ICPL Top Staff Picks for 2016: Biography and Memoir

Did you know memoir comes from the Latin work memoria, which means making memory or reminiscence?

A memoir is a sub-genre of the autobiography and tends to encompass one time period of an author's life while a biography and/or autobiography is a detailed description of a person's entire life.

Here are the lives (or parts of lives) we enjoyed reading about in 2016.

ICPL's BEST BIOGRAPHIES, AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS OF 2016

• Lust & Wonder by Augusten Burroughs
• It Gets Worse by Shane Dawson
• Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
• Charlotte Bronte: A Fiery Heart by Claire Harman
• Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded by Hannah Hart
• Greetings From Utopia Park: Surviving a Transcendent Childhood by Claire Hoffman
• Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
• You’ll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein
• Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride by Lucy Knisley
• The Bridge Ladies by Betsy Lerner
• I’m Just a Person by Tig Notaro
• Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune by Pamela S. Turner
• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance