Thursday, November 1, 2018

Memoir Reading Challenge 2019 (My Signup)

I will get as many books as I can for this one, meeting the minimum of five.




My Books:
  1. X Mental Illness Memoir: Wasted--Marya Hornbacher
  2. X Other Illness Memoir: When Breath Becomes Air--Paul Kalinithi
  3. X Political Memoir: Becoming--Michelle Obama
  4. _ Food Memoir
  5. X Animal Memoir: Dewey's Nine Lives--Vicki Myron
  6. X Music Memoir: Astral Weeks--Ryan H. Walsh
  7. X Travel Memoir: Quicksilver Chronicles--Frances K. Woods
  8. X Written by a person of color: Courage to Soar--Simone Biles
  9. X  Written by a woman: The Collected Essays of Katherine Anne Porter
  10. X Written by a person who identifies as LGBTQIA: This Book is Gay--James Dawson
  11. X  Written by an actor or a comedian: Just Between Us--Mario Lopez
  12. _ Written by an author or journalist
  13. X Written by any other celebrity: The Magnolia Story--Chip and Joanna Gaines
  14. _ Written by someone under 40
  15. _ Written by someone over 40
  16. X Written by someone from a country different from your own: Americanized--Sara Saedi
  17. _ Memoir of high school or college events
  18. _ One you find thought-provoking
  19. X Made into a movie: Eat, Pray, Love--Elizabeth Gilbert
  20. X Graphic Novel memoir: Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?--Roz Chast
  21. X Bestselling memoir: An Unquiet Mind--Kay Redfield Jamison
  22. X Humorous memoir: Bright Lights, Big A**--Jen Lancaster
  23. _ Fictional memoir
  24. X Published in 2019: Me--Elton John
  25. X Published in 2018 or earlier: Educated--Tara Westover
  26. X Under 300 pages: My Horizontal Life--Chelsea Handler
  27. _ One you want to re-read
  28. Subject of your choice: Kabul Beauty School-Deborah Rodriguez
  29. Author of your choice: Radical Sanity--Elizabeth Wurtzel 
  30. Free choice: I Have Lived a Thousand Years--Livia Bitton-Jackson
  31. X Free choice: Night Flying Woman--Igantia Booker
  32. X Free choice: Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing--Abram Shalom Himelstein & Jamie Schweser
Challenge completed on December 25

1 comment:

Elephant's Child said...

I adore memoirs. They are always on my go-to list.