ICPL Top Staff Picks for 2017: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir


Perhaps you've seen this phrase on a T-shirt or coffee mug: Careful or You'll End Up in My Novel. When it comes to writers of autobiographies, biographies and memoirs, that's 100 percent true!

Here's a list of people's stories we had trouble putting down in 2017:

  • You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie
  • What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
  • Hunger by Roxane Gay
  • Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by John Hodgman
  • David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones
  • The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs
  • Give a Girl a Knife by Amy Thielen
  • How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
  • Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley

Are there any titles we missed? Let us know!

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