Tuesday, May 10, 2022

A Comprehensive List of the World's Best Memoirs of Bookish Lives of Readers

What do readers love to read about, perhaps more than anything else? The reading lives of other readers, of course.

An Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books by Alberto Manguel

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman

Book Girl: A Journey Through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life by Sara Clarkson

Morningstar: Growing Up with Books by Ann Hood

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders

The King's English: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller by Betsy Burton

Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books by Maureen Corrigan

So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading by Sara Nelson

Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore by Suzanne Strempek Shea

How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlan

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch

The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe

The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading by Phyllis Rose

The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life by Andy Miller

Voracious: A Hungry Reader Cooks Her Way Through Books by Cara Nicoletti

My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading by Lucy Mangan


Have you read any of these?

What are your thoughts about those you have read?

Do you have any to add to the list?


Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday That Artsy Reader Girl assigns a topic and then post her top ten list that fits that topic. You’re more than welcome to join her and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin on the topic to make it work for you! Please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own post so that others know where to find more information.  

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