There seems to be an endless supply of hilarious, entertaining and enlightening memoirs out there, and I hope to read as many of them as I can. Here are my favorites so far.
Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body by Sara Pascoe
Gorilla and the Bird by Zack McDermott
Dear Girls by Ali Wong
Shrill by Lindy West
Educated by Tara Westover
Whistleblower by Susan Fowler
Satan is Real by Charlie Louvin
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes
Inside Out by Demi Moore
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
Maeve in America by Maeve Higgins
The Last Girl by Nadia Murad
The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
Medallion Status by John Hodgeman
Calypso (and everything) by David
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman
I Might Regret This by Abbi Jacobson
Well, That Escalated Quickly by Franchesca Ramsey
How To Make White People Laugh by Negin Farsad
I Live Inside: Memoirs of a Babe In Toyland by Michelle Leon
I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Girl In A Band by Kim Gordon
Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys by Viv Albertine
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
Bossy Pants by Tina Fey
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
Why Not Me by Mindy Kaling
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
Spinster by Kate Bolick
The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson
A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio García Martínez
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Mo’ Meta Blues by Questlove
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Girl Walks into a Bar by Rachel Dratch
Hunger by Roxanne Gay
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran
Dear Mr. You by Mary-Louise Parker
Dry by Augusten Burroughs
Chronicles Volume 1 by Bob Dylan
Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
Goodbye Things by Fumio Sasaki
Thanks for reading this far! The journey to 600 continues…