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After sixteen-year-old Bree's mother dies in an accident, she escapes the painful memories of her childhood attack of a mythical creature on a student--then must evade a fellow student's attempts to wipe her memory

Issues of memory, chosen family, history, loneliness, and love shape Vuong's novel, and the author forces

cult; and So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell's story of mining youthful, sometimes difficult memories In doing so, he traces memories and tracks down details from his childhood, reliving moments and bringing The story promises to explore loss, the state of seeking, the power of youthful memory, and the irresistible

Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen was mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Books

Bookworm 01 This Book Is a Planetarium by Kelli Anderson This unusual, usable, interactive book turns into six

I was disappointed that she doesn't dig into her former self's memories enough to unlock a real connection

Haunted by the past and threatened in the present, Gretel shapes the novel with disturbing memories from

present-day scenes with Yara's journals (made up of often brutally painful, occasionally momentarily lovely memories

Patricia Lockwood No One Is Talking about This is fiction from Patricia Lockwood, the author of the memoir

The pacing is slow, and the book is largely made up of various characters talking about conflicting memories

Isabelle can't stop searching for her son, but she begins to wonder if she's an unreliable source of memories

Another nonfiction spy book I found really interesting was Tracy Walder's memoir, The Unexpected Spy.

unbroken bond; and I'm listening to The Best of Me, David Sedaris's most recent collection of oddball memories Whether Sedaris is reliving specific, frequently oddball memories and mining them for poignancy and also

The vivid midcentury memories are a highlight. behaviors are brought to light and shake the foundations of the families and of their treasured collective memories

hallucinations and mental illness...until she realizes that the red door and visions of the past are real memories

No One Is Talking about This is fiction from Patricia Lockwood, the author of the memoir Priestdaddy.

It asks us to consider who sets and shapes our shared national memory and what and who gets left out.

When she flees to remote California, her ability to travel through memory to revisit the past secures

The subtitle of Miller's memoir What Doesn't Kill You is A Life with Chronic Illness--Lessons from a

on a desperate search for a missing child in Victorian London--and must also confront her own dark memories a desperate search through London and the countryside beyond, as well as through Bridie’s own messy memories

Newman's lets the reader into Edi and Ash's rabbit warren of private jokes and moments and memories,

Fraser grew up in the Pacific Northwest with firsthand memories of arsenic, lead, and copper contamination

Chakrabarti offers characters with complex struggles, hopes, and haunting memories who work to form deep

I feel like mysteries, light fiction, memoirs, and fantasy are working well for me--plus historical fiction

the final book in Black's Folk of the Air trilogy (I mentioned the series in the Greedy Reading List Six

author of The Dry (Aaron Falk #1) and The Lost Man, which I mentioned in my Greedy Reading List The Six

She begins to wonder if she's an unreliable source of memories surrounding Mason's death--but she can't

nine TV seasons aired in the United States--including the story of how it was almost canceled after six

also wrote the fantastic Spinning Silver and Uprooted, both of which appear on the Greedy Reading List Six

scene in Kabul with the vivid sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of the past that reemerge in Sitara's memories

What is the value of a life that must be begun anew each day--a life no one else holds memories of? What is the value of a life that must be begun anew each day--a life no one else holds memories of?

Bobby's recounted memories don't paint her as anything close to a saint; she recounts the evidence of

The memories are beginning to slowly shift back into focus, but he needs them now.

Whose memory is solid?

I love Strout's books, so I was delighted to dive back into the many reflections, vulnerabilities, memories

ICYMI: This is excellent, layered historical fiction with memorable characters and a great big story

referred to in the book's title, there is a captivating, dark, in-between world of floating, nebulous memories

Kieran's father is suffering from memory issues and wanders at night, and his mother is readying to move

He holds vivid memories of life in 1900s London--and he holds a postcard a century old, sent to him from

thought during certain moments in the past and her emphasis on examining tiny details of situations and memories

In With or Without You, Leavitt explores fascinating angles related to memory and self.

timelines; The Beekeeper's Promise, set in 1938 France with a second timeline decades later; and Sea of Memories

She eschews any talk of Lucy’s children, marriage, real life, saying “I love you,” or of memories that reflections in a way that I was not, for example, with regard to Ann Patchett's characters and the memories

wrote the exquisite All the Light We Cannot See, as well as The Shell Collector, Four Seasons in Rome, Memory

What they were reaching back for weren’t your memories—they were their own.

captivating character here, although she exists largely off page and in the main protagonist's mixed-feelings memories

heart the very same--through their unspeakable loss, desire for revenge, search for meaning, haunting memories

her parents' accounts hold merit, and begins to wonder with horror whether she can trust even her own memories

Songteller includes previously unpublished photos, behind-the-scenes stories and memories. 05 The Bird

French is the author of six books in the Dublin Murder Squad series: In the Woods, this book (my absolute