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Educated
Tara Westover
★★★★· Published 2018· 336 pages· read 2018
Tara Westover was raised off-grid by survivalist parents and taught herself enough to get to Cambridge. An astonishing memoir about the cost of leaving your family to become yourself.
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Philpott's essays on the quiet crisis of a life that looks perfect on paper. Funny, honest, and comforting.
Drinking: A Love Story
Caroline Knapp
Knapp's clear-eyed memoir of loving alcohol and then leaving it. Honest in a way that stays with you.
What Does It Feel Like?
Sophie Kinsella
Sophie Kinsella wrote this after her own brain tumor diagnosis, about a novelist facing the same. Slim and quietly moving.