The Art of Memoir

The Art of Memoir

By
Mary Karr
Mary Karr
2015 • 225 pages

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Books I Own Hard Copy

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The End of Mental Illness
Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
Blueprint: How DNA makes us who we are
Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
Healing the Broken Brain: Leading Experts Answer 100 Questions about Stroke Recovery

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42 books

Writing

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The Chicago Manual of Style
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
The Best Punctuation Book, Period
How to Tell a Story
Mastering Plot Twists
Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction

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442 books

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Do the Work
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living
The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life
How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

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Wish List

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Ana
Now in November
A Hundred Summers
Of Mice and Men
A Death in the Family: A Restoration of the Author's Text
The Time Traveler's Wife
Letters to a Young Poet
And Then There Were None

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269 books

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Nicholas And Alexandra
Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Becoming
What She Ate

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Nonfic Nov

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Karla
The Magical Language of Others
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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97 books

Memoir

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The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School in Paris
Ordinary Girls : A Memoir
Good Talk
My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
The Reckonings
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

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On Writing

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Benji Shine
The Art of Memoir

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Memoir

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Deb Nance
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
The Egg and I
Squatters in Paradise: A Yellowstone Memoir
Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

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114 books

Writing

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Deb Nance
S is for Story: A Writer's Alphabet
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Trial by Journal
This Is Not a Book
Write This Book: a do-it-yourself mystery
The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language

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Devotion: A Memoir
Silk is for Seduction
The Sisters Brothers
The Murder at the Vicarage
Fear
A duke by default
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

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Non Fiction

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Laura
Devotion: A Memoir
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Fear
The Art of Memoir
Hunger
The Solace of Open Spaces
At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays

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61 books

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The Art of Memoir
The Bookshop on the Corner
Footsteps in the Dark
Maisie Dobbs
The Trespasser
Mistakes I Made at Work
City of Thieves

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Kat
The Carpet People
The Eternal Champion: Book 1 of Erekosë Trilogy
Anathem
Speak Easy
The Sorcerer's House
Bloodchild and Other Stories

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Autoethnography

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The Myth of Making It: A Workplace Reckoning
Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Ambition Monster: A Memoir
Body Work
All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive
The Art of Memoir