Editors' Picks: The All-Time Best Narratively Memoirs

In Narratively's first five years, our memoirists have scoured the world for Nazis, helped strangers with severed fingers, navigated life as a clown, and much more.

Photo by Brandon Ambrosino

After bringing you editors’ picks of the single best stories from each of our first five years, our finest longform “deep dives” and a few stories you may have missed, we’re wrapping up our month-long anniversary celebration with our all-time favorite memoirs.

We hope you enjoy them, and cheers to five years of Narratively! We’re so very grateful for your continued readership and support.

1. The Women in My Family Had to Be Good With Money

By Dena Landon