Sue William Silverman

updated June, 2023

 

~~arranged by category~~

 

BIPOC Writers (many titles also appear in other subcategories)

 

Faith Adiele, Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun; Coming of Age around the World

Ricardo Ainslie, Long Dark Road

Isabel Allende, Paula

Marvin V. Arnett, Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt

Peter Balakian, Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past

James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone

Samira Bellil (trans. Lucy R. McNair), To Hell and Back

Emily Bernard, Black Is The Body:  Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House

Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas, Don't Come Back

Francisco Cantu, The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

Joy Castro, The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah's Witnesses

Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

Judith Ortiz Cofer, Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood

Jennine Capó Crucet, My Time Among the Whites: Note from an Unfinished Education

Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey through Depression

Toi Dericotte, The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey

Jacquira Diaz, Ordinary Girls 

Anika Fajardo, Magical Realism for Non-Believers: A Memoir of Finding Family

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life; Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams

Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow; The Book of Embraces

Henry Louis Gates, Colored People

Alison Singh Gee, Where the Peacocks Sing: A Prince, a Palace and the Search for Home

Vivian Gibson, The Last Children of Mill Creek

Rigoberto Gonzalez, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa

Melva Graham, Your Black Friend Has Something to Say

Jean Guerrero, Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir

Trudier Harris, Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South

Garrett Hongo, Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i

Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir

June Jordan, Soldier: A Poet's Childhood

Jamaica Kincaid, My Brother

Maxine Hong Kingston, Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Kiese Laymon, Heavy: An American Memoir

Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journal

Wangari Maathai, Unbowed

Carmen Maria Machado, The Dream House

Terese Marie Malhot, Heart Berries

James McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to his White Mother
Nathan McCall, Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America

William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways

Kyoko Mori, Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures

Tomas Q. Morin, Let Me Count the Ways

Beth Bich Minh Nguyen, Stealing Buddha's Dinner

Naomi Shihab Nye, Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and Places

Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father
Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family
Wendy Ortiz, Excavation

Jericho Parms, Lost Wax

Wang Ping, Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China

Donald Quist, Harbors

Emily Raboteau, Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora

Nahid Rachlin, Persian Girls

Ishmael Reed, Blues City: A Walk in Oakland
Alberto Rios, Capirotadas: A Nogales Memoir
Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez

Shabnam Samuel, A Fractured Life

Esmeralda Santiago, When I Was Puerto Rican

Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood; Embroideries

Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn, A Fish Growing Lungs

Sejal Shah, This Is One Way to Dance: Essays

Fan Shen, Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard

Hasanthika Sirisena, Dark Tourist: Essays

Brandon Skyhorse, Take This Man

Ira Sukrungruang, Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy

Natasha Tarpley, Girl in the Mirror: Three Generations of Black Women in Motion

Clifford Thompson, Twin of Blackness

Natasha Tretheway, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

Luis Alberto Urrea, Nobody's Son

Sarah Valentine, When I Was White

Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias

John Edgar Wideman, Brothers and Keepers Jerald Walker, Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption

Gregory Williams, Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black

Richard Wright, Black Boy

Xu Xi, Overleaf Hong Kong: Stories & Essays of the Chinese, Overseas

 

Illness, Accident, Grief, Addiction

Isabel Allende, Paula

Alice Anderson, Some Bright Morning I'll Fly Away
A. Manette Ansay, Limbo: A Memoir
Charles Barber, Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors

Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
Jill Bialosky, History of a Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life

Gayle Brandeis, The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother's Suicide
Karen Brennan, Being with Rachel: A Story of Memory and Survival
Harold Brodkey, This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death
Anatole Broyard, Intoxicated by My Illness
Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Susan Cheever, Note Found in a Bottle

Bill Clegg, Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man
Eileen Cronin, Mermaid: A Memoir of Resilience
Linda Katherine Cutting, Memory Slips
Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey through Depression
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast
Andre Dubus, Broken Vessels; Meditations from a Moving Chair
Hope Edelman, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
Richard Farrell, What's Left Of Us
Deanna Fei, Girl in Glass: Dispatches from the Edge of Life
Mary Felstiner, Out of Joint: A Private and Public Story of Arthritis

Simon Fitzmaurice, It's Not Dark Yet
Kenny Fries, Body, Remember

Judith Kurtz Goldman, Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap
Barbara Gordon, I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
Emily Fox Gordon, The Mockingbird Years: A Life in and Out of Therapy
Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face
John Howard Griffin, Scattered Shadows: A Memoir of Blindness and Vision
Susan Gubar, Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer
Evan Handler, Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors
Ann Hood, Do Not Go Gentle: The Search for Miracles in a Cynical Time
Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Sonya Huber, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other essays from a nervous system
Portia Iverson, Strange Son: Two Mothers, Two Sons, and the Quest to Unlock the Hidden World of Autism
Kay Jamison, An Unquiet Mind
Terri Jentz, Strange Piece of Paradise
Fenton Johnson, Geography of the Heart

