Memoir

One life, told by the person inside it. A remembered life rather than a documented one — shaped, selective, and answerable to feeling as much as to fact.

On the Ideas & Lives shelf.

Books shelved as Memoir

• Me Talk Pretty One Day — David Sedaris
• Agatha Christie: An Autobiography — Agatha Christie
• The Woman on the Mountain — Sharyn Munro
• Crying in H Mart — Michelle Zauner
• La cabeza de mi padre — Alma Delia Murillo
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running — Haruki Murakami
• Diario del asco — Isabel Bono
• Communion: A True Story — Whitley Strieber
• The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom — Shari Franke
• Algún día te mostraré el desierto: Diario de paternidad — Renato Cisneros
• Under a Fur Coat — Sonya Vatomsky
• Uneducated: A Memoir of Flunking Out, Falling Apart, and Finding My Worth — Christopher Zara
• Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting — Abby Craden
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic — Alison Bechdel
• Back to Square One: (my Abbreviated Grad School Journal) — Christine Lynn Albright
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End — Atul Gawande
• In the Dream House — Carmen Maria Machado
• Know My Name — Chanel Miller
• The Sky Below — Scott Parazynski
• A Flor de Piel — Julie Pujol-Karel
• An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth — Chris Hadfield

Related genres

• Non-Fiction
• Biography
• Literary Criticism
• Medical Narrative
• Philosophy
• Grief Memoir
• Theology
• Cultural Studies
• Political Theory
• Inspirational
• Feminist Theory
• Art History
• Anthropology
• Leadership
• Business

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