Native American Studies – Reading Lists
MEMOIRS
Abeel, Samantha. My Thirteenth Winter: a Memoir.
Ansary, Mir Tamim. West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story.
Ashe, Arthur. Days of Grace: a Memoir.
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. A Place to Stand: the Making of a Poet.
Barry, Dan. Pull Me Up: a Memoir.
Artzi-Pelossof, Noa Ben. In the Name of Sorrow and Hope.
Bragg, Rick. All Over But the Shoutin’.
Burnett, Carol. One More Time: a Memoir.
Carroll, James. An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us.
Choy, Wayson. Paper Shadows: a Memoir of a Past Lost and Found.
Cleary, Beverly. A Girl From Yamhill: a Memoir.
Conway, Jill Ker. A Road From Coorain.
Cooper, Anderson. Dispatches from the Edge: a Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival.
Daniel, Clifton. Lord, Ladies and Gentlemen: a Memoir.
Fisher, Antwone Quenton. Finding Fish: a Memoir.
Foveaux, Jessie. Any Given Day: the Life and Times of Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux.
Fromm, Pete. Indian Creek Chronicles: a Winter Alone in the Wilderness.
Galarza, Ernesto. Barrio Boy.
Gantos, Jack. Hole in My Life.
Gottlieb, Lori. Stick Figure.
Gunther, John. Death Be Not Proud.
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Haines, John. The Stars, the Snow, the Fire: a Memoir.
Hayslip, Le Ly. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: a Vietnamese Woman’s Journey from war to
Peace.
Hockenberry, John. Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence.
Hotchner, A.E. Looking for Miracles: A Memoir About Loving.
Ilibagiza, Immaculee. Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocust.
Irwin, John. Another River, Another Town: a Teenage Tank Gunner Comes of Age in Combat 1945.
Jessop, Violet. Titanic Survivor: the Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessup Who Survived Both the
Titanic and Britannic Disasters.
Johnson, Lou Anne. The Girls in the Back of the Class.
King, Stephen. On Writing: a Memoir of the Craft.
Kingston, Maxine Hong. Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts.
Kisor, Henry. What’s That Pig Outdoors?: a Memoir of Deafness.
Leitner, Isabelle. Fragments of Isabelle: a Memoir of Auschwitz.
Mah, Adeline Yen. Chinese Cinderella: the True Story of an Unwanted Daughter.
Markham, Beryl. West With the Night.
Asgedom, Mawi. Of Beetles and Angels: a Boy’s Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard.
McCain, John. Faith of My Fathers: a Family Memoir.
McCormack, John. A Friend of the Flock: Tales of a Country Veterinarian.
McCourt, Frank. Teacher Man: a Memoir.
McCourt, Frank. ‘Tis: a Memoir.
Momaday, N. Scott. The Names: a Memoir.
Mora, Pat. House of Houses.
Nasdijj. The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams: a Memoir.
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Nguyen, Kien. The Unwanted: a Memoir.
Nixon, Richard. In the Arena: a Memoir of Victory, Defeat and Renewal.
Opdyke, Irene Gut. In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer.
Plotkin, Rabbi Albert. Rabbi Plotkin: a Memoir.
Rekdal, Paisley. The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In.
Red Fox, Chief William. The Memoirs of Chief Red Fox.
Said, Laila. A Bridge Through Time: a Memoir.
Santiago, Esmeralda. When I Was Puerto Rican.
Sedaris, David. Naked.
Simon, Rachel. Riding the Bus With My Sister: a True Life Journey.
Snow, Helen Foster. My China Years: a Memoir.
Tan, Amy. The Opposite of Fate: a Book of Musings.
Tammet, Daniel. Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant.
Tavalaro, Julia. Look Up for Yes.
Thomas, Salome. I Choose to Stay: a Black Teacher Refuses to Desert the Inner City.
Walker, Lou Ann. A Loss for Words: the Story of Deafness in a Family.
Watkins, Paul. Stand Before Your God: a Boarding School Memoir.
Whitestone, Heather. Listening With My Heart.
V. Andrews, Lynn. Medicine Woman.
Wiesel, Elie. Night.
Wilkomirski, Benjamin. Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood.
Wolff, Tobias. This Boy’s Life: a Memoir.
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Native American Studies – Reading Lists
Zindel, Paul. The Pigman and Me.
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