasts… Shares American essays, New York Times reviewed, Biography & Memoir

Integrating Spirit and Psyche Mary Pat Henehan · 2002 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Narration, Storytelling, Women, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Ian Fleming Andrew Lycett · 1995 · ★ 3.7 · 486p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Sportsman, womanizer, naval commander, world-traveler, spy, the suave Old Etonian creator of the Cold War's archetypal secret agent was infinitely more complicated and interesting than his major fictional character, Agent 007, as Lycett shows in this full-length biography of Ian Fleming. Shares Authorship, Authors, Biography & Memoir

A smuggler's bible Joseph McElroy · 1966 · ★ 4.0 · 435p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares Authorship, Authors, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Magpie Murders

Magpie Murders Anthony Horowitz · 2016 · ★ 4.0 · 496p · ≈ 16h · Moderate From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery. When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After… Shares Literary, Authors

Two Sisters Gore Vidal · 1970 · ★ 5.0 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Originally published in 1970 this fairly short novel (174 pages) contains, according to the blurb on the dust jacket of the first edition, “Gore Vidal’s singular speculations on love, sex, death, literature and politics.” Shares Biography & Memoir

A history of autobiography in antiquity

A history of autobiography in antiquity Georg Misch · 1950 · 364p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

The Library of American Biography Jared Sparks · 1846 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Marse Henry : An Autobiography Henry Watterson · 1919 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Missing Persons

Missing Persons Mary Evans · 1998 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Autobiography

Autobiography Anderson L Staff · 2001 · 166p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Mr. Nice Howard Marks · 1996 · 468p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Portrait of a genius Richard Aldington · 1930 · 43p · ≈ 1h · Moderate American ed. (New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce) has title: D. H. Lawrence, portrait of a genius, but ... Includes bibliographical references: (p. 355-356). Shares Psychological aspects, Authorship, Authors, Biography & Memoir

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