Rhetoric & Composition: Memoir Independent Reading List
Summer Reading Books:
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to his White Mother, James McBride (BIO MCB)
Me talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris (814 SED)
Memoirs List: You must choose a book from this list, no exceptions!
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Washington, Meg Greenfield
Red Azalea, Anchee Min (BIO MIN)
Daughter of Heaven; A Memoir with Earthly Recipes, Leslie Li (BIO LI)
Alicia, My Story, Alicia Appleman-Jurman
(BIO APP)
5. Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi (820.9 NAF)
6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
(BIO ANG)
7. Saffron Sky: A Life Between Iran and America, Gelareh Asayesh (BIO ASA)
8. Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and other Battles, Anthony Swofford (956.7044
SWO)
9. If I Die in a Combat Zone, Tim O’Brien
10. Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood, Bell Hooks (BIO HOO)
11. My Days: A Memoir, R.K. Narayan (BIO NAR)
12. Kaffir Boy, Mark Mathabane (BIO MAT)
13. Our Street, Gilda O’Neill (BIO ONE)
14. This Is Paradise! My North Korean Childhood, Hyok Kang (BIO KAN)
15. Paula, Isabelle Allende (BIO ALL)
16. The Dream of Water: A Memoir, Kyoko Mori (BIO MOR)
17. Freedom in Exile, The Dalai Lama (BIO TEN)
18. When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge: A Memoir, Chanrithy Him
(BIO HIM)
19. You Can’t Stay Neutral on a Moving Train, Howard Zinn
20. A Hole in My Life, Jack Gantos (BIO GAN)
21. A Long Way Gone: Memiors of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah (BIO BEA)
22. Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood, Ibtisam Barakat (BIO BAR)