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Riot Recommendation: Tell Us Your Favorite Powerful Memoirs By Women

Jamie Canaves

Contributing Editor

Jamie Canavés is the Tailored Book Recommendations coordinator and Unusual Suspects mystery newsletter writer–in case you’re wondering what you do with a Liberal Arts degree. She’s never met a beach she didn’t like, always says yes to dessert, loves ‘80s nostalgia, all forms of entertainment, and can hold a conversation using only gifs. You can definitely talk books with her on Litsy and Goodreads. Depending on social media’s stability maybe also Twitter and Bluesky.

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This Riot Recommendation asking for your favorite powerful memoirs by women is sponsored by Becoming by Michelle Obama.

Becoming cover imageBecoming is an intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by Michelle Obama, the former First Lady of the United States. With wit and candor, Mrs. Obama takes readers inside her remarkable journey from Chicago’s South Side to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, telling her full story—in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same. Becoming by Michelle Obama is available now.

That sound you hear is how much this is ringing all of our bells! We’ve cleared room in our schedule and on our TBRs before asking you to tell us what your favorite powerful memoirs by women are? Pop into our comments section to let us know and next week we’ll have an exciting list for you!