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Memoirs.. Do you like this genre?.. And what are your best memoirs of all time?

Memoirs.. Do you like this genre ?.. And what are your best memoirs of all time ?

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Annette

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, Lucky Man by Michael J Fox, Not my Father’s Son by Alan Cumming, The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls are some I really enjoyed

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Miriam

Loved 700 Sundays by Billy Crystal

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Sharon

A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout….best I’ve read.

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E

Angela’s Ashes.

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Valerie

Set it aside for a bit. Couldn’t finish it. Maybe I’ll come back some day.

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Cassi

I enjoyed The Bright Hour and When Breath Becomes Air.

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David

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David

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Jenn

Running with Scissors by August Burroughs and Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel are my top favorites.

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Debby

I like ones by mentally ill people too, since I’m bipolar with Asperger’s ?

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Kim

I love memoirs! My faves are Unloved by Peter Roche, Kat Ward’s Keri series, and Toni Maguire’s memoirs – her own and the ones she writes for other survivors. I also love Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt.

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Mary

Love warrior by glennon Doyle… amazing

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Karma

I don’t know if you’d count it as a memoir but Troublemaker was pretty interesting. And I just finished We’re Going to Need More Wine which was hilarious. And I’m gearing up to get The Mother of Black Hollywood but I want to get it on audible because Jenifer Lewis is EVERYTHING.

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Judi

The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

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Lee

I enjoy memoirs.

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Jessi

Memoirs of a Geisha is my all time favorite

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Pandora

Don’t really like this is genre but I really did like the Glass Castle.

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Book

I enjoyed nevertheless by Alec baldwin and runnin wild about Clara bow

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Sandra

Clara Bow was really good.

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Debby

Love them! I’ve read memoirs from everybody to porn stars to rock stars to royalty to Presidents.

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Sandra

I read more of them now, than I used to.

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Valerie

Reading one right now- Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton.

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Annette

I am not a fan of memoirs but I have read Toni Tennille’s from Captain and Tennille. I really enjoyed it.

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Sissy

All But My Life…. Gerda Weissman Klein. Holocaust survivor…it was an amazing book.

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Amanda

I love memoirs. I recently read Angelas Ashes and loved it. Also bought his other two that follow it

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Marc

Excellent, all! <3

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Chrissy

It depends on the memoir. I loved reading Russian Tattoo by Elena Gorok(sp). It is about a Russian immigrant moving to America to get away from her family but then her family moves to America as well.

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Sean

The glass castle

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Melissa

The Autobiography of a Face

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Neon

Yes

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Neon

I remember really liking this book

https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Fish-Memoir-Antwone-Fisher/dp/0060539860

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Miriam

Loved this movie.

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Mallory

My Lobotomy by Howard Dully. He lives in California now.

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Meghan

Yep currently reading this

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Marc

Tibetan Peach Pie, by Tom Robbins, is wonderful!

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Angela

It depends on the memoir. Lol

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JoAnne

It really depends. I love memoirs from the Golden Age of Hollywood, but not actors of today. Historical military figures of the Civil War. I’ve read and own most of them. Others depending on the subject.

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Darlena

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
All of Maya Angelou’s
And others already mentioned

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Lisa

I do. Anything by Agusten Burroghs.

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Lynn

First They Killed my Father by Loung Ung was very good. Angelina Jolie recently produced a movie based on the story.

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Elizabeth

The Art of the Deal.

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Allan

Luis Buñuel “My Last Sigh” —especially the chapter on drinking

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