Topic
Memoir
100 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Where to Start with Andre Agassi: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Andre Agassi — how to approach Open, his essential memoir about professional tennis and self-discovery. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Anne Frank: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Anne Frank — how to approach The Diary of a Young Girl, the most widely read Holocaust document in history. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Anne Lamott: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Anne Lamott — whether to begin with Bird by Bird, Traveling Mercies, or Help Thanks Wow. A complete reading guide to the American writer.
Where to Start with Annie Dillard: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Annie Dillard — how to approach Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, her Pulitzer Prize-winning work of nature writing. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Anthony Bourdain: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Anthony Bourdain — whether to begin with Kitchen Confidential or Medium Raw. A complete reading guide to the chef, author, and traveller.
Where to Start with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — whether to begin with The Little Prince, Night Flight, or Wind, Sand and Stars. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Barack Obama: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Barack Obama — whether to begin with Dreams from My Father or A Promised Land. A complete reading guide to the 44th US President's books.
Where to Start with Beryl Markham: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Beryl Markham — how to approach West with the Night, her essential memoir of Africa and aviation. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Bill Buford: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Bill Buford — how to approach Heat, his account of leaving the New Yorker to apprentice in Mario Batali's kitchen and then tracing Italian cuisine to its origins in Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Bruce Chatwin: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Bruce Chatwin — how to approach In Patagonia, his essential travel memoir that reinvented the form. A complete reading guide to the British author.
Where to Start with Chanel Miller: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Chanel Miller — how to approach Know My Name, her essential memoir about identity, assault, and survival. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Cheryl Strayed: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Cheryl Strayed — whether to begin with Wild, Tiny Beautiful Things, or Brave Enough. A complete reading guide to the memoirist and essayist.
Where to Start with Dave Eggers: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Dave Eggers — whether to begin with A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius or The Circle. A complete reading guide to the American author.
Where to Start with David Chang: A Reading Guide
Where to start with David Chang — how to approach Momofuku, his raw memoir and technically serious cookbook about building one of America's most influential restaurant empires from near-failure. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with David Goggins: A Reading Guide
Where to start with David Goggins — whether to begin with Can't Hurt Me or Never Finished. A complete reading guide to the ultramarathon runner and motivational author.
Where to Start with Elie Wiesel: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Elie Wiesel — how to approach Night, his essential Holocaust memoir. A complete reading guide to the Romanian-American Nobel laureate's work.
Where to Start with Elizabeth Gilbert: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Elizabeth Gilbert — whether to begin with Eat Pray Love or Big Magic. A complete reading guide to the bestselling memoirist and novelist.
Where to Start with Che Guevara: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Che Guevara — how to approach The Motorcycle Diaries, his posthumously published journal of the 1952 journey through South America that transformed a young medical student into the figure history would make of him. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Ewan McGregor: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ewan McGregor — how to approach Long Way Round, the adventure travel memoir he wrote with Charley Boorman about their 31,000-mile motorcycle journey eastward from London to New York through Europe, Central Asia, and the Americas. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Gretchen Rubin: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Gretchen Rubin — how to approach The Happiness Project, her essential year-long experiment in pursuing greater happiness. A complete reading guide.
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