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Looking for a memoir that doesn't bore me

Memoirs that work as books, not as therapy. Voice-driven, specific, readable.
  1. Just Kids — Patti Smith 2010
    New York, Robert Mapplethorpe, becoming.
  2. H is for Hawk — Helen Macdonald 2014
    Grief, goshawk training, T.H. White.
  3. Wild — Cheryl Strayed 2012
    PCT solo, the boots.
  4. Born a Crime — Trevor Noah 2016
    South Africa, mother, apartheid.
  5. The Glass Castle — Jeannette Walls 2005
    Unsettled childhood. Vivid.
  6. Educated — Tara Westover 2018
    Off-grid Idaho to Cambridge PhD.
  7. Crying in H Mart — Michelle Zauner 2021
    Grief, food, mother.
  8. Hunger — Roxane Gay 2017
    Body, trauma, honesty.
  9. Lab Girl — Hope Jahren 2016
    Scientist, plants, partnership.
  10. Heavy — Kiese Laymon 2018
    Mississippi, mother, body, weight.