100 Must-Read Memoirs by Bookriot

100 Obras 381,048 Libros 12,394 Reseñas ½ 4.0
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One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing (2011) por Diane Ackerman
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War (2015) por Lynsey Addario
Yo sé por qué canta el pájaro enjaulado (Spanish Edition) (1969) por Maya Angelou
La escafandra y la mariposa (1997) por Jean-Dominique Bauby
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (2007) por Ishmael Beah
Fire Shut Up in My Bones (2014) por Charles M. Blow
Confesiones de un chef (2000) por Anthony Bourdain
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders (2003) por Jennifer Finney Boylan
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir (2015) por Carrie Brownstein
One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life; A Story of Race and Family Secrets (2007) por Bliss Broyard
Dry: A Memoir (2003) por Augusten Burroughs
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (2012) por Susannah Cahalan
Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship (2010) por Gail Caldwell
Cisnes salvajes (1991) por Jung Chang
Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America (2013) por Jeff Chu
Between the World and Me (2015) por Ta-Nehisi Coates
This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone (2011) por Melissa Coleman
All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir (2015) por Shulem Deen
El año del pensamiento mágico (2005) por Joan Didion
Memorias de África (1937) por Isak Dinesen
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory (2014) por Caitlin Doughty
Life Itself: A Memoir (2011) por Roger Ebert
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000) por Dave Eggers
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman (2006) por Nora Ephron
The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran (2014) por Nazila Fathi
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School (2007) por Kathleen Flinn
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (2001) por Alexandra Fuller
Come, reza, ama (2006) por Elizabeth Gilbert
La chica del grupo (2015) por Kim Gordon
Autobiography of a Face (1994) por Lucy Grealy
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything (2013) por Chris Hadfield
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef (2011) por Gabrielle Hamilton
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget (2015) por Sarah Hepola
Prairie Silence: A Memoir (2013) por Melanie Hoffert
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (1942) por Zora Neale Hurston
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats (2012) por Kristen Iversen
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home (2009) por Rhoda Janzen
Negroland: A Memoir (2015) por Margo Jefferson
When Breath Becomes Air (2016) por Paul Kalanithi
Is Everyone Hanging Out without Me? (And Other Concerns) (2011) por Mindy Kaling
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (2009) por William Kamkwamba
The Liars' Club: A Memoir (1995) por Mary Karr
Girl, Interrupted (1993) por Susanna Kaysen
Orange is the new black (2013) por Piper Kerman
The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir (2010) por Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite (2014) por Suki Kim
Animal, vegetal, milagro : un año de comida natural (2007) por Barbara Kingsolver
Mientras escribo (2000) por Stephen King
La Mujer guerrera: memorias de una adolescente entre fantasmas (1975) por Maxine Hong Kingston
Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir (2016) por Padma Lakshmi
Let's Pretend This Never Happened (2012) por Jenny Lawson
H de halcón (2014) por Helen Macdonald
Las hojas que caen (1997) por Adeline Yen Mah
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (1994) por Nelson Mandela
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs (2015) por Sally Mann
Al oeste con la noche (1942) por Beryl Markham
What It Is Like to Go to War (2011) por Karl Marlantes
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (1995) por James McBride
Las cenizas de Ángela (1996) por Frank McCourt
Coming Clean: A Memoir (2013) por Kimberly Rae Miller
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran (2005) por Azadeh Moaveni
Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968) por Anne Moody
Conundrum (1974) por Jan Morris
De qué hablo cuando hablo de correr (2007) por Haruki Murakami
Leer "Lolita" en Teherán (2003) por Azar Nafisi
Los sueños de mi padre: Una historia de raza y herencia (1995) por Barack Obama
The Long Goodbye: A memoir (2011) por Meghan O'Rourke
Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback (1966) por George Plimpton
Out With It: How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice (2013) por Katherine Preston
Poor Your Soul (2016) por Mira Ptacin
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise (2005) por Ruth Reichl
Hiroshima in the Morning (2010) por Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's (2007) por John Elder Robison
Desayuno en familia (2010) por Roger Rosenblatt
Do You Dream in Color? Insights From a Girl Without Sight (2012) por Laurie Rubin
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey through Madness (2007) por Elyn R. Saks
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading (2011) por Nina Sankovitch
Jesus Land: A Memoir (2005) por Julia Scheeres
Lucky (1999) por Alice Sebold
Mi vida en Rose (2000) por David Sedaris
Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America (1995) por Carolyn See
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East (2012) por Anthony Shadid
Devotion: A Memoir (2010) por Dani Shapiro
Daring: My Passages: A Memoir (1988) por Gail Sheehy
Éramos unos niños (2010) por Patti Smith
My Life on the Road (2015) por Gloria Steinem
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (2014) por Bryan Stevenson
Salvaje (2012) por Cheryl Strayed
Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality (2012) por Jacob Tomsky
Se lo llevaron: recuerdos de una niña de Camboya (2001) por Loung Ung
Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin (1988) por Norah Vincent
El castillo de cristal (2005) por Jeannette Walls
Men We Reaped (2013) por Jesmyn Ward
Lonely: A Memoir (2010) por Emily White
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir (2010) por Neil White
La noche (1956) por Elie Wiesel
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011) por Jeanette Winterson
Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage (2014) por Molly Wizenberg
I'm Down: A Memoir (2009) por Mishna Wolff
Malala, mi historia (Spanish Edition) (2013) por Malala Yousafzai

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