Anonymous
Post 06/23/2025 18:12     Subject: Re:please recommend a biography or memoir for my book group
The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felon - Annabelle Tometich
Anonymous
Post 06/23/2025 18:11     Subject: please recommend a biography or memoir for my book group
Anonymous wrote:Okay this one is really off the wall but is honestly one of the best books I’ve read, and is incredibly insightful about Russia and Russians in the 20th century, in addition to being just a fun read:
Mastering the Art of soviet cooking: a memoir of food and longing by Anya von Bremzen


Seconding this book, it’s an amazing, riveting read
Anonymous
Post 06/23/2025 17:57     Subject: please recommend a biography or memoir for my book group
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life


Ruth Franklin
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 22:42     Subject: please recommend a biography or memoir for my book group
Bloodlines / Tracy Yokas
Educated
Glass Castle
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 22:41     Subject: please recommend a biography or memoir for my book group
Wifedom by Anna Funder. The story of Eileen Blair, the wife of George Orwell. Great for book clubs. Some love it, some don’t like it.
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 22:21     Subject: please recommend a biography or memoir for my book group
Anonymous wrote:Much less highbrow but I enjoyed rob Lowe’s stories I tell my friends.


I loved this one.
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 20:02     Subject: please recommend a biography or memoir for my book group
Anonymous wrote:Okay this one is really off the wall but is honestly one of the best books I’ve read, and is incredibly insightful about Russia and Russians in the 20th century, in addition to being just a fun read:
Mastering the Art of soviet cooking: a memoir of food and longing by Anya von Bremzen


This is a great book! I lived in Ukraine and it was also really insightful about life there, given shared history/culture.
Anonymous
Post 06/21/2025 16:08     Subject: please recommend a biography or memoir for my book group
Much less highbrow but I enjoyed rob Lowe’s stories I tell my friends.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2025 10:43     Subject: please recommend a biography or memoir for my book group
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Katharine Graham's Personal History is one of my favorite books of all time.


Was about to nominate this one.
I know he's controversial, but since I didn't see the movie, I enjoyed Hillbilly Elegies. It's an insider's record of Appalachian upbringing.


Demon Copperhead, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, and The Giver of Stars are all books I gave 5 stars to. They are also about Appalachia, but fiction.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 23:32     Subject: please recommend a biography or memoir for my book group
Anonymous wrote:Katharine Graham's Personal History is one of my favorite books of all time.


Was about to nominate this one.
I know he's controversial, but since I didn't see the movie, I enjoyed Hillbilly Elegies. It's an insider's record of Appalachian upbringing.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 22:15     Subject: please recommend a biography or memoir for my book group
Hello Molly by Molly Shannon
Elizabeth Vargas memoir about addiction
Kerry Washington’s memoir
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 22:14     Subject: please recommend a biography or memoir for my book group
Anonymous wrote:Really enjoyed "Finding Me", Viola Davis's memoir.


I came to recommend this.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 22:11     Subject: please recommend a biography or memoir for my book group
Okay this one is really off the wall but is honestly one of the best books I’ve read, and is incredibly insightful about Russia and Russians in the 20th century, in addition to being just a fun read:
Mastering the Art of soviet cooking: a memoir of food and longing by Anya von Bremzen
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 20:54     Subject: please recommend a biography or memoir for my book group
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah


Yes. The audiobook is best. He reads it himself. Amazing.


I read this but didn’t listen to the audiobook. It was great.

I did listen to Viola Davis’s book, and she is the narrator for that. Highly recommend!
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 14:25     Subject: please recommend a biography or memoir for my book group
A Very Punchable Face
by Colin Jost

Surrender
by Bono

Kitchen Confidential
by Anthony Bourdain

The Storyteller
by Dave Grohl

I'm just starting it, so can't say yet if I like it, but other people certainly seem to:
Just Kids
by Patti Smith