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The best can make you laugh, cry, think and yearn to explore new ideas. A memoir is defined as any book that comes from a collection of memories, from the French mémoire. Former first lady Michelle Obama 's memoir, "Becoming," could become the best-selling memoir in history… Discover the best Biographies & Memoirs in Best Sellers. If you’re curious about the history and evolution of the memoirs genre, I can’t recommend. by Ben Yagoda enough. The ones by McCullough on Truman and John Adams are not memoirs. I thought I was pretty well-read when it comes to this genre, but as I put together this list of 100 must-read memoirs, I realized the explosion of the genre of late has left me with a lot of catching up to do.
Find more of our coverage on this genre in: 100 Must-Read Biographies And Memoirs Of Remarkable Women, 5 Authors Who Changed Their Lives And Lived To Write About It. A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search of God in America by Jeff Chu (2013), I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb (2013), An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Col. Chris Hadfield (2013), Coming Clean by Kimberly Rae Miller (2013), Prairie Silence by Melanie Hoffert (2013), Out With It: How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice by Katherine Preston (2013), Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson (2014), Delancy: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage by Molly Wizenberg (2014), Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty (2014), Without You There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim (2014), The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran by Nazila Fathi (2014), Daring: My Passages by Gail Sheehy (2014), Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles Blow (2014), It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario (2015), Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein (2015), Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann (2015), My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem (2015), Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola (2015), Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015), All Who Go Do Not Return by Shulem Deen (2015), Love, Loss and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi (2016), When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (2016). Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. If you’re curious about the history and evolution of the memoirs genre, I can’t recommend Memoir: A History by Ben Yagoda enough. Find out which memoirs deserve a spot on your reading list. Our most popular products based on sales. With that, on to the list!
by. We're giving away a $250 gift card to Barnes and Noble! Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. The best memoirs throughout literary history have managed to both educate and entertain readers over the years. (And Other Concerns), House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir, Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles and So-Called Hospitality, Do You Dream in Color?
With that, on to the list! One could write a memoir of a person to whom one is or was very close as a spouse, or child. Find out which memoirs deserve a spot on your reading list. Insights from a Girl Without Sight, Does Jesus Really Love Me? After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt likened the enthusiasm for Obama's book, which seems well positioned to become the best-selling presidential memoir in history… Lots of famous memoirs become best-sellers, but most of us don't have time to read them all. We already know that despite Michelle Obama's late 2018 release of Becoming, the former first lady's revealing story quickly took the title of the best-selling book of the year.Now, the memoir has met a new milestone, and it's a pretty big deal. They have introduced characters as compelling as any work of fiction - the world is able to know Elie Wiesel, Anne Frank, David Sedaris, and Maya Angelou through the pages of their famous memoirs.