Someone who's lived a thousand lives in one. Maybe even talk about a subject in which most people don't think about often.
I'm not really interested in reading about celebrities or people who have made fame or a book about someone who's travelled a million places but just someone ordinary who's been on a wild ride in life with many stories to tell. It could be someone who grew up in war and made it through, someone who was a spy, someone who was in a cult, someone who was trafficked and made it out, I dunno, I want all topics, please! 🙂
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**I Was a Spy!** – Marthe McKenna (1932). The riveting, fast-paced memoir of a Belgian woman who became a spy for the Allies during WWI.
**Down and Out in Paris and London** – George Orwell (1933). Memoir of being poor – very poor – in Paris and London. It’s shocking from a modern perspective to see how tough poverty was – Orwell at one point goes 60 hours without food, and sells all his spare clothes, …
**Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History** – Lea Ypi (2022). Amazing memoir about growing up in Albania during the transition from communist dictatorship to free market society.
**Manchild in the Promised Land** – Claude Brown (1965). A memoir of the author’s childhood and young adult years in Harlem in the 1940s and 1950s, involving early and intense forays into crime, “street life,” detention centers, and more.
Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre (Virginia’s life was never easy even as a child and into her teen years, then she met Epstein and found herself in the world of human trafficking. She also discusses how she escaped that life, her life after and her advocacy.)
* My suggestion definitely comes with a trigger warning. Do not go into this book blindly not knowing what it is about; even if you go into this book knowing what the book is about it is a tough read.
Barbarian Days A Surfing Life – William Finnegan. I’m not a surfer and never had any particular interest in it but this was fantastic – Pulitzer Prize.