Life Stories
eBook - PDF

Life Stories

A Guide to Reading Interests in Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Diaries

  1. 768 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Life Stories

A Guide to Reading Interests in Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Diaries

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

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Series Foreword
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1: Travel and Adventure
  7. Chapter 2: Celebrities
  8. Chapter 3: The Creative Life
  9. Chapter 4: The Working Life
  10. Chapter 5: Place and Time
  11. Chapter 6: Life Away from Home
  12. Chapter 7: Life with Others
  13. Chapter 8: The Inner Life
  14. Chapter 9: The Political Life
  15. Chapter 10: Changing Lives in History
  16. Chapter 11: Life on the Dark Side of History
  17. Chapter 12: Life at War
  18. Chapter 13: Surviving Life
  19. Appendix A: Classics
  20. Appendix B: Controversial Titles
  21. Appendix C: Awards
  22. Appendix D: Resources
  23. Author/Title Index
  24. Subject Index