2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by Avis Black (12 Lists)



Yankee Summer by Lewis HillA Genuine Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English G... by John Zephaniah HolwellFifty Years' Observations of Men and Events, Civil and Military by Erasmus Darwin KeyesA Soldier of the Sky by George F. CampbellA Country School by Bob Artley
Good But Insanely Obscure Memoirs and Autobiographies With Only 1 or 2 Ratings
72 books — 1 voter
As You Wish by Cary ElwesRelish by Lucy KnisleyThe Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. GraffQuiet Girl in a Noisy World by Debbie TungThanks a Lot, Mr. Kibblewhite by Roger Daltrey
Best Memoirs Published Between 2010 and 2019
113 books — 5 voters

Running with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsKitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainLove Is a Mix Tape by Rob SheffieldA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonChristmas Remembered by Tomie dePaola
Best Memoirs Published Between 2000 to 2009
83 books — 3 voters
The Coming Fury by Bruce CattonUp Front by Bill MauldinHiroshima by John HerseyThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanBlack Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
Classic Books About War
55 books — 2 voters

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtNotes from a Small Island by Bill BrysonEcology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse RayMoab Is My Washpot by Stephen FryWinter Warmers by Rib Davis
Best Memoirs Published in the 1990s
97 books — 5 voters
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithOne Writer's Beginnings by Eudora WeltyMemories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthyA Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin GarlandAn Hour Before Daylight by Jimmy Carter
Memoirs and Autobiographies of American Childhood Before World War II
52 books — 2 voters

My Family & Other Animals by Gerald DurrellCider With Rosie by Laurie LeeBoy by Roald DahlGiving Up the Ghost by Hilary MantelA Very Private School by Charles Spencer
Memoirs and Autobiographies of British Childhood
73 books — 3 voters
A Royal Experiment by Janice HadlowThe Girl by Samantha GeimerConfessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence KingPassionate Minds by David BodanisGod's Battalions by Rodney Stark
Best Nonfiction with MORE than 500 but LESS than 2,000 Ratings
115 books — 5 voters

Quartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald FraserIs Paris Burning? by Larry CollinsThe Price of Glory by Alistair HorneEmbraced by the Light by Betty J. EadieEleni by Nicholas Gage
Best Nonfiction Books with MORE than 2,000 but LESS than 10,000 Ratings
113 books — 5 voters
Adventures of a Mountain Man by Zenas LeonardNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick DouglassDomestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Milton TrollopeThe Life of Henry Brulard by StendhalJournal of My Life During The French Revolution by Grace Dalrymple Elliott
Best Memoirs Published in the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s
25 books — 2 voters


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