Most Read This Week In Memoir

As a literary genre, a memoir (from the French: mémoire from the Latin memoria, meaning "memory", or a reminiscence), forms a subclass of autobiography – although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are almost interchangeable in modern parlance. Memoir is autobiographical writing, but not all autobiographical writing follows the criteria for memoir.

Memoirs are structured differently from formal autobiographies which tend to encompass the writer's entire life span, focusing on the development of his/her personality. The chronological scope of memoir is determined by the work's context and is ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Memoir"

Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice

Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About

The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom

A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides

A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You

The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind

Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)

Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything

Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard

I'll Never Call Him Dad Again: Turning Our Family Trauma of Sexual Assault and Chemical Submission into a Collective Fight

The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much

Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum

The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love

Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York

A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America

Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King

Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

I Just Wish I Had a Bigger Kitchen: And Other Lies I Think Will Make Me Happy (Small Habits and Mindset Shifts to Find Contentment and Joy in Life)

This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir

Paris: A Memoir for Young Women in the Age of Influencers

Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir

Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton

Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery

Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

Out of the Woods: A Girl, a Killer, and a Lifelong Struggle to Find the Way Home

Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within

All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer

Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

The Other Side of Change: Who We Become When Life Makes Other Plans

A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins

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“ Thanksgiving is no time for amateur hour in the kitchen, but we were subjected to this Gong Show on a yearly basis. Aunt Kathy went knee deep in her preparations where others would have surrendered. ”
― Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar

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“ Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga. ...more ”
― William Zinsser

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