Memoir - Adversity

• Bauby, Jean-Dominique. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Brown, Cupcake. A Piece of Cake
• Carr, David. Night of the Gun
• Debaggio, Thomas. Losing My Mind
• Denby, David. American Sucker
• Deraniyagala, Sonali. Wave
• Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking
• Duras, Marguerite. The War
• Eighner, Lars. Travels with Lizbeth
• Ellroy, James. My Dark Places
• Finneran, Kathleen. The Tender Land
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Crack-Up
• Fussell, Betty. My Kitchen Wars
• Gay, Roxane. Hunger
• Grealy, Lucy. The Autobiography of a Face
• Hamill, Pete. A Drinking Life
• Haskell, Molly. Love and Other Infectious Diseases
• Jamison, Kay Redfield. An Unquiet Mind
• Kaysen, Susanne. Girl Interrupted
• Knapp, Caroline. Drinking
• Kuusisto, Stephen. The Planet of the Blind
• Lasdun, James . Give Me Everything You Have
• Lawson, Jenny
• Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz
• Marchetto, Marisa Acocella. Cancer Vixen
• McCourt, Frank. Angela's Ashes
• Moaveni, Azadeh. Lipstick Jihad
• Moore, Judith. Fat Girl
• Morris, Jan . Conundrum
• Rosenblatt, Roger. Kayak Morning
• Scheeres, Julie. Jesus Land
• Sebold, Alice. Lucky
• Shapiro, Dani. Slow Motion
• Sheff, David. Beautiful Boy
• Slater, Lauren. Lying
• Styron, William. Darkness Visible
• Wiesel, Elie. Night
• Wurtzl, Elizabeth. Prozac Nation

Memoir - Anthologies

• Art of the Personal Essay
• Best American Essays
• Best American Essays of the Century
• Norton Book of Personal Essays
• Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
• When I Was a Loser

Memoir - Career/Hobby

• Ali, Aayan Hirsi. Infidel
• Almond, Steve. Candyfreak
• Bass, Rick. Oil Notes
• Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone
• Blunt, Judy. Breaking Clean
• Bourdain, Anthony. Kitchen Confidential
• Brecher, John and Gaiter, Dorothy J.. Love by the Glass
• Buford, Bill. Heat
• Conway, Jill Ker. True North
• Cusk, Rachel . A Life's Work
• Damrosch, Phoebe. Service Included
• Dinesen, Isak. Out of Africa
• Doyle, Brian. The Grail
• Finnegan, William . Barbarian Days
• Fisher, M.F.K.
• Greenlaw, Linda. The Hungry Ocean
• Hart, Moss. Act One
• Herr, Michael. Dispatches
• Hitchens, Christopher . Hitch-22
• Hornby, Nick. Fever Pitch
• Jacobs, A.J.
• Jahren, Hope . Lab Girl
• Kilmer-Purcell, Josh. I Am Not Myself These Days
• Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
• Kogan, Deborah Copaken. Shutterbabe
• Lamott, Anne. Operating Instructions
• Land, Stephanie. Maid
• MacDonald, Helen. H Is for Hawk
• Markham, Beryl. West with the Night
• Max, Tucker. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
• McCourt, Frank. Teacher Man
• Merton, Thomas. Seven Storey Mountain
• Nafisi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Tehran
• Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia
• Plimpton, George. Paper Lion
• Powell, Julie. Julie and Julia
• Reichl, Ruth
• Selzer, Richard. Down from Troy
• Shear, Claudia. Blown Sideways Through Life
• Snyder, Don. The Cliff Walk
• Swofford, Anthony. Jarhead
• Tomine, Adrian. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist
• Turow, Scott. 1L
• Wiener, Anna. Uncanny Valley
• Wolff, Tobias. In Pharoah's Army

Memoir - Collections

• Baldwin, James
• Beard, Jo Ann. The Boys of My Youth
• Brosh, Allie. Hyperbole and a Half
• Calhoun, Ada. Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
• Cooper, Bernard. Maps to Anywhere
• Crosley, Sloane. I Was Told There'd Be Cake
• Daum, Meghan. My Misspent Youth
• Didion, Joan
• Feig, Paul. Kick Me
• Gilman, Susan Jane. Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress
• Hampl, Patricial. I Could Tell You Stories
• Hoagland, Edward. Compass Points
• Irby, Samantha
• Lamott, Anne. Traveling Mercies
• Levi, Primo. The Periodic Table
• Lynch, Thomas. The Undertaking
• Notaro, Lori. The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death
• Sedaris, David
• Thomas, Abigail. Safekeeping
• Updike, John. Self-Consciousness