Lacy M. Johnson, The Other Side
Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
Roger Kamenetz, Terra Infirma
Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
Jamaica Kincaid, My Brother

Erin Khar, Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies that Almost Killed Me
Natalie Kusz, Road Song
Stephen Kuusisto, Planet of the Blind
Mindy Lewis, Life Inside

Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn, A Fish Growing Lungs
Joselin Linder, The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn my Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future

Amy Long, Codependence: Essays
Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journal

Carmen Maria Machado, The Dream House
Nancy Mairs, Carnal Acts; Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled
Candia McWilliam: What to Look for in Winter
Paul Monette, Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
William Cope Moyers, Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption
Donald M. Murray, The Lively Shadow: Living with the Death of a Child
Christopher Noel, In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing: A Geography of Grief
Gary Presley, Seven Wheelchairs: A Life Beyond Polio
Reynolds Price, A Whole New Life
Alice Sebold, Lucky

Dana Lise Shavin, The Body Tourist
Allen Shawn, Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life
David Sheff, Beautiful Boy
Jay and Sue Shotel, It's Good to Know a Miracle: Dani's Story, One Family's Struggle with Leukemia

Sue William Silverman, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences
Sue William Silverman, Love Sick: One Woman's Journey Through Sexual Addiction
Floyd Skloot, In the Shadow of Memory
Claire Bidwell Smith, The Rules of Inheritance
Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor
Patricia Stacey, The Boy Who Loved Windows
Jessica Stern, Denial: A Memoir of Terror
Darin Strauss, Half a Life

Kelly Sundburg, Goorbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
Mary Swander, Out of This World: A Journey of Healing
Jill Talbot, Loaded: Women and Addiction
Daniel Tammet, Born on a Blue Day
Melanie Thernstrom, The Dead Girl

Abigail Thomas, A Three Dog Life

Marcia Trahan, Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession
Mark Vonnegut, The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
Darcy Wakefield, I Remember Running: The Year I Got Everything I Wanted—and ALS

Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias
Joan Wickersham, The Suicide Index
Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

Eilene Zimmerman, Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

Family, Relationships, Friendships, Identity

A. J. Albany, Low Down: junk, jazz, and other fairy tales from childhood
Sherman Alexie, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
Susanne Antonetta, Make Me a Mother
Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude
Peter Balakian, Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past

Kelly Beard, An Imperfect Rapture
Amy Benson, The Sparkling-Eyed Boy: A Memoir of Love, Grown Up

Emily Bernard, Black Is The Body:  Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
Jane Bernstein, Loving Rachel: A Family's Journey from Grief
Supriya Bhatnagar, and then there were three...
Bonnie Lee Black, Somewhere Child
Mary Clearman Blew, All But the Waltz: Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Family

Justin Vivian Bond, Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels
Greg Bottoms, Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness

Jennifer Finney Boylan, She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
Rick Bragg, All Over but the Shoutin'; Prince of Frogtown
John Burnside, A Lie About My Father

Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
Mary Cappello, Night Bloom; Awkward: A Detour

Stephanie Cassatly, Notice of Release: A Daughter's Journey to Forgive Her Mother's Killer
Joy Castro, The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah's Witnesses
Susan Cheever, Home Before Dark

Gretchen Cherington, The Butcher, The Embezzler, and The Fall Guy—A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry
Kelly Cherry, The Exiled Heart: A Meditative Autobiography

Deborah J. Cohan, Welcome to Wherever We Are: A Memoir of Family, Caregiving, and Redemption
Kerry Cohen, Loose Girl, A Memoir of Promiscuity
Joan Connor, The World Before Mirrors
Bernard Cooper, The Bill From My Father; Truth Serum
Francine Cournos, City of One

Jennine Capó Crucet, My Time Among the Whites: Note from an Unfinished Education
Laura Cunningham, Sleeping Arrangements
John Daniel, Looking After: A Son's Memoir
Patty Dann, The Baby Boat: A Memoir of Adoption
Renee E. D'Aoust, Body of a Dancer
Cathy Day, Comeback Season
Claire Dederer, Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Poses
Robb Forman Dew, The Family Heart: A Memoir of When Our Son Came Out
Debra Dickerson, An American Story
John Dickerson, On Her Trail: My Mother, Nancy Dickerson, TV News' First Woman Star

