In the twilight years of her life and surrounded by her loved ones, Franceska Jordan reminisces about how her family has grown. From their humble beginnings in Lithuania to their eventual migration to South Africa, Franceska recalls the struggles her family endured to survive the...

Jim Zervanos bares his soul and his harrowing cancer diagnosis in That Time I Got Cancer: A Love Story. Jim’s cancer diagnosis didn’t happen the usual way. One day out of the blue he had the fright of his life when, looking in the mirror,...

Make or Break: The Extraordinary Life of Paul Innes is the most inspiring autobiography I have ever come across. Paul takes you on a journey that you’ll never be able to experience again unless you read the book twice, that is. It’s an adventure through...

If you, like myself, enjoy memoirs that deftly blend raw and honest openness with powerful insights then consider yourself in luck as Lisa A. Pruitt’s autobiography is a must-read. Soul of a Professor: Memoir of an Un-Engineered Life charts the author's life as her success...

Obituaries & Other Lies by Ron Cooke is a thought-provoking collection of short stories. There are seventeen stories in this collection with titles like Conversations, Baseball Bum, Mississippi ’61, K2, Beebee, Soul Man, Enhanced Interrogation, and Ghost Stories. This absorbing collection brings together intriguing characters...

Hitting the Road Without a Map is a work of non-fiction in the memoir subgenre. It is best suited to mature readers owing to some instances of explicit language use and was penned by author Fred Rutter about an incredible cross-country journey and the impact...

Who would have thought a baby boy born on December 14, 1952, in Hong Kong would live such a varied and interesting life? Maybe his mother and father, but everyone else would have to wait and see his life unfold. In How the Great Spirit...

Life and Death in Nyamata: Memoir of a Young Boy in Rwanda’s Darkest Church by Omar Ndizeye is the harrowing but true tale of his ordeal in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. He begins by describing his oftentimes hard, but loving and enjoyable life as...

The 4C Heart: Curls, Kinks, and Knots of My Dry, Thirsty, Single Soul by Anna E Styron is a bold, brave, and sometimes confrontational personal story of the author’s journey as a woman. It opens by explaining the title. “Black hair, like the heart, can...

Bittersweet: Experiences of an Iranian Living in Norway is a work of non-fiction in the autobiography and memoir subgenres. It is suitable for the general adult reading audience and was penned by Karan Sotoodeh in which he recounts his personal experiences. As the title suggests,...