Directory
If you’re looking for something specific, or just want to feast your eyes on everything that’s ever been recommended on Crooked Reads!
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comics | fantasy | fiction | horror | memoir | mental health | mystery | nonfiction | poetry | romance | science | self-help | young adult
Titles
100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet by Pamela Paul
Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying by Sallie Tisdale
Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom by Sara Benincasa
And Yet by Kate Baer
Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain by Abby Norman
Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together by Gaby Dunn
Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually by Meichi Ng
A Bit Much by Lyndsay Rush
Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness by Melissa Bond
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi
Braced by Alyson Gerber
Broken Places and Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected by Nnedi Okorafor
Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Butt or Face? by Kari Lavelle
Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who’s Been There by Tara Schuster
A Career in Books: A Novel about Friends, Money, and the Occasional Duck Bun by Kate Gavino
Claimed by Cupid by Dana Isaly
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang
The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
The Crying Book by Heather Christle
Cryptid Club by Sarah Andersen
The Dark King by Gina L. Maxwell
The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America by Anita Hannig
The Dead Guy Next Door by Lucy Score
The Deal by Elle Kennedy
Deep Dark Fears by Fran Krause
The Design of Books: An Explainer for Authors, Editors, Agents, and Other Curious Readers by Debbie Berne
Drunk Flies and Stoned Dolphins: A Trip Through the World of Animal Intoxication by Oné R. Pagán
Duke, Actually by Jenny Holiday
Easy Crafts for the Insane: A Mostly Funny Memoir of Mental Illness and Making Things by Kelly Williams Brown
The Edge of Every Day: Sketches of Schizophrenia by Marin Sardy
Ephemera by Briana Loewinsohn
Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words & Pictures by Jason Adam Katzenstein
Everything Is OK by Debbie Tung
The Fastest Way to Fall by Denise Williams
Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy’s Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love by Tori Dunlap
Financial First Aid: Essential Tools for Confident, Secure Money Management by Alyssa Davies
Fix by J. Albert Mann
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
Go Deep by Rilzy Adams
Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love by Nina Renata Aron
Gory Details: Adventures From the Dark Side of Science by Erika Engelhaupt
The Graham Effect by Elle Kennedy
Gross Anatomy: Dispatches from the Front (and Back) by Mara Altman
Guarding Temptation by Talia Hibbert
A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler
How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Price
How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing by KC Davis
How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling by Danny Caine
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
In Love & Pajamas: A Collection of Comics about Being Yourself Together by Catana Chetwynd
In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
Life of the Party by Olivia Gatwood
Live Life Colorfully by Jason Naylor
The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays by Athena Dixon
Look Again by Elizabeth A. Trembley
A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
My Alcoholic Escape from Reality by Kabi Nagata
My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward by Mark Lukach
The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister by Kyleigh Leddy
Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis by Emily Willingham
PMSL: Or How I Literally Pissed Myself Laughing and Survived the Last Taboo to Tell the Tale by Luce Brett
Poe for Your Problems: Uncommon Advice from History’s Least Likely Self-Help Guru by Catherine Baab-Muguira
Quietly Hostile: Essays by Samantha Irby
The Roommate by Rosie Danan
Second Chances in New Port Stephen by T.J. Alexander
Snapped by Alexa Martin
Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson
The Untold Story of Books: A Writer’s History of Publishing by Michael Castleman
What Doesn’t Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt by Tessa Miller
Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind by Sue Black
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
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