Memoir - Coming of Age

• Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• Arana, Marie. American Chica
• Baker, Russell. Growing Up
• Bechdale, Alison. Fun Home
• Bernstein, Harry. The Invisible Wall
• Bryson, Bill. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
• Burroughs, Augusten
• Cary, Lorene. Black Ice
• Christman, Jill. Darkroom
• Coates, Ta-Nehisi. The Beautiful Struggle
• Coetzee, J.M.. Boyhood
• Cohen, Kerry. Loose Girl
• Conroy, Frank. Stop-Time
• Conway, Jill Ker. The Road from Coorain
• Crews, Harry . A Childhood
• Cunningham, Laura. Sleeping Arrangements
• Dillard, Annie. An American Childhood
• Dubus III, Andre. Townie
• Fox, Paula. Borrowed Finery
• Franzen, Jonathan. The Discomfort Zone
• Fuller, Alexandra. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
• Gates, Henry Louis. Colored People
• Hampl, Patricia. The Florist's Daughter
• Hemon, Aleksandar. The Book of My Lives
• Hickam, Homer. Rocket Boys
• James, Clive . Unreliable Memoirs
• Jefferson, Margo. Negroland
• Karr, Mary
• Kazin, Alfred. A Walker in the City
• Kimmel, Haven. A Girl Named Zippy
• Klosterman, Chuck. Fargo Rock City
• Laymon, Kiese . Heavy
• Lemelman, Martin. Two Cents Plain
• Madden, T Kira. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
• Mann, Sally . Hold Still
• Mantel, Hilary. Giving Up the Ghost
• Márquez, Gabriel García. Living to Tell the Tale
• Moehringer, J.R.. The Tender Bar
• Monette, Paul. Becoming a Man
• Nabokov, Vladimir. Speak, Memory
• Oz, Amos. A Tale of Love and Darkness
• Pelzer, Dave. A Child Called “It”
• Rodriguez, Richard. Hunger of Memory
• Salzman, Mark. Lost in Place
• Sanders, Scott Russell. A Private History of Awe
• Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis
• Shadid, Anthony. House of Stone
• Shulman, Alix Kates. Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen
• Thompson, Craig. Blankets
• Walker, Jerald. Street Shadows
• Walls, Jeannette. The Glass Castle
• Westover, Tara . Educated
• Wilsey, Sean. Oh the Glory of It All
• Wolff, Tobias. This Boy's Life

Memoir - Relationships/Family

• Albom, Mitch. Tuesdays with Morrie
• Allende, Isabel. Paula
• Antrim, Donald. Afterlife
• Auster, Paul. Invention of Solitude
• Bayley, John. An Elegy for Iris
• Bragg, Rick. All Over But the Shoutin’
• Broom, Sarah M. . The Yellow House
• Broyard, Bliss. One Drop
• Carroll, James. An American Requiem
• Chast, Roz. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
• Cheever, Susan. Home Before Dark
• Colt, George Howe. The Big House
• Cooper, Bernard. The Bill From My Father
• Danticat, Edwidge. Brother, I'm Dying
• Eggers, David. Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
• Faludi, Susan. In the Darkroom
• Flynn, Nick. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
• Franks, Lucinda. My Father's Secret War
• Frazier, Ian. Family
• Gilmore, Mikal. Shot in the Heart
• Gordon, Mary. The Shadow Man
• Gornick, Vivian. Fierce Attachments
• Gornick, Vivian . The Odd Woman and the City
• Hanff, Helene. 84 Charing Cross Road
• Harrison, Kathryn. The Kiss
• Homes, A.M.. The Mistress's Daughter
• Jacob, Mira. Good Talk
• Johnson, Fenton. Geography of the Heart
• Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior
• Kittredge, William. Hole in the Sky
• Klein, Stephanie. Straight Up and Dirty
• Machado, Carmen Maria . In the Dream House
• McBride, James. The Color of Water
• Miller, Sue. The Story of My Father
• Morris, Willie. My Dog Skip
• Nelson, Maggie. The Argonauts
• Ondaatje, Michael. Running in the Family
• Pamuk, Orhan. Istanbul
• Patchett, Ann. Truth and Beauty
• Rosenblatt, Roger. Making Toast
• Roth, Philip. Patrimony
• Shapiro, Dani. Devotion
• Smith, Patti. Just Kids
• Spiegelman, Art. Maus
• Trillin, Calvin. About Alice
• Trussoni, Danielle. Falling Through the Earth
• Tucker, Neely. Love in the Driest Season
• Ward, Jesmyn . Men We Reaped
• Wideman, John Edgar. Brothers and Keepers
• Winterson, Jeanette . Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal
• Wolff, Geoffrey. The Duke of Deception
• Zauner Michelle. Crying in H Mart

