9 Women Writing Bold Memoirs

by Leslie Jamison

The bracing, unflinching, and beautifully resonant history of a writer’s addiction and hard-won reclamation. Full review >

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by Clemantine Wamariya & Elizabeth Weil

Not quite as attention-getting as memoirs by Ismail Beah or Scholastique Mukasonga, but a powerful record of the refugee... Full review >

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by Cecile Richards with Lauren Peterson

A memoir that makes palpable the immense influence of an organization that has improved so many women’s lives. Full review >

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by Laura Jean Baker

An unflinching dispatch from the intersections of motherhood, poverty, drugs, and mental illness. Full review >

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by Roxane Gay

An intense, unsparingly honest portrait of childhood crisis and its enduring aftermath. Full review >

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by Tara Westover

An astonishing account of deprivation, confusion, survival, and success. Full review >

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by Morgan Jerkins

At its best, the book reveals complicated, messily human responses to knotty problems. Never intended as the final word on... Full review >

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by Abby Norman

Disturbing but important reading. Full review >

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by Vivian Gornick

A gentle, rueful, thoughtful memoir. Full review >

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