40 Best Memoirs by People Under 40

It’s often said that young people shouldn’t write memoirs—that the younger someone is the more trouble they might have in assessing their own life story and relaying it to others, to say nothing of how uninteresting that story might be. We here at Jezebel started talking about this today for no fuckin reason. We didn’t come to a consensus, but we do agree that there are some memoirs written by younger people that are worth picking up. Here are 40 memoirs written by people under 40 that are good.

1. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

2. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

3. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

4. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

5. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

6. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

7. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

8. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

9. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

10. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

11. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

12. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

13. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

14. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

15. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

16. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

17. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

18. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

19. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

20. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

21. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

22. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

23. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

24. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

25. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

26. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

27. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

28. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

29. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

30. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

31. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

32. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

33. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

34. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

35. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

36. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

37. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

38. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

39. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala (probably)

40. Chyna’s Chyna, The 9th Wonder of the World