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I loved 'Just Kids' by Patti Smith.

— Carrie Brownstein

My memoir is a story of family and childhood, and everyone has had one of those. Mine is not the definitive version of childhood,…

— Sue Perkins

I loved Katy Wix's book 'Delicacy.' It's a poignant and beautifully penned book about grief and cake. Together at last.

— Tim Key

Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to reclaim—and celebrate—that…

— Mira Bartok

Through the process of specifically writing this memoir, there was so much reckoning that I had to do. It was very difficult. It doesn't…

— Jesmyn Ward

I love 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' but in some ways I think 'The Lake of Dreams' is a stronger book. I was able to tell…

— Kim Edwards

I'm entranced by Amanda Lovelace's work. She wrote two wonderful books, 'The Princess Saves Herself in This One' and 'The Witch Doesn't Burn in…

— Deborah Harkness

'Black Beauty,' by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night for months.…

— Scott Turow

'The Man Who Loved Children,' Christina Stead's masterpiece, remains the most fabulous book that hardly anyone I know has read.

— Jonathan Franzen

I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school,…

— Barry McGee

My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope,…

— Judy Collins

Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to…

— Jeff VanderMeer