Favorite Memoirs

2
Lucky Man: A Memoir
by Michael J. Fox
1,990 members
42 reviews
3.9
3 Members
hipdeep, dara85, Nickelini
3
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah
8,054 members
412 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
hipdeep, Nickelini, ahef1963
4
Becoming
by Michelle Obama
11,273 members
396 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
hipdeep, Nickelini, ahef1963
5
Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover
13,265 members
609 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
hipdeep, Nickelini, ahef1963
6
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by J. D. Vance
8,866 members
395 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
dara85, ahef1963
7
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
by Avi Steinberg
921 members
54 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
lahochstetler, kara.shamy,aulsmith
Explanations
aulsmith : He didn't work in a prison library all that long. People who have don't like this book.
9
Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
4,919 members
202 reviews
4.2
Member
Nickelini
10
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
by Jeanette Winterson
2,364 members
104 reviews
4.1
Member
elkiedee
11
Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
by Rob Sheffield
1,995 members
69 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
12
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
by Paul Monette
1,117 members
11 reviews
4.2
Member
aulsmith
13
Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found
by Jennifer Lauck
896 members
25 reviews
4
Member
kageeh
14
The Memory Palace
by Mira Bartók
707 members
24 reviews
3.8
Member
Chatterbox
15
Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion
by Michael Levy
203 members
23 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
lahochstetler
16
Scenes of Childhood
by Sylvia Townsend Warner
71 members
3 reviews
½ 4.6
Member
Crypto-Willobie
17
Blue Sky July: A Mother's Story of Hope and Healing
by Nia Wyn
71 members
4 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
Soupdragon
18
March: Books 1-3
by John Lewis
574 members
11 reviews
½ 4.6
Member
hipdeep
19
Without a Map: A Memoir
by Meredith Hall
438 members
18 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
kageeh
20
Halfbreed
by Maria Campbell
339 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Nickelini
21
Thank You and Okay: An American Zen Failure in Japan
by David Chadwick
231 members
6 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
22
Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
by Carmen Aguirre
229 members
11 reviews
3.9
Member
elkiedee
23
Far Off Things
by Arthur Machen
62 members
1 review
½ 4.3
Member
Crypto-Willobie
24
Wave
by Sonali Deraniyagala
1,005 members
77 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Nickelini
25
Christopher and His Kind
by Christopher Isherwood
895 members
14 reviews
3.8
Member
aulsmith
26
Nights in White Castle: A Memoir
by Steve Rushin
29 members
3.9
Member
hipdeep
27
As I remember it; some epilogues in recollection
by James Branch Cabell
21 members
½ 3.7
Member
Crypto-Willobie
28
Mexican Eskimo Book 1: Exmikan
by Anker Frankoni
15 members
1 review
½ 4.5
Member
kara.shamy
29
Bossypants
by Tina Fey
10,587 members
555 reviews
3.8
Member
Nickelini
30
Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
1,605 members
35 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
31
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading
by Leah Price
287 members
14 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
kara.shamy
32
A Random Act: An Inspiring True Story of Fighting to Survive and Choosing to Forgive
by Cindi Broaddus
57 members
2 reviews
4.2
Member
dara85
33
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death, and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
by Michael J. Collins
274 members
9 reviews
3.9
Member
dara85
34
Eminent Hipsters
by Donald Fagen
178 members
8 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
Nickelini
35
The Weight of Shadows: A Memoir of Immigration & Displacement
by José Orduña
48 members
25 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
36
A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway
10,174 members
213 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
37
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
by Nelson Mandela
5,600 members
72 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
38
I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections
by Nora Ephron
1,495 members
79 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
Nickelini
39
Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole
by Jerri Nielson
850 members
19 reviews
3.8
Member
dara85
40
Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship
by Michelle Kuo
354 members
51 reviews
4
Member
kara.shamy
42
Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country
by Gillian Slovo
144 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
43
To Be Honest
by Michael Leviton
69 members
3 reviews
3.9
Member
kara.shamy
44
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
by Cary Elwes
3,054 members
218 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
45
A House in the Sky: A Memoir
by Amanda Lindhout
1,255 members
63 reviews
4.1
Member
ahef1963
46
Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe
by Charlotte Gill
183 members
12 reviews
3.8
Member
Nickelini
48
An Autobiography
by Agatha Christie
2,176 members
44 reviews
4.1
Member
ahef1963
49
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
by Esmé Weijun Wang
1,064 members
31 reviews
4
Member
kara.shamy
50
Broken Horses: A Memoir
by Brandi Carlile
471 members
19 reviews
4.2
Member
hipdeep
51
Just Kids
by Patti Smith
6,642 members
267 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
53
Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
by Lucy Knisley
1,053 members
95 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
55
Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
by Portia de Rossi
1,244 members
60 reviews
3.8
Member
Nickelini
56
Blessings in Disguise
by Alec Guinness
492 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
hipdeep
57
America calling : a foreign student in a country of possibility
by Rajika Bhandari
8 members
1 review
3.8
Member
hipdeep
58
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
by Dave Grohl
1,958 members
66 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
hipdeep
59
The First Ten Years: Two Sides of the Same Love Story
by Joseph Fink
76 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
hipdeep
60
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
by Bono
660 members
17 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
61
My Adventures with God
by Stephen Tobolowsky
31 members
1 review
½ 2.5
Member
hipdeep
62
Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography
by Benazir Bhutto
338 members
8 reviews
4
64
Apple Tree
by Lise Funderberg
1 member