Brain, Child Writers Share Their Favorite Memoirs
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Long Goodbye by Meghan O’Rourke
Night by Elie Wiesel
Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
End of Eve by Ariel Gore
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Long Road to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr
You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know by Heather Sellers
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Relish by Lucy Knisely
The Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff
Cherry by Mary Karr
Boy by Roald Dahl
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealey
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
The Color of Water by James McBride
The Middle Years by Kelly Corrigan
The Best Day, the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon by Donald Hall
He Plays a Harp by Roberta F. King
Leaving Tinkertown by Tanya Ward Goodman
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Franki
Lucky Man by Michael J Fox
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis
Speak, Memory by Nabokov
Personal History by Katharine Graham
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Dispatches from a Not So Perfect Life by Faulkner Fox
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Lit by Mary Karr
North of Normal by Cea Person
Vegetable, Animal, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Miriam’s Kitchen by Elizabeth Ehrlich
Safekeeping by Abigail Thomas
The Sparkling Eyed Boy by Amy Benson
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Devotion by Dani Shapirp
Not by Accident by Samantha Dunn
Cocktail Hour Under The Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast
Boys of my Youth by JoAnn Beard
If You Knew Then What I Know Now by Ran Van Meter
Poser by Claire Dederer
The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchett
The White Album by Joan Didion
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
They Cage the Animals at Night by Jennings Michael Burch
Slow Motion by Dani Shapiro
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown
The Kiss by Kathhryn Harrison
If Nights Could Talk by Marsha Lee Recknagel
This Lovely Life by Vicki Forman
An Unquiet Mind: A Memior of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
Comfort: A Journey Through Grief by Ann Hood
The Big House by George Howe Colt
Under Magnolia by Frances Mayes
Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt
The Liar’s Club by Marry Karr
Growing Up by Russell Baker
Blood, Bones, Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Half a Life by Darin Strauss
The Words to Say It by Mari Cardinal
At Home in the World by Joyce Maynard
Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love, and the Perfect Meal by Ava Chin
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
The Liars Club by Mary Karr
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
Stress Fracture: A Memoir of Psychosis by Tara Meissner
Lucky by Alice Sebold
Stealing Buddha’s Dinner by Minh Nguyen
Coming Clean by Kimberley Rae Miller
