Personal History


Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
Uncanny Valley
Bad Feminist
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Bossypants
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels
Madness: A Bipolar Life
The Yahoo Boys: Real Life with the Love Scammers of Lagos
Safe and Simple Food Allergy Prevention: A Baby-Led Feeding Guide to Starting Solids and Introducing Top Allergens
Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleySiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Stranger by Albert Camus
These Books Made an IMPACT
138 books — 145 voters

Anatole Broyard
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." (About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987) ...more
Anatole Broyard

Wallace Stegner
Before I can say I am, I was. Heraclitus and I, prophets of flux, know that the flux is composed of parts that imitate and repeat each other. Am or was, I am cumulative, too. I am everything I ever was, whatever you and Leah may think. I am much of what my parents and especially my grandparents were -- inherited stature, coloring, brains, bones (that part unfortunate), plus transmitted prejudices, culture, scruples, likings, moralities, and moral errors that I defend as if they were personal and ...more
Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

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