I’m loving how much you’re uploading atm🤗

Adding The Hate Race and Riverine to my TBR!! im also hoping to get to Long Live the Tribe of Motherless Girls next month ☺ im always on the lookout for excellent memoirs, especially ones that i can read on audiobook, so im so excited that youre making this a series on your channel ☺ Know My Name was such an incredible book - I listened to the audiobook earlier this year and the emotion really came through in Chanel Miller's narration.

One of my favorites is Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan. It's an amazing story. I also loved the Saeed Jones memoir!

These are great! I just finished Wildflower, a Tale of Transcendence. And, wow! So good! I finished it in two days.

@travelbug48

2 жыл бұрын

Ditto that! Sooo good!

The only one of these I've read is Know My Name, which I consider to probably be in my top 10 books I've ever read. It really has stayed with me almost a year later, and getting to see Chanel Miller speak in January was incredible. I would love to see what she comes out with next. She's truly a hero of mine. I had heard of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls but didn't know it was your absolute favorite memoir. Now I definitely need to check it out! :)

@bookishsabrina

3 жыл бұрын

Also I'd be very curious if you checked out Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller. One of my favorite reads of the year!

YAAAAAAAAY!! 😍 I love memoirs as well so I’m always looking forward to your recs~

These are such great recommendations. Thank you. I may just have to add some of these to my TBR. Happy Reading!!!

I'm going to have to add all of these to my wishlist! Great video, I can't wait to hear about more great memoirs in this series💕

i'm getting into reading memoirs and so grateful for these recommendations. looking forward to the next part!

You made them all sound TBR worthy! Love this video 💜💜

Hi !!! I love your choices and I have added "all" of them to my TBR --- I have enjoyed your channel for a long time now and I have also decided Memoir is my favorite genre, as well. Looking forward to your series on Memoir. Xx

You completely sold me on Riverine and I'm going to try to pick it up soon :-) Today I finished Meredith Talusan's memoir Fairest about being an albino immigrant from the Philippines who makes her way to Harvard and comes to terms with her identity as a trans woman when she had always assumed she was a gay man. It was exquisite -- she writes beautifully about all kinds of love and identity and I would highly recommend it.

This is such a helpful video so thank you for this. I don't read much non fiction but will pick up memoir more than any other genre of non fiction. I have added some of these to my TBR and look forward to future videos with more recommendations 😊

gosh yes saeed's memoir is so brilliant. ooh definitely going to borrow long live the tribe of fatherless girls. i do enjoy memoirs as well and my favorite have been graphic memoirs like good talk and the best we could do.

Love your video, Mercy! Totally agree with everything said about Chanel Miller, and you've got me interested in Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls :) was wondering about Educated by Tara Westover, thought that would make your list too!

Some of these were already on my TBR, but Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is new to me - I'm definitely adding it! One of my favorite memoirs I read this year was The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui. If you ever have enough books for it, doing a graphic memoir recs video would be so cool too!

I finished listening to the audiobook of How We Fight For Our Lives just a couple of days ago. It was absolutely stunning and I agree with all tha tyou said about it. Couldn't have expressed my love for the book better than you did. Can't wait to read the other books on this list :)

I got into memoirs just this year and am truly enjoying them! I find them so challenging to read, though, knowing this is a real person who went through these awful things (for instance, I read Educated this year). Definitely putting some of these on my TBR!

Great reviews. I just read Know My Name last week and liked it for many of the reasons you said -- I didn't know much about it beforehand so was happily surprised with the excellent writing quality, in addition to seeing her whole experience, which is what drew me to it initially. And as someone from Indiana myself (though not nearly as rural), Riverine is one I've gotta check out now.

Wholeheartedly agree re. Chanel Miller, I really hope she writes something else!! I need to check out Riverine that sounds great

If you haven't already, check out Bandit by the late Molly Brodak. It's phenomenal.

I have recently finished My Place from Sally Morgan. This is a wonderful memoir about her journey exploring her Aboriginal origins. I can highly recommend it. Thanks for the recommendations, I will definitely pick some of these up!

Thanks for reminding me that Riverine has been on my shelf for 4 bloody years now! I really need to get to it.

This is a fantastic series, so glad you are doing this! You might enjoy Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood.

This year I read Audre Lorde's "Zami: A New Spelling of My Name" and now want to go door to door to make as many people as possible discover it. It explores the intersection of race, sexuality and gender and it's written in such a gorgeous vivid prose, at times it felt like a novel. An absolute gem 💜, I would recommend it to anyone interested in what it was like to be a gay black woman in the 60s.

I love memoirs but haven't read any of these. They all sound beautiful. Know My Name is on my TBR and I can't wait to get to it. Have you read Heavy by Kiese Laymon? I think you may enjoy that one.

@fmarginalia

3 жыл бұрын

Agree!

You should check out A BORDER PASSAGE: FROM CAIRO TO TO AMERICA by Leila Ahmed! It's gorgeously written.

I don’t think I’ve ever cried as much reading a book as I did reading How We Fight for our Lives. It was so good.

Fellow memoir nerd here! Although the only one of these I've read is Riverine, which I also loved. Sian xx

You should read my gothic romance novel '40,000 Words'. It follows Adelaide Parabellum as the arrival of poems from beyond the grave causes her to recollect how she had met a stranger at a pond eight years prior. '40,000 Words' can be found by searching '40,000 Words Nicholas Leonard' on Amazon!

Hi! Just found your channel on a Twitter thread made by Merphy Napier ;) I really like your personality and the energy in your videos! I will Subscribe to support another Booktuber! Looking forward to seeing more of your stuff!!

I read and loved How We Fight for our Lives from this list and a couple of others were already on my list. I would recommend Rough Magic by Laura Palmer, I am Lying but I am Telling the Truth by Bassey Ipky, Love Loss and What we Ate by Padma Lakshmi, Here We Are by Aarti Naamdev Shahani, All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg, What we Carry by Maya Shanbag Lee. Sorry for so many recommendations but I love reading memoirs. Most of these I listened to on audio as well. I have a highlight on my instagram with all my audiobook recos to keep track.

I’ve really want to read How We Fight For Our Lives, and I’ve been mentally preparing myself to pick up Know My Name. Heavy by Kiese Laymon is one of the best memoirs I’ve read; I highly recommend the audio, which Kiese narrates.

Riverine sounds amazing! Whyy haven’t I read How We Fight Our Lives!? It sounds incredible

Pls repeat once more. I forgot to listen looking at this eye candy 😍

If you liked Know My Name (I loved it too) you might also like Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee.

I should preface this comment by saying I’m a Memoir writer working on my second Memoir. I’m so happy that you enjoy Memoirs from Regular people, not just celebrities. I haven’t heard of some of these books and I’m going to rectify that situation. May I suggest the memoir Lucky by Alice Seybold. It’s Courageous, Graphic but well written. I can quote her forever. I have to add that I am very picky about the memoirs I read, because some are really self indulgent, Or in the case of the book educated keep the Reader distant from the memoirist. Aloha

I’m currently reading two memoirs The Erratics by Vicki Laveau Harvie All That Remains by Professor Sue Black. 👋🦋☘️🍂📖☕️🗽😷📚

Try Unbroken by Madeleine Black.

Just curious if you plan on reading Going There by Katie Couric. Or The Storyteller by Dave Grohl or The Boys by Ron Howard.

Wonderful channel and you are the best .... I hope you will add Arab mercy because I have many fans in the Arab world who do not speak English

Maxine!! 😍😍😍 #AusLit

A constructive criticism of your channel: Please make more playlists for your channel for topics like non-fiction reviews, books of 2020 etc