Most Read This Week In Memoir

As a literary genre, a memoir (from the French: mémoire from the Latin memoria, meaning "memory", or a reminiscence), forms a subclass of autobiography – although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are almost interchangeable in modern parlance. Memoir is autobiographical writing, but not all autobiographical writing follows the criteria for memoir.

Memoirs are structured differently from formal autobiographies which tend to encompass the writer's entire life span, focusing on the development of his/her personality. The chronological scope of memoir is determined by the work's context and is
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Most Read This Week Tagged "Memoir"

I'm Glad My Mom Died
Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
A Hymn to Life: Shame has to Change Sides
You with the Sad Eyes: A Memoir
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Crying in H Mart
The Woman in Me
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
107 Days
Awake
Homeschooled: A Memoir
That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You
Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton
Spare
Raising Hare: A Memoir
Mother Mary Comes to Me
Sociopath
All the Way to the River
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
Finding Me
The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir
From Here to the Great Unknown
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
Be Ready When the Luck Happens
Devout: Losing My Faith to Find Myself
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Family of Spies
Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything
My Next Breath
The Tell: A Memoir
Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much
Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
Finding My Way
Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I'd Known About Menopause
Entitled
Departure(s)
Counting the Cost
Down the Drain
Yearbook
Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum
The Uncool
Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
Out of the Woods: A Girl, a Killer, and a Lifelong Struggle to Find the Way Home
This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir
Things in Nature Merely Grow
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Solito
Bread of Angels: A Memoir
It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin
What My Bones Know
Hostage
We Did Ok, Kid: A Memoir
Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Death and the Gardener
I'll Never Call Him Dad Again: Turning Our Family Trauma of Sexual Assault and Chemical Submission into a Collective Fight
What I Ate in One Year (And Related Thoughts)
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
The House of Hidden Meanings
A Different Kind of Power
I Just Wish I Had a Bigger Kitchen: And Other Lies I Think Will Make Me Happy (Small Habits and Mindset Shifts to Find Contentment and Joy in Life)
Paris: A Memoir for Young Women in the Age of Influencers
Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
You Wanna Be on Top?: A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America's Next Top Model
Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within
Cher: The Memoir, Part 1
Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home
Bad Mormon: A Memoir
Last Rites
The Trading Game: A Confession
Memorial Days
Love, Pamela
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
The Book of Sheen
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain’s Queen Without a Crown
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Conversations on Love
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
The Sea Captain's Wife
Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Dear Dolly
Triste tigre
Taste: My Life Through Food
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
Vagabond
Changer : méthode
Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success
If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir
L'Effondrement

Susanna Kaysen
Suicide is a form of murder— premeditated murder. It isn’t something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes some getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind. It’s important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there’s a window, you must imagine ...more
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Marjane Satrapi
You are putting yourself in serious danger...' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist. ...more
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