NY REVIEW OF BOOKS MUST-READ MEMOIRS
Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, by Malala Yousafzai
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah
Why Me?, by Sarah Burleton
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed
Twelve Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, by Jenny Lawson
Night (Night Trilogy), by Elie Wiesel
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, by Susannah Cahalan
The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
Angela’s Ashes, by Frank McCourt
The Hiding Place, by Corrie ten Boom
Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen
A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard, by Liz Murray