Many years ago I read the autobiography of Desi Arnaz. I found it fascinating. He explained how and why he ended up inventing the ability to have reruns of TV shows. Also, his grandfather was an executive with Bacardi rum in Cuba. He told about fleeing Cuba and then being poor in Miami.

You Could Make This Place Beautiful by poet Maggie Smith (who wrote “Good Bones”). I think it’s just coming out in paperback now.

I am rereading Angela’s Ashes - it’s just as good as I remembered!

Born a Crime, Becoming, Educated, finding me, just as I am. Hated crying in hmart. Liked taste by Stanley tucci.

I just read One Way Back by Christine Blasey Ford and found it interesting.

Anonymous wrote:Crying in HMart

I don’t know why, but this was a DNF for me.

I loved Born a Crime, Becoming, and Educated.

Anonymous wrote:Not sure what sorts of memoirs you mean but I loved Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. It is really long but an amazing read.

I made the terrible mistake of buying Shantaram in India. Dragging that doorstopper in my backpack is what finally convinced me to get a kindle. But a great read and a genuine page turner. Not sure I'd call it a strict memoir though.

For a real memoir, I liked Lit by Mary Karr.

Anonymous wrote:Crying in HMart

YES!

I also loved Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Glass Castle
fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science
Educated
I'm Glad My Mom Died
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
When Breath Becomes Air

Crying in HMart

Life by Keith Richards

Two of my favorites: Finding Me
By Viola Davis and Educated by Tara Westover.

Anonymous wrote:Not sure what sorts of memoirs you mean but I loved Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. It is really long but an amazing read.

Shantaram is a novel, not a "sort of" memoir at all.

OP, Matthew McConaughey's Greenlights is pretty good. As PP mentioned, Trevor Noah's Born a Crime is excellent. I recently read The Many Lives of Mama Love by Lara Love Hardin in one sitting. While I had some issues with its lack of editing, I'd also recommend How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair. Know my Name by Chanel Miller was a powerful read. If you want something that is simultaneously fluffy and deeply disturbing, read I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy.

I haven't read it but everyone in my book club raves about Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller.

Not sure what sorts of memoirs you mean but I loved Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. It is really long but an amazing read.

Trevor Noah

Any favorite memoirs/ autobiographies? Contemporary preferred.