Personal Stories


Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Crying in H Mart
When Breath Becomes Air
Bossypants
The Diary of a Young Girl
I’m Glad My Mom Died
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Educated
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
The Choice: Embrace the Possible
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
Man's Search for Meaning
Yes Please
The Glass Castle
The Last Lecture
Born a Crime by Trevor NoahInheritance by Dani ShapiroMaybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori GottliebFinding My Way by Robin F. SchepperBreaking the Chain by Stacie  Webb
Family Secrets - Mainly Memoirs
20 books — 5 voters
You Can't Drive Your Car to Your Own Funeral by Ann Marie HancockThe Upside of Cancer by Christopher   FosterAn Unfashionable Cancer by Debbie MurphyFrom Doctor to Healer by Erica M. Elliott M.D.Carrying the Tiger by Tony    Stewart
Best Cancer Memoirs
37 books — 21 voters

In order to narrate her own life, she needs another person to listen, to aid in the tending of her interior.
Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

Christy Lefteri
You see, when you clump people together and don’t understand their personal stories, you can make up any bullshit and convince yourself it’s the truth.
Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

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