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.
- Picking Dandelions by Sarah Cunningham
- Girl Meets God: A Memoir by Lauren F. Winner
- O Me of Little Faith: True Confessions of a Spiritual Weakling by Jason Boyett
- Evolving in Monkey Town by Rachel Held Evans
- In a Single Bound: Losing My Leg, Finding Myself, and Training for Life by Sarah Reinertsen
- Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir by Susan E. Isaacs
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
- Thin Places: A Memoir by Mary E. DeMuth
- Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
- Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
- The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace- One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson
- Left to Tell: One Woman's Story of Surviving the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza
- Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- Same Kind of Different as Me by Hall and Moore
- Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Dakota: A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris
- A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman by Joan Anderson
- Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
- The Glass Castle by Jeanette Wells
- A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive by Dave Pelzer
- Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet
- Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
- Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparks
- Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz
- Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell
- Gifted Hands by M.D., Ben Carson
- Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope by Van Ryn & Cerak
- No Such Thing as a Bad Day: A Memoir by Hamilton Jordon
- Hear No Evil by Matthew Paul Turner
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Here if You Need Me by Kate Braestrup
- On Writing by Stephen King
Now she's presented me with a dilemma - do I study about writing memoir today or do I actually write memoir ...
6 comments:
I can't wait to read your story. Bits and pieces whet the appetite. Keep writing.
i vote write
have your read Stephen King's "On Writing?" it's a memoir/how 2 write combo.
Who says you can't do both? Write AND read! :))
Thanks Kathleen! I'm hoping to finish, one word at a time :)
Hill - I have read 'On Writing' by Stephen KIng (loved it!) and I've added it to the list.
Brenda - good point.
Thanks Kathleen! I'm hoping to finish, one word at a time :)
Hill - I have read 'On Writing' by Stephen KIng (loved it!) and I've added it to the list.
Brenda - good point.
You've got some good ones on your list!! Got time for a #35? Try 'Graffiti On My Soul' a rivetting new memoir that will put some spiritual sizzle in your summer! See: http://www.eloquentbooks.com/GraffitiOnMySoul.html
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