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

I hold every memory of him like a match I let burn down to the end, singeing my fingers until it hurts

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

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

Rory Docherty has returned to rural North Carolina with a wooden leg and haunting memories of his time

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

She struggles to reconcile her past and her memories with the present, the shallow facades with the gritty

I spend most of the year focusing on fiction titles, with a healthy dose of memoirs and some nonfiction

multiple characters to tell a story of caution, folly, and redemption: a Prairie Witch who holds others' memories

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

Repeating history that had left living memory was an all-too-human tendency...

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

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

She's built years of happy memories in their low-key beach house rental.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Last Binding duology, starts with a devastating ending (the demise of a character, caused by nefarious magicians

His book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland was one of my Six of the

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

Helena Smith is a neuroscientist creating technology to preserve memories and allow people to relive People like the victim Sutton is investigating are told that their vivid recollections of their life’s memories are not real, and that they’re actually mentally ill, suffering from False Memory Syndrome. When they encounter loved ones from their memories who are now living alternate lives, in many cases While Sutton begins digging into what’s real and what’s a lie, Smith works feverishly to preserve memories

This, as always, is only one version of the memory. Funny, how truth changes in the telling.

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

in books about mortality like I am, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Powerful Memoirs

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

Cult Classic is a sometimes darkly funny, suspenseful story of love, memory, and mind control with a

Loved Last Year Six Four-Star (And Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and Six of My Favorite Memoir

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

Maneka struggles to reconcile her past and her memories with the present and the glittery facades with

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

If you're interested in books that explore mortality, you might want to check out Six Powerful Memoirs

Loved Last Year Six Four-Star (And Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and Six of My Favorite Memoir

Loved Last Year Six Four-Star (And Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and Six of My Favorite Memoir

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?

Turner's story is inspired by her family's memoirs, and her Sarah Prine is a strong woman living on the

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

arrives in town, digging into Chloe's past and the recent disappearances, he sparks disturbing old memories

known to Harrow; characters lie steadily to each other; and Harrow is an unreliable narrator, with memory

in books about mortality like I am, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Powerful Memoirs

If you're interested in books that explore mortality, you might want to check out Six Powerful Memoirs

Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler ...you may have heard that goldfish have a three-second memory How can such a small fish hold on to the memory of the snaking path of a maze for three months?

loner, is set on defying the odds and graduating, even if she doesn't have the benefit of a group of magicians

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

her experiences through her childlike point of view, which allows for a painfully pure set of painful memories

Whose memory is solid?

Haig is also the author of How to Stop Time, his memoir Reasons to Stay Alive, and other books.