Posted by Meredith on Wednesday, Dec 28, 2016
Did you know memoir comes from the Latin work memoria, which means making memory or reminiscence?
A memoir is a sub-genre of the autobiography and tends to encompass one time period of an author's life while a biography and/or autobiography is a detailed description of a person's entire life.
Here are the lives (or parts of lives) we enjoyed reading about in 2016.
ICPL's BEST BIOGRAPHIES, AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS OF 2016
- Lust & Wonder by Augusten Burroughs
- It Gets Worse by Shane Dawson
- Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
- Charlotte Bronte: A Fiery Heart by Claire Harman
- Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded by Hannah Hart
- Greetings From Utopia Park: Surviving a Transcendent Childhood by Claire Hoffman
- Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
- You’ll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein
- Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride by Lucy Knisley
- The Bridge Ladies by Betsy Lerner
- I’m Just a Person by Tig Notaro
- Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune by Pamela S. Turner
- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
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Meredith was formerly the Library's Public Relations Specialist.
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