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
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Most Read This Week Tagged "Memoir"

I’m Glad My Mom Died
107 Days
All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
Greenlights
The Woman in Me
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Crying in H Mart
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything: A Memoir
Untamed
Spare
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
From Here to the Great Unknown
The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir
Be Ready When the Luck Happens
My Next Breath
The Tell: A Memoir
Sociopath
A Promised Land
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
Counting the Cost
Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
The Happiest Man on Earth
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
Finding Me
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Mother Mary Comes to Me
Raising Hare: A Memoir
This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir
Down the Drain
A Different Kind of Power
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir
Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
The Trading Game: A Confession
Memorial Days
Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home
Solito
Cher: The Memoir, Part 1
Nice Girls Don't Win: How I Burned It All Down to Claim My Power
Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Love, Pamela
Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within
Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day
How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
The Carpool Detectives: A True Story of Four Moms, Two Bodies, and One Mysterious Cold Case
Taste: My Life Through Food
Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success
Stay True
Paris: The Memoir
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
You Wanna Be on Top?: A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America's Next Top Model
I Regret Almost Everything
Open Book
Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President
A Very Punchable Face
Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
My Body
Notes on Grief
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Things in Nature Merely Grow
Gwyneth: The Biography
The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Strong Female Character
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
I'll Never Call Him Dad Again: Turning Our Family Trauma of Sexual Assault and Chemical Submission into a Collective Fight
Spent: A Comic Novel
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Uncultured: A Memoir
What I Ate in One Year (And Related Thoughts)
The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
Triste tigre
A Clean Mess: A Memoir of Sobriety After a Lifetime of Being Numb
Pageboy
Monique s'évade
Yearbook
A Truce That Is Not Peace
Dear Dolly
Death and the Gardener: A Novel
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
Code Name: Pale Horse—How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis
Tell Me Everything
Changer : méthode
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
The Young Man
Matriarch: A Memoir
All Boys Aren’t Blue
Abroad in Japan: Ten Years in the Land of the Rising Sun
On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
L'Effondrement
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
Source Code: My Beginnings
Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America

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It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
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