❤️❤️💔  We Bought A Zoo by Benjamin Mee is a true story of his nomadic family buying a zoo with Mee’s family and their inheritance from his deceased father. Mee, a father of two, writer, and husband of Katherine Mee, had experience uprooting his family to live different experiences, having sold their London flat and…

❤️❤️💔 Looking For Alaska is one of John Green’s hugely successful Young Adult novels. (Others include The Fault In Our Stars and Paper Towns) The winner of the Michael Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Fiction and a New York Times Bestseller, Alaska tells the story of a group of misfit teens who live…

❤️❤️❤️❤️  Always Looking Up is sometimes regarded as the sequel to Fox’s beautiful memoir Lucky Man, but in truth, it is a standalone book, simply written by the same author. Always Looking Up is Fox’s treaties on the power of optimism. Originally famous for his skills as a comic actor, who consistently appeared younger than…

❤️❤️💔 The Devil In The White City is one of the strangest books I have ever read in terms of categories- it is a true crime novel about HH Holmes, one of the 1st serial killers in America, it is a historical story about the World’s Fair, it is the history of the Ferris Wheel,…

❤️❤️❤️ When Suzy Gershman is suddenly widowed, she pulls up stakes and moves to the City of Light. Part travelogue, part memoir, Gershman uses the skills she developed while writing her hugely successful Born to Shop travel books. She is strikingly honest as a woman who feels lost after her husband’s death, and decides to…

 ❤️❤️❤️ The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is an unusual type of novel. It is a historical fiction, it is ever so slightly supernatural (by way of the narrator), it is about young teens/children, it has been classified as a Young Adult novel in some cases. Zusak’s book was the first chosen for our book…

Like  ❤️❤️❤️❤️ You’re Never Weird On The Internet (almost) is Felicia Day’s humorous memoir. If you are unfamiliar with Day, she is an actress, writer, a pioneer in online entertainment (not that kind!), and the self professed “Queen of the Geeks”. Her memoir covers everything from her homeschooled childhood, whence she and her brother seemed…

💔 I am torn – I know this was written decades ago, so maybe that explains some of it, but as much as I like Callaghan’s writing style, I hate how every single male character in his stories are brutish, pigheaded, violent, sulky… not one of them are likeable. They all hit their wives and…

 ❤️❤️❤️💔 The book that introduced me to my beloved Maeve Brennan and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Spinster is equal parts memoir, cultural introduction, history lesson, feminist writing, and social discussion on the new rash of happily unmarried single women. Bolick presents Spinster as her journey to fulfilling her “spinster wish” – to be happily alone in…

Like ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Seriously… I’m Kidding is Ellen DeGeneres’ extremely funny memoir-ish book. I have trouble classifying it as a memoir, although there are stories from about five years (2006-2011) of her life and success; I also have trouble classifying as a success-driven inspirational book, encouraging the reader to never give up, although there is certainly…