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This group is about memoirs and the amazing people who wrote them.

Category: Genres | Started October 2007

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From the Barrio to the Board Room

by Robert Renteria

The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Japan in the Modern World)

by Kyoko Selden

Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living

by Doug Fine

ADAM, The Missing Link

by Marshall Klarfeld

Hyper-chondriac: One Man's Quest to Hurry Up and Calm Down

by Brian Frazer

The Glass Castle

by Jeannette Walls

Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story

by Paul Monette

Steal a Pencil for Me: Love Letters from Camp Bergen-Belsen and Westerbork

by Jaap Polak

I Could Never Be So Lucky Again: An Autobiography

by James H. Doolittle

The Long Walk

by Slavomir Rawicz

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

by A. J. Jacobs

Clues: A Paranoid Schizophrenic's Detective Story

by Marvin Cohen

The Love Song of the Universe

by Mary Sparrowdancer

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

Einstein: His Life and Universe

by Walter Isaacson

My Life (Peter Owen Modern Classics)

by Marc Chagall

Beyond the Ashes: Cases of Reincarnation from the Holocaust

by Yonassan Gershom

I Never Saw Another Butterfly

by Hana Volavkova

Past Lives, Future Lives

by Dr. Bruce Goldberg

Let's Face It: 90 Years of Living, Loving, and Learning

by Kirk Douglas

My Stroke of Luck

by Kirk Douglas

Jews Without Money: A Novel

by Michael Gold

Choke

by Chuck Palahniuk

Paula Spencer

by Roddy Doyle

Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris

Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir

by Martha Gellhorn

Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise

by Ruth Reichl

The Woman Who Walked into Doors

by Roddy Doyle

My Left Foot

by Christy Brown

The Tender Bar: A Memoir

by J. R. Moehringer

I Do

by Doris Trueheart

We Just Want to Live Here: A Palestinian Teenager, an Israli Teenager -- an Unlikely Friendship

by Amal Rifa'i

Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time

by Doris Pilkington

Chinese Cinderella

by Adeline Yen Mah

Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston

Lakota Woman

by Richard Erdoes, Mary Brave Bird, Mary Crow Dog

Wild Swans

by Rowena Cooper, Jung Chang

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

Girl, Interrupted (Vintage)

by Susanna Kaysen, Anna Hamilton Phelan, James Mangold, Lisa Loomer

Julie and Julia

by Julie Powell

Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table

by Ruth Reichl

Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain

by Michael Paterniti

Travels with Herodotus

by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

by Anderson Cooper

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

by Atul Gawande

Waiting for My Cats to Die: A Memoir

by Stacy Horn

Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside

by Katrina Firlik

Blessings: A Heartwarming Classic of Hope

by Mary Craig

Blood & Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard

by Scott Gibson

Gorillas in the Mist

by Dian Fossey

The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan

by Christina Lamb

Fisk Peacocks of Baboquivari, Cloth

by Erma J. Fisk

The Nearly Departed: Or, My Family & Other Foreigners

by Brenda Cullerton

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid : A Memoir

by Bill Bryson

The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo

by Paula Huntley

The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity

by Mark Vonnegut

The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story

by John Laurence

Slaves in the Family (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Edward Ball

Native Stranger: A Black American's Jouney Into the Heart of Africa

by Eddy L. Harris

My War Gone By, I Miss It So

by Anthony Loyd

My Family and Other Animals

by Gerald Durrell

Motoring With Mohammed Journes to Yemen and the Red Sea

by Eric Hansen

Istanbul: Memories and the City (Vintage International)

by Maureen Freely, Orhan Pamuk

Drinking: A Love Story

by Caroline Knapp

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

by Alexandra Fuller

Dinner with Persephone: 5 Books and 25 Bookmarks

by Patricia Storace

DEN OF LIONS

by Terry Anderson

Daughter of the Queen of Sheba: A Memoir

by Jacki Lyden

by Lawrence Durrell

birds, Beasts and Relatives

by Gerald Durrell

Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

by Carl Sagan

Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (New Directions Paperbook, 161)

by Henry Miller

A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

by Robert M. Sapolsky

A Mighty Heart : The Daniel Pearl Story

by Mariane Pearl

A Man without a Country

by Kurt Vonnegut

A Handmade Wilderness

by Donald G. Schueler

The Demon-Haunted World

by Carl Sagan

I'll Always Have Paris

by Art Buchwald

Leaving Home: A Memoir

by Art Buchwald

The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver

The Missing: A Novel

by Thomas Eidson

Eat, Pray, Love

by Elizabeth Gilbert

Rex and the City

by Lee Harrington

Riding in Cars with Boys (movie tie-in)

by Beverly Donofrio

Remembering Steve (wt)

by Terri Irwin

The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank

by Willy Lindwer

The Liars' Club: A Memoir

by Mary Karr

This Boy's Life: A Memoir

by Tobias Wolff

Jesus Land: A Memoir

by Julia Scheeres

The Things They Carried

by Tim O'Brien

The Whole World Was Watching: Living in the Light of Matthew Shepard

by Romaine Patterson

The Perfect Storm : A True Story of Men Against the Sea

by Sebastian Junger

In God's Underground

by Richard Wurmbrand

The Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank

The Miracle Worker

by William Gibson

Swimming With Giants: My Encounters With Whales, Dolphins, and Seals

by Anne Collet

Rocket Boys (aka October Sky)

by Homer H. Hickam

The Freedom Writers Diary : How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them

by Zlata Filipovic

Living With Wolves

by Jim Dutcher, Helen Cherullo, James Manfull

Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime SarajevoRevised Edition

by Zlata Filipovic

God, Please Save Me

by Mary Rose McGeady

Celine Dion: My Story, My Dream

by Ce?line Dion

Teach with Your Heart: Lessons I Learned from the Freedom Writers

by Erin Gruwell

Born Free

by Joy Adamson

Anne Frank Remembered

by Miep Gies, Alison Leslie Gold

Death Be Not Proud

by John Gunther

The Loss of the S.S. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons, By One of the Survivors

by Lawrence Beesley

The Story of the Titanic as Told by Its Survivors

by Jack Winocour

Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend

by Alison Leslie Gold

Jack's Life: A Memory of C.S. Lewis

by Douglas H. Gresham

A Grief Observed

by C. S. Lewis

A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash

by Sylvia Nasar

Teacher Man: A Memoir

by Frank McCourt

Black Like Me

by John Howard Griffin

Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir

by Paul Monette

Everything Is Illuminated

by Jonathan Safran Foer

Girl, Interrupted (Vintage)

by Susanna Kaysen, Anna Hamilton Phelan, James Mangold, Lisa Loomer

Tis: A Memoir

by Frank McCourt

Angela's Ashes

by Frank McCourt

Ryan White: My Own Story

by Ryan White

Searching for Anne Frank: Letters From Amsterdam to Iowa

by Susan Goldman Rubin

It's Always Something

by Gilda Radner

There and Back Again : An Actor's Tale

by Sean Astin, Joseph Layden

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

by James McBride, Andre Braugher, Lainie Kazan

Night

by Elie Wiesel

Little Girl Lost

by Drew Barrymore, Todd Gold

Find Me

by Rosie O'Donnell

Alex: The Life of a Child

by Frank Deford

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Clues - A Paranoid Schizophrenic's Detective Story

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Published a book of memoirs

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Funny Memoirs?

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Cruise Memoir - a funny read - but very inspiring

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I have written a memoir

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What would you write a memoir about?

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favorite memoirs

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