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Melissa Febos

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Melissa Febos is the national bestselling author of five books, including Whip Smart, Abandon Me, Girlhood—which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative. Her memoir, The Dry Season, is forthcoming on June 3, 2025 from Alfred A. Knopf. Her awards and fellowships include those from the Guggenheim Foundation, LAMBDA Literary, the National Endowment for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The British Library, The Black Mountain Institute, MacDowell, the Bogliasco Foundation, The Barbara Deming Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, The American Library in Paris, and others. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The ...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 40,226 ratings · 6,234 reviews · 22 distinct works • Similar authors

	What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Esai-Esai yang Memecah Hening di Balik Hubungan Kita dan Ibu by Michele Filgate (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sekar Rahmadhila (Translator), Cathi Hanauer 3.74 avg rating — 19,170 ratings — published 2019 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girlhood 4.21 avg rating — 13,382 ratings — published 2021 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative 4.22 avg rating — 6,240 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kink: Stories by R.O. Kwon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Garth Greenwell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Melissa Febos (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.10 avg rating — 5,659 ratings — published 2021 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whip Smart: A Memoir 3.64 avg rating — 4,142 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York by Sari Botton (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Elisa Albert (Contributor), Karen E. Bender (Contributor) 3.74 avg rating — 3,871 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Abandon Me: Memoirs 4.20 avg rating — 3,255 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex 3.96 avg rating — 2,164 ratings — published 2025 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Call My Name 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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