I’ve been really loving reading memoirs lately and would love to know some of your favorites. Some recent reads I’ve enjoyed are Finding Me by Viola Davis and The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls.
I’ve read pretty much nothing but memoirs since 1985. Here are just a few of my favorites:
* A Girl From Yamhill/My Own Two Feet by Beverly Cleary
* Colors of the Mountain/Sounds of the River by Da Chen
* Sting Ray Afternoons/Nights in White Castle by Steve Rushin
* Waiting for Snow in Havana/Learning to Die in Miami by Carlos Erie
* Black on Red: My 44 Years Inside the Soviet Union by Robert Robinson
* Running on Red Dog Road by Drema Hall Berkheimer
* All Over But the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg
* The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan
* Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza
* Where the Wind Leads by Vinh Chung
* Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
* Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
* Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang
* Tisha by Robert Specht and Anne Hobbs
* Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado
* Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin
* Measure of a Man by Martin Greenfield
* Maus I and II by Art Spiegelman
* Cybill Disobedience by Cybill Shepherd
* A Little Thing Called Life by Linda Thompson
* Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
* The Time of My Life by Patrick Swayze
* Shadows on the Koyukuk by Sidney Huntington
* To See You Again: A True Story of Love in a Time of War by Betty Schimmel
* My Life in France by Julia Child
* Johnny Carson by Henry Bushkin
* Mr. S: My Life With Frank Sinatra by George Jacobs
* Torn Lace Curtain by Frank Saunders
* A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown
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Dying of Politeness by Geena Davis
Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
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Not Dead & Not For Sale: A Memoir, by Scott Weiland
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I’ve read pretty much nothing but memoirs since 1985. Here are just a few of my favorites:
* A Girl From Yamhill/My Own Two Feet by Beverly Cleary
* Colors of the Mountain/Sounds of the River by Da Chen
* Sting Ray Afternoons/Nights in White Castle by Steve Rushin
* Waiting for Snow in Havana/Learning to Die in Miami by Carlos Erie
* Black on Red: My 44 Years Inside the Soviet Union by Robert Robinson
* Running on Red Dog Road by Drema Hall Berkheimer
* All Over But the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg
* The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan
* Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza
* Where the Wind Leads by Vinh Chung
* Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
* Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
* Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang
* Tisha by Robert Specht and Anne Hobbs
* Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado
* Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin
* Measure of a Man by Martin Greenfield
* Maus I and II by Art Spiegelman
* Cybill Disobedience by Cybill Shepherd
* A Little Thing Called Life by Linda Thompson
* Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
* The Time of My Life by Patrick Swayze
* Shadows on the Koyukuk by Sidney Huntington
* To See You Again: A True Story of Love in a Time of War by Betty Schimmel
* My Life in France by Julia Child
* Johnny Carson by Henry Bushkin
* Mr. S: My Life With Frank Sinatra by George Jacobs
* Torn Lace Curtain by Frank Saunders
* A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown
Dying of Politeness by Geena Davis
Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
Free: A Country and Child at the End of the World
Wave
Let’s Take the Long Way Home (Gail Caldwell)
Just Kids
Crying in H Mart
Not Dead & Not For Sale: A Memoir, by Scott Weiland