Memoirs

Memoirs compose a literary genre similar to that of autobiographies. The word, memoir, comes from French mémoire and Latin memoria, meaning "memory." Memoirs are generally less structured than the literary class they are derived from, and usually tell of specific parts of the writer's life, rather than a mapped out documentation from birth to adulthood. In history, memoirs tended to be written by military leaders and politicians, since expanding to a wide variety of people from all walks of life.

Literary Works I Recommend

Blue Suburbia (Laurie Lico Albanese)
Cherry (Mary Karr)
Girl, Interrupted (Susanna Kaysen)
The Glass Castle (Jeanette Walls)
Junky (William S. Burroughs)
Prozac Nation (Elizabeth Wurtzel)
This Boy's Life (Tobias Wolff)
You Remind Me Of You (Eireanne Corrigan)