Memorable Memoirs

Updated March 20, 2024
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Educated : a memoir
Westover, Tara
Paper Book
THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER A BETWEEN THE COVERS PICK Selected as a book of the yearby AMAZON, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW YORK TIMES, ECONOMIST,NEW STATESMAN, VOGUE, IRISH TIMES,...
Why be happy when you could be normal?
Winterson, Jeanette
Paper Book
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents. The girl is supposed to grow up and be a missionary. Instead she falls in love with a woman. Disaster. Written when...
The spiral staircase : my climb out of darkness
Armstrong, Karen
Paper Book
'The Spiral Staircase' is a raw, intensely personal memoir of spiritual exploration from one of the world's great commentators on religious. It grapples with the issue of how we can be religious in the contemporary world, and the place and possibility of belief in the 21st-century.
The spiral staircase : my climb out of darkness
Armstrong, Karen
Paper Book
'The Spiral Staircase' is a raw, intensely personal memoir of spiritual exploration from one of the world's great commentators on religious. It grapples with the issue of how we can be religious in the contemporary world, and the place and possibility of belief in the 21st-century.
Educated : a memoir
Westover, Tara
Paper Book
THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER A BETWEEN THE COVERS PICK Selected as a book of the yearby AMAZON, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW YORK TIMES, ECONOMIST,NEW STATESMAN, VOGUE, IRISH TIMES,...
Between the world and me
Coates, Ta-Nehisi.
Ebook
Winner, Kirkus Prize for Non-Fiction, 2015 In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race and America has remained a brutally simple one, written on flesh: it is the story of the black body, exploited to create the...
Go tell it on the mountain
Baldwin, James
Paper Book
James Baldwin's electrifying first novel. 'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.' Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is...
Between the world and me
Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Ebook
Winner, Kirkus Prize for Non-Fiction, 2015 In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race and America has remained a brutally simple one, written on flesh: it is the story of the black body, exploited to create the...
Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
Noah, Trevor
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE The compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. One of the comedy world's brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a...
Born a crime
Noah, Trevor
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE The compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. One of the comedy world's brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a...
Fun home : a family tragicomic
Bechdel, Alison
Paper Book
DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical. 'A sapphic graphic treat' The Times A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic...
Angela's ashes : a memoir
McCourt, Frank.
Paper Book
Stunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums - too many children, too...
Angela's ashes
McCourt, Frank.
Paper Book
Stunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums - too many children, too...
When they call you a terrorist : a Black Lives Matter memoir
Khan-Cullors, Patrisse
Paper Book
The emotional and powerful story of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and how the movement was born.
What I talk about when I talk about running : a memoir
Murakami, Haruki
Paper Book
'Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional' A compelling meditation on the power of running and a fascinating insight into the life of this internationally bestselling writer. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing,...
What my bones know : a memoir of healing from complex trauma
Foo, Stephanie
Audiobook
Between two kingdoms : a memoir of a life interrupted
Jaouad, Suleika
Paper Book
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A propulsive, soulful story of mourning and gratitude - and an intimate portrait of one woman's sojourn in the wilderness between life and death.' TARA WESTOVER, author of Educated __________

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