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jadyn513's "Memoirs to Read"

List of memoirs recommended by EW that sound interesting.
1. Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir
by Janice Erlbaum
  
2. Hope's Boy: A Memoir
by Andrew Bridge
  
3.
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 All Over But the Shoutin
by Rick Bragg
  
4. Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter
by Shoko Tendo
  
5. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
by Alexandra Fuller
  
6. They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
by Alphonsion Deng
  
7. Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
by Elissa Wall
  
8. Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
by Kao Kalia Yang
  
9. The Tender Bar: A Memoir
by J.R. Moehringer
  
10. The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir
by Honor Moore
  
11. Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife
by Irene Spencer
  
12. First Comes Love (Vintage)
by Marion Winik
  
13. Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating with My Dad
by Bob Morris
  
14.
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 Alternadad: The True Story of One Family's Struggle to Raise a Cool Kid in America
by Neal Pollack
  
15. Life Inside: A Memoir
by Mindy Lewis
  
16. The Birthday Party: A Memoir of Survival
by Stanley N. Alpert
  
17. Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man
by Norah Vincent
  
18. Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp
by Stephanie Klein
  
19. Thick As Thieves: A Brother, a Sister--a True Story of Two Turbulent Lives
by Steve Geng
  
20. Leaving Dirty Jersey: A Crystal Meth Memoir
by James Salant
  
21. Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
by Judith Levine
  
22. Goat: A Memoir
by Brad Land
  
23. The Kiss: A Memoir
by Kathryn Harrison
  
24.
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 CENTER CANNOT HOLD, THE: MY JOURNEY THROUGH MADNESS
by Elyn R. Saks
  
25. My Mother's Keeper: A Daughter's Memoir Of Growing Up In The Shadow Of Schizophrenia
by Tara E. Holley
  
26. The Outsider: A Journey into My Father's Struggle with Madness
by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer
  
27. Relative Stranger: Piecing Together a Life Plagued by Madness
by Mary Loudon
  
28. The Bill from My Father: A Memoir
by Bernard Cooper
  
29. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
by A. J. Jacobs
  
30. From Dawn to Dusk: Memoirs of an Amish Mennonite Farm Boy
by Will Troyer
  
31. The Love Spell: An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening
by Phyllis Curott
  
32. Running from the Devil : A Memoir of a Boy Possessed
by Steve Kissing
  
33.
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 Daughter of Heaven: A Memoir with Earthly Recipes
by Leslie Li
  
34. The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey
by Toi Derricotte
  
35.
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 Nitty Gritty: A White Editor in Black Journalism
by Ben Burns
  
36. Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (Writing in Latinidad)
by Rigoberto Gonzalez
  
37. Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon
by Nick Trout
  
38. Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army
by Kayla Williams
  
39. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.)
by Peter Hessler
  
40.
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 Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography (P.S.)
by Sebastian Horsley
  
41. Mr. Untouchable: My Crimes and Punishments
by Leroy "Nicky" Barnes
  
42. My Undoing: Love in the Thick of Sex, Drugs, Pornography, and Prostitution
by Aiden Shaw
  
43. Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob
by Bob Delaney
  
44. Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang
by William Queen
  
45. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
by Ted Conover
  
46. Autobiography Of A Geisha
by Sayo Masuda
  
47. American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in theNew China
by Matthew Polly
  
48.
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 Fowl Weather
by Bob Tarte
  
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Created by jadyn513 on Jun 07, 2008.