Memoir and Personal Essay
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott
Diary of Anne Frank
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Anything by David Sedaris
Assembling My Father by Anna Cypra Oliver
Blue Jelly by Debby Bull
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
Ex Libris Anne Fadiman
Lucky by Alice Sebold
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf
Nickle and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich (reportage)
No More Words by Reeve Lindberg
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood by Maxine Hong Kingston
True North by Jill Ker Conway
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
The Black Girl Next Door by Jennifer Baszile
Mama’s Girl by Veronica Chambers
Memoirs of renowned people, such as My Life by Clinton, Me by Katherine Hepburn. (Note: Oftentimes, these are ghostwritten.)
Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott
Diary of Anne Frank
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Anything by David Sedaris
Assembling My Father by Anna Cypra Oliver
Blue Jelly by Debby Bull
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
Ex Libris Anne Fadiman
Lucky by Alice Sebold
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf
Nickle and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich (reportage)
No More Words by Reeve Lindberg
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood by Maxine Hong Kingston
True North by Jill Ker Conway
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
The Black Girl Next Door by Jennifer Baszile
Mama’s Girl by Veronica Chambers
Memoirs of renowned people, such as My Life by Clinton, Me by Katherine Hepburn. (Note: Oftentimes, these are ghostwritten.)