Oxfam Reading Challenge 2023 - hosted by annrhub

August: A Biography/Autobiography
All books added
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

6 hours, 26 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad fast-paced
The Men With the Pink Triangle: The True, Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps by Heinz Heger

The Men With the Pink Triangle: The True, Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps

Heinz Heger

160 pages • first pub 1972 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Being Lolita by Alisson Wood

Being Lolita

Alisson Wood

290 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between by Hisham Matar

The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between

Hisham Matar

280 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Maryanne Vollers, Yeonmi Park

In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

Maryanne Vollers, Yeonmi Park

288 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring sad medium-paced
The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: The Transgender Trial that Threatened to Upend the British Establishment by Zoë Playdon

The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: The Transgender Trial that Threatened to Upend the British Establishment

Zoë Playdon

416 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction gender history lgbtqia+ challenging emotional informative medium-paced
How to Survive Family Holidays by Michael Whitehall, Jack Whitehall, Hilary Whitehall

How to Survive Family Holidays

Michael Whitehall, Jack Whitehall, Hilary Whitehall

273 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction memoir travel funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Cold: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth by Ranulph Fiennes

Cold: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth

Ranulph Fiennes

496 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography travel adventurous informative medium-paced
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

Maggie O'Farrell

290 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
Lily's Promise: Holding On to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond—A Story for All Generations by Dov Forman, Lily Ebert

Lily's Promise: Holding On to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond—A Story for All Generations

Dov Forman, Lily Ebert

320 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir emotional inspiring sad medium-paced