Memoir Challenge - hosted by itssky17

Read a memoir about someone's unusual job
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Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words by Andrew Morton

Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words

Andrew Morton

13 hours, 2 minutes • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional reflective slow-paced
Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny by Holly Madison

Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

Holly Madison

10 hours, 51 minutes • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

Lab Girl

Hope Jahren

290 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir science emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek

Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner

Judy Melinek

272 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction memoir science dark informative fast-paced
Between Two Worlds by Tyler Henry

Between Two Worlds

Tyler Henry

4 hours, 31 minutes • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective fast-paced
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost

The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

J. Maarten Troost

8 hours, 36 minutes • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction memoir travel adventurous funny informative medium-paced
A Family Torn Apart: Three sisters and a dark secret that threatens to separate them for ever by Cathy Glass

A Family Torn Apart: Three sisters and a dark secret that threatens to separate them for ever

Cathy Glass

336 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction memoir dark emotional medium-paced
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty

7 hours, 44 minutes • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

Wishful Drinking

Carrie Fisher

163 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir emotional funny reflective fast-paced
Mukhabarat, Baby! My Life as a Wartime Spy for the CIA by Eric Burkhart

Mukhabarat, Baby! My Life as a Wartime Spy for the CIA

Eric Burkhart

300 pages • first pub 2015 (editions) user-added

nonfiction autobiography biography history politics medium-paced