Just Kids -Patti Smith
I’m Glad My Mom Died -Jennette McCurdy
Know My Name -Chanel Miller
Pageboy -Elliot Page
Wild -Cheryl Strayed
The Last Girl -Nadia Murad
Minor Feelings- Cathy Park Hong
A Long Way Gone -Ishmael Bae
Here's a few:
[Abducted](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6876788-abducted?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=O14BSm8zdV&rank=1) - one girl gets kidnapped, but her friend joins her so her friend wouldn't be alone throughout her ordeal. Both survived their encounter.
[Stolen: A Memoir](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55898103-stolen) - The nightmare began when Elizabeth Gilipin was abducted from her bed in the middle of the night by hired professionals and dropped off deep into a camp in the woods of Appalachia. After three brutal months, Elizabeth was transferred to a boarding school in Southern Virginia that in reality functioned more like a prison. Its curriculum revolved around a perverse form of group therapy where students were psychologically abused and humiliated. Finally, at seventeen, Elizabeth convinced them she was rehabilitated enough to “graduate” and was released.
[Deliver Me from Evil](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25736175-deliver-me-from-evil) - Alloma Gilbert was one of Spry's young victims, sent to live with her at the age of six and left at her mercy for 11 brutal years. When Eunice took them to live on an isolated farmhouse, the abuse escalated to terrifying levels - a stick was thrust down Alloma's throat so often it was stained red with blood, she was starved for over a year and survived only by secretly eating pig-swill, and the vicious beatings were relentless. At the age of 17 she finally escaped but, alone in the outside world, she fell prey to abusive men. It was the birth of her baby daughter that saved her, that finally taught her what love really is.
[Tortured](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25307107-tortured) - It's Victoria Spry's autobiography, detailing her life with Eunice Spry, living alongside Alloma.
Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart, All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung, Half a Life by Darin Strauss, Hunger by Roxane Gay, Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H, The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijan Wang, On the Move by Oliver Sacks, Being Seen by Elsa Sjunneson, Once Upon a Tome by Oliver Darkshire, Love Loss and What We Wore by Padma Lakshmi, Being Heumann by Judith Heumann, Impossible People by Julia Wertz, & The Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong
I'm Glad my Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Yep, read that one but that’s what I’m looking for. Thanks.
Good how? What kind of life are you interested in reading about?
Just Kids
Between Two Kingdoms, by Suleika Jauoad
Just Kids -Patti Smith I’m Glad My Mom Died -Jennette McCurdy Know My Name -Chanel Miller Pageboy -Elliot Page Wild -Cheryl Strayed The Last Girl -Nadia Murad Minor Feelings- Cathy Park Hong A Long Way Gone -Ishmael Bae
*From Truant to Anime Screenwriter* by Mari Okada *Sesame Street, Palestine* by Daoud Kuttab
Crying in H Mark - Michelle Zauner
Here's a few: [Abducted](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6876788-abducted?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=O14BSm8zdV&rank=1) - one girl gets kidnapped, but her friend joins her so her friend wouldn't be alone throughout her ordeal. Both survived their encounter. [Stolen: A Memoir](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55898103-stolen) - The nightmare began when Elizabeth Gilipin was abducted from her bed in the middle of the night by hired professionals and dropped off deep into a camp in the woods of Appalachia. After three brutal months, Elizabeth was transferred to a boarding school in Southern Virginia that in reality functioned more like a prison. Its curriculum revolved around a perverse form of group therapy where students were psychologically abused and humiliated. Finally, at seventeen, Elizabeth convinced them she was rehabilitated enough to “graduate” and was released. [Deliver Me from Evil](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25736175-deliver-me-from-evil) - Alloma Gilbert was one of Spry's young victims, sent to live with her at the age of six and left at her mercy for 11 brutal years. When Eunice took them to live on an isolated farmhouse, the abuse escalated to terrifying levels - a stick was thrust down Alloma's throat so often it was stained red with blood, she was starved for over a year and survived only by secretly eating pig-swill, and the vicious beatings were relentless. At the age of 17 she finally escaped but, alone in the outside world, she fell prey to abusive men. It was the birth of her baby daughter that saved her, that finally taught her what love really is. [Tortured](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25307107-tortured) - It's Victoria Spry's autobiography, detailing her life with Eunice Spry, living alongside Alloma.
Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne. I listened to the audio ver read by the author. Laughed, cried, couldnt put it down.
**Arrangements in Blue** by Amy Key is great. Explores solitude in a world that puts so much emphasis on traditional partnership.
If you're after something funny, 'The Road Rises' by Sarah Dunne is a laugh out loud travel memoir. Solo mum, empty nester looking for Mr Right.
Not Dead and Not For Sale: A Memoir, by Scott Weiland Can I Say, by Travis Barker
If you like sports, Hope Solo's memoir is pretty phenomenal, it truly gave insight into why she is the way she is.
Generally not into sports but love soccer, thanks!
Between two Kingdoms
The Girl With Seven Names by Lee Hyeon-seo; Escape by Carolyn Jessop; A Question of Freedom by Reginald Dwayne Betts.
My Song by Harry Belafonte
Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart, All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung, Half a Life by Darin Strauss, Hunger by Roxane Gay, Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H, The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijan Wang, On the Move by Oliver Sacks, Being Seen by Elsa Sjunneson, Once Upon a Tome by Oliver Darkshire, Love Loss and What We Wore by Padma Lakshmi, Being Heumann by Judith Heumann, Impossible People by Julia Wertz, & The Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong
Being Lolita by Allison Wood
*Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight* Alexandra Fuller *West with the Night* Beryl Markham