Memoirs that make you sit and think for an hour, a day, a week or maybe forever.
created by tasmetu
last updated June, 2026
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Loung Ung
They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
Ahed Tamimi
Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas
Eva Saulitis
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston
A Gift From Darkness: How I Escaped with My Daughter from Boko Haram
Andrea C. Hoffmann
Solito
Javier Zamora
We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People
Nemonte Nenquimo
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
Camille T. Dungy
The Outrun
Amy Liptrot
The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation
Raquel Willis
The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood
Krys Malcolm Belc
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah
H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Maya Angelou
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Educated
Tara Westover
North to Paradise
Ousman Umar
The Puma Years
Laura Coleman
War and Me
Faleeha Hassan
Sins of My Father: A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling
Lily Dunn
A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs
Gulchehra Hoja
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist
Jasmin Graham
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Alicia Elliott
Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
Jane Goodall
Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis
Malena Ernman
The Chief Witness: Escape from China’s Modern-Day Concentration Camps
Sayragul Sauytbay
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