Travel Memoir/Essay

• Best Women's Travel Writing
• Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys
• Go Girl!
• The Best American Travel Writing
• Travelers' Tales
• Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire
• Baggett, Jennifer and Corbett, Holly. The Lost Girls
• Belliveau, Jeannette
• Botton, Alain de. The Art of Travel
• Bryson, Bill
• Butcher, Tim . Blood River
• Byrne, David. The Bicycle Diaries
• Byron, Robert. The Road to Oxiana
• Cahill, Tim
• Chatwin, Bruce
• Clarke, Stephen. Year in the Merde
• Dalrymple, William. City of Djinns
• Davidson, Robyn. Tracks
• Dempster, Lisa . Neon Pilgrim
• DeRuiter, Geraldine. All Over the Place
• Ehrlich, Gretel. Solace of Open Spaces
• Elkin, Lauren . Flâneuse
• Fermor, Patrick Leigh. A Time of Gifts
• Frazier, Ian. Great Plains
• Gellhorn, Martha. Travels With Myself and Another
• Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, Pray, Love
• Gilman, Susan Jane. Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven
• Gopnik, Adam. Paris to the Moon
• Gordon, Mary. Seeing Through Places
• Hampl, Patricia. A Romantic Education
• Harrar, Heinrich. Seven Years in Tibet
• Heat-Moon, William Least. Blue Highways
• Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast
• Hoagland, Edward
• Hongo, Garrett. Volcano
• Horwitz, Tony
• Iyer, Pico
• Jones, Alden . The Blind Masseuse
• Lewis, Norman. Golden Earth
• Locke, Tembi. From Scratch
• Matthiessen, Peter. The Snow Leopard
• Mayes, Frances. Under the Tuscan Sun
• Mayle, Peter. A Year in Provence
• McNeil, Jean . Ice Diaries
• McPhee, John. Coming Into the Country
• Miller, Henry. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
• Mohammadi, Kamin. The Cypress Tree
• Morris, Jan
• Morris, Mary . All the Way to the Tigers
• Murphy, Dervla
• Naipaul, V. S.. Area of Darkness
• Newby, Eric. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
• O'Hanlon, Redmond. No Mercy
• O'Rourke, P.J.. Holidays in Hell
• Orwell, George. Down and Out in Paris and London
• Patel, Shailja. Migritude
• Potts, Rolf. Vagabonding
• Prechtel, Martin. Secrets of the Talking Jaguar
• Salzman, Mark. Iron and Silk
• Saro-Wiwa, Not. Looking for Transwonderland
• Stark, Freya
• Steinbach, Alice. Without Reservations
• Steinbeck, John. Travels with Charley
• Stone, Tom. The Summer of My Greek Taverna
• Strayed, Cheryl. Wild
• Sullivan, Robert. Cross Country
• Theroux, Paul
• Thesiger, Wilfred. Arabian Sands
• Thompson, Chuck. Smile When You're Lying
• Thoreau, Henry David. Walden
• Thubron, Colin. Shadow of the Silk Road
• Troost, J. Marteen. Sex Lives of Cannibals
• Twain, Mark. Following the Equator
• Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi
• Twain, Mark. Roughing It
• Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad
• Waugh, Evelyn. When the Going Was Good
• Weiner, Eric. The Geography of Bliss
• Younge, Gary . No Place Like Home