30 memoirs you need to read

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All of these very different memoirs have something in common: they are incredibly well written. Some made me cry, some made me laugh, all of them showed me a new perspective that has stuck with me.

1. An Exact Replica of a Figment of my Imagination — Elizabeth McCracken
2. A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal — Jen Waite
3. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness — Susannah Cahalan
4. Running with Scissors — Augusten Burroughs
5. Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss — Stephanie Wittels Wachs
6. The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story — Hyeonseo Lee
7. The Glass Castle — Jeannette Walls
8. Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations — Mira Jacob
9. Her — Christa Parravani
10. High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict’s Double Life — Tiffany Jenkins
11. I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death — Maggie O’Farrell
12. It’s Okay to Laugh (Crying is Cool Too) — Nora McInerny
13. Land of Enchantment — Leigh Stein
14. Lit — Mary Karr\
15. A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy — Sue Klebold
16. My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward — Mark Lukach
17. Once More We Saw Stars — Jayson Greene
18. The Rules Do Not Apply — Ariel Levy
19. The Rules of Inheritance — Claire Bidwell Smith
20. To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret — Jedidiah Jenkins
21. The Sound of Gravel — Ruth Wariner
22. The Still Point of the Turning World — Emily Rapp
23. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness –Kay Redfield Jamison
24. Untamed — Glennon Doyle
25. The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live –Heather Armstrong
26. Wave — Sonali Deraniyagala
27. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running — Haruki Murakami
28. When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi
29. You’ll Grow Out of It — Jessi Klein
30. You Will Not Have My Hate — Antoine Leiris