
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston.Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi.A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers.Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs.Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell.

The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby.Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup.Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller.I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy.The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride.The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.This Boy’s Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff.Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert.


But when an author does write a good memoir, it makes for some amazing reading. Finding great memoirs to read is not always an easy task.
