Memoir reading list - recommendations please!

This April/May, I’m going to be teaching the second cycle of the eight-week long Red Umbrella Project memoir writing class in NYC (application will be launched on Feb 19th). I’m putting together my course syllabus for the workshop, which is of course a great excuse for me to indulge my reading and book hoarding habits. Poking around tumblr today I was happy to see Cooking in Heels on queerbookclub’s lists of awesome nonfiction/memoir books of 2012. I’ve read a lot of the stuff on this list and others I’ve come across, and I continue to accumulate reading in this area… but I know there’s always more. I’m particularly looking for good short pieces of memoir writing (because that’s what most of the writing in the class will be), so anthologies are welcome and so are high-quality memoir pieces (self-contained in one piece/post) from the internets. Writing does not have to be about the sex industry or by people in the sex trades. Recommendations, please? When I’ve finished with the syllabus I’ll make a public list, probably both here on tumblr and on goodreads.

(Also kinda considering doing an online version of the class, though I wouldn’t be able to offer it for free… let me know if you’re a person currently or formerly  be interested in something like that (it would be 8 weeks long) and what you’d be able to pay)