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Unforgettable Memoirs 

Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

Burnt: A Memoir of Firefighting by Clare Frank

Fun Home and Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

The Body Papers by Grace Talusan
What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo

Speak, Okinawa by Elizabeth Miki Brina

Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

Making a Scene by Constance Wu

Dog Flowers: A Memoir, An Archive by Danielle Geller

American Seoul by Helena Rho

My Broken Language by Quiara Alegria Hudes

Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner

Every Day is a Gift by Tammy Duckworth

Gray is the New Black by Dorothy Rice

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Excavation by Wendy C. Ortiz

In the Dream House by Carmen Machado

Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Two Cultures and The Dream of Water: A Memoir by Kyoko Mori

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Educated by Tara Westover

Maid by Stephanie Land

Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp

Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala

Ru by Kim Thuy

Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace by Ayelet Waldman

Bossypants by Tina Fey

Stay True by Hua Hsu

Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Oh My Mother! by Connie Wang

all of Mary Karr's
all of Anne Lamott's
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