Best Memoirs

The Secret Life of a Schoolgirl

by Rosemary Kingsland

2007

The Secret Life of a Schoolgirl is an extraordinary memoir—a jewel. Rosemary Kingsland was born in India during the dying days of the British Raj. While there, she and her family lived a life of privilege. But with the fall of the Raj, they…

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Adios to Tears

by Seiichi Higashide

2000

Seiichi Higashide (1909-97) was a leader in the effort to obtain redress from the American government for the violation of the human rights of the Peruvian Japanese internees during World War II. His moving memoir tells the story of a bizar…

Brown Boy

by Omer Aziz

2023

An uncompromising portrait of identity, family, religion, race, and class that “cuts to the bone” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) told through Omer Aziz’s incisive and luminous prose. In a tough neighborhood on the outskirts of Toronto,…

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I Left It on the Mountain

by Kevin Sessums

2015

A New York Times bestseller from an author sharing the darkest moments of his life—and how he found the light again—in this honest and vulnerable memoir. On his fifty-third birthday, Kevin Sessums woke up in his L.A. hotel room wondering ho…

€18.18 list price

Under the Wire

by William Ash

2005

Bill Ash was one of a rare breed - an American prepared to sacrifice his citizenship and risk his life to fight the Nazis at a time when the USA was still neutral. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and before long found himself flying …

Midnight Being Midnight

by DARREN. WITTWER

2026

A heartfelt memoir of family, resilience and an extraordinary bond between one man and his beloved Labrador. Warm, humorous, deeply moving, Midnight Being Midnight celebrates unconditional love, loyalty, memories that last a lifetime.…

Daughters of the Grasslands

by Mary Woster Haug

2014

Mary Woster Haug offers a lovely, ruminative book transcending usual boundaries of memoir and travel writing. Set in modern, bustling Korea during a teaching year abroad, but forever grounded within implicating memories from South Dakota…

Bad Blood

by Lorna Sage

2009

Bestselling author Lorna Sage delivers the tragicomic memoirof her escape from a claustrophobic childhood in post-WWII Britain—and thestory of the weddings and relationships that defined three generations of herfamily—in Bad Blood, an inter…

Fortress of My Youth

by Jana Renée Friesová

2002

Jana Renée Friesová was fifteen when she was imprisoned by the Nazis in the Czech ghetto town of Terezín. Her memoir tells the poignantly familiar story of a young girl who, even under the most abominable circumstances, engages in intense a…

Telling Lives, Telling History

by Susan Rodgers

1995

These two memoirs provide windows into the Sumatran past, in particular, and the early 20th-century history of south-east Asia, in general. In reconstructing their own passage into adulthood, the writers tell the story of their country'…

The Seasons

by Jo Sinclair

1993

   As a novelist concerned with issues of gender, social class, and ethnicity, Jo Sinclair has won coveted literary prizes and a devoted following. Now in this extraordinary memoir, she relates a tale as fascinating, and as moving, as an…

Godmine

by Elizabeth Christopher

2011

It is divided into three sections: my poems, the lyrics to some of my songs, and writings…