Memiors suggestions and thoughts

I was wondering if anyone has recently read any good memoirs. Im right now reading the Glass Castle and im going through a memoir phase. :) Any good suggestions on memoirs. I think they're such good reads and you see how others live and im just hooked on that type of book right now.

Here are some excellent memoirs that I've read recently: Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison, Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife by Irene Spencer, Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham...enjoy!

Thank you oh so much!!

I've mentioned these before, but some of my favorites are Two Lives by Vikram Seth, a memoir about his great-uncle and aunt and the tumultuous and frequently horrifying times they lived through; Them: A Memoir of Parents by Francine du Plessix Gray, about her eccentric and dramatic parents and their complicated lives; and Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox, a totally unsentimental look at her very difficult childhood.

The Year of Magical Thinking ~ Joan Didion

Dispatches ~ Michael Herr

Stop-Time ~ Frank Conroy

This Boy's Life ~ Tobias Wolff

Palimpsest ~ Gore Vidal

You might also try something like Modern American Memoirs... Each chapter is an excerpt from a full work and might give you some ideas for other things to look for.

Off the top of my head:

Wait Til Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin

One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thaddeus Carhart

Long Ago in France by M.F.K. Fisher

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (one of my favorites)

And I second #5 Jesse-wiedinmyer re: The Year of Magical Thinking. Didion's one of my favorite writers.

The Year of Magical Thinking is probably one of the best books on grief I've ever read. It heads my list for a reason.

I agree with the recommendations of The Year of Magical Thinking. I just read it this week and thought it was a beautiful book.

I really enjoyed The Hypocrisy of Disco By Clane Hayward which is a memoir about growing up in hippie communes in the late 60s/early 70s. It is just the author's early years up to about 12. I'm hoping that the follow-up will be published.

I have just started reading an autobiography of Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom. I like it so far.