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- 18 holes with Bing : golf, life, and lessons from Dad
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 41-love : on addictions, tennis, and refusing to grow up
- 8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story, from immigrant to the Medal of Honor
- 99 : stories of the game
- A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
- A Bookshop in Berlin : The rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A billion years : my escape from a life in the highest ranks of Scientology
- A captain's duty : Somali pirates, Navy Seals, and dangerous days at sea
- A carnival of losses : notes nearing ninety
- A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
- A carnival of snackery : diaries 2003-2020
- A cave in the clouds : A Young Woman's Escape from ISIS
- A cave in the clouds : a young woman's escape from ISIS
- A day of pleasure : stories of a boy growing up in Warsaw
- A delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A different kind of normal : my real-life completely true story about being unique
- A dog called hope : a wounded warrior and the service dog who saved him
- A dream called home : a memoir
- A face for Picasso : coming of age with Crouzon syndrome
- A fast ride out of here : confessions of rock's most dangerous man
- A forever family : fostering change one child at a time
- A funny thing happened on the way to Stockholm : the adrenaline-fueled adventures of an accidental scientist
- A gift from darkness : how I escaped with my daughter from Boko Haram
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A girl's story
- A guest at the feast : essays
- A heart that works
- A house of my own : stories from my life
- A journal for Jordan : a story of love and honor
- A killer by design
- A kingdom of tender colors : a memoir of comedy, survival, and love
- A letter of love
- A life in light : meditations on impermanence
- A life of my own
- A life well played : my stories
- A line in the world : a year on the North Sea coast
- A little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
- A little piece of light : a memoir of hope, prison, and a life unbound
- A little thing called life : on loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and songs in between
- A love letter life : pursue creatively, date intentionally, love faithfully
- A lowcountry heart : reflections on a writing life
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A man of the world : my life at National Geographic
- A million fragile bones : a memoir
- A mind unraveled : a memoir
- A most beautiful thing : the true story of America's first all-black high school rowing team
- A piece of cake : a memoir
- A place called home : a memoir
- A portrait of the scientist as a young woman
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- A really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- A redemptive path forward : from incarceration to a life of activism
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a secretary of defense during extraordinary times
- A shape in the dark : living and dying with brown bears
- A sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- A sojourner's truth : choosing freedom and courage in a divided world
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A stone is most precious where it belongs : a memoir of Uyghur exile, hope, and survival
- A stone of hope : a memoir
- A stranger at home : a true story
- A summer life
- A tale of love and darkness
- A very punchable face : a memoir
- A visible man : a memoir
- A waiter in Paris : adventures in the dark heart of the city
- A way out of no way : a memoir of truth, transformation, and the new American story
- A woman's battles and transformations
- A work in progress : a memoir
- A year without a name
- Abandon me : memoirs
- About my mother : true stories of a horse-crazy daughter and her baseball-obsessed mother : a memoir
- About your father and other celebrities I have known : ruminations and revelations from a desperate mom to her dirty son
- Acceptance : a memoir
- Accused : my fight for truth, justice and the strength to forgive
- Acid for the children
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Acne : a memoir
- Adios, motherfucker : a gentleman's progress through rock and roll
- Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school
- Adorning the dark : thoughts on community, calling, and the mystery of making
- Adventures of the Yorkshire shepherdess
- After life : my journey from incarceration to freedom
- After long silence : a memoir
- Aftershocks : a memoir
- Air traffic : a memoir of ambition and manhood in America
- Algiers, Third World capital : freedom fighters, revolutionaries, Black Panthers
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- Alive, alive oh! and other things that matter