Camille Dungy, A Guidebook to Relative Strangers
Francine du Plessix Gray, Them: A Memoir of Parents

Tony Earley, Somehow Form a Family: Stories That are Mostly True
Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Nora Eisenberg, The War at Home

Dina Elenbogen, Drawn from Water: an American Poet, an Ethiopian Family, an Israeli Story

Elizabeth Enslin, While the God Were Sleeping:A Journey through Love and Rebellion in Nepal

Jackie Hollins Ellis, This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story

Anika Fajardo, Magical Realism for Non-Believers: A Memoir of Finding Family

Melissa Faliveno, Tomboyland
Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Kathleen Finneran, The Tender Land
Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Patricia Foster, All the Lost Girls: Confessions of a Southern Daughter
Connie May Fowler, When Katie Wakes
Paula Fox, Borrowed Finery
Martha Frankel, Hats & Eyeglasses: A Family Love Affair with Gambling
Dorothy Gallagher, How I Came into My Inheritance
Alison Singh Gee, Where the Peacocks Sing: A Prince, a Palace and the Search for Home
Gail Hosking Gilberg, Snake's Daughter: The Roads In and Out of War

William Giraldi, The Hero's Body
Rigoberto Gonzalez, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
Mary Gordon, The Shadow Man: A Daughter's Search for her Father
Vivian Gornick, Fierce Attachments
Jon-Jon Goulian, The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt

Kelle Groom, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl

Jean Guerrero, Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir
Debra Gwartney, Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love
Christina Haag, Come To the Edge: A Love Story
Jessica Handler, Invisible Sisters

Sharon Harrigan, Playing with Dynamite
Kathryn Harrison, The Kiss
Melissa Hart, Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood

Kate Heaney, Would You Rather: A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out
Carol Hebald, The Heart Too Long Suppressed
Michael Hemery, No Permanent Scars']

Jessi Hempel, The Family Outline

Michelle Herman, The Middle of Everything: Memoirs of Motherhood
Adam Hochschild, Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son

Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else
Richard Hoffman, Half the House
Sonya Huber, Opa Nobody
Susan Jacoby, Half-Jew
Brian Jennings, Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: Growing up, Coming Out, and Changing America
Deborah Jiang-Stein, Prison Baby
Kaylie Jones, Lies My Mother Never Told Me
Diana Joseph, I'm Sorry You Feel that Way: the astonishing but true story of a daughter, sister, slut...

Amanda Jetté Knox, Love lives here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family

Leah Lax, Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home
Kiese Laymon, Heavy: An American Memoir

Patrice Lefebvre, "Saying Yes: An International Love Story

Dinah Lenney, Bigger Than Life: A Murder, A Memoir
Aaron Raz Link & Hilda Raz, What Becomes You
Sonja Livingston, Ghostbread; Queen of the Fall: A Memoir of Girls and Goddesses
Bret Lott, Fathers, Sons, Brothers: The Men in My Family

Terese Marie Malhot, Heart Berries

Linda Murphy Marshall, Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery
Lee Martin, From Our House

Joyce Maynard, The Best of Us

James McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to his White Mother
Nathan McCall, Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
Rebecca McClanahan, The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings
Karen McElmurray, Surrendered Child: A Birth Mother's Journey

Jennifer McGaha, Flat Broke with Two Goats

Jennifer Militello, Knock Wood
Valerie Miner, The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir

Debra Monroe, My Unsentimental Education

Jan Morris, Conundrum
Sharona Ben-Tov Muir, Tracing the Secrets of My Father's Lives

Laura Munson, This is Not the Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness
Liz Murray, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

Linda Joy Myers, Don't Call Me Mother: A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness

Bich Minh Nguyen, Stealing Buddha's Dinner

Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father
Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family
Wendy Ortiz, Excavation

Eliot Page, Pageboy

Casey Parks, Diary of a Misfit
Christa Parravani, Her
Ann Patchett, Truth and Beauty

Molly Peacock, Paradise, Piece by Piece
Emily Raboteau, Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora

Dawn Raffel, The Secret Life of Objects

Richard Russo, Elsewhere

Shabnam Samuel A Fractured Life

Kate St. Vincent Vogl, Lost and Found: A Memoir of Mothers
Elizabeth Scarboro, My Foreign Cities
Brandon R. Schrand, The Enders Hotel
Sandra Scofield, Occasions of Sin
Danzy Senna, Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: A Personal History
Dani Shapiro, Slow Motion
Sue William Silverman, The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew

Brandon Skyhorse, Take This Man

Suzanne Ferrell Smith, Memory Sessions

Deborah Jiang Stein, Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus

Leigh Stein, Land of Enchantment

Melissa Stephenson, Driven: A White-Knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back
Darin Strauss, Half a Life
Ira Sukrungruang, Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy
Deborah Tall, A Family of Strangers

