Memoirs & Biographies of interest to high school students

This list is divided according to where in the library the books can be found.

TEEN AREA (third floor)

Everything Sucks: Losing My Mind and Finding Myself in a High School Quest for Cool by Hannah Friedman - TEEN AREA 305.235 FRI

Please Don't Kill the Freshman by Zoe Trope - TEEN AREA 305.235 TRO

Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year by Esmé Raji Codell - TEEN AREA 372.11 COD

Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self by Lori Gottlieb – TEEN AREA 616.85 GOT

Within Reach: My Everest Story by Mark Pfetzer - TEEN AREA 796.52 PFE & J 796.52 PFE

Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution  by Ji-Li Jiang - TEEN AREA 951.05 JIA

King of the Mild Frontier  by Chris Crutcher– TEEN AREA BIO CRUTCHER

Needles by Andie Dominick – TEEN AREA BIO DOMINICK

Hole in My Life  by Jack Gantos – TEEN AREA BIO GANTOS

The Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy – TEEN AREA BIO GREALY

Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood  by Julie Gregory – TEEN AREA GREGORY

Hawk: Occupation Skateboarder  by Tony Hawk – TEEN AREA BIO HAWK

Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam – TEEN AREA BIO HICKAM

My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban  by Latifa – TEEN AREA BIO LATIFA

Three Little Word: A Memior by Ashley Rhodes-Courter - TEEN AREA BIO RHODES

The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon – TEEN AREA BIO RUNYON

I Don't Want to Be Crazy by Samantha Schutz - TEEN AREA BIO SCHUTZ

Sleepaway School: Stories from a Boy’s Life by Lee Stringer – TEEN AREA BIO STRINGER 

NON-FICTION (main floor)

Devil in the Details Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood  by Jennifer Traig – 362.196 TRA

Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities by Alexandra Robbins - 378.198 ROB

Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas - 616.861

Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan - 636.752 GRO

My Losing Season by Pat Conroy - 796.323 CON 

True Notebooks  by Mark Salzman - 808.042 SAL

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim  by David Sedaris - 814.54 SED

Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford – 956.7044 SWO

Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell - 958.1047 LUT

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah - 966.404 BEA

BIOS (main floor)

It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life Lance Armstrong – BIO ARMSTRONG

Growing Up - TEEN BIO BAKER 

They Cage the Animals at Night by Jennings Michael – BIO BURCH

Running with Scissors – BIO BURROUGHS

Girl, Interrupted – BIO KAYSEN

The Color of Water - BIO MCBRIDE

A Child Called It– BIO PELZER

Lucky  – BIO SEBOLD

The Glass Castle - BIO WALLS

This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff – BIO WOLFF

* If you are interested in Holocaust survivor stories from WWII check at 940.53 – 943.086