Topic
Memoir
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Where to Start with Heinrich Harrer: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Heinrich Harrer — how to approach Seven Years in Tibet, his extraordinary account of escaping a wartime POW camp and reaching Lhasa to become the Dalai Lama's tutor. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with J.D. Vance: A Reading Guide
Where to start with J.D. Vance — how to approach Hillbilly Elegy, his essential memoir of Appalachian family and working-class decline. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Jeannette Walls: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jeannette Walls — how to approach The Glass Castle, her essential memoir about an extraordinary nomadic childhood. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Jennette McCurdy: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jennette McCurdy — how to approach I'm Glad My Mom Died, her essential memoir of childhood abuse and recovery. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Lori Gottlieb: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Lori Gottlieb — how to approach Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, her memoir about being simultaneously a therapist and a patient. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Malala Yousafzai: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Malala Yousafzai — how to approach I Am Malala, her essential memoir of surviving Taliban assassination. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Malcolm X: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Malcolm X — how to approach The Autobiography of Malcolm X, one of the most powerful American autobiographies ever written. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Matthew McConaughey: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Matthew McConaughey — how to approach Greenlights, his idiosyncratic memoir and personal philosophy drawn from 35 years of diary entries, about living deliberately and reading life's signals well. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Michelle Obama: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Michelle Obama — whether to begin with Becoming or The Light We Carry. A complete reading guide to the former First Lady's books.
Where to Start with Michelle Zauner: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Michelle Zauner — how to approach Crying in H Mart, her memoir of grief, Korean-American identity, and the food that held a mother-daughter relationship together. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Nelson Mandela: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Nelson Mandela — how to approach Long Walk to Freedom, his autobiography tracing a Transkei childhood through 27 years of imprisonment to liberation. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Oliver Sacks: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Oliver Sacks — whether to begin with The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, or his later memoirs. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Patti Smith: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Patti Smith — how to approach Just Kids, her National Book Award-winning memoir of her friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe in 1970s New York. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Paul Kalanithi: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Paul Kalanithi — how to approach When Breath Becomes Air, his essential memoir about mortality and meaning. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Peter Handke: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Peter Handke — whether to begin with A Sorrow Beyond Dreams or The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Peter Matthiessen: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Peter Matthiessen — how to approach The Snow Leopard, his National Book Award-winning account of a Himalayan journey that becomes a sustained inquiry into grief, presence, and Zen practice. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Peter Mayle: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Peter Mayle — how to approach A Year in Provence, the book that invented a genre, his warmly funny account of abandoning an advertising career to renovate a farmhouse in the Luberon and discover a way of life organised around food. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Phil Knight: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Phil Knight — how to approach Shoe Dog, his essential memoir about building Nike. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Richard Feynman: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Richard Feynman — how to approach Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman, his essential memoir of scientific curiosity and adventure. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Robert Macfarlane: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Robert Macfarlane — whether to begin with Underland, The Old Ways, or Mountains of the Mind. A complete reading guide to the nature writer.
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