- All God's children need traveling shoes
- All about the story : news, power, politics, and the Washington post
- All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
- All dogs go to Kevin : everything three dogs taught me (that I didn't learn in veterinary school)
- All down darkness wide : a memoir
- All happy families : a memoir
- All in : an autobiography
- All my knotted-up life : a memoir
- All of this : a memoir of death and desire
- All over but the shoutin'
- All over the place : adventures in travel, true love, and petty theft
- All signs point to Paris : a memoir of love, loss, and destiny
- All the beauty in the world : the Metropolitan Museum of Art and me
- All the way : my life in four quarters
- All the women in my brain : and other concerns
- All the wrong moves : a memoir about chess, love, and ruining everything
- All the wrong places : a life lost and found
- All things wise and wonderful
- All you can ever know
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- Alligator candy : a memoir
- Also a poet : Frank O'hara, my father, and me
- Always another country : a memoir of exile and home
- Always look on the bright side of life : a sortabiography
- Always look on the bright side of life : a sortabiography
- Always remember your name : a true story of family and survival in Auschwitz
- Always young and restless : my life on and off America's #1 daytime drama
- Amando a Pablo, odiando a Escobar
- Amazon woman : facing fears, chasing dreams, and a quest to kayak the world's largest river from source to sea
- American Indian stories
- American daughter : a memoir
- American dreamer : my life in fashion & business
- American values : lessons I learned from my family
- Americanized : rebel without a green card
- An abbreviated life : a memoir
- An elephant in my kitchen : what the herd taught me about love, courage and survival
- An excellent choice : panic and joy on my solo path to motherhood
- An onion in my pocket : my life with vegetables
- An outsider's guide to humans : what science taught me about what we do and who we are
- An unlikely journey : waking up from my American dream
- An unplanned life : a memoir
- Ancestor trouble : a reckoning and a reconciliation
- And a dog called Fig : solitude, connection, the writing life
- And finally : matters of life and death
- And now we have everything : on motherhood before I was ready
- Another kind of madness : a journey through the stigma and hope of mental illness
- Ants among elephants : an untouchable family and the making of modern India
- Any given Tuesday : a political love story
- App kid : how a child of immigrants grabbed a piece of the American dream
- Appalachia north : a memoir
- Apparently there were complaints : a memoir
- Apple : skin to the core : a memoir in words and pictures
- Approaching eye level
- Are you anybody? : a memoir
- Areli es una dreamer : un historia real
- Aren't you forgetting someone? : essays from my mid-life revenge
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Assignment Russia : becoming a foreign correspondent in the crucible of the Cold War
- Assume nothing : a story of intimate violence
- Asylum : a memoir & manifesto
- At the root of this longing : reconciling a spiritual hunger and a feminist thirst
- Au revoir, Tristesse : lessons in happiness from French literature
- Aurora : the psychiatrist who treated the movie theater killer tells her story
- Authentic : a memoir by the founder of Vans
- Autism in heels : the untold story of a female life on the spectrum
- Autobiography of a garden
- Autoportrait
- Avid reader : a life
- Avoid the day : a new nonfiction in two movements
- B.F.F. : a memoir of friendship lost and found
- Back in the game : one gunman, countless heroes, and the fight for my life
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Bad Mormon : a memoir
- Bad as I wanna be
- Bad call : a summer job on a New York ambulance
- Bad vibes only : (and other things I bring to the table) : essays
- Baggage : tales from a fully packed life
- Balanchine's apprentice : from Hollywood to New York and back
- Ballplayer
- Bamboozled by Jesus : how God tricked me into the life of my dreams
- Bang bang crash : a memoir
- Bare Bones : I'm not lonely if you're reading this book
- Barefoot at the lake : a boyhood summer in cottage country
- Barry Sonnenfeld, call your mother : memoirs of a neurotic filmmaker
- Based on a true story : a memoir
- Be fierce : stop harassment and take your power back
- Be my baby : a memoir
- Beautiful ashe : memoirs of a sweet black boy and other poems
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful on the outside : a memoir
- Beautiful things : a memoir
- Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience
- Beauty of the wild : a life designing landscapes inspired by nature
- Because : a lyric memoir
