: Adventures of a Curious Character, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities, Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1), Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, The Girl Behind the Painted Smile: My battle with the bottle, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1), Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream. West With the Night by Beryl Markham (1942), Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston (1948), Night by Elie Wiesel (1960) — Surviving the Holocaust, Paper Lion: Confession of a Last-String Quarterback by George Plimpton (1966), Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody (1968), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969), The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston (1976), Wild Swan: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang (1991), Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (1993), Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy (1994), The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride (1995), A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (2000), Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain (2000), On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King (2000), Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (2000), Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela (2000), First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung (2000), Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller (2001), She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan (2003), Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (2003), Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni (2005), The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (2005), The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005), Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl (2005), Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (2006), I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron (2006), A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (2007), Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver (2007), Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah (1997), The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks (2007), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Jean-Dominique Bauby (2007), The Sharper the Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter and Tears at the World’s Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn (2007), Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (2007), Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s by John Elder Robison (2007), One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life — A Story of Race and Family Secrets by Bliss Broyard (2007), What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (2008), Voluntary Madness by Norah Vincent (2008), In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White (2009), Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen (2009), The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers by Josh Kilmer-Purcell (2010), Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship by Gail Caldwell (2010), The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer (2010), Lonely: Learning to Live with Solitude by Emily White (2010), Hiroshima in the Morning by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (2010), Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman (2010), Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton (2011), The Long Goodbye by Meghan O’Rourke (2011), This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone by Melissa Coleman (2011), Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch (2011), What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes (2011), Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

We began with the best debut novels, the best short story collections, and the best poetry collections of the decade, and we have now reached the fourth list in our series: the best memoirs published in English between 2010 and 2019 (not for nothing: 2015 was a very good year for memoirs). Updated hourly. 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. list created July 13th, 2008

Insights from a Girl Without Sight by Laurie Rubin (2012), Does Jesus Really Love Me? There's a problem loading this menu right now. Lists are re-scored approximately every 5 minutes. With that, on to the list! With that, on to the list! Although the memoir can trace history back as far as St. Augustine and his Confessions, I decided to focus this list around contemporary books – those written within the last 100 years, with a pretty heavy skew towards those from the last 20 years.. Our most popular products based on sales. A great memoir takes a reader into a different world, bringing them along as the author faces struggles big and small. Here are the best non-fiction books, including celebrity memoirs, investigations into the royal family, and more, to publish in 2020. A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search of God in America, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, Out With It: How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Delancy: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory, Without You There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite, The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran, It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget. Find the top 100 most popular items in Amazon STRING(audible_human_store_name) Best Sellers. (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling (2011), Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Former first lady Michelle Obama 's memoir, "Becoming," could become the best-selling memoir in history… Michelle Obama's letter to her younger self 09:21. The ones by McCullough on Truman and John Adams are not memoirs. Lots of famous memoirs become best-sellers, but most of us don't have time to read them all. CULTURE; Keep an eye on your inbox. 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. Although the memoir can trace history back as far as St. Augustine and his. by Jeanette Winterson (2011), House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid (2012), Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (2012), Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen (2012), One Hundred Names for Love by Diane Ackerman (2012), Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan (2012), Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson (2012), Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles and So-Called Hospitality by Jacob Tomsky (2012), Do You Dream in Color? 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. If you’re curious about the history and evolution of the memoirs genre, I can’t recommend Memoir: A History by Ben Yagoda enough. Feynman! Paper Lion: Confession of a Last-String Quarterback, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran, Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, The Sharper the Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter and Tears at the World’s Most Famous Cooking School, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s, One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life — A Story of Race and Family Secrets, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home, The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers, Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope, Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone, Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Ben Yagoda enough. We will do this, of course, by means of a variety of lists. On March 26 Bertelsmann—the parent company of publisher Penguin Random House—announced that nearly 10 million copies of Becoming have … There, she meets several characters, one of whom is a sociopath named Lisa, played by Angelina Jolie in the movie version. , I decided to focus this list around contemporary books – those written within the last 100 years, with a pretty heavy skew towards those from the last 20 years. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1), Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1), Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools: Tuck into a Slice of Andalucían Life (Old Fools, #1), All Creatures Great and Small: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1), Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time, Mary Edwards Walker: America's Only Female Medal of Honor Recipient, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, Free Country: A Penniless Adventure the Length of Britain, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, Two Old Fools on a Camel: From Spain to Bahrain and Back Again (Old Fools, #3), The Complete Persepolis (Persepolis, #1-4), I Grew My Boobs in China (Sihpromatum #1), Encounters and Dialogues with Martin Heidegger, 1929-1976, Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1), The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption, The Lullaby Illusion: A Journey of Awakening, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Alongside her policy achievements, she's made a sizable impact on pop culture—including penning one of the best-selling memoirs ever published.