DebNance
Deb Nance

Memoir

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#2
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
  • Ruth Reichl
4.2220 reads
#3
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
  • Fuchsia Dunlop
3.86 reads
#4
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
  • Anya von Bremzen
4.110 reads
#5
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It All Changed in an Instant

It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure
  • Larry Smith, Rachel Fershleiser
41 read
#6
The Egg and I
The Egg and I
  • Betty MacDonald
3.57 reads
#8
Squatters in Paradise: A Yellowstone Memoir
Squatters in Paradise: A Yellowstone Memoir
  • James Perry
31 read
#9
Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
  • Nell Irvin Painter
2.676 reads
#10
The sound of gravel
The sound of gravel
  • Ruth Wariner
4.367 reads
#11
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Bonjour Kale

Bonjour Kale
  • Kristen Beddard
3.52 reads
#12
Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma
Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma
  • Melanie Brooks
31 read
#13
The Story Cure: A Book Doctor's Pain-Free Guide to Finishing Your Novel or Memoir
The Story Cure: A Book Doctor's Pain-Free Guide to Finishing Your Novel or Memoir
  • Dinty W. Moore
31 read
#14
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
  • J.D. Vance
3.49281 reads
#15
Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak: by Writers Famous and Obscure
Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak: by Writers Famous and Obscure
  • Rachel Fershleiser
41 read
#16
Not quite what I was planning
Not quite what I was planning
  • Rachel Fershleiser
3.86 reads
#17
If Nights Could Talk: A Family Memoir
If Nights Could Talk: A Family Memoir
  • Marsha Recknagel
22 reads
#18
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard: Library Edition
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard: Library Edition
  • Liz Murray
4.1410 reads
#19
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
  • Peter Godwin
3.675 reads
#20
The Goldfish Went on Vacation: A Memoir of Loss
The Goldfish Went on Vacation: A Memoir of Loss
  • Patty Dann
41 read
#21
The Memoir Club
The Memoir Club
  • Laura Kalpakian
31 read
#22
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
  • Barbara Brown Taylor
4.255 reads
#23
Around the House and in the Garden: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing, and Home Improvement
Around the House and in the Garden: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing, and Home Improvement
  • Dominique Browning
31 read
#24
The Art of Memoir
The Art of Memoir
  • Mary Karr
410 reads
#25
A Working Stiff's Manifesto
A Working Stiff's Manifesto
  • Iain Levison
31 read
#26
Reading "Lolita" In Tehran
Reading "Lolita" In Tehran
  • Azar Nafisi
3.5371 reads
#27
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
  • Lewis Buzbee
4.26 reads
#28
An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris
An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris
  • Stephanie LaCava
01 read
#29
The Olive Farm
The Olive Farm
  • Carol Drinkwater
3.54 reads
#30
It Takes a Village Idiot
It Takes a Village Idiot
  • Jim Mullen
41 read
#31
Space: A Memoir
Space: A Memoir
  • Jesse Lee Kercheval
01 read
#32
Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir
Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir
  • John Edgar Wideman
01 read
#33
Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected--A Memoir
Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected--A Memoir
  • Kelle Hampton
41 read
#34
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
  • Jenny Lawson
3.91139 reads
#35
Across many mountains
Across many mountains
  • Yangzom Brauen
31 read
#36
Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
  • Gail Caldwell
32 reads
#37
Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir
Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir
  • Susan E. Isaacs
3.54 reads
#38
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Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person

Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics
  • Miriam Engelberg
42 reads
#39
My Losing Season
My Losing Season
  • Pat Conroy
44 reads
#40
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Name All the Animals

Name All the Animals: A Memoir
  • Alison Smith
42 reads
#41
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Blue Suburbia

Blue Suburbia
  • Laurie Albanese
31 read
#42
Funny in Farsi
Funny in Farsi
  • Firoozeh Dumas
3.8213 reads
#43
Epilogue: A Memoir
Epilogue: A Memoir
  • Anne Roiphe
31 read
#44
Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper
Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper
  • Peter Hill
31 read
#45
Reaching for the Moon
Reaching for the Moon
  • Katherine G. Johnson
42 reads
#46
Story of a Soul
Story of a Soul
  • Thérèse de Lisieux
  • John Clarke (Translator)
43 reads
#47
Just Kids
Just Kids
  • Patti Smith
4.17180 reads
#48
Magic Bus: On the Hippie Trail from Istanbul to India
Magic Bus: On the Hippie Trail from Istanbul to India
  • Rory MacLean
31 read
#49
Morningstar: Growing Up With Books
Morningstar: Growing Up With Books
  • Ann Hood
41 read
#50
As They Were
As They Were
  • M.F.K. Fisher
41 read
#51
Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years
Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years
  • Cathy Guisewite
3.333 reads
#52
Butter Tea at Sunrise: A Year in the Bhutan Himalaya
Butter Tea at Sunrise: A Year in the Bhutan Himalaya
  • Britta Das
31 read
#53
Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride
Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride
  • Lucy Knisley
3.8316 reads
#54
Brown Girl Dreaming
Brown Girl Dreaming
  • Jacqueline Woodson
4.363 reads
#55
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Are We French Yet? Keith & Val's Adventures in Provence

