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The Journal Keeper: A Memoir

10 best books like The Journal Keeper: A Memoir (Phyllis Theroux): At Seventy: A Journal, Together, Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place, The Blessing: A Memoir, Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal, Writing the Memoir, Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir, Warrior Pose: How Yoga (Literally) Saved My Life, Reading My Father, One More Theory About Happiness: A Memoir, One Who Walked Alone – Robert E. Howard: The Final Years

At Seventy: A Journal
AuthorMay Sarton
ISBN0393310302
May Sarton—poet, novelist, and chronicler—occupies a special place in American letters. This new journal chronicles the year that began on May 3, 1982, her seventieth birthday. At her home in Maine, she savors “the experience of being alive in this beautiful place,” reflecting on nature,...
Together, Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place
AuthorSusan Wittig Albert
ISBN0292719701
What does it mean to belong to a place, to be truly rooted and grounded in the place you call home? How do you commit to a marriage, to a full partnership with another person, and still maintain your own separate identity? These questions have been central to Susan Wittig Albert's life, and in this beautifully...
The Blessing: A Memoir
AuthorGregory Orr
ISBN1571781412
I once read that memoirs are testimonies of survival, or something to that effect. If the author can live through that, we can survive our sufferings, too. And so, I can't help but think of my favorite memoirs as gifts, as blessings.

At Glen Workshop East in South Hadley, MA, this summer, I perused...
Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal
AuthorAlexandra Johnson
ISBN0316121568
When I picked this book up on the "value" shelf at Barnes and Noble I expected it to be a cheezie "how to dig into your soul and find who you are" self help writing book. So now years later I truly can not remember why I actually bought it. Perhaps its 3 dollar price ticket had something to do with it.

It...
Writing the Memoir
AuthorJudith Barrington
ISBN0933377509
Since Writing the Memoir came out in early 1997 it has sold roughly 80,000 copies and is consistently praised as "the best book on memoir out there." It is thought-provoking, explanatory, and practical: each chapter ends with writing exercises. It covers everything from questions of truth and ethics...
Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir
AuthorBeth Kephart
In the tradition of Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird, a critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist shares inspiration and practical advice for writing a memoir.

Writing memoir is a deeply personal, and consequential, undertaking. As the acclaimed author of five memoirs spanning significant...
Warrior Pose: How Yoga (Literally) Saved My Life
AuthorBrad Willis
ISBN1937856690
From the front lines of the Gulf War to investigating Columbian drug lords to living with freedom fighters in the mountains of Afghanistan, war correspondent Brad Willis was accustomed to risk. But when mortal danger came, it was from an unexpected direction.

At the pinnacle of his career,...
Reading My Father
AuthorAlexandra Styron
ISBN1416591796
PART MEMOIR AND PART ELEGY, READING MY FATHER IS THE STORY OF A DAUGHTER COMING TO KNOW HER FATHER AT LAST— A GIANT AMONG TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELISTS AND A MAN WHOSE DEVASTATING DEPRESSION DARKENED THE FAMILY LANDSCAPE.

In Reading My Father, William Styron’s youngest child...
One More Theory About Happiness: A Memoir
AuthorPaul Guest
ISBN0061685178
Paul Guest was a normal 12-year-old, fascinated with the old firecrackers his grandfather kept in a jar. He'd break them up and set fire to the rupture, creating showers of sparks. The day after he graduated from grade school, he borrowed a bicycle, lost control, and flipped it. Lying on the ground, unable...
One Who Walked Alone – Robert E. Howard: The Final Years
AuthorNovalyne Price Ellis
Robert E. Howard killed himself on June 11, 1936. He was thirty years of age. Because of his talent and because of the sheer bulk of his writing - achieved in so short a period of time - Howard has attracted a contemporary following that is devoted to his bigger-than-life characters: Conan, Kull, Solomon...
Loser Goes First: My Thirty-Something Years of Dumb Luck and Minor Humiliation
AuthorDan Kennedy
ISBN1400053749
It all begins on Christmas morning, 1978. Dan Kennedy is ten years old and wants a black Gibson Les Paul guitar, the kind Peter Frampton plays. It will be his passport to the coolest (only) band in the neighborhood—Jokerz. He doesn’t get it. Instead, his parents present him with what they think he...
Marriage and Other Acts of Charity
AuthorKate Braestrup
ISBN0316031917
In her award-winning memoir Here If You Need Me, Kate Braestrup won the hearts of readers across the country with her deeply moving and deftly humorous stories of faith, hope and family. Now, with her inimitable voice and generous spirit, she turns her attention to the subjects of love and commitment...
True North: A Memoir
AuthorJill Ker Conway
ISBN0679744614
Conway's The Road from Coorain presents a vivid memoir of coming of age in Australia. In 1960, however, she had reached the limits of that provincial--and irredeemably sexist--society and set off for America. True North--the testament of an extraordinary woman living in an extraordinary time--te...
Forward From Here: Leaving Middle Age--and Other Unexpected Adventures
AuthorReeve Lindbergh
couldn't read it all--after about half, I skimmed ahead to the part about Charles Lindbergh's secret families -- some good stuff there on his hypocrisy and what it was like to discover it belatedly, as well as more generally what it's like to know someone intimately that the public knows only as a hero.

