21 Books for 2021 - hosted by behemota

An autobiography or a memoir
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Vinný od narodenia: Príbehy z juhoafrického detstva by Trevor Noah

Vinný od narodenia: Príbehy z juhoafrického detstva

Trevor Noah

296 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction memoir race emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays

Alexander Chee

288 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy by Andrew Morton

Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy

Andrew Morton

401 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography history reflective slow-paced
Geisha, a Life by Mineko Iwasaki

Geisha, a Life

Mineko Iwasaki

297 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir informative slow-paced
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of WWII s Most Dangerous Spy, Virginia Hall by Sonia Purnell

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of WWII s Most Dangerous Spy, Virginia Hall

Sonia Purnell

352 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative inspiring medium-paced
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Daughter of Cambodia #1

Loung Ung

272 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir dark emotional informative medium-paced
Ordeal by Linda Lovelace, Mike McGrady

Ordeal

Linda Lovelace, Mike McGrady

288 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir dark emotional sad fast-paced
Taking on the Plastics Crisis by Hannah Testa

Taking on the Plastics Crisis

Pocket Change Collective

Hannah Testa

64 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction nature politics young adult informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
Brev från min barndom by Emma Reyes
Brev från min barndom
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Emma Reyes

Brev från min barndom

Emma Reyes

194 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction art biography memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Caitlin Doughty

272 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced