Joan Didion 2005
- What it is
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Learning to live after a loss · it leaves you shaken
- Genre
- Memoir Theatre
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A farewell that moves you, but in literary fiction
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A farewell that moves you · it's hiding a secret
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Like yours: living with grief · it makes you laugh
Beloved
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It leaves you shaken, but in literary fiction
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Only a farewell that moves you
Atonement
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A farewell that moves you, but in a classic
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John Steinbeck 1937
A farewell that moves you, but in a classic
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Only living with grief
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Only memoir
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Melancholic and unhurried · funny and sad at once
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Elizabeth Gilbert 2001
Sad, but it leaves you hopeful · funny and sad at once
All That Remains
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It makes you laugh · it makes you think, without a lecture
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Daniel Leonard Everett 2008
Full of big ideas · one to read slowly
Just Kids
Patti Smith 2011
Comforting, like coming home · it makes you laugh
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson 1600
It leaves you shaken · you end up rooting for the wrong people
Be Ready When the Luck Happens
Ina Garten 2024
It makes you laugh · you come out liking people more
Touching the Void
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It leaves you shaken · fierce and defiant
The secret race
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No clean hands here · fierce and defiant
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
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It makes you laugh · you'll want to talk it over with someone
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It leaves you shaken · nobody is entirely good
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One to read slowly · it's an essay
Communion
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It'll scare you · it won't tell you everything at once
Mr Wilder and Me
Jonathan Coe 2020
Comforting, like coming home · a small, intimate story
White Hunter, Black Heart
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Not the same, but close: atmospheric and morally grey
Little Life
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It leaves you shaken · it tells it with no filter
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe 1958
Melancholic and unhurried, but in a classic
Winesburg, Ohio
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Sad, and in no hurry, but in a classic
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