Are We French Yet? Keith & Val's Adventures in Provence
  • Keith Van Sickle
41 read
#56
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
  • Anne Lamott
3.6417 reads
#57
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
  • Amy Krouse Rosenthal
3.868 reads
#58
Home cooking
Home cooking
  • Laurie Colwin
45 reads
#59
Paris to the Moon
Paris to the Moon
  • Adam Gopnik
3.511 reads
#60
The Middle Place
The Middle Place
  • Kelly Corrigan
3.333 reads
#61
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Old Friend from Far Away

Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir
  • Natalie Goldberg
4.52 reads
#62
The Second Journey: The Road Back to Yourself
The Second Journey: The Road Back to Yourself
  • Joan Anderson
31 read
#63
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  • Maya Angelou
4.13250 reads
#64
Roughing It: The Works of Mark Twain
Roughing It: The Works of Mark Twain
  • Mark Twain
3.336 reads
#65
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The Pursuit of Happyness

The Pursuit of Happyness: An NAACP Image Award Winner
  • Chris Gardner
2.926 reads
#66
American Born Chinese
American Born Chinese
  • Gene Luen Yang
3.88131 reads
#67
Stealing Buddha's Dinner
Stealing Buddha's Dinner
  • Bich Minh Nguyen
43 reads
#68
The Mistress's Daughter
The Mistress's Daughter
  • A.M. Homes
32 reads
#69
Tasting the Sky
Tasting the Sky
  • Ibtisam Barakat
3.833 reads
#70
Enslaved by Ducks
Enslaved by Ducks
  • Bob Tarte
32 reads
#71
Truth & Beauty
Truth & Beauty
  • Ann Patchett
3.9619 reads
#72
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
  • Marjane Satrapi
  • Mattias Ripa (Translator)
4.33339 reads
#73
Lobster Chronicles, The: Life on a Very Small Island
Lobster Chronicles, The: Life on a Very Small Island
  • Linda Greenlaw
3.52 reads
#74
The Hungry Ocean
The Hungry Ocean
  • Linda Greenlaw
3.52 reads
#75
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing up Groovy and Clueless
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing up Groovy and Clueless
  • Susan Jane Gilman
3.334 reads
#76
It's Not about the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
It's Not about the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
  • Lance Armstrong
  • Sally Jenkins
3.6413 reads
#77
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Losing My Faculties

Losing My Faculties: A Teacher's Story
  • Brendan Halpin
41 read
#78
Confessions of a Slacker Mom
Confessions of a Slacker Mom
  • Muffy Mead-Ferro
32 reads
#79
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: A Love Story . . . with Wings
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: A Love Story . . . with Wings
  • Mark Bittner
32 reads
#80
My Life in the Middle Ages
My Life in the Middle Ages
  • James Atlas
31 read
#81
Dry
Dry
  • Augusten Burroughs
3.7845 reads
#82
Everybody into the Pool
Everybody into the Pool
  • Beth Lisick
32 reads
#83
Fat girls and lawn chairs
Fat girls and lawn chairs
  • Cheryl Peck
41 read
#84
Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life: Or How I Learned to Love the House, the Man, the Child
Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life: Or How I Learned to Love the House, the Man, the Child
  • Faulkner Fox
41 read
#85
Population 485
Population 485
  • Michael Perry
41 read
#86
Goa Freaks: My Hippie Years in India
Goa Freaks: My Hippie Years in India
  • Cleo Odzer
31 read
#87
Recollections of Country Joe
Recollections of Country Joe
  • Sherman E. Lee
41 read
#88
Life with Father
Life with Father
  • Clarence Day Jr.
41 read
#89
Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia
  • George Orwell
4.1597 reads
#90
Lucky: A Memoir
Lucky: A Memoir
  • Alice Sebold
4.1836 reads
#91
Kid Gloves
Kid Gloves
  • Lucy Knisley
4.510 reads
#92
Inspired
Inspired
  • Rachel Held Evans
4.1320 reads
#93
Bookworm
Bookworm
  • Lucy Mangan
4.078 reads
#94
Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness
Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness
  • Sasha Martin
3.86 reads
#95
Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet
  • Eric Newby
3.754 reads
#96
Champagne Baby: How One Parisian Learned to Love Wine--and Life--the American Way
Champagne Baby: How One Parisian Learned to Love Wine--and Life--the American Way
  • Laure Dugas
4.52 reads
#97
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Breaking Bread

Breaking Bread: A Baker's Journey Home in 75 Recipes
  • Martin Philip
4.52 reads
#98
Paris in Winter: An Illustrated Memoir
Paris in Winter: An Illustrated Memoir
  • David Coggins
51 read
#99
A Thousand Days in Tuscany
A Thousand Days in Tuscany
  • Marlena de Blasi
3.52 reads
#100
The Blue Bear: A True Story of Friendship and Discovery in the Alaskan Wild
The Blue Bear: A True Story of Friendship and Discovery in the Alaskan Wild
  • Lynn Schooler
41 read
#101
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
  • Bill Bryson
3.7763 reads
#102
Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America
Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America
  • Natalie Goldberg
32 reads