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9 Women Writing Bold Memoirs

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

THE RECOVERING

by Leslie Jamison

The bracing, unflinching, and beautifully resonant history of a writer’s addiction and hard-won reclamation. Full review >

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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

THE GIRL WHO SMILED BEADS

by Clemantine Wamariya & Elizabeth Weil

Not quite as attention-getting as memoirs by Ismail Beah or Scholastique Mukasonga, but a powerful record of the refugee... Full review >

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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

MAKE TROUBLE

by Cecile Richards with Lauren Peterson

A memoir that makes palpable the immense influence of an organization that has improved so many women’s lives. Full review >

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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

THE MOTHERHOOD AFFIDAVITS

by Laura Jean Baker

An unflinching dispatch from the intersections of motherhood, poverty, drugs, and mental illness. Full review >

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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

HUNGER

by Roxane Gay

An intense, unsparingly honest portrait of childhood crisis and its enduring aftermath. Full review >

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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

EDUCATED

by Tara Westover

An astonishing account of deprivation, confusion, survival, and success. Full review >

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THIS WILL BE MY UNDOING

by Morgan Jerkins

At its best, the book reveals complicated, messily human responses to knotty problems. Never intended as the final word on... Full review >

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