Meredith Talusan, Fairest

Abigail Thomas, What Comes Next and How to Like It

Clifford Thompson, Twin of Blackness

Natasha Tretheway, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Danielle Trussoni, Falling Through the Earth

Luis Alberto Urrea, Nobody's Son

Inara Verzemnieks, Among the Living and the Dead

Jerald Walker, Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption

Amy Wallen, When We Were Ghouls: A Memoir of Ghost Stories
Kate Walter, Looking for a Kiss: A Chronicle of Downtown Heartbreak and Healing
Bruce Weigl, The Circle of Hanh

Tara Westover, Educated
John Edgar Wideman, Brothers and Keepers
Gregory Williams, Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black
Sean Wilsey, Oh the Glory of it All
Edwin John Wintle, Breakfast With Tiffany: An Uncle's Memoir
Geoffrey Wolff, The Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father
Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life
Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
Mort Zachter, Dough

Childhood and Coming of Age

Marvin V. Arnett, Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt
Julene Bair, One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter

Marlena Baraf, At the Narrow Waist of the World
Jo Ann Beard, The Boys of My Youth
David Carkeet, Campus Sexpot: A Memoir
Jerome Charyn, The Dark Lady of Belorusse
J. M. Coetzee, Boyhood
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
Frank Conroy, Stop-Time

Jacquira Diaz, Ordinary Girls 
Andre Dubus III, Townie
Faith Edise, Nina Sichel, Eds., Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global
James Ellroy, My Dark Places
Lucy Ferriss, Unveiling the Prophet: The Misadventures of a Reluctant Debutante
Alexandra Fuller: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Helena Ganor, Four Letters to the Witnesses of My Childhood: One Woman's Childhood in Nazi Occupation
Henry Louis Gates, Colored People
Patricia Hampl, A Romantic Education
Heidi Hart, Grace Notes: The Waking of a Woman's Voice
Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation
June Jordan, Soldier: A Poet's Childhood
Lisa Knopp, Flight Dreams: A Life in the Midwestern Landscape
Jennifer Lauck, Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found
Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of my Name

Deborah A. Lott, Don't Go Crazy Without Me

T. Kira Madden, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls  
Debra Marquart, Growing up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere
Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
Paul Monette, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak Memory
Elaine Orr, Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life
Gayle Pemberton, The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter

Cat Pleska, Riding on Comets
Nahid Rachlin, Persian Girls
Alberto Rios, Capirotadas: A Nogales Memoir
Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
Moses Rosenkranz, Childhood: An Autobiographical Fragment
Esmeralda Santiago, When I Was Puerto Rican
Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books
Brenda Serotte, The Fortune Teller's Kiss
Sue William Silverman, Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You
Kate Simon, Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood
John Skoyles, Secret Frequencies: A New York Education
Lori Soderlind, Chasing Montana: A Love Story
Ilan Stavans, On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language
Ryan Van Meter, If You Knew Then What I Know Now
Richard Wright, Black Boy

Place, Nature, Science, Food, Travel

Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses
Susanne Antonetta, Body Toxic; A Mind Apart

Karen Babine, All the Wild Hungers
Kim Barnes, Hungry for the World

Cynthia Barnett, Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Rick Bass, Winter
Charles Bergman, Red Delta: Fighting for Life at the End of the Colorado River
Wendell Berry, Recollected Essays, 1965-1980

Juli Berwald, Spineless: The Science of the Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
Bonnie Lee Black, How to Cook a Crocodile

Judy Blunt, Breaking Clean
Peter Brannen, The Ends of the World

Jennifer Brice, The Last Settlers
Jane Brox, Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and its Family

Shelley Buck, India Bound: The Making of a Woman Journalist 
Joanna Burger, The Parrot Who Owns Me
Franklin Burroughs, Billy Watson's Croker Sack

Akiko Busch, How to Disappear
Steven Callahan, Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea

Nina Caplan, The Wandering Vine: Wind, the Romans, and Me
Kurt Caswell, In the Sun's House
Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer: A Story of Survival
Christopher Cokinos, The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars

Alison Deming, Zoologies
Jerry Dennis, Windward Shore: A Winter on the Great Lakes; A Place on the Water: An Angler's Reflections on Home
Sonali Deraniyagala, Wave
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: Teaching a Stone to Talk
Ivan Doig, This House of Sky
Ariel Dorfman, Heading South, Looking North
David James Duncan, My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings…
Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Space
J. H. Fabre, Social Life in the Insect World
Jill Fredston, Roving to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge
James Galvin, The Meadow
Merrill Joan Gerber, Botticelli Blue Skies: An Amearican in Florence
David Gessner, Sick of Nature

Jeff Goodell, The Water Will Come
Philip Graham, The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon

Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble
Edward Hoagland, The Courage of Turtles
Marybeth Holleman, The Heart of the Sound: An Alaskan Paradise Found and Nearly Lost
Garrett Hongo, Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i
Marcy Houle, Prairie Keepers
Silas House & Jason Howard, Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal

Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
Barbara Hurd, Entering the Stones: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark, Walking the Wrackline, Listening to the Savage and Tidal Rhythms

Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
Kathleen Jamie, Findings: Essays on the Natural and Unnatural World
Theresa Jordan, Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album
Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction

Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
William Kittredge, Hole in the Sky
Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Last Fine Time
Ted Kooser, Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps
David Lazar, The Body of Brooklyn
Amy Leach, Things That Are
William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
Gretchen Legler, On the Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in Northern Landscape and Horizon
Nancy Lord, Beluga Days

Wangari Maathai, Unbowed
Robert MacFarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot and Underland
Gregory Martin, Mountain City
Michael Martone, The Flatness and Other Landscapes
Peter Mayle, A Year in Provence
Kate McCahill, Patagonia Road: A Year Alone through Latin America

Will McGrath, Everything Lost is Found Again: Four Seasons in Lesotho
Thomas McGuane, The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing

Bill McKibben, Falter
John McPhee, Coming into the Country
Thomas Merton, When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings in Nature
Kent Meyers, The Witness of Combines
Harry Middleton, The Earth is Enough
Lawrence Millman, Our Like Will Not Be There Again: Notes from the West of Ireland
Kathleen Dean Moore, Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water
Michele Morano, Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain
Susan Brind Morrow, The Names of Things
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Gary Paul Nabhan, Cultures of Habitat: On Nature, Culture, and Story
Christopher Norment, Return to Warden's Grove: Science, Desire, and the Lives of Sparrows
Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

Trevor Norton, Underwater to Get out of the Rain: A Love Affair With the Sea

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, Merchants of Doubt
Leila Philip, A Family Place: A Hudson Valley Farm, Three Centuries, Five Wars, One Family
Martin Prechtel, Secrets of the Talking Jaguar: Memoirs from the Living Heart of a Mayan Village
John Price, Man Killed by Pheasant: And Other Kinships

David Quammen, The Song of the Dodo
Jonathan Raban, Bad Land
Catherine Reid, Coyote: Seeking the Hunter in our Midst
Robert Reid, Arctic Circle: Birth & Rebirth in the Land of Caribou
Bill Roorbach, Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey
Dana Sachs, The House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam

Lauret Savoy, Traces

Susan Hand Shetterly, Seaweed Chronicles
Alix Kates Shulman, Drinking the Rain

Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby and A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Mark Spragg, When the River Changes Direction
Robert Stepto, Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography
Cheryl Strayed, Wild
Joni Tevis, The Wet Collection
Celia Thaxter, An Island Garden
Paul Theroux, Old Patagonian Express

Joni Tevis, The World Is on Fire
Robert Traver, Trout Madness

Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World
D. J. Waldie, Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir

David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth

Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

Sara Wheeler, Magnetic North
Sharon White, Vanished Gardens: Finding Nature in Philadelphia
Joy Williams, Ill Nature
Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Charles Wohlforth, The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change
Baron Wormser, The Road Washes Out in Spring

Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature
Paul Zimmer, After the Fire: A Writer Finds His Place

LGBTQ+, Immersion, Social/Cultural Issues, Spirituality, Feminism

Faith Adiele, Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun
Ricardo Ainslie, Long Dark Road (about the James Byrd racially inspired murder)
Steve Almond, Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
Mark Curtis Anderson, Jesus Sound Explosion

Jason Arment, Musalaheen: A War Memoir
Victoria Armour-Hileman, Singing to the Dead: A Missioner's Life Among Refugees from Burma
Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone
Samira Bellil (trans. Lucy R. McNair), To Hell and Back
Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project
John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
Ilana M. Blumberg, Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman Among Books
Barrie Jean Borich, My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a Marriage
Lady Borton, Sensing the Enemy: An American Woman Among the Boat People of Vietnam
Charles Bowden, Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family

Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House

Jessica Bruder, Nomadland
C.D.B. Bryan, Friendly Fire

Scott Cairns, Short Trip to the Edge: A Spiritual Memoir

Francisco Cantu, The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

Mary Cartledgehayes, Grace
Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Steven Church, The Day After 'The Day After': My Atomic Angst

