Memoirs

Workshop Reading List:

Finneran, Kathleen:
The Tender Land
 

Earley, Tony:
Somehow Form a Family

Other Suggested Reading:
Coming of Age:
   

Baker, Russell:
Growing Up
   


Bryson, Bill:
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
 


Burroughs, Augustus:
Running With Scissors 


Carroll, Jim:
Basketball Diaries
 


Coleman, Melissa:
This Life is in Your Hands: One Family, Sixty Acres, and A Family Undone
 


Cunningham, Laura:
Sleeping Arrangements 


Dillard Annie:
An American Childhood 


Diski, Jenny:
Skating to Antartica
 


Goulian, Jon-Jon:
The Man in the Grey Flannel Skirt



Kahlo, Frida:
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
 


Karr, Mary:
The Liar's Club 


Kaysen, Susanna:
Girl Interrupted
 


Lewis, Mindy:
Life Inside 


Miller, Alyce:
The Table 


Norris, Kathleen:
Dakota: A Spiritual Journey
Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Noks, and a Writer's Life



Pearson, Michael:
Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx
 


Reichl, Ruth:
Tender At the Bone: Growing Up at the Table 


Sartor, Margaret:
Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets, and Growing Up in the 1970s
 


Scotty, Robyn:
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle 


Sedaris, Davis:
Me Talk Pretty One Day 


Sexton, Linda Gray:
Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton
 


Smith, Patti:
Just Kids: From Brooklyn to the Chelsea Hotel: A Life of Art and Friendship
 


Wolff, Tobias:
This Boy's Life
 

Adversity:  

Bauby, Jean-Dominique:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 


Berger, Suzanne:
Horizontal Woman 


Ehrlich, Gretel:
A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightning
 

Fitzgerald, F. Scott:
The Crack-Up 


Grealy, Lucy:
The Autobiography of a Face 


Henshaw, Betty Grant:
Children of the Dust: An Okie Family Story
 


Kerman, Piper:
Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
 


Knapp, Caroline:
Drinking: A Love Story 


Moody, Anne:
Coming of Age in Mississippi
 


Siebold, Alice:
Lucky 


Simon, Rachel:
Riding the Bus With My Sister
 


Walls, Jeanette:
The Glass Castle
 

Relationships: 

Allende, Isabelle:
Paula 


Baley, John:
An Elegy for Iris
  
 

Eggers, David:
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 


Horan, Nancy:
Loving Frank
 


Kittredge, William:
A Hole in the Sky
 


Texier, Catherine:
The Breakup
 

Travel:  

Bryson, Bill:
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
 

Cahill, Tim:
Jaguars Ripped Through My Flesh   


Steinbach, Alice:
Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman 


Theroux, Paul:
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
 

Work: 

Brown, Larry:
Fire
 


Conroy, Pat:
The Water is Wide
 


Conway, Jill Ker:
True North 


Dillard, Annie:
The Writing Life
 


Hansen, Suzanne:
You'll Never Nanny in this Town Again: The True Adventures of a Hollywood Nanny
 


Hari, Daoud:
Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur 


Markham, Beryl:
West With the Night 


Norris, Kathleen:
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
 


Sacks, Oliver:
Awakenings 


Smith, Bob:
Hamlet's Dresser
 


Snyder, Don:
The Cliff Walk 


Swofford, Anthony:
Jarhead
   

Escaping Chronology: 

Dederer, Claire:
Poser: My Life in Twenty Three Yoga Poses 


Fisher, MFK:
An Alphabet for Gourmets
 


Jordan, Pete:
Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States 


Levi, Primo:
The Periodic Table 


McMurtry, Larry:
Books: A Memoir 


Sheffield, Rob:
Love is a Mix Tape 


Vowell, Sarah:
Assassination Vacation
   

Others:    

Corrigan, Maureen:
Leave Me Alone I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
 


Diski, Jenny:
Skating to Antartica 


Elroy, James:
My Dark Places 


Hemingway, Ernest:
A Movable Feast 


Gordon, Mary:
The Shadow Man
 


Houston, Pam:
A Little More About Me 


Walker, Cami:
29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life 


Wallace, David Foster:
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments 


Zinn, Howard:
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Time