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- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character
- 100,000 first bosses : my unlikely path as a 22-year-old lawmaker
- 18 holes with Bing : golf, life, and lessons from Dad
- 20 hrs. 40 min. : our flight in the Friendship : the American girl, first across the Atlantic by air, tells her story
- 20th-century boy : notebooks of the seventies
- 24 : life stories and lessons from the Say Hey Kid
- 26 marathons : what I learned about faith, identity, running, and life from my marathon career
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 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 MIGHTY LONG WAY : my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis
- A billion years : my escape from a life in the highest ranks of Scientology
- A body, undone : living on after great pain
- A boob's life : how America's obsession shaped me... and you
- A carnival of losses : notes nearing ninety
- A carnival of snackery : diaries 2003-2020
- A cave in the clouds : a young woman's escape from ISIS
- A coastline is an immeasurable thing : a memoir across three continents
- A comedy & a tragedy : a memoir of learning how to read and write
- A common struggle
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A country between : making a home where both sides of Jerusalem collide
- A cure for gravity
- 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 named Beautiful : a Marine, a dog, and a long road trip home
- A dream about lightning bugs : a life of music and cheap lessons
- A dream called home : a memoir
- A field guide to awkward silences
- A fierce love : one woman's courageous journey to save her marriage
- A fine romance
- A fractured life : a memoir of God's provision and protection
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A funny thing happened on the way to Stockholm : the adrenaline-fueled adventures of an accidental scientist
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A girl's story
- A handful of happiness : how a prickly creature softened a prickly heart
- A heart that works
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A history of me
- A house of my own : stories from my life
- A journal for Jordan : a story of love and honor
- A lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science
- A life beyond reason : a father's memoir
- A life in light : meditations on impermanence
- A life in parts
- A life of lies and spies : tales of a CIA covert ops polygraph interrogator
- A life well played : my stories
- A life well played : my stories
- A little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
- A little me
- A little piece of light : a memoir of hope, prison, and a life unbound
- A long way home
- A love letter life : pursue creatively, date intentionally, love faithfully
- A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
- A lucky life interrupted : a memoir of hope
- A man for all markets : from Las Vegas to Wall Street, how I beat the dealer and the market
- A mind unraveled : a memoir
- A most beautiful thing : the true story of America's first all-black high school rowing team
- A new model : what confidence, beauty, and power really look like
- A perfect 10 : the truth about things I'm not and never will be
- A place called home : a memoir
- A politically incorrect feminist : creating a movement with bitches, lunatics, dykes, prodigies, warriors, and wonder women
- A portrait of the scientist as a young woman
- A promised land
- A quantum life : my unlikely journey from the street to the stars
- A really good day : how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- A republic, if you can keep it
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A river in darkness : one man's escape from North Korea
- A runner's high : my life in motion
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A state of mind : faith and the CIA
- A thousand miles to freedom : my escape from North Korea
- A trip of one's own : hope, heartbreak, and why traveling solo could change your life
- A village with my name : a family history of China's opening to the world
- 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 makes a plan : advice for a lifetime of adventure, beauty, and success
- A work in progress : a memoir
- A year without a name
- A year without mom
- 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
- Absolutely
- Abuela, don't forget me
- Acceptance : a memoir
- Accused : my story of injustice
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school
- Adrift at sea : a Vietnamese boy's story of survival
- Afropessimism
- After life : my journey from incarceration to freedom
- Aftershocks : a memoir
- Against memoir : complaints, confessions & criticisms
- Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round : my story of the making of Martin Luther King Day
- Ain't that a mother : postpartum, palsy, and everything in between
- Air traffic : a memoir of ambition and manhood in America
- Al Franken, giant of the Senate
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- Alive, alive oh! : and other things that matter
- All about me! : my remarkable life in show business
- All bets are off : losers, liars, and recovery from gambling addiction
- 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 in : an autobiography
- All strangers are kin : adventures in Arabic and the Arab world
- All that remains : a renowned forensic scientist on death, mortality, and solving crimes
- All the colors came out : a father, a daughter, and a lifetime of lessons
- All the way : my life in four quarters
- All the way : my life in four quarters
- All the women in my brain : and other concerns
- All who go do not return : a memoir
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- Alligator candy : a memoir
- Ally : my journey across the American-Israeli divide
- Alone : lost overboard in the Indian Ocean
- Alone on the wall
- Alpha docs : the making of a cardiologist
- Also a poet : Frank O'Hara, my father, and me
- 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
- America made me a Black man : a memoir
- America, a redemption story : choosing hope, creating unity
- American daughter : a memoir
- American dreamer : my life in fashion & business
- American fix : inside the opioid addiction crisis--and how to end it
- American radical : inside the world of an undercover Muslim FBI agent
- American shoes : a refugee's story
- American sniper : the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. history
- American values : lessons I learned from my family
- American wife : love, war, faith, and renewal
- Americanized : rebel without a green card
- Amiga, lávate esa cara : deja de creer mentiras sobre quién eres para que te conviertas en quien deberÃas ser
- An African in Greenland
- An elephant in my kitchen : what the herd taught me about love, courage and survival
- An especially good view : watching history happen
- An excellent choice : panic and joy on my solo path to motherhood
- An extravagant life : an autobiography incorporating Blue Water, Green Skipper
- An invisible thread
- An onion in my pocket : my life with vegetables
- An outlaw and a lady : a memoir of music, life with Waylon, and the faith that brought me home
- 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
- Anchor & flares : a memoir of motherhood, hope, and service
- And a dog called Fig : solitude, connection, the writing life
- And now we have everything : on motherhood before I was ready
- Angel on the yardarm : the beginnings of fleet radar defense and the kamikaze threat
- Angeles de luz divina : la extraordinaria historia de uno de los más destacados sanadores angelicales y terapeutas espirituales
- Another day in the life
- Anthony Bourdain : the last interview and other conversations
- Ants among elephants : an untouchable family and the making of modern India
- Any given Tuesday : a political love story
- Anything for a hit : an A&R woman's story of surviving the music industry
- App kid : how a child of immigrants grabbed a piece of the American dream
- Apparently there were complaints : a memoir
- Apparently there were complaints : a memoir
- Apple : skin to the core : a memoir in words and pictures
- Apprenticed to Venus : my secret life with Anaïs Nin
- Apropos of nothing : autobiography
- Are you anybody? : a memoir
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- As a woman : what I learned about power, sex, and the patriarchy after I transitioned
- As needed for pain : a memoir of addiction
- Assata : an autobiography
- Asylum : a memoir & manifesto
- At hell's gate : a soldier's journey from war to peace
- At home in the world : reflections on belonging while wandering the globe : an adventure across 4 continents with 3 kids, 1 husband, and 5 backpacks
- Aurelia, Aurélia : a memoir
- Aurora : the psychiatrist who treated the movie theater killer tells her story
- Austen years : a memoir in five novels
- Autism in heels : the untold story of a female life on the spectrum
- Back from the dead
- Back in the game : one gunman, countless heroes, and the fight for my life
- Back to the boy
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Bad fat Black girl : notes from a trap feminist
- Bad jobs and poor decisions : dispatches from the working class : a memoir
- Bad vibes only : (and other things I bring to the table) : essays
- Baggage : tales from a fully packed life
- Baggage : tales from a fully packed life
- Balcony on the moon : coming of age in Palestine
- Ballplayer