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Dalton Conley, Honky

Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: and other essays
Rosemary Daniell, Confessions of a (Female) Chauvinist
Tracy Daugherty, Five Shades of Shadow
Joan Didion, Slouching Toward Bethlehem
Beverly Donofrio, Looking for Mary (Or, The Blessed Mother and Me)
Brian Doyle, The Wet Engine: Exporing the Mad Wild Miracle of the Heart
Geoff Dyer, Yoga for People Who Can't be Bothered to Do It
Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
Gretel Ehrlich, Questions of Heaven: The Chinese Journey of an American Buddhist
Sarah Einstein, Mot: A Memoir
Janet Mason Ellerby, Following the Tambourine Man: A Birthmother's Memoir

Melissa Faliveno, Tomboyland
Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow
William Gass, On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry
Mikal Gilmore, Shot in the Heart
Melissa Fay Greene, Praying for Sheetrock
David Griffith, A Good War is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America
Lee Gutkind: Almost Human: Making Robots Think
Sebastian Haffner, Defying Hitler

Cameron Dezen Hammon, This is My Body: A Memoir of Religious and Romantic Obsession
Jim Harrison, Off to the Side
Miles Harvey, The Island of Lost Maps: a true story of cartographic crime
Tom Hayden, Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish America
Ernestine Hayes, Blonde Indian
Robin Hemley, Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday; Do-Over!
John Hersey, Hiroshima
Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Amy Hoffman, An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News
Eva Hoffman, After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust
Samuel Hynes, Flights of Passage: The Soldiers' Tale
Kristen Iversen, Full Body Burden: Growing up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
Sebastian Junger, A Perfect Storm
Robbie Pfeufer Kahn, Milk Teeth: A Memoir of a Woman and her Dog
Garrison Keillor, Homegrown Democrat
Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List
Tracy Kidder, Among Schoolchildren and House
Woody Kipp, Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trial of a Blackfeet Activist
Arthur Kopecky, New Buffalo: Journals of a Taos Commune
Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air
Kazuko Kuramoto, Manchurian Legacy: Memoirs of a Japanese Colonialist
Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Bernard Lefkowitz, Our Boys
Beverly Lowry, Crossed Over

Valleria Luiselli, Tell Me How it Ends
Howard Lyman, Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat
Joe Mackall, Plain Secrets: An Outsider Among the Amish
Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song
Nancy Mairs, Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal
Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
Gabriel García Márquez, News of a Kidnapping

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich,  The Fact of a Body
Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard
Sarah Maza, Violette Noziere: a Story of Murder in 1930s Paris
Joseph Mitchell, Joe Gould's Secret
Pablo Neruda, Memoirs
Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk
Dan O'Brien, Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch
Tillie Olsen, Silences
Mary Rose O'Reilley, Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief; The Library Book
Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness
Elena Passarello, Let Me Clear My Throat

Imani Perry, Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
Caryl Phillips, The Atlantic Sound
Wang Ping, Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China
Jeff Porter, Oppenheimer Is Watching Me

Ellen Morris Prewitt: Making Crosses: A Creative Connection to God
Roberta Price, Huerfano: A Memoir of Life in the Counterculture
Francine Prose, Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife

Dawn Raffel, The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies
Slavomir Rawicz, The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
Ishmael Reed, Blues City: A Walk in Oakland
Cheri Register, Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir
Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Rahna Rizzuto, Hiroshima in the Morning
Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Claudia Rowe, The Spider and the Fly: A Writer, a Murderer and a story of Obsession
Mimi Schwartz, Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father's German Village
Bob Shacochis, The Immaculate Invasion
Jeff Sharlet, Sweet Heaven When I Die
Susan Sheehan, Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
Fan Shen, Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard
Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
Natalia Rachel Singer, Scraping by in the Big Eighties
Eugene Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
John Sorenson, Ed., The Grace Abbott Reader
Maureen Stanton, Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: Seeking History and Hidden Gems in Flea-Market America
Brent Staples, Parallel Times: Growing Up in Black and White
Leny Mendoza Strobel, A Book of Her Own: Words and Images to Honor the Babylan
Mary Swander, The Desert Pilgrim: En Route to Mysticism and Miracles
Anthony Swofford, Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

Lisa Taddeo, Three Women
Studs Terkel, Working
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Joyce Thompson, Sailing the Shoe to Timbuktu: A Woman's Adventurous Search for Family, Spirituality, & Love
Susan Tiberghien, Circling to the Center: One Woman's Encounter with Silent Prayer
Laura Tillman, The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City
Jacobo Timerman, Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number

David Treuer, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee; Rez Life: An Indian's Journey through Reservation Life

