As a literary format, the memoir goes waaaay back. Ancient Rome's least humble statesman, Julius Caesar, wrote about his military triumphs circa 55 BCE. St. Augustine wrote a pretty popular book in the 4th century, and Japanese court culture was crazy for memoirs around 900 CE.
For this collection, we're tightening up the focus just a little bit. We've collected below the most popular and highly rated memoirs from the past 10 years, according to Goodreads members' ratings and reviews. Each of the titles below earned a minimum 3.5 rating from readers, and the books are sequenced according to overall popularity.
