Memoirs profiled in Writing Hard Stories

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Townie
Townie 3.79 avg rating — 8,337 ratings
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Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You
Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You 4.18 avg rating — 884 ratings
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Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction
Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction 3.78 avg rating — 500 ratings
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie 4.09 avg rating — 13,648 ratings
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The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order 4.05 avg rating — 1,635 ratings
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The Dream of Water: A Memoir
The Dream of Water: A Memoir 3.88 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Yarn: Remembering the Way Home
Yarn: Remembering the Way Home 3.63 avg rating — 418 ratings
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Half the House
Half the House 4.25 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Love and Fury: A Memoir
Love and Fury: A Memoir 3.99 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Songs from a Lead-Lined Room: Notes--High and Low--from My Journey through Breast Cancer and Radiation
Songs from a Lead-Lined Room: Notes--High and Low--from My Journey through Breast Cancer and Radiation 4.45 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life 4.21 avg rating — 2,003 ratings
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A Three Dog Life
A Three Dog Life 3.79 avg rating — 9,795 ratings
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When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine 3.91 avg rating — 7,056 ratings
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Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
by: Mark Doty
4.38 avg rating — 1,092 ratings
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Brother, I'm Dying
Brother, I'm Dying 4.16 avg rating — 7,575 ratings
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Knowing Jesse: A Mother's Story of Grief, Grace, and Everyday Bliss
Knowing Jesse: A Mother's Story of Grief, Grace, and Everyday Bliss 4.16 avg rating — 622 ratings
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Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption
Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption 4.04 avg rating — 142 ratings
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The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult
The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult 3.60 avg rating — 428 ratings
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A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today 3.94 avg rating — 3,618 ratings
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Invisible Sisters
Invisible Sisters 4.09 avg rating — 235 ratings
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Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing About Grief and Loss
Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing About Grief and Loss 4.29 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood
The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood 4.26 avg rating — 1,802 ratings
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Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father 4.05 avg rating — 4,076 ratings
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100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: A Memoir
100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: A Memoir 4.20 avg rating — 201 ratings