Brian Turner, My Life as a Foreign Country
Patricia Vidgerman, The Memory Palace of Isabella Stewart Gardner

Wendy Walters, Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal
Elie Wiesel, Night

Marion Winik, The Big Book of the Dead
Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff; The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Experimental, Montage, Meditative, Lyric, Hybrid Forms

David B., Epileptic
Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragiccomic

Chelsea Biondolillo, The Skinned Bird
Sven Birkerts, My Sky Blue Trades: Growing Up Counter in a Contrary Time
Eula Biss, The Balloonists
Jenny Boully, The Body: An Essay
Italo Calvino, The Road to San Giovanni
Elias Canetti, The Agony of Files: Notes and Notations
E. M. Cioran, All Gall is Divided: Aphorisms
Inga Clendinnen, Tiger's Eye

Teju Cole, Blind Spot
Richard Cohen, Sweet and Low
Dennis and Vicki Covington, Cleaving: The Story of a Marriage
John D'Agata, Halls of Fame
Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark

Shira Dentz, Door of Thin Skins
Ivan Doig, Heart Earth

T. Fleischmann, Syzygy, Beauty
Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life; Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams
Eduardo Galeano, The Book of Embraces

Renee Gladman, Calamites
Albert Goldbarth, Griffin

Karen Green, Bough Down
Carla Harryman, Adorno's Noise
Robin Hemley, Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness
Maxine Hong Kingston, Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Brian Lennon, City: An Essay
Primo Levi, The Periodic Table

Thomas Mira Y Lopez, The Book of Resting Places: A Personal History of Where We Lay the Dead
Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
Ander Monson, Neck Deep and Other Predicaments
Dinty Moore, Between Panic and Desire: Notes from a Series Projectionist
Pat Mora, House of Houses
Donald Morrill, The Untouched Minutes
Maggie Nelson, Bluets
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
Anna Cypra Oliver, Assembling My Father: A Daughter's Detective Story

Wendy Ortiz, Bruja, Hollywood Notebooks
Michelle Otero, Malinche's Daughter
Georges Perec, W: Or the Memory of Childhood
Kristin Prevallet, I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time
Lia Purpura, On Looking

Claudia Rankine, Citizen
James Richardson, Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays
Richard Rodriguez, Days of Obligation
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood; Embroideries
W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants; The Rings of Saturn
Bob Shacochis, Domesticity: A Gastronomic Interpretation of Love
David Shields, Enough About You: Adventures in Autobiography
Peggy Shumaker, Just Breathe Normally
Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History and Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
Lawrence Sutin, A Postcard Memoir
Natasha Tarpley, Girl in the Mirror: Three Generations of Black Women in Motion
Peter Trachtenberg, 7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh

Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas, Don't Come Back
Julie Marie Wade, Wish Bone: A Memoir in Fractures

Lia Woodall, Remove to Play
Xu Xi, Overleaf Hong Kong: Stories & Essays of the Chinese, Overseas

Personal Essay, Journal, Anthologies

Faith Adiele, Coming of Age Around the World
James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
Jill Bialofsky and Helen Schulman, eds., Wanting a Child

Brian Blanchfield, Proxies
Becky Bradway, ed., In the Middle of the Middle West: Literary Nonfiction from the Heartland
Janet Burroway, Embalming Mom: Essays in Life

Emily Arnason Casey, Made Holy: Essays
Joshua Casteel, Letters from Abu Ghraib
Joy Castro, Island of Bones

Alexander Chee How To Write an Autobiographical Novel
Bernard Cooper, Maps to Anywhere

Paul Crenshaw, This One Will Hurt You: 21st Century Essays
John D'Agata, ed., The Next American Essay
Charles D'Ambrosio, Orphans
Toi Dericotte, The Black Notesbooks: An Interior Journey
Mark Doty, ed., Open House: Writers Redefine Home
Brian Doyle, Leaping
Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
M.F.K. Fisher, Among Friends
Patricia Foster, Just Beneath My Skin: Autobiography & Self-Discovery
Daniel Francis, ed., Imagining Ourselves: Classics of Canadian Non-Fiction
Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank
Ian Frazier, On the Rez; Gone to New York: Adventures in the City
Kenny Fries (ed.), Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out
Albert Goldbarth, Many Circles
Vivian Gornick, Approaching Eye Level

