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- 108 stitches : loose threads, ripping yarns, and the darndest characters from my time in the game
- 13 days in Ferguson
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- A Carlin home companion : growing up with George
- A Prince among Stones : that business with the Rolling Stones and other adventures
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- 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 chance in the world : an orphan boy, a mysterious past, and how he found a place called home
- A chant to soothe wild elephants : a memoir
- A child's Christmas in Wales
- A coastline is an immeasurable thing : a memoir across three continents
- 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 dream called home : a memoir
- A fifty-year silence : love, war, and a ruined house in France
- A forever family : fostering change one child at a time
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A good man with a dog : a game warden's 25 years in the Maine woods
- A guest at the feast : essays
- A heart that works
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A house full of daughters : a memoir of seven generations
- A journey : my political life
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A life everlasting : the extraordinary story of one boy's gift to medical science
- A life in light : meditations on impermanence
- A life like other people's
- A life of my own
- A life well played : my stories
- A life well played : my stories
- A line in the river : Khartoum, city of memory
- 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 man for all markets : from Las Vegas to Wall Street, how I beat the dealer and the market
- A new model : what confidence, beauty, and power really look like
- A portrait of the scientist as a young woman
- A promised land
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- A stitch of time : the year a brain injury changed my language and life
- A thousand naked strangers : a paramedics' wild ride to the edge and back
- A trip of one's own : hope, heartbreak, and why traveling solo could change your life
- A very punchable face : a memoir
- A woman's battles and transformations
- A work in progress : a memoir
- Accepted : how the first gay superstar changed WWE
- Acne : a memoir
- Admissions : life as a brain surgeon
- After life : my journey from incarceration to freedom
- After perfect : a daughter's memoir
- After the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search
- Aire encantado : dos culturas, dos alas: una memoria
- Al Franken : giant of the Senate
- Al Franken, giant of the Senate
- Algiers, Third World capital : freedom fighters, revolutionaries, Black Panthers
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- All at sea : a memoir
- All good things : from Paris to Tahiti: life and longing
- All happy families : a memoir
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- Alone : Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : defeat into victory
- Alone : lost overboard in the Indian Ocean
- Always look on the bright side of life : a sortabiography
- Am I being too subtle? : straight talk from a business rebel
- American values : Lessons I Learned from My Family
- Americanized : rebel without a green card
- An abbreviated life : a memoir
- An excellent choice : panic and joy on my solo path to motherhood
- An extravagant life : an autobiography incorporating Blue Water, Green Skipper
- An odyssey : a father, a son, and an epic
- 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 finally : matters of life and death
- Answering the call : an autobiography of the modern struggle to end racial discrimination in America
- Ants among elephants : an untouchable family and the making of modern India
- Apocalypse child : a life in end times : a memoir
- Apparently there were complaints : a memoir
- Are you anybody? : a memoir
- As a woman : what I learned about power, sex, and the patriarchy after I transitioned
- Ask me about my uterus : a quest to make doctors believe in women's pain
- Assume nothing : a story of intimate violence
- Asylum: : a survivor's flight from Nazi-occupied Vienna through wartime France
- At home with Muhammad Ali : a memoir of love, loss, and forgiveness
- Autism in heels : the untold story of a female life on the spectrum
- Avalanche : a love story
- B.F.F. : a memoir of friendship lost and found
- Back from the dead
- 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 call : a summer job on a New York ambulance
- Balancing acts : behind the scenes at London's National Theatre
- Bang Bang : my life in ink
- Barbarian days : a surfing life
- Based on a true story : [a memoir]
- Be fierce : stop harassment and take your power back
- Beautiful bodies : a memoir
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful unbroken : one nurse's life
- Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience
- Because I come from a crazy family : the making of a psychiatrist
- Because we are bad : OCD and a girl lost in thought
- Becoming
