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Contemporary Memoirs

The Afterlife
Donald Antrim
813.54 A636A

About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir
John Rechy
813.54 R2976R

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Steve Martin
792.7028092 M3832M

A Brief History of Anxiety - Yours and Mine
Patricia Pearson
152.46 Pe

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
James McBride
974.7100496 M1224M

Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival
Norman Ollestad
979.4053092 O2

Della: A Memoir of My Daughter
Chuck Barris
791.4502809 B2768B

Devotion: a Memoir
Dani Shapiro
9780061628344

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Alexandra Fuller
968.91044092 F9652f

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama
973.0496073 O121O

Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
828.91409 N5763N

An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir
Elizabeth McCracken
813.54 M4788M

Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir
Danielle Trussoni
306.8742012 T873T

Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural Nörth Daköta
Chuck Klosterman
781.66 Kl

Fat Girl: A Memoir of Gain and Loss
Judith Moore
362.196398 Mo

Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir
Shalom Auslander
813.6 A9325A

A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
Haven Kimmel
977.264 K5713k

The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls
362.82092 W215w

Goat: A Memoir
Brad Land
305.235092L2532L

Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life
John Adams
780.92 A2145A

Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story
Isabel Gillies
792.028092 G4813G

A Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers
973.92092 Eg338e

Her Last Death: A Memoir
Susanna Sonnenberg
362.29092 S6992S

The Horse Boy: A Father's Story
Rupert Isaacson
618.9285882 Is

Hurry Down Sunshine
Michael Greenberg
362.196895 Gr

I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted
Jennifer Boylan
813.54 B7921B

Lit: A Memoir
Mary Karr
811.54 K1882K

Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah
966.404 Be

Losing Everything
David Lozell Martin
813.54 M3796M

Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir
Christopher Buckley
813.54 B9244B

Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
Rob Sheffield
781.64092 S542S

Marriage and Other Acts of Charity: A Memoir
Kate Braestrup
813.54 B8129B

The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy
Robert Leleux
813.6 L539L

My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up
Russell Brand
792.76092 B8173B

My Life in the Middle Ages
James Atlas
305.2440973 At

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Jill Bolte Taylor
362.19681 Ta

Name All the Animals: A Memoir
Alison Smith
155.937092 Sm

A Piece of Cake: A Memoir
Cupcake Brown
979.4985004 B87758B

The Only Girl in the Car: A Memoir
Kathy Dobie
813.6 D 6335D

Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
David Goodwillie
974.7044092 G6561G

Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
Koren Zailickas
616.861092 Za

Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir
David Rieff
818.5409 S6999R

Teacher Man: A Memoir
Frank McCourt
371.10092 M4788M

Tender Bar: A Memoir
J.R. Moehringer
070.92 M6934Mo

Them: A Memoir of Parents
Francine du Plessix Gray
974.7100491 G7789G

Too Late to Die Young
Harriet McBryde Johnson
362.196748 Jo

Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home
Kim Sunee
641.5092 S9583S

When All the World Was Young: A Memoir
Barbara Holland
813.54 H734H

Wish I Could Be There
Allen Shawn
618.85225 Sh

The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
813.54 D556De

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