Memoirs are immensely popular and can sometimes go a long way in helping us illuminate our own lives.
We offer a quick roundup of memoirs published this year. Several have achieved best-seller status and/or critical acclaim. Click on a title for book descriptions and reviews. As a lead in, you might enjoy an article about the history of memoirs, courtesy of The New Yorker.
Sharp by David Fitzpatrick
Dan Gets a Minivan by Dan Zevin
A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez
Dropped Names by Frank Langella
By the Iowa Sea by Joe Blair
The Cost of Hope by Amanda Bennett
Full Body Burden by Kristin Iversen
Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
The Great Northern Express by Howard Frank Mosher
Dying To Be Me by Anita Moorjani
Burn Down the Ground by Kambri Crews
Bloom : Finding Beauty in the Unexpected by Kelle Hampton
No Cheating, No Dying. I Had a Good Marriage Then I Tried to Make It Better by Elizabeth Weil
MWF Seeking BFF : My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend by Rachel Bertsche
People Who Eat Darkness : the True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Paris : A Love Story by Kati Marton