- Becoming Ms. Burton : from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women
- Becoming grandma : the joys and science of the new grandparenting
- Been so long : my life and music
- Before I forget : love, hope, help, and acceptance in our fight against Alzheimer's
- Being Jazz : my life as a (transgender) teen
- Between breaths : a memoir of panic and addiction
- Between heaven and the real world : my story
- Between me and the river : living beyond cancer : a memoir
- Between two kingdoms : a memoir of a life interrupted
- Beyond the wand : the magic and mayhem of growing up a wizard
- Big girl : how I gave up dieting and got a life
- Birds, art, life : a year of observation
- Bitwise : a life in code
- Black is the body : stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine
- Black man in a white coat : a doctor's reflections on race and medicine
- Bleaker house
- Blowing the bloody doors off : and other lessons in life
- Blue nights
- Blue on blue : an insider's story of good cops catching bad cops
- Bobby : my story in pictures
- Body counts : a memoir of politics, sex, AIDS, and survival
- Boldly go : reflections on a life of awe and wonder
- Bomb shelter : love, time, and other explosives
- Books : a memoir
- 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 for this : my story in music
- Born to run
- Boy erased : a memoir
- Brave : cult member, runaway, captive, starlet, victim, sex symbol, justice seeker
- Brazen
- 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
- Breaking vegan : one woman's journey from veganism, extreme dieting, and orthorexia to a more balanced life
- Brief encounters : [conversations, magic moments, and assorted hijinks]
- Brother & sister
- Brothers, sisters, strangers : sibling estrangement and the road to reconciliation
- Burqas, baseball, and apple pie : being Muslim in America
- But seriously
- Call me American : a memoir
- Call me Chef, dammit! : a veteran's journey from the rural South to the White House
- Called to rise : a life in faithful service to the community that made me
- Can I say : living large, cheating death, and drums, drums, drums
- Carry : a memoir of survival on stolen land
- Carry on, warrior : thoughts on life unarmed
- Cat daddy : what the world's most incorrigible cat taught me about life, love, and coming clean
- Cathedral of the wild : an African journey home
- Change of seasons : a memoir
- Chase darkness with me : how one true-crime writer started solving murders
- Chasing me to my grave : an artist's memoir of the Jim Crow South
- Chasing space : an astronaut's story of grit, grace, and second chances
- 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!
- Choosing family : a memoir of queer motherhood and Black resistance
- City of death : humanitarian warriors in the battle of Mosul
- Clay, water, brick : finding inspiration from entrepreneurs who do the most with the least
- Collected essays & memoirs
- Coming out to play
- Con/artist : the life and crimes of the world's greatest art forger
- Confessions of a cartel hit man
- Confessions of a recovering environmentalist and other essays
- Consequence : a memoir
- Constructing a nervous system : a memoir
- Control freak : my epic adventure making video games
- Corrections in ink : a memoir
- Counting backwards : a doctor's notes on anesthesia
- Course correction : a story of rowing and resilience in the wake of Title IX
- Cravings : how I conquered food
- Crawl of fame : Julie Moss and the fifteen feet that created an ironman triathlon legend
- Crux : a cross-border memoir
- Crying in H Mart : a memoir
- Curators : behind the scenes of natural history museums
- Damn few : making the modern SEAL warrior
- Dancing fish and ammonites : a memoir
- Dancing in the mosque : an Afghan mother's letter to her son
- Danger close : my epic journey as a combat helicopter pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Dangerous ground
- Dawn of the new everything : encounters with reality and virtual reality
- Days of knight : how the general changed my life
- Deaf utopia : a memoir-- and a love letter to a way of life
- Dear America : notes of an undocumented citizen
- 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
- Democrazy : a true story of weird politics, money, madness, and finger food
- Did ye hear Mammy died? : a memoir
- Die young with me : a memoir
- Dinner with the Smileys : one military family, one year of heroes, and lessons for a lifetime
- Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships
- Directed by James Burrows : five decades of stories from the legendary director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and more
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Dirty deeds : my life inside/outside of AC/DC
- Disaster Falls : a family story
- Dishwasher : one man's quest to wash dishes in all fifty states
- Doll parts : a memoir
- Dolly Parton : songteller, my life in lyrics
- Don't leave me this way : or when I get back on my feet you'll be sorry
- Down city : a daughter's story of love, memory, and murder
- Draft animals : living the pro cycling dream (once in a while)
- Dreamers
