My final assignment for my AP language class is to pick a memoir from a list of memoirs picked out by my teacher. Then I have to create a ten minute presentation and write my own essay prompt and synthesis essay in response to it. Its a group project and I havent read any memoirs yet though I know of some Id like to read like Just Kids by Patti Smith and I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy. Anyway! Here is the full list I get to choose from:
* Angela's Ashes – Frank McCourt
* Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
* Black Boy – Richard Wright
* Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
* Bossypants – Tina Fey
* Boy Kings of Texas, The – Domingo Martinez
* Crying in H Mart – Michelle Zauner
* Dimestore: A Writer's Life – Lee Smith
* Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The – Jean-Dominique Bauby
* Educated – Tara Westover
* Finding Me – Viola Davis
* Glass Castle, The – Jeanette Walls
* Hillbilly Elegy – J.D. Vance
* I Never Had It Made – Jackie Robinson
* Infidel – Ayaan Hirisi Ali
* Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer
* Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson
* King of Grace: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Female Athlete, A – Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee
* Lab Girl – Hope Jahren
* Let's Pretend This Never Happened – Jenny Lawson
* Liar's Club, The – Mary Karr
* Little Black Dress – Rhoda Janzen
* Nobody's Son – Mark Slouka
* Men We Reaped, The – Jesmyn Ward
* Only Woman in the Room, The – Eileen Pollack
* Other Wes Moore, The – Wes Moore
* Priestdaddy: A Memoir – Patricia
* When Breath Becomes Air – Paul
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* Wild: From Lost to Found on the O Pacific Crest Trail – Cheryl Strayed
* Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
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