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Memoirs: Schadenfreude And A Few Good Laughs

Jessica Ferguson "threelittlebirds" (Woodbury, NJ)
Qualifications: Reader, book dealer, librarian

Candy and Me (A Love Story) by Hilary Liftin
Used & New from: $0.08
This one is beyond the beyond - you can't believe how much candy this woman has consumed. A very quick, fun, nostalgic read.

Snake Hips: Belly Dancing and How I Found True Love by Anne Thomas Soffee
$9.72 Used & New from: $7.99
Heavy metal rocker turned belly dancer! Funny and heartfelt plus fun insight into the world of belly dancing troupes.

A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana (Today Show Book Club #3) by Haven Kimmel
$10.36 Used & New from: $3.74
Funny stuff! Great writing, fun look at the heartland of the US!

Riding the Bus with My Sister : A True Life Journey by Rachel Simon
$9.75 Used & New from: $0.88
Destined to be a classic - Simon joins her mentally retarded sister for a year-long trip on the bus routes of a small PA town.

Sickened : The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by Julie Gregory
Used & New from: $6.37
Fascinating! I can't imagine many more interesting topics than Munchausen by Proxy - to read it first hand is wonderful! Gregory's writing only makes it a doubly wonderful read.

Red Azalea by Anchee Min
$7.99 Used & New from: $3.25
Growing up during Mao's Cultural Revolution in China, Min's text is a truly authentic voice.

A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
$14.92 Used & New from: $7.50
A stream-of-conciousness memoir of addiction and recovery that is almost too real.

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
$15.57 Used & New from: $4.03
You will not believe this is non-fiction (I kept checking myself) but Burroughs did, indeed, live this wild and unsavory life!

Dry : A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
$10.78 Used & New from: $6.00
Not as good as A Million Little Pieces but a mandatory sequel if you have read Running with Scissors.

Magical Thinking : True Stories by Augusten Burroughs
$15.57 Used & New from: $3.82
Third of Burroughs' memoirs. A collection of essays with insight into Burroughs adult life give hope that we can grow up fairly normal despite our parents (note I said "FAIRLY normal").

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Vintage) by Dave Eggers
$9.72 Used & New from: $1.00
Another mostly stream of consciousness memoir, and although it is often "heartbreaking" it is also very humorus.

The Lobster Chronicles : Life On a Very Small Island by Linda Greenlaw
$11.16 Used & New from: $0.35
Don't read this if you are not interested in the fishing life - lots of details - but really interesting stuff for those of us who are clueless.

Sixpence House by Paul Collins
Used & New from: $1.94
Any reader and/or book buyer will enjoy Collins' year-long romp in Hay-on-Wye.

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
$10.78 Used & New from: $1.94
The required reading for anyone thinking of becoming a chef, Bourdain is a smart-ass guy with a great talent for keeping the reader interested.

I Bought Andy Warhol by Richard Polsky
$15.72 Used & New from: $1.72
Polsky is accused of being a bit stuck-up but the bottom line is that this book is a great inside look at the art world and how the market is "made".

You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes : A Memoir by Laura Love
$15.57 Used & New from: $4.77
Singer/songwriter Laura Love tells about growing up with her sister while dealing with a mentally ill mother during a very turbulent time. Laura doesn't seem to hold anything back - very personal.

As Nature Made Him : The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto
$10.78 Used & New from: $1.99
This one is on ALL of my lists - "Microvascular right radial artery forearm flap reconstruction of the penis" might be schadenfreude at its height!

A Boy Named Phyllis : A Suburban Memoir by Frank DeCaro
Used & New from: $0.66
Funny - poignant at times but overall a funny look at growing up gay in suburban NJ.

Goat: A Memoir by Brad Land
Used & New from: $1.43
An unusual story of the male as a victim - but not in the way you might suspect.

Finding Fish: A Memoir by Antwone Q. Fisher
$10.74 Used & New from: $0.74
Another book for those of us feeling bad about ourselves - Finding Fish details Fisher's life as a foster child. Wow.

Early Recollections and Life of Dr. James Still (The Black Heritage Library Collection) by James Still
Out of stock
It is a shame this book is out of print - it should absolutely be a high school biography option. A son of freed slaves becomes a doctor in NJ's pine barrens. Historical and insightful.

My Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Childhood With Deafness (Creative Nonfiction (Urbana, Ill.).) by Lennard J. Davis
$15.72 Used & New from: $9.60
Bizarre, strangely written, difficult to put down memoir of growing up as a hearing child of deaf parents.

Five-Finger Discount : A Crooked Family History by Helene Stapinski
$9.97 Used & New from: $0.34
Lots of Jersey City, NJ historical interest, a unique ability to draw the reader into the world of petty crime and abuse and an acute understanding of family dynamics and loyaty make this a neat read.

Angelas Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
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I put this one here against my better judgement - I often say that the subtitle should be "Boy Jerks-Off in Limerick" - I didn't care for it much but it has definite schadenfreude potential!

Cheaper by the Dozen (Perennial Classics) by Frank B. Gilbreth
$9.95 Used & New from: $1.16
Classic story of a family of twelve children presided over by a silly and wonderful dad and his really-in-charge wife.

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