- Dressed up for a riot : misadventures in Putin's Moscow
- Drop the ball : achieving more by doing less
- Dry
- Dying of politeness
- Eat the apple : a memoir
- Educated : a memoir
- Educated : a memoir
- Elsewhere
- Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
- Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
- Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
- Enough already : learning to love the way I am today
- Era of ignition : coming of age in a time of rage and revolution
- Even darkness sings : from Auschwitz to Hiroshima : finding hope in the saddest places on Earth
- Every body yoga : let go of fear, get on the mat, love your body
- Every day is extra
- Every falling star : the true story of how I survived and escaped North Korea
- Every falling star : the true story of how I survived and escaped North Korea
- Everything I have is yours : a marriage
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Excessive use of force : one mother's struggle against police brutality and misconduct
- Excuse me while I disappear : tales of midlife mayhem
- Exile on Front Street : my life as a Hells Angel ... and beyond
- Face the music : a life exposed
- Facts and fears : hard truths from a life in intelligence
- Fairest : a memoir
- Fantasy man : a former NFL player's descent into the brutality of fantasy football
- Fashion climbing
- Fatty fatty boom boom : a memoir of food, fat, and family
- Feast : true love in and out of the kitchen
- Finding me
- Finding ultra : rejecting middle age, becoming one of the world's fittest men, and discovering myself
- Five presidents : my extraordinary journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford
- Flip : the inside story of TV's first Black superstar
- For all who hunger : searching for communion in a shattered world
- For single mothers working as train conductors
- For the people : a story of justice and power
- Forbidden lessons in a Kabul guesthouse : the true story of a woman who risked everything to bring hope to Afghanistan
- Foreverland : on the divine tedium of marriage
- Forward : a memoir
- Freedom : my book of firsts
- Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing : a memoir
- From Saturday night to Sunday night : my forty years of laughter, tears, and touchdowns in TV
- From broken glass : my story of finding hope in Hitler's death camps to inspire a new generation
- From the corner of the Oval
- From the corner of the Oval : a memoir
- From the ground up : a journey to reimagine the promise of America
- Fruit punch : a memoir
- Full battle rattle : my story as the longest-serving special forces A-Team soldier in American history
- Full disclosure
- Gaining ground : a story of farmers' markets, local food, and saving the family farm
- Getting off : one woman's journey through sex and porn addiction
- Getting past perfect : how to find joy and grace in the messiness of motherhood
- Giant of the Senate
- Girl in the woods : a memoir
- Girl on a wire : walking the line between faith and freedom in the Westboro Baptist Church
- Girl, wash your face : stop believing the lies about who you are so you can become who you were meant to be
- Glow : the autobiography of Rick James
- Go back to where you came from : and other helpful recommendations on how to become American
- God and Starbucks : an NBA superstar's journey through addiction and recovery
- Going there
- Good for a girl : a woman running in a man's world
- Good vibrations : my life as a Beach Boy
- Growing a farmer : how I learned to live off the land
- H is for Hawk
- H is for hawk
- Hail to the chin : further confessions of a B movie actor
- Half broke : a memoir
- Halfway : a memoir
- Have I told you this already? : stories I don't want to forget to remember
- Healing : when a nurse becomes a patient
- Heart berries : a memoir
- Heart berries : a memoir
- Heartland : a memoir of working hard and being broke in the richest country on Earth
- Heavy : an American memoir
- Hell and other destinations : a 21st-century memoir
- Hello, Molly! : a memoir
- Hello, gorgeous : becoming Barbra Streisand
- Here is real magic : a magician's search for wonder in the modern world
- High price : a neuroscientist's journey of self-discovery that challenges everything you know about drugs and society
- Higher is waiting
- His ownself : a semi-memoir
- Hit refresh : the quest to rediscover Microsoft's soul and imagine a better future for everyone
- Hold still : a memoir with photographs
- Hold the line : the insurrection and one cop's battle for America's soul
- Home bound : an uprooted daughter's reflections on belonging
- Honor girl
- Hooked : how crafting saved my life
- Horse of a different color : reminiscenses [sic] of a Kansas drover
- Hourglass : time, memory, marriage
- How far the light reaches : a life in ten sea creatures
- How to be a Muslim : an American story
- How to be a bawse : a guide to conquering life
- How to be an antiracist
- How to be loved : a memoir of lifesaving friendship
- How to change your mind : what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence
- How to write an autobiographical novel : essays
