After many years of reading, I am officially enlisting the help of this elite community.
I am an avid memoir/memoir-like reader, and I have done it all.
The Glass Castle, When Breath Becomes Air, Angela’s Ashes, Unbroken, The Liars Club, Jesusland, etc.
Is there any other great memoir that you can suggest that you feel often goes unread? Or, a work of fiction that reads like a memoir? Open to anything similar.
Struggling here thinking that I’m running out of material.
by blueberrybanana11
5 Comments
A. Verghese, My own country; The tennis partner
V. Nabokov, Speak, memory
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
The Last Living Confederate Widow Tells All
During the Reign of the Queen of Persia
Cold Sassy Tree
Wish you Well by Baldacci
All of the above are fictional memoirs
Non-fic: Never Cry Wolf
Two recent memoirs I’ve enjoyed are…The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man- Paul Newman
and Between Two Kingdoms- Suleika Jaouad
My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward by Mark Lukach
Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong
Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Being Seen by Elsa Sjunneson
Once Upon a Tome by Oliver Darkshire
Hunger by Roxane Gay
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo
Finding Me by Viola Davis
Impossible People by Julia Wertz
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
An Exact Replica of A Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken
The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
The Other Side by Lacy M. Johnson
Everything I Learned I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin
Making Love With the Land by Joshua Whitehead
The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal
Family Style by Thien Pham
Drinking Dom Perignon Throug a Straw by Eddie Ndopu
Hello Molly by Molly Shannon
A Face For Picasso by Ariel Henley
Being Heumann by Judith Heumann