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Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me

Twist: An American Girl

Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education

My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds

In My DNA: My Career Investigating Your Worst Nightmares

Just as I Am

All In: An Autobiography

Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark

Ready For Absolutely Nothing

This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal

When I Die I’m Going to Heaven ‘Cause I’ve Spent My Time in Hell: A Memoir of My Year As an Army Nurse in Vietnam

American Seoul

When the World Didn’t End: A Memoir

Tales from the Back Row: An Outsider’s View from Inside the Fashion Industry

Forty Years in the Wilderness

Women Like Us: A Memoir

Chaos Theory: Finding Meaning in the Madness, One Bad Decision at a Time

Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

Whatever Next?: Lessons from an Unexpected Life

Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life

Tell Me Everything

Wildflower: A Memoir

I’m Not with the Band: A Writer’s Life Lost in Music

Chita: A Memoir

No More Secrets: My Part in Codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon

Gold Digger

Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures

Real Estate

Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays

My Own Magic: A Reappearing Act

A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

Don’t Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet

Love and Trouble: Memoirs of a Former Wild Girl

Look at the Lights, My Love

Quant by Quant: The Autobiography of Mary Quant

Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

The Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Woman’s Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home

My What If Year: A Memoir

Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

Beautiful Trauma: An Explosion, an Obsession, and a New Lease on Life

Don’t Call Me Home: A Memoir

Homesick

Hello, Molly!: A Memoir

The Letters of Shirley Jackson

Not Everyone is Going to Like You: Thoughts From a Former People Pleaser

Stash: My Life in Hiding

And Then What?: Inside Stories of 21st Century Diplomacy

Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go

Letters from Tove

Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust

A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs

Why We Sing

The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

Birdgirl: A Young Environmentalist Looks to the Skies in Search of a Better Future

The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph

Appetite for Dysfunction: A Cautionary Tale

The Mirror Book

Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles

Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong

You Could Make This Place Beautiful

So Sorry for Your Loss: How I Learned to Live with Grief, and Other Grave Concerns

Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life Is Not Okay

I Am Debra Lee

Crying in the Bathroom

Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her

Dressing Barbie: A Celebration of the Clothes That Made America’s Favorite Doll and the Incredible Woman Behind Them

Paris: The Memoir

Pardon My French: Food, Faux Pas and Franglish: One Family’s Riotous Year in the South of France

The Critic’s Daughter: A Memoir

A Living Remedy: A Memoir

I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: A Memoir

Strong Female Character

Happily: A Personal History—with Fairy Tales

Reshaping Women’s History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin

Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man’s World

This Is What I Know About Art

This Will Be Funny Later

Stories I Might Regret Telling You: A Memoir

The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World

Thanks for Waiting: The Joy (and Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer

In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage

Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth

The Bookseller at the End of the World

Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart: A Memoir

The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts

This Is Not a Pity Memoir

Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir

Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs

Bad Vibes Only: (And Other Things I Bring to the Table)

Zarifa: A Woman’s Battle in a Man’s World

She Memes Well

Wonderful Tonight

Bevelations: Lessons from a Mutha, Auntie, Bestie

The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy

Lessons I’ve Learned

The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption

Joyrider: How gratitude can help you get the life you really want

Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years

Notes on Womanhood

FAME-ISH: My Life at the Edge of Stardom

Quilt on Fire: The Messy Magic of Midlife

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Easy Beauty

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

Emotional Female

Consent: A Memoir

Just Dope: A Leading Attorney’s Personal Journey Inside the War on Drugs

The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl

I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying: Essays

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter

Why Did You Stay?: A memoir about self-worth

Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

The World Deserves My Children

The World Record Book of Racist Stories

Out of the Corner

Thin Places: A Natural History of Healing and Home

Write for Your Life

Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

Dear Dana

This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return

The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There

How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood, Masculinity, and the Making of My Family

Stepping Back from the Ledge: A Daughter’s Search for Truth and Renewal

The Years

The Wind at My Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor, Raven Wilkinson

Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief

Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual

No Filter: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful

Soulbriety: A Plan to Heal Your Trauma, Overcome Addiction, and Reconnect with Your Soul

Inside Job: The Life of a Prison Psychologist.

They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl’s Fight for Freedom

No Happy Endings: A Memoir

All Things Aside: Absolutely Correct Opinions

Fierce Appetites: Loving, Losing and Living to Excess in My Present and in the Writings of the Past

Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember

Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses

How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life

Token Black Girl: A Memoir

Acne: A Memoir

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Alicia: My Story

As It Turns Out: Thinking about Edie and Andy

The Lonely Hunter: How the Search for Love Is Broken

Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success

All the Women in My Brain: And Other Concerns

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000

Black Internet Effect

Crying in H Mart

How to Stand Up to a Dictator

Ma and Me

The Hatching: Experiments in Motherhood and Technology

Addicted to Perfect: A Journey Out of the Grips of Adderall

I Still Have It . . . I Just Can’t Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething

Folk Fashion: Understanding Homemade Clothes

The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story

Action: A Book About Sex

Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

Rough Draft: A Memoir

Lost & Found: A Memoir

Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up

Corrections in Ink: A Memoir

Ten Steps to Nanette

The Unwritten Book: An Investigation

My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future

The World’s Worst Assistant

I’m Glad My Mom Died

The Wreckage of My Presence

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir

Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

Somebody’s Daughter

On Juneteenth

The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers

Loud

Fame: The Hijacking of Reality

The Soul of a Woman

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

Aftershocks: A Memoir

Love Is an Ex-Country

Finding Me

Sunshine Girl: An Unexpected Life

Upper Bohemia: A Memoir

Notes on Grief

Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

Finding Freedom: A Cook’s Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays

Ladyparts

Maya Angelou: The Iconic Self

I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry