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Memoir and Biography

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua
The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir
Michele Harper
Becoming
Michelle Obama
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
Damon Tweedy
The Bookseller of Kabul
Asne Seierstad
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah
Bossypants
Tina Fey
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast
Cleopatra
Stacy Schiff
The Color of Water
James McBride
Come Home, Indio
Jim Terry
Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting
Michael Perry
Crossing Over: a Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
Ruben Martinez
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner
Dead Man Walking
Helen Prejean
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story
Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Candice Millard
Diary of a Young Naturalist
Dara McAnulty
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
David Sedaris
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living
Tim Bauerschmidt and Ramie Liddle
Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover
Educating Esme
Esme Codell
Enrique's Journey
Sonia Nazario
Farm City: the Education of an Urban Farmer
Novella Carpenter
Fire Road: The Napalm Girl's Journey Through the Horrors of War to Faith, Forgiveness, and Peace
Kim Phúc
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Firoozeh Dumas
Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia Kobabe
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls
A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father
David Maraniss
H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker
Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance
How to Make a Life: A Tibetan Refugee Family and the Midwestern Woman They Adopted
Madeline Uraneck
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai
I’m Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Austin Channing Brown
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson
Lab Girl
Hope Jahren
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
Sandy Tolan
Let's Pretend This Never Happened : (A Mostly True Memoir)
Jenny Lawson
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson
Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women
Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Stephanie Land
Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Art Spiegelman
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell
Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads With an Indian Elder
Kent Nerburn
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
Michael Perry
A Promised Land
Barack Obama
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: a Tale of Love and Fallout
Lauren Redniss
Solito: A Memoir
Javier Zamora
The Soloist
Steve Lopez
Spare
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Michael Finkel
The Strength in What Remains
Tracy Kidder
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
Ruth Reichl
Truck: A Love Story
Michael Perry
Untamed
Glennon Doyle
A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Katherine May
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Maxine Hong Kingston
The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom
Zeitoun
Dave Eggers
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman