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Best Female-Authored Memoirs (2005–Present)

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This is my collection of memoirs by women who don’t just tell their stories—they reclaim them. These are the voices that cracked me open, stitched me back together, and reminded me what resilience, wit, and honesty sound like on the page. From messy ...
 
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Beautifully written narrative strong female protagonist probably my favorite memoir to date.
Finding Home: From Cairo to New York: A Memoir
 
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Incredible book about redefining yourself and family dynamics.
Dancing on Daddy's Grave: A Soul-stirring Memoir
 
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Amazing coming of age memoir
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
 
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Interesting formatted memoir with fragments of real and make believe conversations .
We Are Too Many: A Memoir by Hannah Pittard
 
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The most beautiful writing. She will make you want to research Rastafarian culture. Poetic and just breathtakingly beautiful.
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir - Safiya Sinclair
 
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Imperative read, delving into the coverup of an assault, let’s learn from our past mistakes.
Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir: Crawford, Lacy
 
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About her experience with complex PTSD and complex PTSD, including how the trauma from childhood and family dynamics shaped her life, identity, and relationships. Fascinating.
What My Bones Know: Memoir of Healing
 
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This is a memoir about a woman who grows up isolated in a strict, survivalist family in rural Idaho with no formal schooling and teaches herself enough to earn a PhD from Cambridge University.great success story!
Educated: A Memoir: Westover, Tara: 9780399590504
 
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Hysterical and heartbreaking memoir about child star and the aftermath
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
 
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Wonderful book on memoir form, child’s perspective to adulthood.
Spilled Milk: Based on a true story: Randis, K.L
 
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Powerful memoir about taking back your power as a woman.
Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
 
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Half mystery half memoir altogether captivating!
Raised by a Serial Killer: My Father's Truth
 
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This follows a girl raised off the grid by free-spirited parents on Maui, navigating poverty, adventure, and neglect amid the island’s beauty. It’s a raw, resilient coming-of-age story about finding identity and belonging in a world that’s both idyll...
Freckled: Memoir of Growing up Wild in Hawaii
 
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The memoir charts a journey from suffering and chaos into a life of purpose and growth, using practices like yoga and supportive communities as tools for rebuilding
THIRST: A Memoir: Fierer, Lisa: 9780578789835
 
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Queer, Autistic narrative.. absolutely moving.
Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir by Hannah Gadsby
 
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A story about being othered and finding yourself.. from a black queer perspective
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
 
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Traditionally cuban-columbian family Daisy the author comes out as bisexual--a coming of age family memoir.
A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir
 
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Interest writing style and format worth reading for lyricism and style. GBLT themes but also of self worth.
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
 
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A memoir told through nonlinear snapshots of Maggie O’Farrell’s life where true hardship shape her life. some chapters are super short and some long, fascinating style and form.
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death