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Hollow: A Memoir of My Body in the Marines

I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki

Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia

Inconceivable: Super Sperm Donors, Off-the-Grid Insemination, and Unconventional Family Planning

The Manicurist’s Daughter

One Way Back

Chick Flicks : Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement

Freedom: Memoirs 1954 – 2021

No One Gets to Fall Apart

American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous

I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art

Morning Glory On The Vine: Early Songs and Drawings

Also Here: Love, Literacy, and the Legacy of the Holocaust

Poet Warrior

Did I Ever Tell You?

Notes from an Island

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

A Bit on the Side

I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying

My Time to Stand

A Map to the Door of No Return

An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays

Between Two Trailers

A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston

A Thousand Threads

Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

How Do You Feel?: One Doctor’s Search for Humanity in Medicine

Da Baddest

Birding to Change the World: A Memoir

Life on Svalbard: Finding Home on a Remote Island near the North Pole

Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

When We Are Seen: How to Come Into Your Power—and Empower Others Along the Way

Undiplomatic: How My Attitude Created the Best Kind of Trouble

Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

A Woman Like Me: A Memoir

Connie: A Memoir

American Bulk: Essays on Excess

Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father

The Housekeeper’s Secret

One Week in January: New Paintings for an Old Diary

Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life

Naked Portrait: A Memoir of my Father, Lucian Freud

Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books

Stand in My Window: Meditations on Home and How We Make It

Mad Wife

Cher: The Memoir, Part One

Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing

Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir

Because I’m Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink

In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox

Somebody with a Little Hammer

Misfits: A Personal Manifesto

The Use of Photography

Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

Mama: A Queer Black Woman’s Story of a Family Lost and Found

An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography

A Writer’s Diary

One Garden Against the World: In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate

Negative Space

Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me

To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness

All That Remains: A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes

Woman with a Movie Camera: My Life as a Russian Filmmaker

Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

Turn Your Pain Into Art

What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

Conversations with Monsters: On Mortality, Creativity, And Neurodivergent Survival

Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process

Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

Dark Tide: Growing Up with Ted Bundy

Lifeform

Heart on My Sleeve: Stories from a Life Well Worn

Women in Rock Memoirs: Music, History, and Life-Writing

Unstoppable!: My Journey from World Champion to Athlete A to 8-Time NCAA National Gymnastics Champion and Beyond

Naked Imperfection

From Here to the Great Unknown

The Observable Universe: An Investigation

Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

If You Can’t Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

Be Ready When the Luck Happens

The Road Is Good: How a Mother’s Strength Became a Daughter’s Purpose

Dead Girls

The Word Pretty

A Mom Like That: A Memoir of Postpartum Psychosis

I’m Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America

Come By Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia’s Geechee Coast

How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom

One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Mother’s Story

My Good Bright Wolf

Countermelodies: A Memoir in Sonata Form

Immersion: A Linguist’s Memoir

A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole

What in the World?!: A Southern Woman’s Guide to Laughing at Life’s Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings

Happily Ever After & Everything In Between

Being Bad: Breaking the Rules and Becoming Everything You’re Not Supposed to Be

Over the Influence

Born to Walk: My Journey of Trials and Resilience

Health and Safety: A Breakdown

The Shaman’s Wife: A Mystical Journey of Surrender and Self-Discovery

Black Box: The Memoir That Sparked Japan’s #MeToo Movement

The Widow’s Guide to Dead Bastards

Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People

Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood

My Brother’s Ashes are in a Sandwich Bag

My Body Keeps Your Secrets: Dispatches on Shame and Reclamation

Everything Is OK

Without Her: A Chronicle of Grief and Love

From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire

The Deaf Girl: A Memoir of Hearing Loss, Hope, and Fighting Against the Odds

Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority

First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream

Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

That Thing You Do With Your Mouth: The Sexual Autobiography of Samantha Matthews as Told to David Shields

Sleepless: Discovering the Power of the Night Self

How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon

Lovely One

The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft

Here After

I Would Meet You Anywhere

Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy

Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India’s Caste System

How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir

My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives

Traveling Solo: A Life Well Lived, a Death Well Planned

The Snarling Girl and Other Essays

I’ll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain

Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You

My Side of the River

Private Equity

White Supremacy Is All Around: Notes from a Black Disabled Woman in a White World

A Woman in the Polar Night

You Get What You Pay For: Essays

Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—and Pocketed $40 Million

Black by Design: A 2-Tone Memoir

Chronicles of a Fashion Buyer

Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

A Termination

Trails and Tribulations: The Running Adventures of Susie Chan

The Age of Loneliness

To the Gorge: Running, Grief, Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail

French Milk

Maybe You Die: The True Story of a Couple Living the All-American Nightmare

Widow Basquiat: A Love Story

Earth to Moon

A Survivor’s Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don’t Tell

The Witch’s Daughter: My Mother, Her Magic, and the Madness that Bound Us

My Year of Psychedelics: Lessons on Better Living

Studio Musician: Carol Kaye, 60s No. 1 Hit Bassist, Guitarist

A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind

An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work

You’re Embarrassing Yourself: Stories of Love, Lust, and Movies

Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law

Drawn Testimony: Sketching a generation’s most iconic criminal cases

Group Living and Other Recipes

A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir

Take Care of Them Like My Own: Faith, Fortitude, and a Surgeon’s Fight for Health Justice

My Life at Grey Gardens: 13 Months and Beyond

Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

Will I Ever Have Sex Again?

Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve

Raver Girl: Coming of Age in the 90s

Always Reaching: The Selected Writings of Anne Truitt

This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story

Whiskey Tender

I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World

Diamond in the Rough: A Memoir

Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

Writing on Empty: A Guide to Finding Your Voice

Self-Portrait

First Love: Essays on Friendship

First in Line: How COVID-19 Placed Me on the Frontlines of a Health Care Crisis

Duchess of Palms: A Memoir

Drawn to the Garden

Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood

The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle

Mad Woman

Sharks Don’t Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

A Purposeful Life: What I’ve Learned About Breaking Barriers and Inspiring Change

Woman of Interest

The Lucky Ones

How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone

Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl

Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America’s Biggest Catfish

Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide

Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

Survival of the Thickest

Love Is a Burning Thing

My Roman History

To Be a Problem: A Black Woman’s Survival in the Racist Disability Rights Movement

Wonderland: A Tale of Hustling Hard and Breaking Even