- Because our fathers lied : a memoir of truth and family, from Vietnam to today
- Becoming
- Becoming
- Becoming
- Becoming : adapted for young readers
- Becoming : mi historia
- Becoming Forrest : one man's epic run across America
- Becoming Kid Quixote : a true story of belonging in America
- Becoming Miss Navajo
- Becoming Superman : my journey from poverty to Hollywood, with stops along the way at murder, madness, mayhem, movie stars, cults, slums, sociopaths, and war crimes
- Becoming free indeed : my story of disentangling faith from fear
- Becoming kin : an indigenous call to unforgetting the past and reimagining our future
- Bee fearless : dream like a kid
- Been so long : my life and music
- Before & laughter : a life-changing book
- Before I had the words : on being a transgender young adult
- Beginners : the joy and transformative power of lifelong learning
- Being Heumann : an unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activist
- Being Jazz : my life as a (transgender) teen
- Being Lolita : a memoir
- Believe it
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Believe me : my battle with the invisible disability of lyme disease
- Belonging : a daughter's search for identity through loss and love
- Best seat in the house : 18 golden lessons from a father to his son
- Between heaven & the real world : my story
- Between the stitching : discovering yourself after losing yourself
- Between two kingdoms : a memoir of a life interrupted
- Between two millstones, Book 1, Sketches of exile 1974-1978
- Between two worlds : lessons from the other side
- Bevelations : lessons from a mutha, auntie, bestie
- Beyond possible : one man, 14 peaks, and the mountaineering achievement of a lifetime
- Beyond possible : one man, 14 peaks, and the mountaineering achievement of a lifetime
- Beyond the wand : the magic and mayhem of growing up a wizard
- Bibi : my story
- Biblical : Rob Halford's heavy metal scriptures
- Big girl : how I gave up dieting and got a life
- Bill Snyder : My football life and the rest of the story
- Binding us together : a civil rights activist reflects on a lifetime of community and public service
- Bird brother : a falconer's journey and the healing power of wildlife
- Bird uncaged : an abolitionist's freedom song
- Bitwise : a life in code
- Black American refugee : escaping the narcissism of the American dream
- Black Internet effect
- Black boy out of time : a memoir
- Black boy smile : a memoir in moments
- Black is the body : stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine
- Black lotus : a woman's search for racial identity
- Black market : an insider's journey into the high-stakes world of college basketball
- Black ops : the life of a CIA shadow warrior
- Bless the Birds : living with love in a time of dying
- Blind man's bluff : a memoir
- Blindfold : a memoir of capture, torture, and enlightenment
- Blood : a memoir
- Blow your house down : a story of family, feminism, and treason
- Blowing the bloody doors off : and other lessons in life
- Blue : the color of noise
- Blue like jazz : nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality
- Blue sky kingdom : an epic family journey to the heart of the Himalayas
- Body leaping backward : memoir of a delinquent girlhood
- Boldly go : reflections on a life of awe and wonder
- Bomb shelter
- Bomb shelter : love, time, and other explosives
- Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- Born both : an intersex life
- Born bright : a young girl's journey from nothing to something in America
- Born just right
- Bounty hunter 4/3 : my life in combat from Marine Scout Sniper to MARSOC
- Boy erased : a memoir
- Boy without instructions : surviving the learning curve of parenting a child with ADHD
- Boys and oil : growing up gay in a fractured land
- Boys keep swinging : a memoir
- Brace for impact : a memoir
- Brave : cult member, runaway, captive, starlet, victim, sex symbol, justice seeker
- Brave enough
- Brave face : a memoir
- Brave new medicine : a doctor's unconventional path to healing her autoimmune illness
- Bravey : chasing dreams, befriending pain, and other big ideas
- Brazen : my unorthodox journey from long sleeves to lingerie
- Breaking free : how I escaped polygamy, the FLDS cult, and my father, Warren Jeffs
- Breaking history : a White House memoir
- Brief candle in the dark : my life in science
- Bright
- Bright precious thing : a memoir
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Broken horses : a memoir
- Brother & sister
- Brother & sister
- Brown, white, black : an American family at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and religion
- Brutally honest
- Building a life worth living : a memoir
- Bukowski in a sundress : confessions from a writing life
- Bully market : my story of money and misogyny at Goldman Sachs
