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Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 26,269 ratings — published 2021
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 184,192 ratings — published 2000
America Is in the Heart: A Personal History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,932 ratings — published 1946
Uncanny Valley (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 35,516 ratings — published 2020
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 119,872 ratings — published 2014
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 629,985 ratings — published 2012
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-history)
avg rating 3.42 — 6,651 ratings — published 2006
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 724,255 ratings — published 2000
Bossypants (ebook)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,062,829 ratings — published 2011
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
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avg rating 3.86 — 515,423 ratings — published 2011
The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 21,144 ratings — published 2011
Madness: A Bipolar Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 14,861 ratings — published 2008
Fever Pitch (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 44,381 ratings — published 1992
Strong As a Mother: How to Stay Healthy, Happy, and (Most Importantly) Sane from Pregnancy to Parenthood: The Only Guide to Taking Care of YOU!
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,024 ratings — published 2018
The Discontented Little Baby Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,398 ratings — published 2014
How to Baby: A No-Advice-Given Guide to Motherhood, with Drawings (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 471 ratings — published
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 148,763 ratings — published 2020
Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 10,562 ratings — published 2023
When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 506 ratings — published 2019
Сміх у кінці тунелю. Нотатки українського анестезіолога (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.63 — 1,287 ratings — published
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,154 ratings — published 2016
Гемінґвей нічого не знає (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.82 — 2,591 ratings — published 2025
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 8,752 ratings — published 2022
My Personal History of Philosophy to it's External Things (MY PERSONAL HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY TO ITS EXTERNAL THINGS Book 4)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications (The ParentData Book 4)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 777 ratings — published
Your Brain on Pregnancy: A Guide to Understanding and Protecting Your Mental Health During Pregnancy and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 97 ratings — published
On the Outside Looking Indian: How My Second Childhood Changed My Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 3.36 — 602 ratings — published 2011
There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,182 ratings — published 2021
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 386,996 ratings — published 2000
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 64,235 ratings — published 2023
The Crete Trilogy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.48 — 21 ratings — published
Devica, kraljica, vdova, prasica (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 474 ratings — published 2021
Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wétiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 446 ratings — published 1979
Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.47 — 1,714 ratings — published 2022
The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 8,860 ratings — published 2006
Pregnancy Day by Day: Count Down Your Pregnancy Day by Day with Advice from a Team of Experts (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 78 ratings — published
The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 274 ratings — published 2005
To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 607 ratings — published 2025
The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,698 ratings — published 2012
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 33,345 ratings — published 2010
The Medium is the Massage (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 17,789 ratings — published 1967
Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 426 ratings — published 2023
Potty Time with Bean (Ms. Rachel) (Books by Ms. Rachel)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 4.35 — 177 ratings — published
Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 3.47 — 4,832 ratings — published 2022
The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,447 ratings — published 2018
Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 23,732 ratings — published 2015
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 12,720 ratings — published 2014
Work, Parent, Thrive: 12 Science-Backed Strategies to Ditch Guilt, Manage Overwhelm, and Grow Connection (When Everything Feels Like Too Much)
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avg rating 3.85 — 349 ratings — published
The Emotional Life of the Toddler (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,284 ratings — published 1993
The Lover (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 75,889 ratings — published 1984
“Stored personal memories along with handed down collective memories of stories, legends, and history allows us to collate our interactions with a physical and social world and develop a personal code of survival. In essence, we all become self-styled sages, creating our own book of wisdom based upon our studied observations and practical knowledge gleaned from living and learning. What we quickly discover is that no textbook exist how to conduct our life, because the world has yet to produce a perfect person – an ideal observer – whom is capable of handing down a concrete exemplar of epistemic virtues. We each draw upon the guiding knowledge, theories, and advice available for us in order to explore the paradoxes, ironies, inconsistencies, and the absurdities encountered while living in a supernatural world. We mold our personal collection of information into a practical practicum how to live and die. Each day we define and redefine who we are, determine how we will react today, and chart our quest into an uncertain future.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“We are all of us palimpsests; we carry the past around, it comes surging up whether or not we want it, it is an albatross, and a crutch.”
― Ammonites And Leaping Fish: A Life In Time
― Ammonites And Leaping Fish: A Life In Time
