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Drinking: A Love Story
Caroline Knapp
★★★★· Published 1996· 304 pages· read 2023
Knapp's clear-eyed memoir of loving alcohol and then leaving it. Honest in a way that stays with you.
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★ 5Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
Laurie Colwin
Warm, funny food essays that read like your smartest friend telling kitchen stories. Made me want to cook and to write better about cooking.
Truth & Beauty
Ann Patchett
Patchett's memoir of her fierce, complicated friendship with the writer Lucy Grealy. One of the great books about platonic love.
Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer
Krakauer's firsthand account of the 1996 Everest disaster he survived. I could not put it down and felt cold the whole time.