Suey at It's All About Books posted a list of her favorite biographies/memoirs today and invited her readers to do the same. Here's mine (in no particular order):
- Michael J. Fox's Lucky Man
- The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
- Alice Sebold's Lucky
- Wake Up, I'm Fat! by Camryn Manheim
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
- Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Marilyn by Gloria Steinem
- Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle
- Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
Great list, I enjoy memoirs myself. I read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings way back when and enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteTheres a memoir by Irene Spencer called Shattered Dreams, it was really great. I recommend it!
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Naida: I've got Shattered Dreams on my to-read list. Thanks for the recommendation!
ReplyDeleteI loved The Glass Castle and Eat Pray Love. Another good one is Night by Elie Weisel.
ReplyDeleteShelley: I've had Night on my to-read list for a very long time. (I heard Elie Weisel speak when I was in college.) I recently moved it toward to top of my list, so I hope to get to it soon!
ReplyDeleteI forgot about Eat Pray Love, it's a book you either love or hate -- I loved it.
ReplyDeleteGood list.
I haven't dared read Eat, Pray, Love yet. Need to before the movie.
ReplyDeleteOh, yes. Night should be on my list too!
I bet I would enjoy Lucky Man too.
Great list!
Daisy Mom: Thanks for stopping by my list. We share some of the same favorites, don't we?
ReplyDeleteSuey: Thanks for the "My Top Tens" idea today! It was fun. You ought to give Eat, Pray, Love a try. I think it's definitely worth reading! (But there are definitely people that have hated it too.)