Memoir
Every memoir author we cover, with each series in the right reading order.
Memoir is a life told from the inside, one person making sense of their own story. These authors' books are gathered in order.
Delia Owens
Delia Owens is an American author and wildlife scientist who won the John Burroughs Award for Nature Writing before turning...
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Heather Morris
Heather Morris is a New Zealand author and screenwriter best known for The Tattooist of Auschwitz. She grew up in...
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Tara Westover
Tara Westover is a historian and memoirist who writes about the tension between self-invention and family loyalty. She grew up...
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Riley Sager
Riley Sager is the pen name of American author Todd Ritter, who writes horror and thriller novels. His debut novel,...
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Gabrielle Zevin
What happens when a writer understands both the architecture of story and the ache of human connection? Gabrielle Zevin happens....
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Adam Kay
Adam Kay is a British author and screenwriter, formerly a doctor. He is best known for This Is Going to...
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James McBride
James McBride is an American author and musician who writes historical fiction and nonfiction. He grew up in Brooklyn, New...
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Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls is an American author and journalist. She grew up in the American Southwest and Welch, West Virginia, experiencing...
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Scott McEwen
Scott McEwen is an American author who writes military fiction and non-fiction, drawing on a background that includes law, military...
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Jenny Lawson
Jenny Lawson is an American author and blogger known for her candid explorations of mental illness through dark humor and...
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Jennifer Worth
Jennifer Worth was an English nurse and author who turned her experiences delivering babies in postwar London into a cultural...
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Anne Glenconner
Anne Glenconner is an English author known for her memoirs about her life at the heart of British aristocracy and...
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
2015. That's the year Viet Thanh Nguyen published The Sympathizer and changed the conversation about war, memory, and who gets...
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Jay Asher
Jay Asher is an American author of young adult novels. While growing up, he was encouraged to pursue all his...
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Sebastian Junger
Sebastian Junger is a writer whose work spans narrative nonfiction, journalism, and documentary filmmaking, often focusing on people confronting extreme...
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Alice Sebold
Alice Sebold is an American author who writes literary fiction novels and non-fiction books. She is known for her raw...
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Jordan Belfort
Jordan Belfort is an American author who writes nonfiction memoirs about his years as a stockbroker, a life that began...
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Chanel Miller
Chanel Miller is an American writer and artist who brought her story to the world with Know My Name, a...
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Iain Reid
Iain Reid is a Canadian author who writes psychological thrillers. Before turning to novels, he published articles and columns in...
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Frank Gardner
Frank Gardner is the BBC's full-time Security Correspondent. He's also a novelist. His dual life gives his fiction an edge...
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Lady Colin Campbell
Lady Colin Campbell is a British author who writes about the Royal Family and aristocratic life, bringing an insider's perspective...
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Kimi Cunningham Grant
Kimi Cunningham Grant is an American author who writes both fiction and memoir. She made her debut in 2012 with...
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Aimee Molloy
Aimee Molloy is an American author who has written both nonfiction and psychological thrillers, bringing her skill for exploring hidden...
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Sigrid Nunez
Sigrid Nunez is an American author who received the 2018 National Book Award for The Friend, a novel that also...
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Jandy Nelson
Jandy Nelson is an American author who writes contemporary young adult fiction charged with emotional intensity, stories where grief and...
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Charles Portis
Charles Portis is an American novelist known for his darkly comic western fiction. His 1966 debut, Norwood, was adapted into...
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Jenna Blum
Some writers find their voice early and never let go. Jenna Blum started writing at four, turned professional at sixteen,...
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Samantha Irby
Samantha Irby is an American author, comedian, and blogger who writes essay collections and has contributed to television shows. She...
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Melissa Albert
Melissa Albert is a fantasy writer who grew up in Illinois and now lives in Brooklyn. She is best known...
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Iceberg Slim
Robert Beck, who wrote under the name Iceberg Slim, was a crime fiction and non-fiction author whose work drew directly...
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Ann Leary
Ann Leary is an American novelist who writes women's literary and historical fiction. Her work has been translated into eighteen...
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Drew Magary
Drew Magary is an American author and columnist who writes both speculative fiction and nonfiction, moving between dystopian novels and...
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David Chang
David Chang is a Korean-American restaurateur, television host, and author. He is best known for founding the Momofuku restaurant group,...
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Ayad Akhtar
Ayad Akhtar is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter best known for his novel Homeland Elegies. That book appeared on...
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Dick Wolf
Dick Wolf is an American author who writes crime thrillers, bringing decades of experience from television into fiction built around...
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Lawrence Hill
Lawrence Hill is a Canadian author who writes novels and nonfiction, much of it shaped by questions of identity and...
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Signe Pike
Signe Pike is a historical fiction author known for The Lost Queen series. Her debut novel, The Lost Queen, was...
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Bill Konigsberg
Bill Konigsberg is an American author who writes young adult novels and won a GLAAD Media Award in 2002 for...
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Chris Jericho
Chris Jericho is a Canadian-American author who writes about his decades-long career in professional wrestling and has ventured into self-help....
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Dean Lorey
Dean Lorey is an American author and screenwriter who began his fiction career in 2007 with Monster Hunters, the first...
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Anna Wiener
Anna Wiener is an American journalist and author who writes about technology and startup culture for the New Yorker, bringing...
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Courtney Maum
Courtney Maum is an American author of literary fiction novels. She graduated from Brown University with a degree in Comparative...
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Jennifer Rosner
Jennifer Rosner is an American novelist and memoirist who teaches philosophy alongside her writing. She earned her BA from Columbia...
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Helene Hanff
Helene Hanff was an American writer who found her voice in a transatlantic correspondence with a London bookshop after decades...
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Kate R. Mathieson
Kate R. Mathieson is an Australian author who writes memoirs and fiction drawn from a life lived across continents. She...
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Forrest Carter
Forrest Carter is the pen name of American author Asa Earl Carter, who wrote Westerns and presented himself as Cherokee...
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Gary Bell
Gary Bell made his debut as a novelist in 2019 with Beyond Reasonable Doubt, drawing on three decades at the...
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Susan Spann
Susan Spann is an American author who writes historical thrillers and memoir. Her fiction is set in the shadowy world...
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Melanie McGrath/M.J. McGrath
Melanie McGrath/M.J. McGrath writes mysteries and works as a journalist. She won the John Llewelyn-Rhys/Mail on Sunday award for Best...
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Beverley McLachlin
Beverley McLachlin is a Canadian novelist who writes legal thrillers drawn from a career spent inside the highest chambers of...
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