I am looking to read a memoir that is so interesting that i read while eating, shitting, washing the dishes, on the train, and damn near have the desire to sneak into the bathroom at work to go and read a few pages. I have been listening to the podcasts Celebrity memoir book club where they take you through memoirs of celebs and i am surprisingly really into it. I want to read some interesting memoirs but not necessarily just celebrity memoirs, although I’m open to that too. I’m looking for mainly female memoirs(I’m open to male memoirs too, only if they are REALLY interesting). I want to read of a person who has lived a FULLLLL life. The easy thing to do would be to google people that i am interested in and see if they have memoirs but i want to read of people that i have never even heard of before or people that i might have heard of but never thought to look into them. Please give me some suggestions!
Note: no memoirs with tales of EXTREME trauma.
by Toriesubs
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The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute To His White Mother by James McBride. The chapters alternate between his early childhood and his mother’s (Ruth) life.
https://www.jamesmcbride.com/the-color-of-water/
I love The Art of Eating by MFK Fisher. It’s part memoir, part travelogue, part kitchen tips and tricks, she was an incredible woman who essentially invented the modern food essay.
I think you need to read Lord of Misrule: The Autobiography of Christopher Lee.
That man lived some life! Stranger than most fiction.
The Glass Castle.
My personal favourites are:
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo
Down the Drain by Julia Fox
Paris by Paris Hilton
First they Killed My Father by Loung Ung
Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Janette McCurdy
Jungle by Yossi Ghinsberg
Broken Horses – Brandi Carlile
No Windows and the Recurring Dream – Ani DiFranco
High School – Tegan and Sara
I’m Glad My Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy