 | The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $3.98 You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll call Child Protective Services. Loved it!
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 | The Liars' Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $7.66 Good. One of the original dysfunctional family memoirs and still great.
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 | Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story (Today Show Book Club #4) by Michael Datcher
Buy used from: $0.01 Good. An interesting read.
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 | In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel by Sarah Dunant
Buy used from: $0.01 Loved it! Prostitutes, Dwarves, 15th Century Venice. What's not to love :)
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 | The Birth of Venus: A Novel by Sarah Dunant
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 I liked this a lot but not as much as In the Company of the Courtesan
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 | Cracked: Life on the Edge in a Rehab Clinic by Drew Pinsky
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $4.00 Dr Drew's Memoir. Interesting information on addiction from a medical perspective BUT in narrative memoir form. Interesting characters. I liked it.
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 | Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey by Rachel Simon
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Very good. Beth (the sister) makes you smile and makes you cry.
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 | Finding Ben : A Mother's Journey Through the Maze of Asperger's by Barbara LaSalle
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $3.00 A memoir so you get a plot and a story while learning about aspergers. I loved how the Mom finally found Ben. Good.
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 | Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper
Buy used from: $0.01 Good but I felt like it wasn't finished. I think Anerson was hot after Katrina and someone talked him into publishing this early. Now he's in the Congo and I'd like to see that added to the book.
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 | Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! by Fannie Flagg
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 fun quirky characters. Tiny midwestern town contrasted with Big City reporter (Baby Girl).
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 | Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
Buy new: $10.56 / Used from: $1.86 My Big Fat Greek Wedding for Persians. Hysterical.
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 | The Dogs of Babel : A Novel by Carolyn Parkhurst
Buy used from: $2.04 OK. Interesting story. I liked the writing.
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 | We Were the Mulvaneys (Oprah's Book Club) by Joyce Carol Oates
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 I liked it - didn't love it. Great characters. Good writing.
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 | The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre
Buy used from: $0.01 Interesting. I didn't see the movie.
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 | The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 Cute. A little light for my style but I still enjoyed the stories and the writing.
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 | The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Buy used from: $0.01 I don't know where I got this book. Took me a while to get into it but I ended up really liking the story and the setting. The writing was also good.
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 | The Pleasure of My Company: A Novel by Steve Martin
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $0.01 A must read OCD character. Novella - read it in one sitting.
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 | Shopgirl: A Novella by Steve Martin
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $1.00 I liked The Pleasure of my company better but this was also good.
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 | Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 Nothing like the movie which was also good. Very good. quick read.
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 | My Sister's Keeper: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $0.01 OK. not really my style.
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 | A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 Loved half of it. The story is great but the book is a little long (which makes sense cause the trial was really long.)
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 | Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Buy new: $12.00 / Used from: $0.01 another one of the books that helped launch the current memoior phase. It's a bit outdated now and is less moving now that you know the author has been to rehab numerous times.
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 | Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Buy used from: $0.01 Terrorists take international dignitaries hostage and hold them for over a month. Not a thriller - it's about the relationships between hostages and hostage takers. Very Good.
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 | Pen on Fire: A Busy Woman's Guide to Igniting the Writer Within by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $1.21 Great get started guide. Also coaches on what to do once you've actually written something.
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 | Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
Buy used from: $0.01 |
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