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    I’m looking for an autobiography or memoir written by someone who isn’t a celebrity, who overcame a hard life or unfortunate life situations.

    by DenMother8

    11 Comments

    1. This Isn’t About Me by Janice Galloway. Not only the greatest title ever for a memoir, it’s a painfully beautiful recollection of her childhood and everything she went through.

    2. NeighborhoodMother39 on

      Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
      Life is so good by George Dawson
      Having our say by Sarah Delany

    3. The_Last_of_the_Ket on

      Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave, a memoir of a gay man in Australia who lived during the AIDS epidemic 

    4. Educated by Tara Westover is about a woman who overcame a difficult childhood living in a family of survivalists.

    5. Intelligent-Pain3505 on

      Wavewalker by Suzanne Heywood. Her parents decided to sail around the world with her and her brother starting from when she was 7 years old. She dealt with a lot of bs and was parentified from a fairly young age.

    6. phantasm_shell on

      How to Say Babylon by Saifya Sinclair is my all time favourite memoir and would fit this! It’s in the same vein as Educated or The Glass Castle which are two other good ones.

    7. LawnGnomeFlamingo on

      Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough

      She was raised in a cult and is now somewhat estranged from her family. Granted she’s still struggling and coming to terms with her past, but she got. out.

    8. Agreeable_Moment_431 on

      Solito by Javier Zamora is a memoir about the authors journey from El Salvador to the US as a nine year old. Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls.

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