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- Becoming
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- Between the world and me
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- Finding me
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- God gave me you : a true story of love, loss, and a heaven-sent miracle
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- Going somewhere : a bicycle journey across America
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- Good things happen slowly : a life in and out of jazz
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- Grace notes
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- Greenlights
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- High school
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- Hiking with Nietzsche : on becoming who you are
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- I'll never write my memoirs
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- In a dark wood : what Dante taught me about grief, healing, and the mysteries of love
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- In gratitude
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- In my time : a personal and political memoir
- In other words
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- In the days of rain : a daughter, a father, a cult
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- Inventing Joy : dare to build a brave & creative life
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- Iron ambition : my life with Cus D'Amato
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- It's not yet dark
- It's ok to laugh : (crying is cool, too)
- Jane Doe January : my twenty-year search for truth and justice
- Jell-O girls : a family history
- Jimmy Neurosis : a memoir
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- Just kids
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- Kill the silence : a survivor's life reclaimed
- Knitlandia : a knitter sees the world
- Knocking on heaven's door : the path to a better way of death
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- Lands of lost borders : a journey on the Silk Road
- Landwhale : on turning insults into nicknames, why body image is hard, and how diets can kiss my ass
- Last boat out of Shanghai : the epic story of the Chinese who fled Mao's revolution
- Lean in : for graduates
- Leaving before the rains come
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- Left on tenth : a second chance at life
- Leonard : my fifty-year friendship with a remarkable man
- Lessons in hope : my unexpected life with St. John Paul II
- Lessons of hope : how to fix our schools
- Let's talk about hard things
- Life as Jamie knows it : an exceptional child grows up
- Life in the garden
- Life is a wheel : love, death, etc., and a bike ride across America
- Life's work : from the trenches, a moral argument for choice
- Life, animated : a story of sidekicks, heroes, and autism
- Lifesaving lessons : notes from an accidental mother
- Lights on, rats out : a memoir
- Like a Rolling stone : a memoir
- Liner notes : on parents & children, exes & excess, death & decay & a few of my other favorite things
- Little panic : dispatches from an anxious life
- Little soldiers : an American boy, a Chinese school, and the global race to achieve
- Live love explore : discover the way of the traveler : a road map to the life you were meant to live
- Living with a dead language : my romance with Latin
- Living with a wild God : a nonbeliever's search for the truth about everything
- Long live the tribe of fatherless girls : a memoir
- Losing the Nobel Prize : a story of cosmology, ambition, and the perils of science's highest honor
- Lots of candles, plenty of cake
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- Love and trouble : a midlife reckoning
- Love warrior
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- Lucky bastard : my life, my dad, and the things I'm not allowed to say on TV
- Lucky me : my life with--and without--my mom, Shirley Maclaine
- Lunch in Paris : a love story, with recipes
- Lust & wonder
- Maeve in America : essays by a girl from somewhere else
- Make trouble : standing up, speaking out, and finding the courage to lead
- Mama bear : one black mother's fight for her child's life and her own
- March, Book three
- Marrow : a love story of love
- May cause love : an unexpected journey of enlightenment after abortion
- Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed
- Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed
- Mayhem
- Me
- Me & Patsy kickin' up dust : my friendship with Patsy Cline
- Mean
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- Measure of a man : from Auschwitz survivor to presidents' tailor
- Medicine dog : the miraculous cure that healed my best friend and saved my life
- Meet the Frugalwoods : achieving financial independence through simple living
- Memoir of a debulked woman : enduring ovarian cancer
- Memory's last breath : field notes on my dementia
- Minding the manor : the memoir of a 1930s English kitchen maid
- Miss D & me : life with the invincible Bette Davis
- Modified : GMOs and the threat to our food, our land, our future
- Molina : the story of the father who raised an unlikely baseball dynasty
- Morningstar : growing up with books
- Motherhood reimagined : when becoming a mother doesn't go as planned : a memoir
- My Paris dream : an education in style, slang, and seduction in the great city on the Seine
- My adventures with God
- My animals and other family
- My beloved world
- My brother Moochie : regaining dignity in the face of crime, poverty, and racism in the American South
- My confection : odyssey of a sugar addict
- My fair junkie : a memoir of getting dirty and staying clean
- My father's wake : how the Irish teach us to live, love and die
- My friend Anna : the true story of a fake heiress
- My glory was I had such friends : a memoir
- My life in transition : a super late bloomer collection
- My life on the road
- My life with Bob : flawed heroine keeps book of books, plot ensues
- My love story
- My lovely wife in the psych ward : a memoir
- My mistake
- My name is Selma : the remarkable memoir of a Jewish resistance fighter and Ravensbrück survivor
- My patients and other animals : a veterinarian's stories of love, loss, and hope
- My penguin year : life among the emperors
- My story
- NYPD green : a memoir
- Nanaville : adventures in grandparenting
- Navel gazing : true tales of bodies, mostly mine (but also my mom's, which I know sounds weird)
- Never call me a hero : a legendary American dive-bomber pilot remembers the Battle of Midway
- Never grow up
- Nevertheless : a memoir
- Night
- Nine essential things I've learned about life
- Nine lessons I learned from my father
- No ashes in the fire : coming of age black & free in America
- No happy endings : a memoir
- No man's land : preparing for war and peace in post-9/11 America
- No one tells you this : a memoir
- Nobu : a memoir
- North : finding my way while running the Appalachian trail
- Not always happy : an unusual parenting journey
- Not so good a gay man
- Not that bad : dispatches from rape culture
- Not that kind of girl : a young woman tells you what she's "learned"
- Note to self : inspiring words from inspiring people
- Notes from a young Black chef : a memoir
- Notes on a banana : a memoir of food, love, and manic depression
- Notes on a foreign country : an American abroad in a post-American world
- Now I see you
- Now go out there (and get curious)
- Now you see the sky
- Nujeen : one girl's incredible journey from war-torn Syria in a wheelchair
- O.J. in the morning, G & T at night : spirited dispatches on aging with Joie de Vivre
- Odd girl out : my extraordinary autistic life
- Off the rails : a train trip through life
- Old age : a beginner's guide
- On animals
- On edge : a journey through anxiety
- On my own