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The Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Secrets of Filming Swallows & Amazons by Sophie NevilleI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
My Favorite Memoirs
527 books — 343 voters
Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MDMaking A Difference by James L. HechtThe Soul Whispers Poetry by Vikki KoplickSacred Animal Activism by Vikki Koplick
Activist memoirs
185 books — 49 voters

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh NguyenWhen Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly HayslipThe Best We Could Do by Thi BuiThe Gangster We Are All Looking For by Lê Thi Diem ThúyThe Eaves of Heaven by Andrew X. Pham
Vietnamese-American Novels & Memoirs
61 books — 46 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueSummer of '69 by Todd StrasserOn the Road by Jack KerouacThe Lover by Marguerite DurasThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Roman à clef
128 books — 40 voters

I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiLove in a Headscarf by Shelina Zahra JanmohamedThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiIran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi
Memoirs by Muslim women
33 books — 30 voters
And So It Goes by Linda EllerbeeNaked in Baghdad by Anne GarrelsIt's What I Do by Lynsey AddarioTake Big Bites by Linda EllerbeeDon't Be Afraid of the Bullets by Laura Kasinof
Memoirs of women journalists
77 books — 16 voters

Out of the Class Closet by Julia PenelopeThe Original Coming Out Stories by Julia PenelopeLesbian Philosophies and Cultures by Jeffner AllenNice Jewish Girls by Evelyn Torton BeckThis Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe L. Moraga
Thematic anthologies of lesbian essays
46 books — 12 voters
Land of the Seven Rivers by Sanjeev SanyalCity of Djinns by William DalrympleTrain to Pakistan by Khushwant SinghThe Incredible History of India's Geography by Sanjeev SanyalAn Era of Darkness by Shashi Tharoor
Understanding India
180 books — 9 voters

Illegal by José Ángel N.The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo VillavicencioWriting IT - Novel, Plot, Characters by Ed AdamsThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorLost My Mind Here Someplace by Arune Savage
Undocumented (memoirs)
14 books — 9 voters
Fun Home by Alison BechdelSpinning by Tillie WaldenHonor Girl by Maggie ThrashAre You My Mother? by Alison BechdelOn Loving Women by Diane Obomsawin
Lesbian graphic memoirs
13 books — 7 voters

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongGirl on a Plane by Miriam MossThink it. Pitch it. Sell it. by Pierre CoombesHating Self by Boo BlackThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor
(Semi)Autobiographical Fiction
27 books — 5 voters
So Much to Be Done by Barbara BrennerThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorDecryption Gambit by Doug CollinsThe Cancer Journals by Audre LordeComing Out of Cancer by Victoria A. Brownworth
Lesbians with cancer: Essays & memoir
9 books — 3 voters

Born Standing Up by Steve MartinOne Picture Two Hearts. A love story set in the 90's about th... by Christy GossCurtain Seldom Up by Colin BowerBorn To Die by Lester CrabtreeWomen Are Like Cats and Men Like Dogs by Kat Brown
Books written by Entertainers
5 books — 2 voters
Down and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellGood Morning, Midnight by Jean RhysNight Roads by Gaito GazdanovAn Evening with Claire by Gaito GazdanovSpeak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Woebegone Émigré in Europe
8 books — 1 voter

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