- Bamboozled by Jesus : how God tricked me into the life of my dreams
- Bang Bang : my life in ink
- Banned book club
- Barbarian days : a surfing life
- Bare Bones : I'm not lonely if you're reading this book
- Barry Sonnenfeld, call your mother : memoirs of a neurotic filmmaker
- Bastards : a memoir
- Be my baby : a memoir
- Bears in the streets : three journeys across a changing Russia
- Beating chains
- Beautiful bodies : a memoir
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful on the outside : a memoir
- Beautiful things : a memoir
- 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 Duchess Goldblatt
- Becoming Forrest : one man's epic run across America
- Becoming Kid Quixote : a true story of belonging in America
- Becoming Ms. Burton : from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women
- 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 Thelma Lou : my journey to Hollywood, Mayberry, and beyond
- Bee fearless : dream like a kid
- Bee people and the bugs they love
- Been so long : my life and music
- Beeswing : losing my way and finding my voice, 1967-1975
- Before Topgun days : the making of a jet fighter instructor
- Being Heumann : an unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activist
- Being Jazz : my life as a (transgender) teen
- Being seen : one deafblind woman's fight to end ableism
- Believe it
- Believe it
- Believe it : my journey of success, failure, and overcoming the odds
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Believe me : my battle with the invisible disability of Lyme disease
- Best seat in the house : 18 golden lessons from a father to his son
- Betsey. : a memoir
- Better : how I let go of control, held on to hope, and found joy in my darkest hour
- Better than new : lessons I've learned from saving old homes (and how they saved me)
- Better, not bitter : living on purpose in the pursuit of racial justice
- Bettyville : a memoir
- Between heaven & the real world : my story
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Between two kingdoms : a memoir of a life interrupted
- Between two worlds : lessons from the other side
- Beyond the wand : the magic and mayhem of growing up a wizard
- Bibi : my story
- Big Apple diaries
- Big girl : how I gave up dieting and got a life
- Billie Eilish
- Binge
- Bipolar faith : a black woman's journey in depression and faith
- Bird brother : a falconer's journey and the healing power of wildlife
- Bitwise : a life in code
- Black American refugee : escaping the narcissism of the American Dream
- Black boy out of time : a memoir
- Black is the body : stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine
- Black lion : alive in the wilderness
- Black magic : what Black leaders learned from trauma and triumph
- Black man in a white coat : a doctor's reflections on race and medicine
- Black market : an insider's journey into the high-stakes world of college basketball
- Black ops : the life of a CIA shadow warrior
- Black ops : the life of a CIA shadow warrior
- Black privilege : opportunity comes to those who create it
- Black, white, and The Grey : the story of an unexpected friendship and a beloved restaurant
- Blackout : remembering the things I drank to forget
- Bleaker house : chasing my novel to the end of the world
- Blessed life : my surprising journey of joy, tears, and tales from Harlem to Hollywood
- Blind man's bluff : a memoir
- 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 on blue : an insider's story of good cops catching bad cops
- Blue sky kingdom : an epic family journey to the heart of the Himalayas
- Boldly go : reflections on a life of awe and wonder
- Boldly go : reflections on a life of awe and wonder
- Bomb shelter : love, time, and other explosives
- Bookends : a memoir of love, loss, and literature
- Born both : an intersex life
- Born on the bayou : a memoir
- Born to fly : a memoir
- Born to run
- Both/and : a life in many worlds
- Boy erased : a memoir
- Boy from Buchenwald : the true story of a Holocaust survivor
- Boys keep swinging : a memoir
- Brat : an '80s story
- Brat : an '80s story
- Brave : cult member, runaway, captive, starlet, victim, sex symbol, justice seeker
- Brave face : a memoir
- Braver than you think : around the world on the trip of my (mother's) lifetime
- Bravey : chasing dreams, befriending pain, and other big ideas
- Brayden speaks up
- Brazen : my unorthodox journey from long sleeves to lingerie
- Breaking cover : my secret life in the CIA and what it taught me about what's worth fighting for
- Breaking free : how I escaped polygamy, the FLDS cult, and my father, Warren Jeffs
- Breaking history : a White House memoir
- Breathe : a life in flow
- Brief candle in the dark : my life in science
- Bright precious thing : a memoir
