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Reading Lists: Memoir Reading List

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Memoir Reading List

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
Call Number: SF613 .H44 A28 1973
ISBN: 0312965788
Publication Date: 1998-04-15
All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
Call Number: SF613 .H44 A283 1974b
ISBN: 0312330863
Publication Date: 2004-08-01
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver; Camille Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp
Call Number: S521.5 .A67 K56 2007
ISBN: 9780060852559
Publication Date: 2007-05-01
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Call Number: E185.97 .L5 A3 1992
ISBN: 0345350685
Publication Date: 1987-10-12
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
Call Number: PS3554 .I33 Z46 2011
ISBN: 0307267679
Publication Date: 2011-11-01
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
Call Number: PN2287 .M522 A3 2008
ISBN: 1416553657
Publication Date: 2008-09-02
Boy and Going Solo by Roald Dahl
Call Number: PR6054 .A35 Z463 1986
ISBN: 0140318909
Publication Date: 1986-08-05
The Color of Water by James McBride
Call Number: F128.9 .N4 M328 2006
ISBN: 9780613065429
Publication Date: 1997-02-01
Darkness Visible by William Styron
Call Number: RC537 .S88 1990
ISBN: 0394588886
Publication Date: 1990-08-18
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Call Number: DS135.N6 F73313 2005
ISBN: 9780141032009
Publication Date: 2005
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Call Number: TX392 .F58 2009
ISBN: 0316069906
Publication Date: 2009-11-02
Fat Girl by Judith Moore
Call Number: RC552 .O25 M66 2005
ISBN: 1594630097
Publication Date: 2005-03-03
A Freewheelin' Time by Suze Rotolo
Call Number: ML420 .D98 R67 2008
ISBN: 0767926870
Publication Date: 2008-05-13
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (Illustrator)
Call Number: PN6727 .B3757 Z46 2006
ISBN: 0618477942
Publication Date: 2006-06-08
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
Call Number: QB36 .G2 S65 1999
ISBN: 0140280553
Publication Date: 2000-11-01
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Call Number: JUV HV5132 .W35 2006
ISBN: 9780743247535
Publication Date: 2005-03-01
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Call Number: CT275 .E37 A3 2001b
ISBN: 0375725784
Publication Date: 2001-02-13
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom; John Sherrill
Call Number: D811.5 .T427 1985
ISBN: 0553256696
Publication Date: 1984-10-01
Hope's Boy by Andrew Bridge
Call Number: HV883 .C2 B75 2008
ISBN: 1401303226
Publication Date: 2008-02-01
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai; Christina Lamb (As told to)
Call Number: LC2330 .Y69 2015
ISBN: 0316322423
Publication Date: 2015-06-02
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Call Number: PS3551 .N464 Z467 1985
ISBN: 0553256157
Publication Date: 1983-04-01
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
Call Number: PS3569 .E314 L47 2013
ISBN: 0316154695
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
Call Number: PN4874 .L285 A3 2012
ISBN: 0399159010
Publication Date: 2012-04-17
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
Call Number: PS3561 .A6929 Z468 2005
ISBN: 0143035746
Publication Date: 2005-05-31
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
Call Number: DT516.828 .B43 A3 2007
ISBN: 0374105235
Publication Date: 2007-02-13
Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox
Call Number: PN2308 .F69 F69 2002
ISBN: 0786867647
Publication Date: 2002-04-02
Mama Gone Geek by Lynn Brunelle
Call Number: HQ755.8 .B77 2014
ISBN: 1611801516
Publication Date: 2014-10-28
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Call Number: HV5831 .M6 F74 2004
ISBN: 1400031087
Publication Date: 2004-05-11
Mind, Life, and Universe: conversations with great scientists of our time by Lynn Margulis, Eduardo Punset, Dorion Sagan
Call Number: Q141 .M5 2007
ISBN: 1933392614
Publication Date: 2007
A Moveable Feast: the Restored Edition by Ernest Hemingway; Patrick Hemingway (Foreword by); Sean Hemingway (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS3515 .E37 Z525
ISBN: 1416591311
Publication Date: 2009-07-14
My Sky Blue Trades by Sven Birkerts
Call Number: PE64 .B57 A3 2003
ISBN: 0142003093
Publication Date: 2003-07-29
Newjack by Ted Conover
Call Number: HV9475 .N72 S563 2001
ISBN: 0375726624
Publication Date: 2001-06-12
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Call Number: HD4918 .E375 2001
ISBN: 0805063889
Publication Date: 2001-05-08
Night by Elie Wiesel
Call Number: D811.5 .W4923 1982
ISBN: 0553208071
Publication Date: 1982-03-01
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Call Number: Juv. PN6747 .S245 P4713 2003
ISBN: 9780375422300
Publication Date: 2003-04-29
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Call Number: QH81 .D56 1974
ISBN: 0061219800
Publication Date: 1974-03-01
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Call Number: PE64 .N34 A3 2004
ISBN: 9780375504907
Publication Date: 2003-03-25
Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang
Call Number: JUV DS778.7 .J53 1998b
ISBN: 0064462080
Publication Date: 2018-01-30
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Call Number: RA418.5 .T73 F33 1998
ISBN: 0374525641
Publication Date: 1998-09-30
Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson
Call Number: LC2330 .M66 2009
ISBN: 0670021156
Publication Date: 2009-12-01
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Call Number: HV1624 .K4 A15 1923
ISBN: 0553213873
Publication Date: 1990-05-01
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson; David Oliver Relin
Call Number: LC2330 .M67 2007
ISBN: 0143038257
Publication Date: 2007-01-30
Tis by Frank McCourt
Call Number: E184 .I6 M118 2000
ISBN: 0684865742
Publication Date: 2000-08-28
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Call Number: LD571 .B418 S383 1997
ISBN: 0385484518
Publication Date: 1997-08-18
Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
Call Number: RC339.52 .S23 A3 2002b
ISBN: 0375704043
Publication Date: 2002-09-17
Walden - Or, Life in the Woods by Henry D. Thoreau
Call Number: PS3040 .E84 v.2
ISBN: 0486284956
Publication Date: 1995-04-12
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Call Number: PS3569 .E314 W48 2008
ISBN: 0316143472
Publication Date: 2008-06-03

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