Books like My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
12 books with a reading profile close to My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Marya Hornbacher chronicles her fifteen-year struggle with severe eating disorders, detailing the physiological and psychological mechanics of anorexia and bulimia.
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Prozac Nation
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Elizabeth Wurtzel chronicles her decades-long struggle with atypical depression, beginning with her childhood in a fractured household and continuing through her chaotic years at Harvard.
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Small Fry: A Memoir
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Lisa Brennan-Jobs details her upbringing as the daughter of Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs.
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Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Portia de Rossi chronicles her descent into anorexia and bulimia while starring on the television show Ally McBeal.
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My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Derf Backderf chronicles his high school years in Ohio alongside Jeffrey Dahmer, who would later become a notorious serial killer.
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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
by Sue Klebold
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Sue Klebold spent sixteen years raising Dylan Klebold before he and Eric Harris carried out the 1999 Columbine High School massacre.
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Look Me in the Eye
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
John Elder Robison details his life growing up with undiagnosed Asperger’s syndrome in a volatile household.
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Sybil
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Flora Rheta Schreiber documents the psychiatric case of Shirley Ardell Mason, referred to by the pseudonym Sybil Dorsett.
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Lucky
by Alice Sebold
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
In 1981, as a freshman at Syracuse University, Alice Sebold was raped and beaten in a public park.
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Sociopath
by Patric Gagne
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Patric Gagne recounts her life as a person diagnosed with sociopathy, challenging the assumption that the condition is synonymous with villainy.
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
by David Sheff
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
David Sheff chronicles the years he spent navigating his son Nic’s addiction to methamphetamine and various other drugs.
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