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Brother & sister
- Brother to a dragonfly
- Brothers of the gun : a memoir of the Syrian war
- Brown, white, black : an American family at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and religion
- Brutally honest
- Buffering : unshared tales of a life fully loaded
- Building a life worth living : a memoir
- Bully market : my story of money and misogyny at Goldman Sachs
- Burn the page : a true story of torching doubts, blazing trails, and igniting change
- Buses are a comin' : memoir of a freedom rider
- But enough about me : a memoir
- But enough about me : a memoir
- But seriously
- 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
- COME AND GET THESE MEMORIES : the genius of Holland-Dozier-Holland, Motown's incomparable songwriters
- Cack-handed : a memoir
- California soul : an American epic of cooking and survival
- Call me American : a memoir
- Call me American : the extraordinary true story of a young Somali immigrant
- Call me Chef, dammit! : a veteran's journey from the rural South to the White House
- Call sign chaos : learning to lead
- Called out : why I traded two dream jobs for a life of true calling
- Called to rise : a life in faithful service to the community that made me
- Camp girls : fireside lessons on friendship, courage, and loyalty
- Can I say : living large, cheating death, and drums, drums, drums
- Cancerland : a medical memoir
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Carry : a memoir of survival on stolen land
- Center center : a funny, sexy, sad almost-memoir of a boy in ballet
- Champagne baby : how one Parisian learned to love wine-and life-the American way
- Chance : escape from the Holocaust
- Change of seasons : a memoir
- Charlotte and the Nutcracker : the true story of a girl who made ballet history
- Chase darkness with me : how one true-crime writer started solving murders
- Chasing history : a kid in the newsroom
- Chasing me to my grave : an artist's memoir of the Jim Crow South
- Chasing my cure : a doctor's race to turn hope into action : a memoir
- Chasing the light : writing, directing, and surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the movie game
- Chasing water : elegy of an Olympian
- Cheech is not my real name ... but don't call me Chong!
- Child of the dream : a memoir of 1963
- Choices : to the Hills and back again
- Choosing hope : moving forward from life's darkest hours
- Chosen by Jane : a memoir
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Clay, water, brick : finding inspiration from entrepreneurs who do the most with the least
- Come, tell me how you live : an archaeological memoir
- Comedy comedy comedy drama : a memoir
- Comedy sex god
- Comforts of the abyss : the art of persona writing
- Coming up for air
- Committed : dispatches from a psychiatrist in training
- Conceivability : what I learned exploring the frontiers of fertility
- Confessions of a night librarian and other embarrassments
- Congratulations, who are you again? : a memoir
- Consent : a memoir of unwanted attention
- Consequence : a memoir
- Consider this : moments in my writing life after which everything was different
- Constructing a nervous system : a memoir
- Cooking as fast as I can : a chef's story of family, food, and forgiveness
- Cop under fire : moving beyond hashtags of race, crime & politics for a better America
- Corrections in ink : a memoir
- Costly grace : an evangelical minister's rediscovery of faith, hope and love
- Counting the days while my mind slips away : a love letter to my family
- Courage : my story of persecution
- Cracker Gothic : a Florida woman's memoir
- Cravings : how I conquered food : a memoir
- Crossing the line : a fearless team of brothers and the sport that changed their lives forever
- Crossing to Avalon : a woman's midlife pilgrimage
- Crossings : a doctor-soldier's story
- Crux : a cross-border memoir
- Crying in H Mart
- Crying in the bathroom : a memoir
- 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
- Danger close : my epic journey as a combat helicopter pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Dangerous ground
- Dapper Dan : made in Harlem : a memoir
- Daring to drive : a Saudi woman's awakening
- Dawn of the new everything : encounters with reality and virtual reality
- Deaf utopia : a memoir -- and a love letter to a way of life
- Dear America : notes of an undocumented citizen
- Dear Mr. You
- Dear Senthuran : a Black spirit memoir
- Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life
- Dear girls : intimate tales, untold secrets, and advice for living your best life
- Dear world : a Syrian girl's story of war and plea for peace
- Dear world : a Syrian girl's story of war and plea for peace
- Deep Creek : finding hope in the high country
- Deep Dark Blue