Other Suggested Memoirs

Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

Caldwell, Gail. Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship. New York: Random House, 2010.

Capote, Truman. Other Voices, Other Rooms. New York: Signet, 1948.

Childs, Craig. The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert. New York: Back Bay Books, 2001.

Didion, Joan. Blue Nights. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

Dillard, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. New York: Perennial, 1988.

———. Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters. New York: Harper Perennial, 1992.

———. Tickets for a Prayer Wheel: Poems. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.

———. The Writing Life. New York: Harper, 1990.

Doig, Ivan. This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.

Doty, Mark. Dog Years: A Memoir. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.

Fox, Paula. Borrowed Finery: A Memoir. New York: Picador, 2001.

Fuller, Alexandra. Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood. New York: Random House, 2011.

Grogan, John. Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog. New York: Harper Perennial, 2008.

Howard, Blanche, and Allison Howard, eds. A Memoir of Friendship: The Letters between Carol Shields and Blanche Howard. Toronto: Viking Canada, 2007.

Karr, Mary. Lit: A Memoir. New York: HarperCollins, 2009.

Kennedy, Edward. True Compass: A Memoir. New York: Twelve, 2009.

Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts. New York: Vintage, 1977.

Klein, Gerda Weissman. All but My Life. New York: Hill & Wang, 1957.

Knapp, Caroline. Drinking: A Love Story. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1996.

Koller, Alice. An Unknown Woman. New York: Bantam, 1991.

Lagnado, Lucette. The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World. New York: Harper Perennial, 2008.

Laurence, Margaret. The Prophet’s Camel Bell. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1963.

Levi, Primo. The Periodic Table. New York: Everyman’s Library, 1996.

Moore, Lucy. Into the Canyon: Seven Years in Navajo Country. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004.

Morris, Mary. Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone. New York: Picador, 1988.

Nabokov, Vladimir. Speak Memory: An Autobiography Revisited. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

Obama, Barack. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. New York: Crown, 2007.

Pamuk, Orhan. Istanbul: Memories and the City. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

Perillo, Lucia. I’ve Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature. Dallas: Trinity University Press, 2009.

Rodriguez, Richard. Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez. New York: Bantam, 1983.

Rudner, Ruth. Ask Now the Beasts: Our Kinship with Animals Wild and Domestic. New York: Marlowe, 2006.

Saks, Elyn R. The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey through Madness. New York: Hyperion, 2007.

Scheeres, Julia. Jesus Land: A Memoir. New York: Counterpoint, 2006.

Sedaris, David. Me Talk Pretty One Day. New York: Little, Brown, 2000.

Silko, Leslie Marmon. Storyteller. New York: Little, Brown, 1981.

Skloot, Floyd. In the Shadow of Memory. Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, 2004.

Smith, Annick. Homestead. Minneapolis: Milkweed, 1995.

Spark, Debra. Curious Attractions: Essays on Fiction Writing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005.

Steinbeck, John. Travels with Charley: In Search of America. New York: Penguin, 1962.

Styron, William. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness. New York: Vintage, 1990.

Taylor, Jacqueline. Waiting for the Call: From Preacher’s Daughter to Lesbian Mom. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007.

Taylor, Jill Bolte. My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey. New York: Plume, 2009.

Wiesel, Elie. Night. Rev. ed. New York: Hill & Wang, 2006.