Letters & Memoir

These are all feminism/women’s history/women’s studies-related titles that have been broken down further by topic. As such, you’ll see some titles listed more than once. 

Autobiography/General Memoir

• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
• Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman

Letters

• As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto ed. by Joan Reardon

Memoir: Feminism

• Biting the Moon: A Memoir of Feminism and Motherhood by Joanne S. Frye
• The Feminist and the Cowboy: An Unlikely Love Story by Alisa Valdes
• Riding Fury Home by Chana Wilson
• Sex Object by Jessica Valenti

Memoir: Health

• The Adventures of Cancer Bitch by S.L. Wisenberg
• Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol by Ann Dowsett Johnston
• Life’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice by Dr. Willie Parker
• Love, Loss, and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi
• Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me by Ellen Forney

Memoir: LGBTQ Author

• Calling Dr. Laura by Nicole J. Georges
• Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
• Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me by Ellen Forney
• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love, & So Much More by Janet Mock
• Riding Fury Home by Chana Wilson
• Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan

Memoir: Parenting/Family

• Biting the Moon: A Memoir of Feminism and Motherhood by Joanne S. Frye
• The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life by Jasmin Darznik
• Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan
• When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams

Memoir: Pop Culture

• Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein

Memoir: Relationships

• Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin by Nicole Hardy
• The Feminist and the Cowboy: An Unlikely Love Story by Alisa Valdes
• The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker

Memoir: Religion

• Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin by Nicole Hardy
• The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker

Memoir: Women of Color

• The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines by Shohreh Aghdashloo
• Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina by Raquel Cepeda
• The Feminist and the Cowboy: An Unlikely Love Story by Alisa Valdes
• The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life by Jasmin Darznik
• Love, Loss, and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi
• Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love, & So Much More by Janet Mock
• Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
• The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond the Rape of Nanking by Ying-Ying Chang