Suggested Reading - Memoirs

Baker, Russell: Growing Up

Bryson, Bill: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid 

Burroughs, Augustus: Running With Scissors

Carroll, Jim: Basketball Diaries 

Coleman, Melissa: This Life is in Your Hands: One Family, Sixty Acres, and A Family Undone 

Dillard Annie: An American Childhood 

Kahlo, Frida: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait 

Karr, Mary: The Liar's Club 

Kaysen, Susanna: Girl Interrupted

Scotty, Robyn: Twenty Chickens for a Saddle 

Sedaris, Davis: Me Talk Pretty One Day 

Sexton, Linda Gray: Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton 

Smith, Patti: Just Kids: From Brooklyn to the Chelsea Hotel: A Life of Art and Friendship 

Wolff, Tobias: This Boy's Life 

Adversity: 

Bauby, Jean-Dominique: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 

Berger, Suzanne: Horizontal Woman 

Ehrlich, Gretel: A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightning 

Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Crack-Up 

Grealy, Lucy: The Autobiography of a Face Henshaw, 

Betty Grant: Children of the Dust: An Okie Family Story 

Kerman, Piper: Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison 

Knapp, Caroline: Drinking: A Love Story 

Moody, Anne: Coming of Age in Mississippi 

Siebold, Alice: Lucky 

Simon, Rachel: Riding the Bus With My Sister 

Walls, Jeanette: The Glass Castle 

Relationships: 

Allende, Isabelle: Paula 

Baley, John: An Elegy for Iris 

Eggers, David: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 

Horan, Nancy: Loving Frank 

Kittredge, William: A Hole in the Sky 

Travel: 

Bryson, Bill: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail 

Cahill, Tim: Jaguars Ripped Through My Flesh 

Steinbach, Alice: Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman 

Theroux, Paul: Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China 

Work: 

Brown, Larry: Fire 

Conroy, Pat: The Water is Wide 

Conway, Jill Ker: True North 

Dillard, Annie: The Writing Life 

Hansen, Suzanne: You'll Never Nanny in this Town Again: The True Adventures of a Hollywood Nanny 

Hari, Daoud: Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur 

Markham, Beryl: West With the Night 

Norris, Kathleen: Dakota: A Spiritual Geography 

Sacks, Oliver: Awakenings 

Smith, Bob: Hamlet's Dresser 

 Snyder, Don: The Cliff Walk 

Swofford, Anthony: Jarhead 

Escaping Chronology: 

Dederer, Claire: Poser: My Life in Twenty Three Yoga Poses 

Fisher, MFK: An Alphabet for Gourmets 

Jordan, Pete: Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States 

Levi, Primo: The Periodic Table 

McMurtry, Larry: Books: A Memoir 

Sheffield, Rob: Love is a Mix Tape 

Vowell, Sarah: Assassination Vacation 

Others: 

Corrigan, Maureen: Leave Me Alone I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books 

Diski, Jenny: Skating to Antarctica 

Elroy, James: My Dark Places 

Hemingway, Ernest: A Movable Feast 

Gordon, Mary: The Shadow Man 

Houston, Pam: A Little More About Me 

Walker, Cami: 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life 

Wallace, David Foster: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments 

Zinn, Howard: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Time

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