- How we fight for our lives : a memoir
- Hundreds of interlaced fingers : a kidney doctor's search for the perfect match
- Hunger : a memoir of (my) body
- Hunting the truth : memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
- I am Durán : my autobiography
- I am Malala : the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban
- I am a girl from Africa : a memoir
- I am, I am, I am : seventeen brushes with death
- I blame Dennis Hopper : and other stories from a life lived in and out of the movies
- I came as a shadow : an autobiography
- I can't date Jesus : love, sex, family, race, and other reasons I've put my faith in Beyoncé
- I can't make this up : life lessons
- I forgot to remember : a memoir of amnesia
- I had to survive : how a plane crash in the Andes inspired my calling to save lives
- I have the right to : a high school survivor's story of sexual assault, justice, and hope
- I live a life like yours : a memoir
- I loved her in the movies : memories of Hollywood's legendary actresses
- I want to be where the normal people are
- I was better last night : a memoir
- I will find you : a reporter investigates the life of the man who raped her
- I'll never write my memoirs
- I'm Keith Hernandez : a memoir
- I'm just a person
- I'm just happy to be here : a memoir of renegade mothering
- I'm possible : a story of survival, a tuba, and the small miracle of a big dream
- I'm supposed to protect you from all this : a memoir
- IM : a memoir
- Icefall : adventures at the wild edges of our dangerous, changing planet
- If you're a kid like Gavin
- Illegally yours : a memoir
- Imperfect courage : live a life of purpose by leaving comfort and going scared
- Implosion : a memoir of an architect's daughter
- In her own words : women's memoirs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States
- In my shoes : a memoir
- In pieces : a memoir
- In search of the canary tree : the story of a scientist, a cypress, and a changing world
- In the Heights : finding home
- In the pleasure groove : love, death, & Duran Duran
- In the shadow of the mountain : a memoir of courage
- Indigo : arm wrestling, snake saving, and some things in between
- Inferno : a doctor's ebola story
- Infinite Tuesday
- Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love
- Initiated : memoir of a witch
- Innocent spouse : a memoir
- Inside Coca-Cola : a CEO's life story of building the world's most popular brand
- Inside out : a memoir
- Instrumental : a memoir of madness, medication, and music
- Interventions : a life in war and peace
- Into the magic shop : a neurosurgeon's quest to discover the mysteries of the brain and the secrets of the heart
- Into the planet : my life as a cave diver
- Inventing Joy : dare to build a brave & creative life
- Invested : how Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger taught me to master my mind, my emotions, and my money (with a little help from my dad)
- Iris Apfel : accidental icon : musings of a geriatric starlet
- Is rape a crime? : a memoir, an investigation, and a manifesto
- Is this anything?
- It takes two : our story
- It won't always be like this : a graphic memoir
- It's good to be the Gronk
- It's not a perfect world, but I'll take it : 50 life lessons for teens like me who are kind of (you know) autistic
- Jack in the box : or, how to goddamn direct : being the further adventures of a director : mentors followed, giants encountered, roads taken and not taken; with practical approaches to theatrical problems occasionally tossed in
- James Patterson by James Patterson : the stories of my life
- Jane Doe January : my twenty-year search for truth and justice
- Jell-O girls : a family history
- Jimmy Neurosis : a memoir
- Just a girl : a true story of World War II
- Just as I am : a memoir
- Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption
- Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption
- Just mercy : adapted for young adults : a true story of the fight for justice
- Just pursuit : a black prosecutor's fight for fairness
- Just the funny parts : ... and a few hard truths about sneaking into the Hollywood boys' club
- Keeping at it : the quest for sound money and good government
- Knitlandia : a knitter sees the world
- Lab girl
- Lady blue eyes : my life with Frank
- Landwhale : on turning insults into nicknames, why body image is hard, and how diets can kiss my ass
- Latino leaders speak : personal stories of struggle and triumph
- Laughing at my nightmare
- Leading matters : lessons from my journey
- Leap in : a woman, some waves, and the will to swim
- Lemons on Friday : trusting God through my greatest heartbreak
- Let her fly : a father's journey
- Let it bang : a young black man's reluctant odyssey into guns
- Let love have the last word : a memoir
- Let me finish : Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the power of in-your-face politics
- Let your mind run : a memoir of thinking my way to victory
- Life in code : a personal history of technology
- Life in motion : an unlikely ballerina
- Life itself : a memoir
- Life will be the death of me : ...and you, too!
