Books like What My Bones Know
12 books with a reading profile close to What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo. Inward-looking and contemplative; an easy read.
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Sociopath
by Patric Gagne
Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir
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 · personal growth, memoir
David Sheff chronicles the years he spent navigating his son Nic’s addiction to methamphetamine and various other drugs.
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Gender Queer: A Memoir
by Maia Kobabe
Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir
Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir chronicles the internal process of identifying as nonbinary and asexual.
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Pageboy
by Elliot Page
Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir
In this memoir, Elliot Page recounts his transition from a closeted actor in the public eye to a man living authentically.
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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
by Sue Klebold
Also inward-looking and contemplative · 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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Lucky
by Alice Sebold
Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative
In 1981, as a freshman at Syracuse University, Alice Sebold was raped and beaten in a public park.
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The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir
Lara Love Hardin recounts her rapid descent from a soccer mom in an affluent neighborhood to an inmate in a California county jail.
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My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
by Kabi Nagata
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Kabi Nagata’s autobiographical manga tracks her struggle with clinical depression, anxiety, and eating disorders throughout her twenties.
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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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Blankets
Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir
Craig Thompson’s autobiographical graphic novel chronicles his upbringing within a strict Evangelical household in the rural Midwest.
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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir
At age twenty-two, Suleika Jaouad received a diagnosis of leukemia with a thirty-five percent chance of survival.
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