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The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past

The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness

Mankiller: A Chief and Her People

I Want To Be Where the Normal People Are

Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret

Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

How to Write a Memoir in 30 Days: Step-by-Step Instructions for Creating and Publishing Your Personal Story

Watching the Tree

The Book of Moods: How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life

Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic

Patti Smith on Patti Smith: Interviews and Encounters (Musicians in Their Own Words)

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

An American Sunrise

Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood

It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll: Thirty Years Married to a Rolling Stone

The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography

On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist

Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness

No One Asked for This: Essays

It Takes Blood and Guts

I, Bificus

Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life

Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought

Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces

Sinners Welcome

Alone atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press

Drunk Mom

Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread

Friends and Enemies: A Life in Vogue, Prison, & Park Avenue

Little Miss Little Compton: A Memoir

When We Were Ghouls: A Memoir of Ghost Stories

Fattily Ever After: A Black Fat Girl’s Guide to Living Life Unapologetically

My Organic Life: How a Pioneering Chef Helped Shape the Way We Eat Today

The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

Lucky

Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was: An Oral History

Life In Pieces

The Cancer Journals

A Manual for Heartache

Ctrl, Alt; Delete: How I Grew Up Online

The Meaning of Mariah Carey

Between Lives: An Artist and Her World

Walking with the Muses: A Memoir

Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

Golem Girl

Nerve

The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians, and Other Remarkable People

Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman’s Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany

Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own

Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being

Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics

Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

A Sucky Love Story: Overcoming Unhappily Ever After

I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds

Channel Kindness: Stories of Kindness and Community

Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

You’re the Only One I’ve Told: The Stories Behind Abortion

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

Rosa Parks: My Story

Just Us: An American Conversation

Solutions and Other Problems

The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life

Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

Having and Being Had

Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair, and Post-Punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter

Boys in the Trees

Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains

Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir

Seeing the Body: Poems

Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land

The Baddest Bitch in the Room: A Memoir

A Knock at Midnight

Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse

My Own Words

Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America

More Than a Woman

Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes

Wiving: A Memoir of Loving Then Leaving the Patriarchy

The Age of Creativity: Art, Memory, My Father, and Me

Marlene Dietrich’s ABC

Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries

Everything Is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes

On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear

What Can I Do?: My Path from Climate Despair to Action

Letters to a Young Therapist

The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir

Raising a Rare Girl

The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir

The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm –And Built a New Life

The Choice: Embrace the Possible

Vesper Flights

Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady

Daring: My Passages: A Memoir

Please Don’t Go Before I Get Better

Intimations

Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger: A Memoir

I Am Evelyn Amony: Reclaiming My Life from the Lord’s Resistance Army

Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage

Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots

My Life as a Villainess

After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America

Being Lolita: A Memoir

My Time to Speak: Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race

The Fixed Stars

Not My White Savior: A Memoir in Poems

Coming Undone: A Memoir

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir

Drawing Power: Women’s Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival Power

Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness

Grand: A Memoir

My Name is Victoria: The Extraordinary Story of One Woman’s Struggle to Reclaim Her True Identity

Worth It: Overcome Your Fears and Embrace the Life You Were Made For

A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism

The Little Princesses: The Story of the Queen’s Childhood by Her Nanny, Marion Crawford

The Big Lie: Motherhood, Feminism, and the Reality of the Biological Clock

Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century

Guilt Trip: My Quest to Leave the Baggage Behind

Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement

The Lonely War

Autobiography of Mother Jones

The Girl from Purple Mountain: Love, Honor, War, and One Family’s Journey from China to America

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Unnaturally Green: One girl’s journey along a yellow brick road less traveled

Unsinkable

84, Charing Cross Road

Edith’s Story

Who Will Hold Me?: A Single Mother’s Memoir of Self-Love, Empowerment and Freedom

Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan’s Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family’s Past

How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences

Shattered Silence: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer’s Daughter

Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

No Horizon Is So Far: Two Women And Their Extraordinary Journey Across Antarctica

Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering

I Am Yours: A Shared Memoir

Here’s the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in between Journeys

Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir

The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan

The Lonely Life: An Autobiography

There I Am: The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing—A Memoir

Wheels Within Wheels: The Making of a Traveller

Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions

Let’s Never Talk About This Again: A Memoir

Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto

Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth

Not One of the Boys: Living Life as a Feminist

Just a Journalist: On the Press, Life, and the Spaces Between

Testament of Youth

A Place for Everything

Too Much and Not the Mood

She Proclaims: Our Declaration of Independence from a Man’s World

Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

Abandon Me: Memoirs

Merle Thornton: Bringing the Fight

Rockaway: Surfing Headlong into a New Life

Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery

Bright Precious Thing

Whip Smart: The True Story of a Secret Life

Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs

Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

Say It Louder!: Black Voters, Voices & the Shaping of American Democracy

The Heart and Other Monsters

The Hungover Games: A True Story

Disability Visibility : First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Use the Power You Have: A Brown Woman’s Guide to Politics and Political Change

Protocol: The Power of Diplomacy and How to Make It Work for You

Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist: The Life and Activism of Anbara Salam Khalidi

Craigslist Confessional: A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous Strangers

The Sober Lush: A Hedonist’s Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life –Alcohol Free

I Tried to Change So You Don’t Have To: True Life Lessons

Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels

Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture

The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family

Empty

Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl’s Love Letter to the Power of Fashion

Notes on a Silencing

Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South

Zoo Station: The Story of Christiane F.

Places I’ve Taken My Body: Essays

Shadow Daughter: A Memoir of Estrangement

See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

A Field Guide to Awkward Silences

Raised in Ruins: A Memoir

Arm the Spirit: A Story from Underground and Back

Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

The Faraway Nearby

The Opposite of Certainty: Fear, Faith, and Life in Between

All the Way to the Tigers: A Memoir

In Search of Safety: Voices of Refugees

Grief’s Country: A Memoir in Pieces

Initiated: Memoir of a Witch