I love memoirs, but I tend to prefer those that focus on an unusual career or strange/unique upbringing, and it seems like those can be harder to find than celebrity stories. A couple I've enjoyed over the last year or two are:
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A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
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Unfollowed by Megan Phelps-Roper
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Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant by Stephanie Kiser
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Upstairs at the White House by J. B. West (this one was on my Bookbub bargain email this week which is what inspired this question!)
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Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner
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Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs by Elissa Wall
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This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
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A Thousand Miles to Freedom by Eunsun Kim
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
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The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
Anyone have any favorites in this type of genre they'd like to bring more attention to?
by rainblowfish_
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angela’s ashes
Tibet Through the Red Box by Peter Sis
*Life So Far: A Memoir* by Betty Friedan. Friedan was the mother of the US feminist movements in the 1960s. She wrote *The Feminine Mystique*.