Books

 On Memoir Writing

Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home by Lynn Freed
Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir edited by William Zinsser
One Memory at a Time by D.G. Fulford
The Art of Time in Memoir  by Sven Birkerts
Writing About Your Life by William Zinsser


Memoirs

An American Childhood, Annie Dillard
Mama Makes Up Her Mind, Bailey White
The Solace of Open Spaces, Gretel Ehrlich
The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton
Circling My Mother, Mary Gordon
Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, Anne Lamott
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom 
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary, Rebecca Brown
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
Mother and Me: A Mother Care Memoir, Mona Forman Doyle
Moonlight on Linoleum: A Daughter's Memoir, Terry Helwig and Sue Monk Kidd
Girl Interrupted, Susanna Keyson
Who Do You Think You Are?: A Memoir, Alyse Myers
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table, Ruth Reichl
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, Ruth Reichl
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
Prozac Nation, Elizbeth Wurtzel
The Middle Place, Kelly Corrigan
Liar's Club, Mary Karr
The Mother Knot, Kathryn Harrison
Borrowed Finery, Paula Fox
The Souvenir, Louise Steinman
Fierce Attachments, Vivian Gornick
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson
700 Sundays, Billy Crystal