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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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
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I'd add [b]Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe. [/b] 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.) [/quote]

+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. [/quote]

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