Possible Memoir Choices
Possible Memoir Choices
The FamousAuthor / Title of Memoir
Helen Keller / The Story of My Life
Maya Angelou / I know why the caged bird sings
Alice Sebold / Lucky
Robin Lee Graham / Dove
Roald Dahl / Going Solo
Carol Burnett / One More Time
Isak Dinesen / Out of Africa
Cary Elwes / As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
Beverly Cleary / A Girl From Yamhill
Frank McCourt / Teacher Man: A Memoir
Frank McCourt / Tis
Stephen King / On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Marja Mills / The Mockingbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee
Tim Tebow / Shaken
George Ratterman / Confessions of a Gypsy Quarterback
Justine Ezarik / IJustine
Science
Author / Title of Memoir
Hope Jahren / Lab Girl
Barbara Ehrenreich / Nickel and Dimed
Military
Author / Title of Memoir
Maj. Gen. Sid Shachnow / Hope and Honor
John Shaw / A Higher Call
Anthony Swofford / Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
Ulysses S. Grant / Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
Chris Kyle / American Sniper
Holocausts
Author / Title of Memoir
Benjamin Jacobs / The Dentist of Auschwitz
Miep Gies / Anne Frank Remembered
Corrie Ten Boom / The Hiding Place
Journeys of Discovery
Author / Title of Memoir
Maxine Hong Kingston / The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Bill Bryson / A Walk In The Woods
James McBride / The Color of Water
Rachel Simon / Riding the Bus with my Sister
Helen Fremont / After Long Silence
Alexandra Fuller / Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Lucy Grealy / Autobiography of a Face
Saroo Brierly / A Long Way Home
Naoki Higashida / The Reason I Jump
Anthony Robles / Unstoppable: From Underdog to Undefeated: How I Became a Champion
Cheryl Strayed / Wild
Mitch Albom / Tuesdays With Morrie
Maya Van Wagenen / Popular- A Memoir
Wes Moore / The Other Wes Moore
Sean Prentiss / Finding Abbey
Stories of Persecution
Author / Title of Memoir
Azadeh Moaveni / Lipstick Jihad
Francis Bok / Escape From Slavery
Ishmael Beah / a long way gone
Anchee Min / Red Azalea
Latifa / My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban
Nujood Ali / I Am Nujood: Age 10 and Divorced
Kien Nguyen / The Unwanted
Loung Ung / First They Killed My Father
Mark Mathabane / Kaffir Boy
Hyesonseo Lee / The Girl With Seven Names: Escape From North Korea