
Life Stories
A Guide to Reading Interests in Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Diaries
- 768 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Memoirs, autobiographies, and diaries represent the most personal and most intimate of genres, as well as one of the most abundant and popular. Gain new understanding and better serve your readers with this detailed genre guide to nearly 700 titles that also includes notes on more than 2, 800 read-alike and other related titles. The popularity of this body of literature has grown in recent years, and it has also diversified in terms of the types of stories being told—and persons telling them. In the past, readers' advisors have depended on access by names or Dewey classifications and subjects to help readers find autobiographies they will enjoy. This guide offers an alternative, organizing the literature according to popular genres, subgenres, and themes that reflect common reading interests. Describing titles that range from travel and adventure classics and celebrity autobiographies to foodie memoirs and environmental reads, Life Stories: A Guide to Reading Interests in Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Diaries presents a unique overview of the genre that specifically addresses the needs of readers' advisors and others who work with readers in finding books.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Travel and Adventure
- Chapter 2: Celebrities
- Chapter 3: The Creative Life
- Chapter 4: The Working Life
- Chapter 5: Place and Time
- Chapter 6: Life Away from Home
- Chapter 7: Life with Others
- Chapter 8: The Inner Life
- Chapter 9: The Political Life
- Chapter 10: Changing Lives in History
- Chapter 11: Life on the Dark Side of History
- Chapter 12: Life at War
- Chapter 13: Surviving Life
- Appendix A: Classics
- Appendix B: Controversial Titles
- Appendix C: Awards
- Appendix D: Resources
- Author/Title Index
- Subject Index