Possible Memoir Choices



Nonfiction Choices

| |The Famous |

|Author |Title |

|Mitch Albom |Tuesdays With Morrie |

|Maya Angelou |I know why the caged bird sings |

|Carol Burnett |One More Time |

|Beverly Cleary |A Girl From Yamhill |

|Roald Dahl |Going Solo |

|Isak Dinesen |Out of Africa |

|Cary Elwes |As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride |

|Justine Ezarik |IJustine |

|Robin Lee Graham |Dove |

|Laura Hillenbrand |Seabiscuit |

|Helen Keller |The Story of My Life |

|Stephen King |On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft |

|Elizabeth Letts |The Eighty Dollar Champion |

|Frank McCourt |Teacher Man: A Memoir |

|Frank McCourt |Tis |

|Marja Mills |The Mockingbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee |

|George Ratterman |Confessions of a Gypsy Quarterback |

|Anthony Robles |Unstoppable: From Underdog to Undefeated: How I Became a Champion |

|Alice Sebold |Lucky |

|Tim Tebow |Shaken |

| |Historical |

|Author |Title |

| | |

|Stephen Ambrose |Crazy Horse and Custer |

|Stephen Ambrose |Undaunted Courage |

|Neal Bascomb |The Nazi Hunters |

|Truman Capote |In Cold Blood |

|Forrest Carter |Watch for Me on the Mountain |

|Dave Cullen |Columbine |

|Duncan Hamilton |For the Glory: Eric Liddell's Journey from Olympic Champion to Modern Martyr |

|Erik Larson |The Devil in the White City |

|Margot Lee Shetterly |Hidden Figures |

| |Science |

|Author |Title |

|William Bass |Beyond the Body Farm |

|William Bass |Death’s Acre |

|Stephen Buchmann |Honey Bees: Letters From the Hive |

|Jared Diamond, PhD |Germs, Guns, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies |

|Barbara Ehrenreich |Nickel and Dimed |

|Hope Jahren |Lab Girl |

|William Kamkwamba |The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind |

|Rebecca Skloot |The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks |

| |Military |

|Author |Title |

|Ann Bausum |Sergeant Stubby |

|Robert M. Edsel |The Monuments Men |

|Ulysses S. Grant |Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant |

|Laura Hillenbrand |Unbroken |

|Robin Hutton |Sergeant Reckless: America’s War Horse |

|Siegfried Knappe |Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949 |

|Chris Kyle |American Sniper |

|Tim O’Brien |The Things They Carried |

|Maj. Gen. Sid Shachnow |Hope and Honor |

|John Shaw |A Higher Call |

|Anthony Swofford |Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles |

| |Holocausts |

|Author |Title |

|Diane Ackerman |The Zookeeper’s Wife |

|Edith H. Beer |The Nazi Officer’s Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust |

|Corrie Ten Boom |The Hiding Place |

|Helen Fremont |After Long Silence |

|Miep Gies |Anne Frank Remembered |

|Michael Hirsch |The Liberators: America’s Witnesses to the Holocaust |

|Benjamin Jacobs |The Dentist of Auschwitz |

|Erik Larsen |In the Garden of Beasts |

|Nechama Tec |Defiance |

| |Journeys of Discovery |

|Author |Title |

|Saroo Brierly |A Long Way Home |

|Bill Bryson |A Walk In The Woods |

|Naoki Higashida |The Reason I Jump |

|Wes Moore |The Other Wes Moore |

|Sean Prentiss |Finding Abbey |

|Cheryl Strayed |Wild |

|Maya Van Wagenen |Popular- A Memoir |

| |Family Relationships |

|Alexandra Fuller |Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood |

|Lucy Grealy |Autobiography of a Face |

|Christopher Hitchens |Hons and Rebels |

|Maxine Hong Kingston |The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts |

|James McBride |The Color of Water |

|Rachel Simon |Riding the Bus with my Sister |

|J. D. Vance |Hillbilly Elegy |

|Jeanette Walls |The Glass Castle |

| |Stories of Persecution |

|Author |Title |

|Nujood Ali |I Am Nujood: Age 10 and Divorced |

|Ishmael Beah |a long way gone |

|Francis Bok |Escape From Slavery |

|Latifa |My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban |

|Hyesonseo Lee |The Girl With Seven Names: Escape From North Korea |

|Mark Mathabane |Kaffir Boy |

|Anchee Min |Red Azalea |

|Azadeh Moaveni |Lipstick Jihad |

|Kien Nguyen |The Unwanted |

|Loung Ung |First They Killed My Father |

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