
Category: Memoir


Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (2021)

Know My Name by Chanel Miller (2019)

A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle (1989)

Solito by Javier Zamora (2022)

Pig Years by Ellyn Gaydos (2022)

How We Fight for our Lives by Saeed Jones (2019)

The Home Place by J. Drew Lanham (2017)

Walking with the Wind by John Lewis with Michael D’Orso (1998)

A Promised Land by Barack Obama (2020)

Dad’s Maybe Book by Tim OBrien (2019)

The Glass Hotel, The Beauty in Breaking, and Where the Forest Meets the Stars

Burn the Place by Iliana Regan (2019)

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)
