A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life
Ayelet Waldman
Ayelet Waldman microdoses LSD for a month and journals the effect on her mood and marriage. Candid, smart, and more thoughtful than the premise sounds.
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★ 5The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
Like Educated, it’s a memoir of an incredibly gifted girl born into a dysfunctional family who, despite the odds, builds a new life. Both Educated and The Glass Castle take a clear-eyed but not dispassionate look at their parents and siblings — the beautiful and dark sides of their personalities, addictions, and failures.
★ 5Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years
David Litt
One of Obama's speechwriters on what it was actually like inside the West Wing. Genuinely funny and, in hindsight, a little bittersweet.
Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age
Amanda Hess
The NYT critic on having a baby inside the machine of fertility apps, ultrasounds, gender reveals, freebirth influencers and mommy marketers. Funny and unsettling in equal measure.