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Read 12 Memoirs

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15 participants (95 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

The best way to start writing a memoir may be to read some…..

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All But My Life: A Memoir by Gerda Weissmann Klein

All But My Life: A Memoir

Gerda Weissmann Klein

261 pages • paperback • 1959

nonfiction history memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Rememberings by Sinéad O'Connor

Rememberings

Sinéad O'Connor

288 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction autobiography memoir music emotional reflective sad medium-paced
A Little Thing Called Life: From Elvis's Graceland to Bruce Jenner's Caitlyn & Songs in Between by Linda Thompson

A Little Thing Called Life: From Elvis's Graceland to Bruce Jenner's Caitlyn & Songs in Between

Linda Thompson

384 pages • digital

nonfiction art autobiography biography memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
A Delayed Life: The True Story of the Librarian of Auschwitz by Dita Kraus

A Delayed Life: The True Story of the Librarian of Auschwitz

Dita Kraus

480 pages • paperback • 2020

nonfiction biography history emotional informative sad medium-paced
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration by Roberts, David by David Roberts

Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration by Roberts, David

David Roberts

11 hours, 39 minutes • audio • 2013 user-added

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative medium-paced
A Doctor in the House: My Life with Ben Carson by Candy Carson

A Doctor in the House: My Life with Ben Carson

Candy Carson

6 hours, 27 minutes • audio • 2016 user-added

nonfiction biography memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story by Cecil Murphey, Ben Carson

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Cecil Murphey, Ben Carson

224 pages • paperback • 1990

nonfiction memoir inspiring reflective slow-paced
Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz

Homesick: My Own Story

Jean Fritz

163 pages • paperback • 1982

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
Different: The Story of an Outside-The-Box Kid and the Mom Who Loved Him by Nathan Clarkson, Sally Clarkson

Different: The Story of an Outside-The-Box Kid and the Mom Who Loved Him

Nathan Clarkson, Sally Clarkson

256 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
Guts: The True Stories behind Hatchet and the Brian Books by Gary Paulsen

Guts: The True Stories behind Hatchet and the Brian Books

Brian's Saga

Gary Paulsen

148 pages • hardcover • 2001

nonfiction biography memoir adventurous informative inspiring fast-paced