- Burn rate : launching a startup and losing my mind
- Burn the page : a true story of torching doubts, blazing trails, and igniting change
- Burn the place : a memoir
- Burning butch : a memoir
- But enough about me : a memoir
- But you seemed so happy : a marriage, in pieces and bits
- Butterfly : from refugee to Olympian, my story of rescue, hope, and triumph
- By chance alone : a remarkable true story of courage and survival at Auschwitz
- Caged eyes : an Air Force cadet's story of rape and resilience
- California soul : an American epic of cooking and survival
- Call me American : a memoir
- Call me Chef, dammit! : a veteran's journey from the rural South to the White House
- Call sign chaos : learning to lead
- Calling my spirit back
- Camino a las estrellas : mi recorrido de Girl Scout a ingeniera astrona¿¿utica
- Can you ever forgive me? : memoirs of a literary forger
- Can't help myself : lessons and confessions from a modern advice columnist
- Can't hurt me : master your mind and defy the odds
- Can't nothing bring me down : chasing myself in the race against time
- Cancerland : a medical memoir
- Capital Gaines : smart things I learned doing stupid stuff
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Carrying the fire : an astronaut's journeys
- Center center : a funny, sexy, sad almost-memoir of a boy in ballet
- Challenge accepted! : 253 steps to becoming an anti-it girl
- Chance : escape from the Holocaust
- Chancers : addiction, prison, recovery, love: one couple's memoir
- Change of seasons : a memoir
- Chase darkness with me : how one true-crime writer started solving murders
- Chasing history : a kid in the newsroom
- Chasing history : a kid in the newsroom
- Chasing hope : a patient's deep dive into stem cells, faith, and the future
- Chasing me to my grave : an artist's memoir of the Jim Crow South
- Chasing space
- Chasing the light : writing, directing, and surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the movie game
- Cheech is not my real name : but don't call me Chong!
- Cheng wei zhe yang de wo : Mixue'er Oubama
- Child of the dream : a memoir of 1963
- Children of the land
- Chosen : a memoir of stolen boyhood
- CinderGirl : my journey out of the ashes to a life of hope, a memoir
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right : American life in columns
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Coal miner's daughter
- Code gray : death, life, and uncertainty in the ER
- Comedy comedy comedy drama : a memoir
- Coming of age in Mississippi
- Coming up for air
- Con/artist : the life and crimes of the world's greatest art forger
- Conceivability : what I learned exploring the frontiers of fertility
- Confess : the autobiography
- Confessions
- Confessions of a cartel hit man
- Confessions of a funeral director : how death saved my life
- Confessions of a puppetmaster : a Hollywood memoir of ghouls, guts, and gonzo filmmaking
- Congratulations, who are you again? : a memoir
- Consent : a memoir of unwanted attention
- Conspiracy to riot : the life and times of one of the Chicago 7
- Constructing a nervous system : a memoir
- Continuum
- Cooking as fast as I can : a chef's story of family, food, and forgiveness
- Corrections in ink : a memoir
- Cost of living : essays
- Counting backwards : a doctor's notes on anesthesia
- Courage : my story of persecution
- Cravings : how I conquered food : a memoir
- Crossing the line : a fearless team of brothers and the sport that changed their lives forever
- Crusade for justice : the autobiography of Ida B. Wells
- Crux : a cross-border memoir
- Crying in the bathroom : a memoir
- Cubed : the puzzle of us all
- Dad's maybe book
- Dancing in the mosque : an Afghan mother's letter to her son
- Dancing with the octopus : a memoir of a crime
- Dapper Dan : made in Harlem : a memoir
- Darkness to light : a memoir
- Dave Hill doesn't live here anymore
- Deaf utopia : a memoir-and a love letter to a way of life
- Dear America : notes of an undocumented citizen
- Dear America : notes of an undocumented citizen
- Dear Mr. You
- Dear body : what I lost, what I gained, and what I learned along the way
- Dear girls : intimate tales, untold secrets, & advice for living your best life
- Dear world : a Syrian girl's story of war and plea for peace
- Deer man : seven years of living in the wild
- Defending Israel : the story of my relationship with my most challenging client
- Defiant : growing up in the Jim Crow South
- Definitely Hispanic : growing up Latino and celebrating what unites us
- Delta lady : a memoir
- Democrazy : a true story of weird politics, money, madness, and finger food
- Dessert can save the world : stories, secrets, and recipes for a stubbornly joyful existence
- Destined to witness : growing up black in Nazi Germany
- Diary of a drag queen
- Diary of a misfit : a memoir and a mystery
