Category: Memoir
Heartland by Sarah Smarsh (2018)
Persian Girls by Nahid Rachlin (2007)
Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares by Aaarti Namdev Shahani (2019)
Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson (2019) and The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater (2017)
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (2016)
The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande (2012)
This is Cuba: An American Journalist Under Castro’s Shadow by David Ariosto (2018)
An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff (and Alex Tresniowski), 2011
Becoming by Michelle Obama (2018)
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (2018)
Reading with Patrick by Michelle Kuo (2017)
The Line Becomes a River by Francis Cantu (2018)
Beautiful Boy by David Sheff (2008)
I Was at the Auschwitz Crematorium (2011) and I was Doctor Mendel’s Assistant (2001)
Adrift by Tami Oldham Ashcraft (orig pub. 2003)
The Carry Home by Gary Ferguson (2014)
Hunger by Roxane Gay (2017)
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (2014)
When Breath Becomes Air by Dr. Paul Kalanithi (2016)
The Death of Santini by Pat Conroy (2013)
The Opposite of Loneliness: stories and essays by marina Keegan (2014)
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb (2013)
The Snow Leopard by Peter Mattheissen (1978; Penguin Classics edition 2008)
The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London (1911; 2000 Dover edition)
Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman (2011)
Time Out by David A. Kelly (2009)
Let’s Pretend this Never Happened by Jenny Lawson (2013)
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008)
*Mortality by Christopher Hitchens (2012)
The Boy who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer (2009)
Writing Places: The Life Journey of a Writer and a Teacher by William Zinsser (2009)
The Red Skirt: Memoirs of an Ex Nun by Patricia O’Donnell-Gibson (2011)
**The Dirty Life by Kristen Kimball (2010)
*In Love and War by Jim and Sybil Stockdale (1990/1984)
**Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (2011) by Amy Chua
Mediterranean Summer by David Shalleck (2007)
Journey of a Thousand Miles by Lang Lang (2008)
Swimming to Antarctica by Lynn Cox
Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther (1949)
*Ultra Marathon Man: Confessions of an all night runner by Dean Karnazes
*I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (2006 paperback)
**Lopsided by Meredith Norton (2008)
**Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder (2009)
*Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books by Paul Collins (1993)
*In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White (2009)
**Educating Esme by Esme Raji Codell (2009/1999)
*West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamin Ansary (2002)
