Most Read This Week In Memoir

As a literary genre, a memoir (from the French: mémoire from the Latin memoria, meaning "memory", or a reminiscence), forms a subclass of autobiography – although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are almost interchangeable in modern parlance. Memoir is autobiographical writing, but not all autobiographical writing follows the criteria for memoir.

Memoirs are structured differently from formal autobiographies which tend to encompass the writer's entire life span, focusing on the development of his/her personality. The chronological scope of memoir is determined by the work's context and is
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Most Read This Week Tagged "Memoir"

I’m Glad My Mom Died
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Greenlights
The Woman in Me
Crying in H Mart
Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything: A Memoir
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
My Next Breath
Untamed
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
The Tell: A Memoir
From Here to the Great Unknown
Be Ready When the Luck Happens
The Third Gilmore Girl
Sociopath
A Promised Land
Spare
Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
Counting the Cost
The Happiest Man on Earth
This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir
Finding Me
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Raising Hare: A Memoir
The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders
Memorial Days
Down the Drain
Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
A Different Kind of Power
Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
The Trading Game: A Confession
You Wanna Be on Top?: A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America's Next Top Model
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
Nice Girls Don't Win: How I Burned It All Down to Claim My Power
Cher: The Memoir, Part 1
Solito
Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir
The Carpool Detectives: A True Story of Four Moms, Two Bodies, and One Mysterious Cold Case
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
I'll Never Call Him Dad Again: Turning Our Family Trauma of Sexual Assault and Chemical Submission into a Collective Fight
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Love, Pamela
Patriot: A Memoir
Open Book
I Regret Almost Everything
Taste: My Life Through Food
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Paris: The Memoir
Source Code: My Beginnings
Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home
A Very Punchable Face
Stay True
What I Ate in One Year (And Related Thoughts)
Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Matriarch: A Memoir
Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
Gwyneth: The Biography
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Spent: A Comic Novel
Mother Mary Comes to Me
Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day
Things in Nature Merely Grow
Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success
My Body
On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Pageboy
You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
Dear Dolly
Abroad in Japan: Ten Years in the Land of the Rising Sun
The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
The Young Man
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
A Truce That Is Not Peace
Triste tigre
Monique s'évade
Changer : méthode
Code Name: Pale Horse—How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Yearbook
Will
Free: My Search for Meaning
Los nombres propios
And Away...
Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father
Strong Female Character
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
Uncultured: A Memoir
El jardinero y la muerte
Tell Me Everything

Carol Tavris
History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs. ...more
Carol Tavris, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

John Grogan
In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form the foundation of a free, informed society.
John Grogan, Bad Dogs Have More Fun: Selected Writings on Family, Animals, and Life from The Philadelphia Inquirer

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