- Did ye hear mammy died? : a memoir
- Digging up mother : a love story
- Dilettante : true tales of excess, triumph, and disaster
- Dimestore
- Dimestore
- Dinner for one : how cooking in Paris saved me
- Dinners with Ruth
- Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships
- Diné bich'eeke̦' yishłeeh
- Directed by James Burrows : five decades of stories from th elegendary director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and more
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Disloyal : a memoir : the true story of the former personal attorney to the president of the United States
- Disturbance
- Disturbed in their nests : a journey from Sudan's Dinkaland to San Diego's city heights
- Do you feel like I do? : a memoir
- Do you mind if I cancel? : (things that still annoy me)
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- Dolly Parton : songteller, my life in lyrics
- Dolly Parton, songteller : my life in lyrics
- Don't forget us here : lost and found at Guantánamo
- Don't stop believin'
- Don't think twice : adventure and healing at 100 miles per hour
- Don't think, dear : on loving & leaving ballet
- Don't worry, he won't get far on foot
- Don't you ever : my mother and her secret son
- Dottoressa : an American doctor in Rome
- Double cup love : on the trail of family, food, and broken hearts in China
- Down city : a daughter's story of love, memory, and murder
- Downton Shabby : one American's ultimate DIY adventure restoring his family's English castle
- Dr. Z : the lost memoirs of an irreverent football writer
- Dragonfly notes : on distance and loss
- Dreamers
- Dreamers
- Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
- Drinking games : a memoir
- Drop the ball : achieving more by doing less
- Dwyane
- Dying of politeness
- Dying to wake up : a doctor's voyage into the afterlife and the wisdom he brought back
- Dyscalculia : a love story of epic miscalculation
- Easy beauty
- Easy beauty : a memoir
- Eat like a fish : my adventures as a fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer
- Eat like a fish : my adventures farming the ocean to fight climate change
- Eat, pray, love : one woman's search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia
- Educated : a memoir
- Educated : a memoir
- El diario de la princesa
- El hombre que movía las nubes : memorias
- El libro de Rosy : la historia de una madre separada de sus hijos en la frontera
- El mundo adorado de Sonia Sotomayor
- Eloquent rage : a black feminist discovers her superpower
- Embrace : my story from body loather to body lover
- Empty : a memoir
- Enchanted air : two cultures, two wings : a memoir
- End of the rope : mountains, marriage, and motherhood
- Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
- Enough already : learning to love the way I am today
- Epic solitude : a story of survival and a quest for meaning in the far north
- Es mi turno : un viaje en busca de mi voz y mis raíces
- Evangelical anxiety : a memoir
- Even darkness sings : from Auschwitz to Hiroshima : finding hope in the saddest places on Earth
- Every day is a gift : a memoir
- Every day is extra
- Every good boy does fine : a love story, in music lessons
- Everybody else is perfect : how I survived hypocrisy, beauty, clicks, and likes
- Everything I have is yours : a marriage
- Everything all at once : how to unleash your inner nerd, tap into radical curiosity, and solve any problem
- Everything happens for a reason : and other lies I've loved
- Everything in its place : first loves and last tales
- Everything is fine : a memoir
- Everything is horrible and wonderful : a tragicomic memoir of genius, heroin, love, and loss
- Everything is spiritual : who we are and what we're doing here
- Everything is under control : a memoir with recipes
- Everything left to remember : my mother, our memories, and a journey through the Rocky Mountains
- Everything you ever wanted : a memoir
- Excuse me while I disappear : tales of midlife mayhem
- Exodus : a memoir
- Exposure : poisoned water, corporate greed, and one lawyer's twenty-year battle against DuPont
- Eyes to the wind : a memoir of love and death, hope and resistance
- Face it
- Face the music : a memoir
- Factory fairy-tales
- Fail until you don't : fight, grind, repeat
- Falling : a daughter, a father, and a journey back
- Fame-ish : my life at the edge of stardom
- Family in six tones : a refugee mother, an American daughter
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Farewell to the east end
- Fashion climbing
- Fast into the night : a woman, her dogs, and their journey north on the Iditarod Trail
- Fat, pretty, and soon to be old : a makeover for self and society
- Fatty fatty boom boom : a memoir of food, fat, and family
- Faux queen : a life in drag
- Feel it out : the guide to getting in touch with your goals, your relationships, and yourself