Memoir Books
Memoir is the art of turning lived experience into narrative, shaped by memory, reflection, and a willingness to be honest on the page. The best memoirs read like novels but carry the weight of real consequence, covering everything from childhood trauma to extraordinary professional lives.
169 books
Memoir
10% Happier
Memoir
A Child Called It
Memoir
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Memoir
A House in the Sky
Non-Fiction
A Living Remedy
Memoir
A Million Little Pieces
Non-Fiction
Am I Being Too Subtle? Straight Talk from a Business Rebel
Memoir
An Unfinished Love Story
Memoir
Angela's Ashes
Non-Fiction
Bad Feminist
Memoir
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Memoir
Becoming
Memoir
Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds
Memoir
Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris
Non-Fiction
Between Two Kingdoms
Non-Fiction
Between the World and Me
Non-Fiction
Beyond Charlottesville: Taking a Stand Against White Nationalism
Non-Fiction
Bird by Bird
Non-Fiction
Bite by Bite
Memoir
Born a Crime
Non-Fiction
Broken Horses
Non-Fiction
Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
Memoir
Can't Hurt Me
Memoir
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Memoir
Chasing Hope
Memoir
Chinaberry Sidewalks
Memoir
Confess
Memoir
Consent
Memoir
Conversations with Myself
Memoir
Creativity, Inc.
Memoir
Crying in H Mart
Non-Fiction
Dealing with China
Memoir
Decoded
Memoir
Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (Or Just Me)?
Dispatches
Non-Fiction
Dispatches
Memoir
Down and Out in Paris and London
Memoir
Eat Pray Love
Non-Fiction
Eating Animals
Non-Fiction
Educated
Memoir
Empire of Pain
Memoir
Extreme Ownership
Memoir
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Memoir
Futureface
Non-Fiction
Gang Leader for a Day
Memoir
Greenlights
Memoir
H is for Hawk
Memoir
Heart Berries
Memoir
Heartland
Memoir
Heavy
Memoir
Here for It
Memoir
Hitch-22
Memoir
Holidays on Ice
Non-Fiction
Homage to Catalonia
Memoir
Home Before Morning
Hope Against Hope
Memoir
Hope Against Hope
Memoir
How to Be a Woman
Memoir
How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets
Memoir
How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets
Memoir
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Non-Fiction
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Memoir
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Memoir
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Memoir
Imperfect Courage
Memoir
Infidel
Just As I Am
Memoir
Just As I Am
Memoir
Just Kids
Memoir
Just Mercy
Memoir
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Memoir
Kin
Memoir
King: A Life
Late Migrations
Memoir
Late Migrations
Memoir
Leni Riefenstahl: A Memoir
Non-Fiction
Leonardo da Vinci
Non-Fiction
Lessons for Survival
Memoir
Living History
Memoir
Long Walk to Freedom
Memoir
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It
Memoir
Mark Twain
Non-Fiction
Markings
Memoir
Matriarch
Memoir
Minor Feelings
Memoir
Mom & Me & Mom
Mortality
Non-Fiction
Mortality
Memoir
Mother Mary Comes to Me
Memoir
My Family and Other Animals
Memoir
My Life on the Road
No Cure for Being Human
Non-Fiction
No Cure for Being Human
Memoir
Not Fade Away
Memoir
On Being Human
Memoir
On the Move
Memoir
Option B
Memoir
Out of Africa
Memoir
Patriot
Non-Fiction
Permanent Record
Memoir
Personal History
Memoir
Pregnant Girl
Non-Fiction
Principles: Life and Work
Non-Fiction
Principles: Life and Work
Memoir
Projections: A Story of Human Emotions
Memoir
Root for the Villain
Memoir
Shoe Dog
Memoir
Simple Passion
Memoir
Skunk Works
Memoir
Somebody's Daughter
Non-Fiction
Sonny Boy
Memoir
Spare
Memoir
Steve Jobs
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Memoir
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Memoir
Surrender
Memoir
Swimming Studies
Memoir
Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories
Memoir
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Book of Alchemy
Non-Fiction
The Book of Alchemy
Non-Fiction
The Cooking Gene
Memoir
The Glass Castle
The Gulag Archipelago
Non-Fiction
The Gulag Archipelago
Memoir
The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut
Memoir
The Last Lecture
Memoir
The Liars' Club
Self-Help
The Light We Carry
Non-Fiction
The Message
Non-Fiction
The Moment of Lift
Memoir
The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince
Non-Fiction
The Other Wes Moore
Non-Fiction
The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story for Work and Life
Non-Fiction
The Power Broker
Memoir
The Radium Girls
Memoir
The Ride of a Lifetime
Non-Fiction
The River of Doubt
The Road to Wigan Pier
Non-Fiction
The Road to Wigan Pier
Memoir
The Score Takes Care of Itself
Memoir
The Souls of Black Folk
Memoir
The Sound of Gravel
Non-Fiction
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Memoir
The Sun Does Shine
The Thief's Journal
Memoir
The Thief's Journal
Memoir
The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future
Non-Fiction
The Undocumented Americans
Non-Fiction
The Undoing Project
Non-Fiction
The Unwinding of the Miracle
Non-Fiction
The Woman in Me
Memoir
The Year of Magical Thinking
Non-Fiction
There's Always This Year
Non-Fiction
Three Women
Memoir
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Memoir
Traveling with Pomegranates
Non-Fiction
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Memoir
Tuesdays with Morrie
Memoir
Ultramarathon Man
Memoir
Unbinding the Heart: A Dose of Greek Wisdom, Generosity, and Unconditional Love
Memoir
Unfollow
Memoir
Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
Memoir
Unreliable Memoirs
Memoir
Untamed
Literary Fiction
Visions of Gerard
Non-Fiction
War
Memoir
Ways of Escape
Memoir
West by West: My Charmed, Tormented Life
West with the Night
Memoir
West with the Night
Memoir
When Breath Becomes Air
Memoir
Who Knew
Memoir
Wild
Memoir
Wild Swans
Wind, Sand and Stars
Memoir
Wind, Sand and Stars
Memoir
Wisdom at Work: The Making of a Modern Elder
Non-Fiction
Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
Memoir
Words Without Music
Memoir
World of Wonders
Memoir