Reading Glasses - Fan Group discussion

I've been reading a lot of memoirs lately and I'm looking for new recommendations. does anybody have any that they'd recommend? I'm open to pretty much all kinds of people and stories, but I'm especially interested in food writing, queer stories, and bipolar disorder, so bonus if you got any of those.

I haven't read like any autobiographies/memoirs, but last year I read Unbowed by Wangari Maathi. She was a Kenyan environmental political activist and super badass. I read her book for a class and really enjoyed it in its own right.

Also I'm sure you've heard of Fun Home but if you haven't read it, it's excellent! Just read it for the first time last month.

Oh, I just remembered another one: Man Alive by Thomas Page McBee. The author's a trans man and it's a memoir about him creating identity and becoming a man. I read it more than three years ago so I don't remember a ton about it, but I remember liking it!!

I read a memoir a couple years ago about a woman’s struggle with her anxiety disorder that actually changed the way I though about my own disorder. It’s called Let The Tornado Come by Rita Zoey Chin. Definitely worth a read.

I have read quite a few mental health memoirs and two recommendations are Your Voice in My Head by Emma Forrest and Mad Girl by Bryony Gordon. Another recommendation in general is by UK comedian Sara Pascoe - Animal, a really good book with a mix of scientific research into mainly female physiology and some biographical essays, its fascinating. And I have just finished Educated by Tara Westover which is really compulsive read - I couldn't put it down!