Memoirs I've Read

Last week I read this tweet by Literary Agent Rachelle Gardner -  "Please don't submit your memoir until you've read 20 good memoirs and 5 books on writing memoir - and learned from them."


Since I'm writing a memoir and want to submit it soon, I started a list of all the memoirs I've read. I didn't think I read 20, but I was surprised. I'm at 30+ and still counting. 
These are in random order and some of these might only loosely fit into the memoir category. 

1. Picking Dandelions by Sarah Cunningham
2. Girl Meets God: A Memoir by Lauren F. Winner
3. O Me of Little Faith: True Confessions of a Spiritual Weakling by Jason Boyett
4. Evolving in Monkey Town by Rachel Held Evans
5. In a Single Bound: Losing My Leg, Finding Myself, and Training for Life by Sarah Reinertsen
6. Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir by Susan E. Isaacs
7. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
8. Thin Places: A Memoir by Mary E. DeMuth 
9. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
10. Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
11. The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
12. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace- One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson 
13. Left to Tell: One Woman's Story of Surviving the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza
14. Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
15. Same Kind of Different as Me by Hall and Moore
16. Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
17. Dakota: A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris
18. A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman by Joan Anderson
19. Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
20. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Wells
21. A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive by Dave Pelzer
22. Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet
23. Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama 
24. Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparks
25. Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
26. The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz
27. Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell 
28. Gifted Hands by M.D., Ben Carson
29. Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope by Van Ryn & Cerak
30. No Such Thing as a Bad Day: A Memoir by Hamilton Jordon
31. Hear No Evil by Matthew Paul Turner
32. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert 
33. Here if You Need Me by Kate Braestrup
34. On Writing by Stephen King

Today Rachelle has an excellent post with Resources for Writing Memoir.

Now she's presented me with a dilemma - do I study about writing memoir today or do I actually write memoir ...