Memoir Fetish (welcoming these new titles to my memoir library)
Friday, February 18, 2011
Devotion, Dani Shapiro
Mentor: A Memoir, Tom Grimes
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, Sarah Bakewell (yes, this is a biography, but it is a biography of one of our most iconic early memoirists)
History of a Suicide, Jill Bialosky
The Liars' Club, Mary Karr (I need a new copy)
Moments of Being, Virginia Woolf
House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home, Mark Richard
Townie: A Memoir, Andre Dubus III
Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father, Geoffrey Wolff (hugely ashamed that I have not read this before)
Say Her Name, Francisco Goldman (classified as a novel, much like Dave Eggers classified his own memoirish story as a novel; my reflections on this book were posted two days ago)
6 comments:
I'm making note of these because I love memoirs too.
Please tell us about the picture above!
Ah, those horses. They come each May and stay for two weeks at the horse show down the road. I do little but photograph them when they are near.
Thanks for sharing these titles. Memoir is a genre I don't often read. When I do, I usually have trouble putting it down. So, I want to read more of it.
I'm currently reading Dani Shapiro's Devotion. There are places when her writing reminds me a little of yours. That's a compliment.
Great list of memoirs. I've added a few to my TBR list. Thanks! I just finished a book called "Major Dream: From Immigrant Housemaid to Harvard Ph.D" by Jin Kyu Robertson Ph.D. It's a very inspiring memoir about living the American Dream. I'd highly recommend it!
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