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Memoirs You’ll Think About Long After
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items Raw, honest, beautifully written stories that linger in the best, most unforgettable ways!
One of those books that sits heavy in your chest long after you close it. Chanel Miller writes with a clarity and courage that’s almost disarming. Her voice is sharp, vulnerable, poetic, and fiercely human. It’s painful, powerful, and necessary, the ...
Know My Name: Chanel Miller
Such a raw, reflective ride. Briana Madia writes about life on the road, the relationships that shaped her, and the dogs who stayed by her side. It’s a memoir about choosing yourself, facing your mess, and holding on to the beings who love you throug...
Never Leave the Dogs Behind: Briana Madia
Grabs you by the heart from page one. Jeannette Walls writes about her childhood with this blend of honesty, grit, and unexpected tenderness that makes every moment hit harder. It’s messy, resilient, heartbreaking, and strangely beautiful all at once...
The Glass Castle: Jeannette Walls
Lisa Marie’s voice hits with this raw, steady heat. It’s vulnerable without being fragile, strong without trying. You can feel the echo of her father Elvis' legacy.. Not in a heavy way, but like a quiet heartbeat behind her own story. It’s her voice,...
From Here to the Great Unknown: Presley & Keough
Confession: I re-watch Gilmore Girls every single Fall. Kelly Bishop (the grandmother in the show) is every bit as sharp, glamorous, and wickedly honest as you’d hope. It feels like getting the real Lorelai-then-Emily scoop straight from the source—f...
The Third Gilmore Girl: Kelly Bishop
Growing up watching Alyson Stoner as a child star, I felt this strange mix of nostalgia and heartbreak reading her story—like I wanted to reach through the pages and just hug her younger self. She writes with such tenderness, clarity, and hard-earned...
Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything
Absolutely electric! Afeni’s life unfolds with this fierce clarity and unshakeable strength, from her days as a Black Panther to her legacy as Tupac’s mother. The conversations in this memoir feel intimate, honest, and deeply human. You see her fire,...
Afeni Shakur: Evolution Of A Revolutionary
This Mailman's memoir is way more heartfelt and chaotic-in-a-good-way than I expected. It’s this mix of rugged backroads, small-town humanity, and all the wild things that happen when you’re the one delivering life’s letters, bills, and secrets. Ther...
Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering Mail Appalachia
Such a sharp, funny, and brutally honest behind-the-curtain look at a show so many of us grew up glued to. It’s equal parts glam, grit, and ‘wait… they really did that?’ The author was a contestant on cycle 9 of the show and she balances humor with r...
You Wanna Be on Top?: Makeovers & Manipulation
Tom Felton opens up about growing up as Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter world with this warm, self-aware mix of humor and honesty. It’s nostalgic in the best way—like revisiting the magic, but finally hearing what it actually felt like behind the sc...
Beyond the Wand: Magic & Mayhem Growing Up
McConaughey feels like that chill friend who somehow turns every chaotic moment into a life lesson. It’s reflective, messy, funny, and kinda wakes you up to your own ‘greenlights.’ Big vibe-shift energy. Would recommend if you’re into storytelling wi...
Greenlights: Matthew McConaughey
One of the most inventive, haunting, and heartbreaking memoirs I’ve ever read. Carmen Maria Machado turns memory into architecture and emotion into atmosphere, walking you through a house built from tenderness, fear, courage, and truth. It’s raw and ...
In the Dream House: A Memoir
Truly one of the most insane memoirs i've ever read! Unfiltered, sharp, chaotic, vulnerable, and weirdly poetic. She takes you through the mess, the glamour, the pain, and the reinvention with this blunt honesty that makes it impossible to look away....
Down the Drain: Julia Fox
The eldest daughter behind the viral YouTube channel 8 Passengers. Growing up under the constant glare of that ‘perfect family’ facade, she reveals a much darker truth about her mother’s abusive control and the crushing weight of influencer culture. ...
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest
Felt like sitting down with Matthew Perry—yes, the Chandler Bing we all grew up loving—and finally hearing the truth he carried behind the jokes. It’s raw, heartbreaking, self-aware, and so human. He writes about addiction, fame, loneliness, and hope...
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
This one quietly rearranges something inside you. James McBride writes about his mother and his own identity with so much love, confusion, humor, and honesty that you feel like you’re growing up alongside him. His mother’s story is courageous and com...
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute
A brilliant neurosurgeon on the edge of suddenly diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. The memoir follows him as he moves from doctor to patient, trying to understand what a meaningful life looks like when time becomes impossibly short. He writes with...
When Breath Becomes Air: Paul Kalanithi