I am going to join the Memoir Reading Challenge next year to broaden my reading horizons a little bit. I don't think I have read a memoir that was not in graphic novel form since the 1980s. There are 30 categories to choose from on the challenge page. Of course the graphic novel memoir interests me but also the food, political and travel memoirs. The challenge post also has a link to Goodreads' lists of types of memoirs and I found another interesting category: missionary memoirs. I used to read them all the time when I was young.
I am signing up to read 5 memoirs only as I am not sure how interested I am in this genre. I know that I am going to have to read Julia Child and Jacques Pepin's memoirs on how they became chefs. About 3 missionary memoirs interest me as well as David McCullough's book on John Adams, my favorite president. There is a music memoir category that interests me but I will have to keep searching to find a book that fits in the caregory.
