Favorite Bios, Memoirs and Autobiographies Read in 2017

What were your favorites?

Favorites of 2017
Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster and the Man Who Pursued Him and the Age of Flim Flam by Pope Brock

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by Scott A. Berg

Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of A Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summersdale

My favourites this year were:

One Native Life by Richard Wagamese
Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary by Sonja Larsen
Robert Kennedy: His Life by Evan Thomas

Buzz Aldrin: No Dream is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon (January 2017)
Walter R. Borneman: Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America (March 2017)
Marco Polo: The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian (April 2017)
Mark Puls: Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution (April 2017)
Peter Abelard: The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (April 2017)
John Oller: The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution (July 2017)
Jim Piecuch: The Blood Be Upon Your Head: Tarleton and the Myth of Buford’s Massacre (July 2017)
Brian Wilson: I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir (October 2017)
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca: Narrative of the Narvaez Expedition (October 2017)
David McCullough: The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For (November 2017)
Booker T. Washington: Up From Slavery (November 2017)

Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson
On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson by William Souder

My favorite biography was Casey Stengel: Baseball's Greatest Character by Marty Appel.

My favorite memoir was Land of Frozen Laughter: a Community Development Volunteer in the Vietnam War, 1967-1969 by John Lewallen

Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Thien, Madeleine