Goodreads Readers Choice - Top 10 Finalists 2024

3.5 stars

"Ina Garten, the author of thirteen best-selling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and the cultural icon whose face has launched a thousand memes, shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table"--

3.4 stars

"Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this ... one-of-a-kind memoir, faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough"-- In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-gestating memoir. A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the world would never know her story in her own words, never know the passionate, joyful, caring, and...

5 stars

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring--and surviving--an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him.

3.9 stars

A memoir from a therapist and grief counselor who at age 11 suspected she was a sociopath, and here describes her efforts to find release from the lack of emotion that has ruled her life, all the while wondering about the lack of research into her condition.

4.3 stars

"Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn't a savior coming. Maybe it was up to me to save me." Recruited into the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement as a young wife, Tia Levings learned that being a good Christian meant following a list of additional life principles--a series of secret, special rules to obey. Being a godly and submissive wife in Christian Patriarchy included strict discipline, isolation, and an...