Best Memoir Books — Community Picks

Discover the top Memoir books as rated by the RateYourReads community. 153 books in this genre.

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
• On Writing by Stephen King
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
• La aventura de Miguel Littín, clandestino en Chile by Gabriel García Márquez
• Une mort tres douce by Simone de Beauvoir
• Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
• Black Boy by Richard Wright
• The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
• Far off things by Arthur Machen
• Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
• Walden, or, Life in the Woods / On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau