Lists of Bests: jadyn513's "Memoirs to Read" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/56125 List of memoirs recommended by EW that sound interesting. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:06:10 GMT en-us 0 50 48 0 0 Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/917006 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/917006"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812974565.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Janice Erlbaum</div> Hope's Boy: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4107774 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4107774"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41l79srhK%2BL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andrew Bridge</div> All Over But the Shoutin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2536595 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rick Bragg</div> Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2916166 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2916166"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01u3fhR6oEL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shoko Tendo</div> Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23767 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23767"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375758992.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandra Fuller</div> They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1202678 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1202678"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1586483889.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alphonsion Deng</div> Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4030762 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4030762"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51W410oZ4PL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elissa Wall</div> Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3659332 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3659332"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01sF8Q4fNGL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kao Kalia Yang</div> The Tender Bar: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1008185 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1008185"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786888768.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.R. Moehringer</div> The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3803551 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3803551"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41AjZGgrnXL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Honor Moore</div> Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2534981 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2534981"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1599957191.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V49823086_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irene Spencer</div> First Comes Love (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/887104 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/887104"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679765557.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marion Winik</div> Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating with My Dad http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4107776 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4107776"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FHLjXevNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bob Morris</div> Alternadad: The True Story of One Family's Struggle to Raise a Cool Kid in America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2868208 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neal Pollack</div> Life Inside: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75710 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75710"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743411501.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1067919613_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mindy Lewis</div> The Birthday Party: A Memoir of Survival http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2715000 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2715000"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0399154027.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stanley N. Alpert</div> Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1964318 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1964318"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143038702.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norah Vincent</div> Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2308009 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2308009"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060843292.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephanie Klein</div> Thick As Thieves: A Brother, a Sister--a True Story of Two Turbulent Lives http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3290125 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3290125"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11EtEwSiQaL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steve Geng</div> Leaving Dirty Jersey: A Crystal Meth Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3626430 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3626430"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11ZMi-lgwqL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Salant</div> Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1979740 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1979740"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743269365.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Judith Levine</div> Goat: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29115 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29115"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1400060931.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brad Land</div> The Kiss: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3173686 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3173686"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01D01E4NB1L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kathryn Harrison</div> CENTER CANNOT HOLD, THE: MY JOURNEY THROUGH MADNESS http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3024005 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elyn R. Saks</div> My Mother's Keeper: A Daughter's Memoir Of Growing Up In The Shadow Of Schizophrenia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2140254 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2140254"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0380723026.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tara E. Holley</div> The Outsider: A Journey into My Father's Struggle with Madness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2237172 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2237172"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0767901908.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer</div> Relative Stranger: Piecing Together a Life Plagued by Madness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3057383 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3057383"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11dBvmHQzLL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Loudon</div> The Bill from My Father: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3409739 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3409739"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/010KKKA3C0L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernard Cooper</div> The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2836429 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2836429"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/010QDPAfRnL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. J. Jacobs</div> From Dawn to Dusk: Memoirs of an Amish Mennonite Farm Boy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/909640 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/909640"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1932303545.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Will Troyer</div> The Love Spell: An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/236356 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/236356"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1592401651.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1131050698_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Phyllis Curott</div> Running from the Devil : A Memoir of a Boy Possessed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1675720 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1675720"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0824521056.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steve Kissing</div> Daughter of Heaven: A Memoir with Earthly Recipes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1067503 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leslie Li</div> The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3799973 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3799973"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71Q70KW6XFL._SL75_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toi Derricotte</div> Nitty Gritty: A White Editor in Black Journalism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4107779 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ben Burns</div> Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (Writing in Latinidad) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4107780 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4107780"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YTTSJQVJL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rigoberto Gonzalez</div> Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4107783 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4107783"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WElCQkW9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nick Trout</div> Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/868145 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/868145"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393329224.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kayla Williams</div> River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1009566 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1009566"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060855029.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Hessler</div> Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3446116 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sebastian Horsley</div> Mr. Untouchable: My Crimes and Punishments http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315013 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315013"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/159071041X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46688163_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leroy "Nicky" Barnes</div> My Undoing: Love in the Thick of Sex, Drugs, Pornography, and Prostitution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/775685 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/775685"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0786717432.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V54944991_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aiden Shaw</div> Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3578941 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3578941"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01wIuEEHYYL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bob Delaney</div> Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/198999 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/198999"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1400060842.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Queen</div> Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9286 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9286"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375726624.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438472_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ted Conover</div> Autobiography Of A Geisha http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/96501 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/96501"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0231129513.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sayo Masuda</div> American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in theNew China http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4107785 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4107785"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H8Xdm8tCL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matthew Polly</div> Fowl Weather http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2385408 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bob Tarte</div>