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Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years
David Litt
★★★★★· Published 2017· 321 pages· read 2018
One of Obama's speechwriters on what it was actually like inside the West Wing. Genuinely funny and, in hindsight, a little bittersweet.
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★ 5Grief Is for People
Sloane Crosley
Sloane Crosley on losing her closest friend to suicide, braided with a burglary. Funny and raw at once.
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Leslie Jamison
Part memoir of her own drinking, part sweeping cultural history of addiction and the writers it claimed. Searching and ambitious.
★ 5The Night of the Gun
David Carr
A journalist reports out his own addiction, interviewing everyone from his past. Ruthless and fascinating.