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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

I Curse You with Joy

Consent

True Gretch: What I’ve Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

Surf Like a Woman

Getting to Know Death: A Meditation

Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence

Uncultured

The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

The Ballad of Speedball Baby

The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (and How I Got Out)

Grief Is for People

Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol

More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

Love Language: A memoir of family, music and pasta

Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History

Resilient: The Untold Story of CrossFit’s Greatest Comeback

The Women’s Revolution: How We Changed Your Life

Ambition Monster

How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker

12 Trips in 12 Months: Make Your Own Solo Travel Magic

Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls

Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones

I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman’s Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This (But I’m Going to Anyway)

Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls

Seeing Sideways: A Memoir of Music and Motherhood

There is No Blue

Tracking Giants: Big Trees, Tiny Triumphs, and Misadventures in the Forest

Piece by Piece

Aphrodite’s Breath

Confessions of a Rock N Roll Name Dropper: My Life Leading Up to John Lennon’s Last Interview

The Names of All the Flowers

Remember My Story: A Girl, a Holocaust Survivor, and a Friendship That Made History

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings

Gorillas in the Mist: A Remarkable Story of Thirteen Years Spent Living with the Greatest of the Great Apes

Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom

On Thriving: Harnessing Joy Through Life’s Great Labors

Let Me Clear My Throat

Everyone but Myself: A Memoir

Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

Dog Flowers

Wayward: Just Another Life to Live

Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement

Listen to My Heart: Life, Love & Roxette

The Twat Files

Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul

Up All Night: My Life and Times in Rock Radio

Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel

Fat Off, Fat On

The Farmer’s Wife

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Normal Gets You Nowhere

Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York

Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You’re the F-ing Worst

America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled

What Was I Thinking?: How Being a Stand Up Did Nothing to Prepare Me to Become a Single Mother