beyond...
The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir
AuthorLinda Hogan
ISBN0393323056
"I sat down to write a book about pain and ended up writing about love," says award-winning Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan. In this book, she recounts her difficult childhood as the daughter of an army sergeant, her love affair at age fifteen with an older man, the legacy of alcoholism, the troubled...
Disaster Preparedness: A Memoir
AuthorHeather Havrilesky
ISBN1594487685
A perceptive, witty memoir about the transformative humiliations of childhood-and adulthood-from a unique, already-beloved voice.

When Heather Havrilesky was a kid during the '70s, harrowing disaster films dominated every movie screen with earthquakes that destroyed huge cities,...
Nocturne: On the Life and Death of My Brother
AuthorHelen Humphreys
ISBN1443415472
Helen Humphreys’ younger brother was gone before she could come to terms with the fact that he had terminal cancer. Diagnosed with stage 4B pancreatic cancer at the age of forty-five, he died four months later, leaving behind a grieving family. Martin was an extraordinary pianist who debuted at the...
Cabin: Two Brothers, a Dream, and Five Acres in Maine
AuthorLou Ureneck
ISBN0670022942
Inspired by his From the Ground Up New York Times blog, a beautifully written memoir about building and brotherhood. Confronted with the disappointments and knockdowns that can come in middle age-job loss, the death of his mother, a health scare, a divorce-Lou Ureneck needed a project that would...
Family
AuthorIan Frazier
ISBN0312420595
I was surprised to see that this book was given 4 stars in the book lists. I became intrigued with the book when I heard the author read an excerpt from it on a prairie home companion, so went off to the local library, and dived in,. ian frazier comes from a very old american family, that can trace itself back...
Call of the Cats: What I Learned about Life and Love from a Feral Colony
AuthorAndrew Bloomfield
ISBN1608683982
When aspiring screenwriter Andrew Bloomfield moved into a bungalow in Southern California he soon discovered that he shared the property with a large colony of feral cats — untamed, uninterested in human touch, not purring pets in waiting. But after a midnight attack by predators that decimated...
A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement
AuthorBarbara Abercrombie
ISBN1608680517
In this collection of anecdotes, lessons, quotes, and prompts, author and writing teacher Barbara Abercrombie provides a delightfully varied cornucopia of inspiration — nuts-and-bolts solutions, hand-holding commiseration, and epiphany-fueling insights from fellow writers, including...
A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America
AuthorJames Webb
ISBN0767928350
“I’m the only person in the history of Virginia elected to statewide office with a Union card, two Purple Hearts, and three tattoos."

Jim Webb—the bestselling author and now the celebrated, outspoken U.S. Senator from Virginia—presents a clear-eyed, hard-hitting plan of attack...
Salty
AuthorMark Haskell Smith
�Smith gets the details of mid-level rock stardom just right … mixing laughs and satire like a cross between Carl Hiaasen and Ross Thomas. A-” —Entertainment Weekly

From the author of Moist and Delicious comes a raucous comic novel where anything goes. Turk Henry, an overweight,...
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