Good memoir like The Glass Castle or Educated?

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Anonymous wrote:This is my personal fave genre so here are a few that I’ve listened to and really enjoyed. Fwiw the only type of book I can listen to is memoir and I believe all of these save one were read by the author:

Rabbit by Patricia Williams
Ugly Cry by Danielle Henderson
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Misfit by Gary Gulman
In pieces by Sally Field
Maid by Stephanie Land
May I Have your Attention by James Corden
Acid for the Children by Flea

I'd add Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe. I listened to it years ago on audio (Lowe narrates) and was struck by how thoughtful it was. Not the usual superficial celebrity memoir. The book is a collection of essays, but they hang together as a memoir. I think there's a second book, too. If I remember, I liked all of the essays in the first but only a few in the second. (Though the second book included an eassay about his oldest son going off to college, which was one of the most poignant pieces of writing about parenthood I've ever read/heard.)

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Has anyone read "Ladyparts," by Deborah Copaken? I have it on my list but haven't gotten to it yet.

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The Astor Orphan by Alexandra Aldrich
Come Back by Claire Fontaine

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Seconding Leaving isn’t the hardest thing. Recommending Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight. It’s about growing up abroad with a dysfunctional family.

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Anonymous wrote:Running with Scissors and other books by Augustin Burroughs

These are SO good!

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Anonymous wrote:Seconding Leaving isn’t the hardest thing. Recommending Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight. It’s about growing up abroad with a dysfunctional family.

Such a good book.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I highly highly recommend The Great Santini by Pat Conroy (RIP). It’s fictionalized, but based on his life. Reads like a memoir.

This book is phenomenal. You're so right - it's very much like a memoir.

Very good book. I loved Pat Conroy.

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Solito by Javier Zamora. It’s so freaking good!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is my personal fave genre so here are a few that I’ve listened to and really enjoyed. Fwiw the only type of book I can listen to is memoir and I believe all of these save one were read by the author:

Rabbit by Patricia Williams
Ugly Cry by Danielle Henderson
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Misfit by Gary Gulman
In pieces by Sally Field
Maid by Stephanie Land
May I Have your Attention by James Corden
Acid for the Children by Flea

I'd add Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe. I listened to it years ago on audio (Lowe narrates) and was struck by how thoughtful it was. Not the usual superficial celebrity memoir. The book is a collection of essays, but they hang together as a memoir. I think there's a second book, too. If I remember, I liked all of the essays in the first but only a few in the second. (Though the second book included an eassay about his oldest son going off to college, which was one of the most poignant pieces of writing about parenthood I've ever read/heard.)

+1 that was a great memoir

I'll add The Forgotten Girls by Monica Potts, which I read recently. It's part memoir, part sociology of the difficulties of girls in particular escaping poverty. The memoir focuses on the comparison of her life trajectory to her childhood best friend's. The author had help to get to a good college and on to a professional career while the friend struggled, got into drugs, had children early, abusive partners etc.

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Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood. Dysfunctional family but really funny. The audiobook is great--it's narrated by the author.

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Anonymous wrote:Solito by Javier Zamora. It’s so freaking good!

I just finished this! Very good and amazing story!

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Oh the Glory of it All! by Sean Wisley. It's a memoir about his very very rich family in San Francisco and they their various divorces and remarriages. It's so funny and well-done.

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I haven’t read it but it appears to be similar. The Pale-Faced Lie by David Crow.

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In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado is excellent. It's about domestic abuse in lesbian relationships.

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Anonymous wrote:In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado is excellent. It's about domestic abuse in lesbian relationships.

Ugh, no.