Memoirs continue to be popular

Even with the recent spate of faux memoirs plaguing the industry, memoirs continue to be popular with readers. Eat, Pray, Love and Three Cups of Tea are most popular at the moment.

Other titles:
Ammon Shea's Reading the OE
Jasper Rees' A Devil to Play
A.J. Jacobs' The Year of Living Biblically
Beth Lisick's Helping Me Help Myself
Cathy Alter's Give It Up!
Sam MacDonald's The Urban Hermit
Norah Vincent's Voluntary Madness

A Year in the Life: A Booming Memoir Subgenre
via Library Journal - Collection Development on 5/14/09

Newest Trend: Faux Memoirs!!!!

This past week or so it has all been about writing Fake Memoirs. It’s so trendy that someone at Slate put up a great list of “Don’ts” for the genre. When I Write a Fabricated Memoir, I Will.... and the NYT has created a A Family Tree of Literary Fakers.

Congratualtions to James Frey for beginning the most recent spate of fakes. Double-thumbs up to Margaret B. Jones. I had Ms. Jones’ book on my reading list!