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Memorable Memoirs: Raw, Real Stories That Will Change You
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items Raw, honest, and unforgettable—these memoirs celebrate women who refuse to apologize for their stories. From trauma recovery to creative rebellion, these authors transform their experiences into powerful narratives that resonate with modern women nav...
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Trauma, Healing, and Finding Your Voice
Creative Lives + Artistic Rebellion
Modern Women, Messy Lives
Literary & Reflective
Trauma, Healing, and Finding Your Voice
For readers ready to face the hard stuff head-on. These memoirs prove that survival stories can be both devastating and empowering, showing how trauma can be transformed into strength and voice.
For anyone who will also be a little glad when their mom is no longer with us.
I'm Glad My Mom Died
This book worked better for me than years of therapy.
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
I love a book where I can laugh and cry from the same material.
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
This audiobook was an unexpected delight. Who knew Paul Scheer and I had so much in common?!
Joyful Recollections of Trauma
A vivid and heavy read that will leave you stunned and amazed. Required reading.
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
Carole is my favorite housewife of all time, so of course this is on my top memoir list.
What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love
A powerful read that I think about almost daily. Chanel Miller is a worthy advocate for other assault survivors, like me.
Know My Name: A Memoir
A required memoir for any reader's collection.
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Creative Lives + Artistic Rebellion
Dive into the messy, brilliant lives of artists and creators. These memoirs celebrate the courage it takes to live authentically and make art in a world that often demands conformity.
And for a brief moment, you're transported back to 1970s New York by one of our best modern storytellers.
Just Kids: An Autobiography
Little Weirds is so original and wonderful and it made me feel alive again. Jenny Slate is magical.
Little Weirds
A charming and memorable memoir from a security guard at The Met.
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Read it, listen to it, devour it any way you can, and then start over again.
Kitchen Confidential: 25th Anniversary Edition
A badass memoir from a badass babe.
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
I, too, have cried in H Mart.
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Modern Women, Messy Lives
The unfiltered truth about being a woman today—career struggles, relationship chaos, and the pressure to have it all figured out. These authors keep it real about the beautiful mess of modern life.
I couldn't put down this book, written by one of the first American Apparel hires.
Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles
This book won my heart and genuinely helped me through some necessary self-acceptance and healing.
Nice Girls Don't Win: How I Burned It All Down to Claim My Power
I highly recommend the audiobook!
Down the Drain
She's an icon, she's a legend, and she deserves her flowers. All hail the modern Pam-aissance!
Love, Pamela: A Memoir
Highly recommend the audiobook format of this amazing memoir.
Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Any other day one Kristen Kish stans out there?? I loved listening to her read this memoir on audiobook.
Accidentally on Purpose
Inspiring and beautiful, one of the most popular memoirs for a reason.
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Literary & Reflective
Memoirs that read like beautiful, contemplative literature. These authors transform personal experience into universal truths about loss, love, and what it means to be human.
Joan Didion stans, assemble!
The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner
I'm moving back to Vegas, and this will be the first book on my TBR
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Another memoir I recommend listening to on audiobook; I love when the author reads their own material.
Free: My Search for Meaning
A powerful glimpse inside the inner circle of Facebook as they shaped the global political landscape with shocking ease.
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism