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Memoir
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Where to Start with Jon Krakauer: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jon Krakauer — whether to begin with Into Thin Air, Into the Wild, or Under the Banner of Heaven. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Julian Barnes: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Julian Barnes — whether to begin with The Sense of an Ending, Flaubert's Parrot, or Nothing to Be Frightened Of. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Maggie O'Farrell: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Maggie O'Farrell — whether to begin with Hamnet, I Am I Am I Am, or Instructions for a Heatwave. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Maya Angelou: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Maya Angelou — whether to begin with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Gather Together in My Name, or And Still I Rise. A complete guide.
Where to Start with Mitch Albom: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Mitch Albom — whether to begin with Tuesdays with Morrie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, or The Time Keeper. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Sylvia Plath: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Sylvia Plath — whether to begin with The Bell Jar, Ariel, or her journals and letters. A complete reading guide to her poetry and fiction.
Where to Start with Ta-Nehisi Coates: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ta-Nehisi Coates — whether to begin with Between the World and Me, We Were Eight Years in Power, or The Water Dancer. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Wole Soyinka: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Wole Soyinka — whether to begin with Aké, Death and the King's Horseman, or his other work. A complete reading guide to the Nobel Prize winner.
Maya Angelou Books in Order: Complete Reading Guide
All Maya Angelou books in order — her seven-volume autobiography and essential poetry. Where to start and how to read the complete works.
Michelle Obama Books in Order: Complete Reading Guide
Both Michelle Obama books in publication order — Becoming and The Light We Carry. Which to read first and what each offers.
Paul Kalanithi Books in Order: Complete Reading Guide
Paul Kalanithi published one book — When Breath Becomes Air. Reading guide for the essential memoir about medicine, mortality, and meaning.
Tara Westover Books in Order: Complete Reading Guide
Tara Westover has published one book — Educated. Reading guide for the essential memoir about family, survival, and the transformative power of education.
Where to Start with Fatema Mernissi: The Best First Book
New to Fatema Mernissi? Dreams of Trespass is the right starting point — here's what to expect from the Moroccan feminist scholar and which book suits different readers.
25 Best Books for Women: Fiction, Memoir, and Non-Fiction
The best books for women across fiction, memoir, and non-fiction — novels about female friendship and ambition, memoirs about becoming, and non-fiction that takes women's experience seriously.
Best Travel Books of All Time: 20 Essential Reads for Every Kind of Wanderer
The best travel books ever written — from literary adventure narratives like In Patagonia and The Snow Leopard to comic masterpieces like A Walk in the Woods and inspirational guides like Vagabonding. Ranked and reviewed.
15 Books Like Becoming to Read Next
Loved Becoming? These 15 memoirs and inspiring non-fiction books share Michelle Obama's combination of personal honesty, resilience, and belief in the possibility of change.
15 Books Like Born a Crime to Read Next
Loved Born a Crime? These 15 memoirs and narrative non-fiction books share Trevor Noah's combination of personal honesty, humour, political awareness, and hard-won resilience.
Books Like West with the Night: Aviation Memoirs
Beryl Markham's West with the Night — which Hemingway called the best thing he had read in years — combines aviation adventure, colonial Kenya, and prose of astonishing authority. These books share its qualities: the extraordinary life rendered in extraordinary prose.
Books Like The Glass Castle: 11 Resilience Memoirs
Jeannette Walls's memoir of growing up with her brilliant, charismatic, catastrophically irresponsible parents — who moved the family constantly, never had enough food, and promised to build a glass castle — is the most-read American family memoir. These books share its mixture of love and horror, its unsentimental clear-eyedness about parents.
Where to Start with Glennon Doyle: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Glennon Doyle — how to approach Untamed, her memoir-as-manifesto about leaving her conditioned life behind, written around falling in love with soccer player Abby Wambach and learning to trust her own inner knowing. A complete reading guide.
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