COJ Book Recs

All All-Time Favorites Comedy Essays fiction Graphic Novel Memoir & Biography Poetry Thriller/Mystery

Rob Delaney

Rob Delaney

Oh My Mother!: A Memoir

Connie Wang

Dirtbag Massachusetts: A Confessional

Isaac Fitzgerald

A Heart That Works

Rob Delaney

All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire

Rebecca Woolf

Acne: A Memoir

Laura Chinn

Beautiful Country: A Memoir

Qian Julie Wang

Acceptance: A Memoir

Emi Nietfeld

Invisible Child

Andrea Elliott

Normal Family

Chrysta Bilton

I’ll Show Myself Out

Jessi Klein

In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

Amy Bloom

Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes

Phoebe Robinson

Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner

Somebody’s Daughter

Ashley C. Ford

Heating & Cooling

Beth Ann Fennelly

You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey

Amber Ruffin

Stranger Care

Sarah Sentilles

The Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir

Domingo Martinez

Small Fry

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Hunger

Roxane Gay

Wave

Sonali Deraniyagala

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

Know My Name

Chanel Miller

Once More We Saw Stars

Jayson Greene

Between Two Kingdoms

Suleika Jaouad

Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

Sarah Hepola

Open: An Autobiography

Open: An Autobiography

Andre Agassi

Bright Hour A Memoir

The Bright Hour

Nina Riggs

So Help Me Gosh

Brooke Barker

Good Talk

Mira Jacob

The Glass Castle

The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls

You’ll Grow Out of It

Jessi Klein

Persepolis Comic

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi

Dancing At The Pity Party Graphic Novel

Dancing at the Pity Party

Tyler Feder

Educated

Tara Westover

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me

Mindy Kaling

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