Good memoir like The Glass Castle or Educated?

[Anonymous]

I liked Blood Bones and Butter

[Anonymous]

Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Liar's Club / Mary Karr
Men We Reaped / Jesmyn Ward
Travels With Lizbeth / Lars Eighner
Just Kids / Patti Smith
The Year of Magical Thinking / Joan Didion

These are great. Also second Angela's Ashes.
Another good one: Blackbird by Jennifer Lauck.

[Anonymous]

A lot of these are pretty depressing.

[Anonymous]

Running with Scissors and other books by Augustin Burroughs

[Anonymous]

There Is Nothing for You Here by Fiona Hill (depressing title but good book)

[Anonymous]

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
A Primate's Lament by Robert Sapolsky
Do No Harm by Henry Marsh

These are all well written, literary memoirs by scientists/doctors.

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Anonymous wrote:Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
A Primate's Lament by Robert Sapolsky
Do No Harm by Henry Marsh

These are all well written, literary memoirs by scientists/doctors.

Lab Girl is great. At first, I didn't even realize it was nonfiction.

[Anonymous]

UnCULTured by Daniella Mestyanek Young

[Anonymous]

An oldie but a goodie, Personal History, an autobiography of Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham.

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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

[Anonymous]

Try Boy and Going Solo by Ronald Dahl for something with a touch of humor despite tragedy.

[Anonymous]

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.

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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.

Also fiction but memoir-like is Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso. The author a poet, and it reads as a beautiful (and often sad) series of events in the life of a girl growing up in MA in the 80s.

[Anonymous]

Invisible Child