I think readers like testimonies from within – that kind of intimate, personal writing. Sometimes memoirs by well-known writers are among the best things that they write. I didn’t choose Experience by Martin Amis, for example, but I think it’s one of his best books.
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Patriot: A Memoir
by Alexei Navalny, translated by Arch Tait with Stephen Dalziel -
Speak, Memory
by Vladimir Nabokov -
Mother Archive: A Dominican Family Memoir
by Erika Morillo -
Question 7
by Richard Flanagan -
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
by Cristina Rivera Garza -
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
by Tessa Hulls
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