![]() ![]() Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)by Mindy Kaling (2011) What It Is Like to Go to Warby Karl Marlantes (2011) Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Readingby Nina Sankovitch (2011) ![]() This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone by Melissa Coleman (2011) The Long Goodbye by Meghan O’Rourke (2011) ![]() Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman (2010)īlood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chefby Gabrielle Hamilton (2011) Hiroshima in the Morning by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (2010) Lonely: Learning to Live with Solitude by Emily White (2010) The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer (2010) Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendshipby Gail Caldwell (2010) The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers by Josh Kilmer-Purcell (2010) Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen (2009) In the Sanctuary of Outcastsby Neil White (2009) What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (2008) One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life - A Story of Race and Family Secrets by Bliss Broyard (2007) Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s by John Elder Robison (2007) The Sharper the Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter and Tears at the World’s Most Famous Cooking Schoolby Kathleen Flinn (2007)ĭreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (2007) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Jean-Dominique Bauby (2007) The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron (2006)Ī Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (2007)Īnimal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver (2007)įalling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah (1997) Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl (2005)Įat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (2006) The Year of Magical Thinkingby Joan Didion (2005) The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (2005) Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iranby Azadeh Moaveni (2005) Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (2003) She’s Not There: A Life in Two Gendersby Jennifer Finney Boylan (2003) Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela (2000)įirst They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung (2000)ĭon’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller (2001) Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (2000) On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King (2000) Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain (2000) The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride (1995)Ī Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (2000) Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (1993)Īutobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy (1994) Wild Swan: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang (1991) The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghostsby Maxine Hong Kingston (1976) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969) Paper Lion: Confession of a Last-String Quarterbackby George Plimpton (1966)Ĭoming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody (1968) Night by Elie Wiesel (1960) - Surviving the Holocaust I thought I was pretty well-read when it comes to this genre, but as I put together this list of 100 must-read memoirs, I realized the explosion of the genre of late has left me with a lot of catching up to do.ĭust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston (1948) The best can make you laugh, cry, think and yearn to explore new ideas. A great memoir takes a reader into a different world, bringing them along as the author faces struggles big and small. But, it refers to more than that–any time a person writes from their own personal knowledge or special sources. A memoir is defined as any book that comes from a collection of memories, from the French mémoire. While I certainly love memoirs for that, it’s also a genre that stands well on it’s own. I know quite a few readers who credit reading a memoir as their gateway into other nonfiction. Instagram: Twitter: All posts by Kim Ukura ![]() When not getting to bed before 10 p.m., Kim loves to read nonfiction, do needlework projects, drink tea, and watch the Great British Baking Show. Kim has a BA in English and journalism from a small liberal arts college in Minnesota, and a master’s in journalism from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In addition to co-hosting Book Riot’s nonfiction podcast, For Real, and co-editing Book Riot’s nonfiction newsletter, True Story, Kim spends her days working in communications at a county library system in the Twin Cities area. Kim Ukura is a book lover, recovering journalist, library advocate, cat mom, and lover of a good gin cocktail. ![]()
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