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Looking for good memoirs to read. Not auto biographies of famous people. Just stories of plain, odd-ball folk. Any recommendations?
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Here's some great books about interesting people.
The Big Book of Weirdos – By Gahan Wilson ---- This one is particularly great.
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One Digital Day - By Rick Smolan, Creator of the Day in the Life Series
Carny Folk, The World's Weirdest Sideshow Acts - Francine Hornberger
Idiom Savant, Slang as it is slung – By Jerry Denn
The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank – Edited by Otto Frank and Mirjam Pressler
The Guinness World Records Book Series
The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations From Shakespeare – Edited by Mary and Reginald Foakes
The Expanded Quotable Einstein – Edited by Alice Calaprice
Pop Goes Religion, Faith in Popular Culture – By Terry Mattingly
The Darwin Awards – By Wendy Northcutt and Christopher M. Kelly
Diana’s Boys – By Christopher Andersen
The Day Diana Died – By Christopher Andersen
WaxWings, a novel – By Jonathan Raban
Raise You Ten, Social Editorial Essays and Encounters – By Barry Callaghan
Born to Kvetch, Yiddish Language and Culture in all of its moods – By Michael Wex
Yiddish Civilisation – The rise and fall of a forgotten nation – By Paul Kriwaczek
Mysteries of the Middle Ages – Thomas Cahill
Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future – Stories Edited by Gardner Dozois
The Big Book of Weirdos – By Gahan Wilson ---- This one is particularly great.
One Digital Day - By Rick Smolan, Creator of the Day in the Life Series
Carny Folk, The World's Weirdest Sideshow Acts - Francine Hornberger
Idiom Savant, Slang as it is slung – By Jerry Denn
The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank – Edited by Otto Frank and Mirjam Pressler
The Guinness World Records Book Series
The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations From Shakespeare – Edited by Mary and Reginald Foakes
The Expanded Quotable Einstein – Edited by Alice Calaprice
Pop Goes Religion, Faith in Popular Culture – By Terry Mattingly
The Darwin Awards – By Wendy Northcutt and Christopher M. Kelly
Diana’s Boys – By Christopher Andersen
The Day Diana Died – By Christopher Andersen
WaxWings, a novel – By Jonathan Raban
Raise You Ten, Social Editorial Essays and Encounters – By Barry Callaghan
Born to Kvetch, Yiddish Language and Culture in all of its moods – By Michael Wex
Yiddish Civilisation – The rise and fall of a forgotten nation – By Paul Kriwaczek
Mysteries of the Middle Ages – Thomas Cahill
Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future – Stories Edited by Gardner Dozois
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