- Life without a recipe : a memoir
- Life's work : from the trenches, a moral argument for choice
- Lights on, rats out : a memoir
- Like a Rolling Stone : a memoir
- Limits of the known
- Liner notes : on parents & children, exes & excess, death & decay & a few of my other favorite things
- Listening well : bringing stories of hope to life
- Little failure : [a memoir]
- Little panic : dispatches from an anxious life
- Little soldiers : an American boy, a Chinese school, and the global race to achieve
- Live wire : long-winded short stories
- Living like a runaway
- Local : a memoir
- Long walk to freedom
- Lost & found : a memoir
- Lou : fifty years of kicking dirt, playing hard, and winning big in the sweet spot of baseball
- Love and trouble : a midlife reckoning
- Love in the elephant tent : how running away with the circus brought me home
- Love is an ex-country : a memoir
- Love that boy : what two presidents, eight road trips, and my son taught me about a parent's expectations
- Love warrior : a memoir
- Love warrior : a memoir
- Loved and wanted : a memoir of choice, children, and womanhood
- 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
- Lust & wonder
- Ma and me : a memoir
- Madison Park : a place of hope
- Make trouble : standing up, speaking out, and finding the courage to lead
- Make up to breakup : my life in and out of Kiss
- Maker of patterns : an autobiography through letters
- Makeup man : from Rocky to Star trek : the amazing creations of Hollywood's Michael Westmore
- Making a scene
- Making my pitch : a woman's baseball odyssey
- Mama's boy : a story from our Americas
- Man's search for meaning
- Managing expectations : a memoir in essays
- Manic : a memoir
- Manifesto : on never giving up
- Many love : a memoir of polyamory and finding love(s)
- Mao's last dancer
- March forward, girl : from young warrior to Little Rock Nine
- Master of ceremonies : a memoir
- May cause love : an unexpected journey of enlightenment after abortion
- Maybe we'll have you back : the life of a perennial TV guest
- Me
- Mean baby : a memoir of growing up
- Mean dads for a better America : the generous rewards of an old-fashioned childhood
- Member of the family : my story of Charles Manson, life inside his cult, and the darkness that ended the sixties
- Memorial Drive : a daughter's memoir
- Memory's last breath : field notes on my dementia
- Mentors, muses & monsters : 30 writers on the people who changed their lives
- Minding the manor : the memoir of a 1930s English kitchen maid
- Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning
- Misfit faith : confessions of a drunk ex-pastor
- Missed translations : meeting the immigrant parents who raised me
- Morningstar : growing up with books
- Mother American night : my life in crazy times
- Mother noise
- Mothers of Sparta : a memoir in pieces
- Mud, sweat, and tears : the autobiography
- Mustache shenanigans : making Super Troopers and other adventures in comedy
- My American dream : a life of love, family, and food
- My days : happy and otherwise
- My fair junkie : a memoir of getting dirty and staying clean
- My family divided : one girl's journey of home, loss, and hope
- My fat dad : a memoir of food, love, and family, with recipes
- My father before me : a memoir
- My glory was I had such friends : a memoir
- My husband and my wives : a gay man's odyssey
- My life as Eva : the struggle is real
- My life, my love, my legacy
- My lovely wife in the psych ward : a memoir
- My mess is a bit of a life : adventures in anxiety