Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found by Jennifer Lauck.

- somewhat along the same lines as The Glass Castle (i.e., dysfunctional childhood). I met her once at Olsson's years ago. Hard to match her with that childhood.

Liar's Club by Mary Karr
- someone else suggested Lit by her. I'll have to check that out.

Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
- seconding this suggestion

Brain on Fire. True story so a NY Post journalist who is thought to be going mad but actually has an auto-immune disease that was attacking her brain. Fascinating!

The kids are alright.

It's not the movie but a story about siblings from a solid well off family, the dad dies in a car accident and the mom dies from cancer. Kids are split in teens. Not uplifting but along the same lines.

Tweak and Baby Boy are both good as PP mentioned. We need to talk about Kevin is fiction but reads as nonfiction and very good.

Thank you OP for this topic. I too am addicted and have read many many mentioned. Great ones missing so far:

Scar Tissue (Anthony Kiedis)

Comeback (Claire and Mia Fontaine)

1185 Park Avenue ( Anne Roiphe)

High on Arrival (Mackenzie Phillips)

Anonymous wrote:Okay, at the risk of coming of as an idiot...what exactly is the difference between a memoir and an auto-biography?

Good question.

I think they are the same thing.

+1 for Life (Keith Richards)
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Life on the Mississippi

Okay, at the risk of coming of as an idiot...what exactly is the difference between a memoir and an auto-biography?

Anonymous wrote:Katherine Graham's Personal History.

+1

I loved Madame Secretary by Madeleine Albright

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is one of my favorites and it fits in with the other things you like, OP.

These are a bit old school but you will love these autobiographies by the late actor, David Niven:

The Moon's a Balloon

Bring on the Empty Horses

If you like jazz and old school music, Quincy Jones' autobiography is a surprisingly entertaining read. It's interspersed with commentary from people from his life. An ex-wife or two have a few pages at the beginning of different chapters where they give their two cents.

"Tweak" and "Baby Boy" are memoirs written by a drug addicted son and his co-dependent father. SO interesting to read the chain of events from one perspective and then the other.

I loved "Life" by Keith Richards. Great reading, especially if you like rock 'n' roll.

Running with scissors is very good and the follow up "Dry"