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Memoir Books

The memoir tag marks books built from personal experience and memory, shaped into narrative form. These works offer intimate access to another person's life, filtering real events through reflection, honesty, and the author's particular way of making sense of what happened to them.

82 books

A Child Called It by David J. Pelzer book cover

A Child Called It

David J. Pelzer

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers book cover

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout book cover

A House in the Sky

Amanda Lindhout

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson book cover

A Walk in the Woods

Acid for the Children by Flea book cover

Acid for the Children

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt book cover

Angela's Ashes

Annapurna book cover

Annapurna

Be Here Now book cover

Be Here Now

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande book cover

Being Mortal

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates book cover

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me book cover

Between the World and Me

Blue Nights by Heather Graham book cover

Blue Nights

Brave Enough by Cheryl Strayed book cover

Brave Enough

Confess by Augustine of Hippo book cover

Confess

Augustine of Hippo

Country of My Skull by Antjie Krog book cover

Country of My Skull

Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull book cover

Creativity, Inc.

Discipline Equals Freedom book cover

Discipline Equals Freedom

Eat and Run by Scott Jurek book cover

Eat and Run

Educated by Tara Westover book cover

Educated

Finding Ultra by Rich Roll book cover

Finding Ultra

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry book cover

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen book cover

Girl, Interrupted

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald book cover

H is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald

Heavy by Kiese Laymon book cover

Heavy

Hillbilly Elegy book cover

Hillbilly Elegy

Home Before Morning book cover

Home Before Morning

I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai book cover

I Am Malala

Malala Yousafzai

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings book cover

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy book cover

I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer book cover

Into Thin Air

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer book cover

Into the Wild

Just Kids by Patti Smith book cover

Just Kids

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann book cover

Killers of the Flower Moon

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain book cover

Kitchen Confidential

Anthony Bourdain

Living with a SEAL by Jesse Itzler book cover

Living with a SEAL

Make Your Bed by William H. McRaven book cover

Make Your Bed

William H. McRaven

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl book cover

Man's Search for Meaning

Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong book cover

Minor Feelings

Cathy Park Hong

Never Finished by David Goggins book cover

Never Finished

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong book cover

Literary Fiction

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

On the Move by Oliver Sacks book cover

On the Move

Option B by Sheryl Sandberg book cover

Option B

Sheryl Sandberg

Refuge book cover

Refuge

Running with the Kenyans by Adharanand Finn book cover

Running with the Kenyans

Adharanand Finn

Shoe Dog by Phil Knight book cover

Shoe Dog

Smile by Raina Telgemeier book cover

Smile

Raina Telgemeier

Snowblind book cover

Snowblind

Spare by Prince Harry book cover

Spare

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson book cover

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

Survival in Auschwitz book cover

Survival in Auschwitz

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby book cover

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Jean-Dominique Bauby

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin book cover

The Fire Next Time

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls book cover

The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot book cover

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Last Days by Ali Millar book cover

The Last Days

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch book cover

The Last Lecture

The Liars' Club by Mary Karr book cover

The Liars' Club

The Light of the World book cover

The Light of the World

The Long Run by Stephen King book cover

The Long Run

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs book cover

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen book cover

The Snow Leopard

Peter Matthiessen

The Sorrow of War

The Sorrow of War

The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner book cover

The Sound of Gravel

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris book cover

Historical Fiction

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

The Things They Carried book cover

Literary Fiction

The Things They Carried

The Women by Kristin Hannah book cover

Historical Fiction

The Women

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion book cover

The Year of Magical Thinking

Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed book cover

Tiny Beautiful Things

Touching the Void by Joe Simpson book cover

Touching the Void

Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd book cover

Traveling with Pomegranates

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom book cover

Tuesdays with Morrie

Ultramarathon Man by Dean Karnazes book cover

Ultramarathon Man

Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes book cover

Under the Tuscan Sun

Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper book cover

Unfollow

Megan Phelps-Roper

Untamed by Glennon Doyle book cover

Untamed

Walden by Henry David Thoreau book cover

Literary Fiction

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

Wave book cover

Wave

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running book cover

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi book cover

When Breath Becomes Air

Wild by Cheryl Strayed book cover

Wild

Yearbook by Alice Oseman book cover

Yearbook

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig book cover

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert M. Pirsig