NOT a big non fiction reader but I will always pick up something that catches my eye (don’t judge a book by its cover, but also like sometimes do). Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner (Japanese Breakfast) made me ugly cry at work.
honorable mentions:
Mean Baby - Selma Blair
I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jeanette McCurdy
Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom
In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado
Down the Drain - Julia Fox
Cultish - Amanda Montell
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone - Lori Gottlieb
Flesh & Blood - N West Moss
- They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, Hanif Abdurraqib
- Sorrow and Bliss, Meg Mason
- The Loneliness Files, Athena Dixon
- Goodbye, Vitamin, Rachel Khong
- Ghost Forest, Pik-Shuen Fung
- And Then She Fell, Alicia Elliott
- Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner
- The Seven Year Slip, Ashley Poston
- Happy Place, Emily Henry (contrary to the title, it is not happy)
Fiction:
In Watermelon Sugar-Richard Brautigan.
Bad Girls-Camila Sosa Villada.
Death in her Hands-Ottesa Moshfeg.
Mist-Miguel de Unamuno.
Animal-Lisa Taddeo.
This is Pleasure-Mary Gaitskill.
Death With Interruptions-José Saramago.
The Family of Pascual Duarte-Camilo José Cela (This one is extremely violent and graphic, so beware).
Flowers in the Attic-V.C Andrews.
100 Years of Solitude-Gabriel García Marquez.
Non-fiction:
Running With Scissors-Augusten Burroughs.
Educated-Tara Westover.
I’m Glad My Mom Died-Jennette McCurdy.