Melissa Grunow, I Don't Belong Here
Lee Gutkind, Karen Wolk Feinstein, eds., Silence Kills: Speaking Out and Saving Lives
Trudier Harris, Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South
Steve Harvey, Bound for Shady Grove
Lillian Hellman, Pentimento
Emily Hiestand, Angela the Upside-down Girl & Other Domestic Travels
Pico Iyer, Falling off the Map
Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams
Genevieve Jurgensen, The Disappearance: A Primer of Loss
Judith Kitchen, Distance and Direction; Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction
Carl H. Klaus, My Vegetable Love: A Journal of a Growing Season
Ted Kooser, Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps
Kim Dana Kupperman, I Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives from the Other Side of Silence
David Lazar, The Body of Brooklyn; Occasional Desire
Phillip Lopate, Against Joie de Vivre; Portrait of My Body
John Loughery, ed., The Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of Classic and Creative Nonfiction
Patrick Madden, Quotidiana
Rasunah Marsden, Crisp Blue Edges: Indigenous Creative Non-fiction
Michael Martone, Racing in Place: Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins
James McKean, Home Stand
James Alan McPherson, A Region Not Home: Reflections from Exile
Molly McQuade, The Art of the Word
Brenda Miller, Season of the Body
Tom Montgomery-Fate, Beyond the White Noise
Kyoko Mori, Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures
Naomi Shihab Nye, Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and Places
Cynthia Ozick, Fame & Folly, Quarrel & Quandry, and Metaphor & Memory
Jericho Parms, Lost Wax
Molly Peacock, ed., The Private I
Lia Purpura, On Looking; Rough Likeness
Scott Russell Sanders, Staying Put; The Paradise of Bombs
Marjorie Sandor, The Night Gardener
May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude
Mimi Schwartz, Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed
David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

Sejal Shah, This Is One Way to Dance: Essays
Rebecca Shannonhouse, ed., Under the Influence: The Literature of Addiction
David Shields, Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity
Floyd Skloot, A World of Light
Tom Sleigh, Interview With a Ghost

Aisha Sabatini Sloan, The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White
Larry Smith, ed., Not Quite What I Was Planning: six-word memoirs by writers famous and obscure
Ilan Stavans, Dictionary Days: A Defining Passion
Gerald Stern, What I Can't Bear Losing
Megan Stielstra, Once I was Cool: Personal Essays
Ira Sukrungruang, Scoot Over Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology

Michelle Tea, Against Memoir
Abigail Thomas, Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life

Anne Truitt, Prospect: The Journal of an Artist
Robert Vivian, Cold Snap as Yearning
Lawrence Weschler, Vermeer in Bosnia
E. B. White, One Man's Meat
Edmund White, My Lives
S. L. Wisenberg, Holocaust Girls: History, Memory & Other Obsessions
Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being; The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
Xu Xi, Evanescent Isles: From My City-Village; This Fish is Fowl: Essays of Being

Humor

Stephen Akey, College
Max Apple, Roommates: My Grandfather's Story; I Love Gootie: My Grandmother's Story
Robert Benchley, Benchley Beside Himself
Bill Bryson, Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Dinty Moore, The Accidental Buddhist

Isaac Oliver, Intimacy Idiot
S. J. Perelman, Most of the Most of S. J. Perelman
Daniel Asa Rose, Larry's Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant--and Save His Life
David Sedaris, Naked; When You are Engulfed in Flames
James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times
Rachel Toor, The Pig and I: How I Learned to Love Men Almost as Much as I Love My Pets

Occupational Memoirs

Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Teacher
Gesine Bullock-Prado, Confections of a Closet Master Baker
Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

Nancy Campbell, The Library of Ice
Kelly Cherry, Girl in a Library: On Women Writers and the Writing Life
Ted Conover, Newjack: Guarding Sing-Sing
Pat Conroy, The Water is Wide
Robert Cowser, Dream Season: A Professor Joins America's Oldest Semi-Pro Football Team
Huston Diehl, Dream Not of Other Worlds: Teaching in a Segregated Elementary School, 1970

Ryan Leigh Dostie, Formation: A Woman's Memoir of Stepping Out of Line
Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on An Imperfect Science; Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Gail Griffin, Calling: Essays on Teaching in the Mother Tongue
Brendan Halpin, Losing My Faculties: A Teacher's Story
Ben Hamper, Rivethead
Jean Harper, Rose City: A Memoir of Work

Karen Lynch, Good Cop, Bad Daughter: Memoirs of an Unlikely Police Officer
Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking:Life Studies from the Dismal Trades
Frank McCourt, Teacher Man
Ann McCutchan, The Muse that Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process
Susan Neville, Iconography: A Writer's Meditation
Don Metz, Confessions of a Country Architect
Danielle Ofri, Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
Louise Rafkin, Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures
Ruth Reichl, Tender at the Bone: Growing up at the Table
Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Richard Seltzer, Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery; Confessions of a Knife

Blair Tindall. Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music
Frank Vertosick, Why We Hurt; The Natural History of Pain