Autobiographical


The Diary of a Young Girl
Educated
I’m Glad My Mom Died
Night
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Becoming
Bossypants
The Bell Jar
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
The Glass Castle
When Breath Becomes Air
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Me Talk Pretty One Day
The Complete Persepolis
Yes Please
And So It Goes by Linda EllerbeeNaked in Baghdad by Anne GarrelsIt's What I Do by Lynsey AddarioTake Big Bites by Linda EllerbeeDon't Be Afraid of the Bullets by Laura Kasinof
Memoirs of women journalists
75 books — 14 voters

Down and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellGood Morning, Midnight by Jean RhysNight Roads by Gaito GazdanovAn Evening with Claire by Gaito GazdanovSpeak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Woebegone Émigré in Europe
8 books — 1 voter
Born Standing Up by Steve  MartinOne Picture Two Hearts. A love story set in the 90's about th... by Christy GossCurtain Seldom Up by Colin BowerBorn To Die by Lester CrabtreeWomen Are Like Cats and Men Like Dogs by Kat Brown
Books written by Entertainers
5 books — 2 voters

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh NguyenWhen Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly HayslipThe Best We Could Do by Thi BuiThe Gangster We Are All Looking For by Lê Thi Diem ThúyThe Eaves of Heaven by Andrew X. Pham
Vietnamese-American Novels & Memoirs
61 books — 46 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueSummer of '69 by Todd StrasserOn the Road by Jack KerouacThe Lover by Marguerite DurasThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Roman à clef
127 books — 39 voters

Philip K. Dick
In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to school, the better you will be able to handle reality when you finally manage to get loose at last from school, if that ever happens. But I guess I have what in the military they call a 'poor attitude,' which means 'shape up or ship out.' I always elected to ship out. ...more
Philip K. Dick

William Hermanns
God, save me and I will serve You as long as I live!
William Hermanns, The holocaust;: From a survivor of Verdun

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