While I love biographies, there is something special about a memoir that gives you an amazing insight into one aspect of the authors’ lives.
Series
- First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung (Daughter of Cambodia #1)
- Lucky Child by Loung Ung (Daughter of Cambodia #2)
Standalones – Novels
- The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman
- Born Free by Joy Adamson
- Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker
- Rolling with the Punchlines: A Memoir by Urzila Carlson
- Zlata’s Diary by Zlata Filipovic
- Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham
- Marley and Me by John Grogan
- The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
- Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
- This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
- Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay
- Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis
- Twelve Patients by Dr. Eric Manheimer, MD
- The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
- Laughing All the Way to the Mosque by Zarqa Nawaz
- The Fish Ladder by Katharine Norbury
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Rosa Parks: My Story by Rosa Parks
- Cleaving by Julie Powell
- Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
- Gogo Mama by Sally Sara
- Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
- Wild by Cheryl Strayed
- The Southern Education of a Jersey Girl by Jaime Primak Sullivan
- I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
