Memoir
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First-person testimony — the lived register. Books where someone tells the truth about a life and trusts you to feel it: childhood and its escapes, illness and its clarity, the road and what it teaches. Read for the experiential frame, not the bibliographic one.
- Educated91Tara Westover · 2018
- Wild85Cheryl Strayed · 2012
- When Breath Becomes Air86Paul Kalanithi · 2016
- Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood81Trevor Noah · 2016
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir89Jeannette Walls · 2005
- The Diary of a Young Girl (The Definitive Edition)81Anne Frank · 1947
- Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body89Roxane Gay · 2017
- Crazy Brave92Joy Harjo · 2012
- H Is for Hawk59Helen Macdonald · 2014
- The Argonauts92Maggie Nelson · 2015
- My Life on the Road81Gloria Steinem · 2015
- The Story of My Experiments with Truth (An Autobiography)82M. K. Gandhi (trans. Mahadev Desai) · 1927
- Open: An Autobiography59Andre Agassi · 2009
- Speak, Memory86Vladimir Nabokov · 1966
- Confessions69Augustine of Hippo · 397