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  • Sylvia Vetta The best memoirs which help us understand the world Book cover of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Book cover of Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Book cover of Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Book cover of Call the Midwife Book cover of Greetings from Bury Park: Race. Religion. Rock 'n' Roll
  • Manni Coe The best memoirs that capture the struggle of everyday life Book cover of O Brother Book cover of My Wild and Sleepless Nights Book cover of The Salt Path: A Memoir Book cover of Elowen Book cover of Educated: A Memoir
  • Trisha Cull The best books to reveal the truth about mental illness Book cover of Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness Book cover of Untamed Book cover of Madness: A Bipolar Life Book cover of Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America Book cover of Girl, Interrupted
  • Jo Owens The best memoirs for commiserating over the "aging parents" challenge Book cover of All Things Consoled: A Daughter's Memoir Book cover of The Home Stretch: A Father, a Son, and All the Things They Never Talk about Book cover of Feeding My Mother: Comfort and Laughter in the Kitchen as a Daughter Lives with Her Mom's Memory Loss Book cover of Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me Book cover of Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? A Memoir
  • Robin F. Schepper The best memoirs about identity, resiliency, forgiveness, and the power of love Book cover of Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted Book cover of Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love Book cover of The Glass Castle Book cover of All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir Book cover of Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (As Told to Me) Story
  • Elizabeth Jaeger The best books about grief and family written by women Book cover of The Year of Magical Thinking Book cover of Mosaic Book cover of Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness Book cover of Men We Reaped: A Memoir Book cover of Notes on Grief
  • Meghan Flaherty The best memoirs for snobs who don’t read memoirs Book cover of H is for Hawk Book cover of Negroland: A Memoir Book cover of The Argonauts Book cover of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Book cover of The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
  • Jennifer Lang The best books on home: what it means, where it is, and why it isn’t obvious for everyone Book cover of You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir Book cover of Devotion Book cover of Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home Book cover of The Part That Burns Book cover of Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
  • Margot Leitman The best books about the stories behind the music Book cover of This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of the Band Book cover of Every Little Step: My Story Book cover of Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me Book cover of Hard to Handle: The Life and Death of the Black Crowes: A Memoir Book cover of Slash
  • Christine Herbert The best books by women unapologetic about their hot mess Book cover of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood Book cover of Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went from Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things Book cover of The Glass Castle Book cover of The Body Papers: A Memoir Book cover of Paradise Road: A Memoir
  • Tove Danovich The best books where animals help us understand ourselves Book cover of Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship Book cover of Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl Book cover of The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood Book cover of Mozart's Starling Book cover of The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People
  • Genevieve Kingston The best memoirs about young women on journeys of self-discovery Book cover of Autobiography of a Face Book cover of In the Dream House: A Memoir Book cover of Educated: A Memoir Book cover of Know My Name: A Memoir Book cover of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
  • Carol Weis The best addiction & recovery memoirs I wish had been available when I first got sober Book cover of Drinking: A Love Story Book cover of Lit Book cover of Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget Book cover of Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir Book cover of Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me
  • Patricia Pearson The best memoirs on mental health Book cover of Down Below Book cover of The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness Book cover of An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness Book cover of What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past Book cover of Man’s Search for Meaning
  • Laura Cathcart Robbins The best ‘quit lit’ books to change how you think about addiction Book cover of Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol Book cover of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Book cover of Push Off from Here: Nine Essential Truths to Get You Through Sobriety (and Everything Else) Book cover of Dry: A Memoir Book cover of Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
  • JQ Rose The best books for extraordinary life stories about ordinary people Book cover of Mango Rash: Coming of Age in the Land of Frangipani and Fanta Book cover of The Growing Season: How I Built a New Life--and Saved an American Farm Book cover of Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm Book cover of The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees Book cover of On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
  • Lynn Alsup The best memoirs that crack open an unknown, brutal, and beautiful world Book cover of The Liars' Club Book cover of The Glass Castle Book cover of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Book cover of Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation Book cover of Autumn Light: Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells
  • Patrick Bringley The best workplace memoirs that bring you deep inside fascinating places Book cover of Down and Out in Paris and London Book cover of Ball Four: The Final Pitch Book cover of Lab Girl Book cover of When Breath Becomes Air Book cover of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
  • Melanie Brooks The best memoirs by daughters grieving their fathers Book cover of The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order Book cover of Notes on Grief Book cover of H is for Hawk Book cover of Brother, I'm Dying Book cover of My Father's List
  • Tori Scott The best books that are raw, honest, and vulnerable Book cover of The Chronology of Water: A Memoir Book cover of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Book cover of Just Kids Book cover of Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Book cover of Educated: A Memoir
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