This Is My Body: A Memoir of Religious and Romantic Obsession In the Dream House: A Memoir Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays The Book of Delights: Essays What We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family's Search for Answers A Fish Growing Lungs: essays
Jell-O Girls: A Family History Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger Thin Places: Essays from in Between Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy The Part That Burns Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity
Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession A Mind Spread Out on the Ground The Incredible Shrinking Woman The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made about Race, Resistance, and Romance The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood The Heart and Other Monsters: A Memoir
Cost of Living: Essays A History of My Brief Body This Is Major This Is One Way to Dance: Essays Pedro's Theory: Reimagining the Promised Land Negative Space Love Is an Ex-Country: A Memoir

The Memoir Monday Book List

By The Word Cave
By The Word Cave

The Memoir Monday Book List

Memoir Monday is a weekly newsletter and quarterly reading series co-curated by Catapult, Literary Hub, Granta, Guernica, Narratively, and The Rumpus. Below is a list of memoirs that have been featured at the series since its inception in April, 2018—and some additional books by Memoir Monday alums!  

Cost of Living: Essays

Cost of Living: Essays

Emily Maloney

$27.99
$26.03
A Fish Growing Lungs: essays

A Fish Growing Lungs: essays

Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn

$18.00
$16.74
Thin Places: Essays from in Between

Thin Places: Essays from in Between

Jordan Kisner

$18.00
$16.74
Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy

Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy

Larissa Pham

$26.00
$24.18
The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood

The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary...

Krys Malcolm Belc

$26.00
$24.18
Negative Space

Negative Space

Lilly Dancyger

$16.95
$15.76
Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change

Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change

Anjali Enjeti

$25.95
$24.13
Pedro's Theory: Reimagining the Promised Land

Pedro's Theory: Reimagining the Promised Land

Marcos Gonsalez

$26.99
$25.10
Love Is an Ex-Country: A Memoir

Love Is an Ex-Country: A Memoir

Randa Jarrar

$26.00
$24.18
The Part That Burns

The Part That Burns

Jeannine Ouellette

$16.00
In the Dream House: A Memoir

In the Dream House: A Memoir

Carmen Maria Machado

$18.00
$16.74
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

Alicia Elliott

$19.99
$18.59
The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays

The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays

Elisa Gabbert

$17.00
$15.81
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the...

Angela Chen

$26.95
$25.06
The Incredible Shrinking Woman

The Incredible Shrinking Woman

Athena Dixon

$16.00
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

Damon Young

$27.99
$26.03
A History of My Brief Body

A History of My Brief Body

Billy-Ray Belcourt

$15.99
$14.87
The Heart and Other Monsters: A Memoir

The Heart and Other Monsters: A Memoir

Rose Andersen

$26.00
$24.18
The Book of Delights: Essays

The Book of Delights: Essays

Ross Gay

$24.95
$23.20
This Is Major

This Is Major

Shayla Lawson

$17.99
The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made about Race, Resistance, and Romance

The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made about...

Matt Ortile

$16.99
$15.80
Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession

Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession

Marcia Trahan

$18.00
$16.74
What We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family's Search for Answers

What We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family's Search for Answers

Jessica Pearce Rotondi

$26.00
$24.18
Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity

Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity

Porochista Khakpour

$16.00
$14.89
This Is One Way to Dance: Essays

This Is One Way to Dance: Essays

Sejal Shah

$23.95
$22.27