Book Reviews & Recommendations
In Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Naomi Klein invites readers on a haunting intellectual journey through our fractured cultural moment, one in which truth and illusion blur into each other like reflections in a funhouse mirror. Known for her incisive […]
Rating: ★★★★★ (5/5) Hadley Vlahos’s The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life’s Final Moments is one of those rare books that manages to be heartbreaking, comforting, and profoundly illuminating all at once. As a hospice nurse and passionate advocate for end-of-life care, Vlahos […]
Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.5/5) Neige Sinno’s Triste Tigre is not a book one simply reads; it is a book one survives. Written with a rare blend of lucidity and anguish, this hybrid of memoir and essay examines the lifelong impact of sexual abuse […]
Yiyun Li’s newest memoir opens with a sentence no one wants to hear: there is no good way to say this. From that bare fact, she builds a book that looks directly at the unimaginable. After losing her sons Vincent in 2017 […]
Catherine Gildiner’s Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery is a deeply moving and unforgettable exploration of resilience, trauma, and the transformative power of therapy. With over 60,000 Goodreads ratings and a stunning 4.45 average, this book […]
Rating: ★★★★★ (4.5/5) Stephanie Foo’s What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma is one of those rare memoirs that both shatter and rebuild you at the same time. Honest, meticulously researched, and achingly human, this book stands as […]
Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.4/5) David Goggins returns with Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within, a raw, unfiltered continuation of his first bestseller Can’t Hurt Me. If his debut memoir was a challenge to test your limits, Never Finished is […]
Amy Griffin’s The Tell: A Memoir is a haunting and heartfelt exploration of trauma, memory, and self-discovery. It begins with a simple observation from her daughter: “You’re here, but you’re not here.” That single moment sparks Griffin’s journey into the deepest corners […]
In We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People, Nemonte Nenquimo, the fearless Indigenous leader and environmental activist from Ecuador’s Amazon, delivers a memoir as lush, fierce, and essential as the rainforest itself. Co-written with Mitch Anderson, the book captures both […]
In Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, Kathleen Hanna, the iconic frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, finally tells her story with the same ferocity, wit, and vulnerability that made her music a rallying cry for generations of women. […]