I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou, Bad Blood: A Memoir by Lorna Sage, An Education by Lynn Barber. Would also recommend Heartburn by Nora Ephron (an autobiographical novel) and When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr plus the other two novels in her trilogy inspired on her real life experiences being a refugee from Hitler’s Germany.
Also good is: In My Father’s Country Someone recommended: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress – I read the whole book (I won’t if I don’t like it) but found it a bit meh. Just started What Happened and so far, interesting
@Sally I couldn’t get through Angela’s Ashes – so sad. I could not help but think that the parents in The Glass Castle were mentally … challenged – is that the word? I don’t know, maybe disturbed. To think they had to force the mother to work to buy food, and she cried that she did. Just so strange.
Sylvia Plath… her diaries are great.
Diana Athill Somewhere Towards the End
I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou, Bad Blood: A Memoir by Lorna Sage, An Education by Lynn Barber. Would also recommend Heartburn by Nora Ephron (an autobiographical novel) and When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr plus the other two novels in her trilogy inspired on her real life experiences being a refugee from Hitler’s Germany.
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom is an amazing book.
The 2 memoirs by Elizabeth Edwards are awesome. Resilience and Saving Graces
The Glass Castle. A fantastic read.
I know why the caged bird sings – Maya Angelou
The Liars Club by Mary Karr
I second this recommendation.
North of Normal; Educated; Yes Please
Maude by Donna Foley Mabry
Any book by Anne Lamott
The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner
I liked Toni Tenille’s.
Runaway Girl by Carissa Phelps, Secrets We Kept by Krystal A. Sital, Educated by Tara Westover, The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn Saks
Bone Black by bell hooks
Hidden figures by Margot Lee Shetterly. Cannot recommend this enough!
Wasted
The Glass Castle
When I was Puerto Rican, Esmeralda Santiago.
Eat pray love
Colette
love, love, love – King Peggy – just fantastic
Eleanor Roosevelt
she wrote a book
Also good is: In My Father’s Country
Someone recommended: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress – I read the whole book (I won’t if I don’t like it) but found it a bit meh.
Just started What Happened and so far, interesting
Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones (which reads like a writing book and memoir) pretty good
the Glass Castle is a bit sad and I’ll say frustrating but good.
The things parents do to their kids. Reminded me of Angela’s Ashes.
@Sally I couldn’t get through Angela’s Ashes – so sad. I could not help but think that the parents in The Glass Castle were mentally … challenged – is that the word? I don’t know, maybe disturbed. To think they had to force the mother to work to buy food, and she cried that she did. Just so strange.
How any of these kids survived is a miracle-in both books.
Trafficked
Educated
Class Castle
Murder on the home front
To close to the falls, after the falls.
Elizabeth Smarts Memoir
Hope
Jaycee Dugards Memoir
I could go on and on
An Unknown Woman by Alice Koller and If Wishes Were Horses by Loretta Gage are my favorites.
Red Azalea.
A Beautiful, Terrible Thing
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston.