Books like The Art of Memoir
12 books with a reading profile close to The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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Mother Mary Comes to Me
Also inward-looking · memoir, literary
Arundhati Roy's 'Mother Mary Comes To Me' is a collection of essays and non-fiction pieces rather than a novel, despite the evocative title.
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How to Say Babylon
Also inward-looking · memoir, literary
Safiya Sinclair recounts her childhood in Jamaica under the rigid authority of her father, a strict Rastafarian musician who enforced a sequestered life to protect his daughters from "Babylon," his term for the corrupti…
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Bird by Bird
by Anne Lamott
Also inward-looking · practical, memoir
Anne Lamott presents a manual for the technical and psychological labor of writing, structured around her father’s advice to tackle a daunting school project on birds one step at a time.
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Priestdaddy
Also inward-looking · memoir, literary
Patricia Lockwood, a poet, moves back with her husband into her parents' house in a Kansas City rectory.
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Also inward-looking · memoir, literary
Alexandra Fuller outlines her upbringing in 1970s and 80s Rhodesia, Malawi, and Zambia during a period of violent decolonization.
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Yossarian slept here
by Erica Heller
Also inward-looking · memoir, literary
Erica Heller’s memoir documents her upbringing as the daughter of Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22, within the Apthorp apartment building in Manhattan.
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Just Kids
by Patti Smith
Also inward-looking · memoir, literary
Just Kids chronicles the relationship between Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, beginning with their chance meeting in Brooklyn in 1967.
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Also inward-looking · memoir, literary
William Finnegan chronicles his lifelong obsession with surfing, moving from his childhood in California and Hawaii to his global travels as an adult.
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Tropical classical
by Pico Iyer
memoir, literary
In this collection of essays, Pico Iyer examines the collision of Western cultural exports with the local realities of the post-colonial world.
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When All Is Said
by Anne Griffin
Also inward-looking · memoir, literary
Maurice Hannigan, an elderly Irish farmer, sits in a pub in a small town one evening and orders five drinks, one for each person who has been important in his life.
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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Also inward-looking · memoir, literary
Carrie Brownstein chronicles her development from a fan in the Pacific Northwest underground music scene to the guitarist of Sleater-Kinney.
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