Biography & Memoir

12 Years a Slave

Solomon Northup • Unknown Publisher

Solomon Northup, a free Black man kidnapped and sold into slavery, survives years of brutal labor and abuse while holding onto hope and documenting the people and places he encounters in this firsthand account.

A Diary from Dixie

Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut • Harvard Univ Pr • 2003

Mary Chesnut's detailed Civil War journal captures daily life, politics, and personal reflections from a Southern woman of the elite, offering rich social observation and intimate commentary across 19th-century southern

The Diary of a Young Girl. The Definitive Edition. Edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler. Translated by Susan Massotty. With an introduction by Elie Wiesel

Anne Frank • PENGUIN BOOKS LTD • 2000

Anne Frank's definitive diary chronicles her adolescence in hiding from 1942–1944, mixing intimate coming-of-age reflections with acute observations of wartime life and moral complexity.

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank • Unknown Publisher

Anne Frank's wartime diary records daily life, fears, and hopes while hiding from Nazi persecution; her lucid voice and keen observations transform private notes into a universal portrait of adolescence under siege.

My Invented Country: A Memoir

Isabel Allende ; Margaret Sayers Peden • Perennial • 2004

My Invented Country traces Allende’s Chilean roots, exile, family history, and the writer’s imaginative reconstruction of home across history and myth in vivid, personal vignettes.

Shattered Love: A Memoir

Richard Chamberlain • Regan Books • 2004

Richard Chamberlain reflects on his rise to stardom, personal relationships, and the tensions between public image and private truth in this intimate 256-page memoir.

Greene on Capri: A Memoir

Shirley Hazzard • Farrar, Straus and Giroux • 2001

A 160-page memoir by Shirley Hazzard about her encounters with writer Graham Greene on Capri and the island's literary milieu; concise, observant essays that mix personal anecdote with cultural portraiture.

On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (10th Anniversary Edition) (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Stephen King • Unknown Publisher

A blend of autobiographical anecdotes and concrete craft advice, this anniversary edition preserves King's candid voice as he explains tools, habits, and the writer's mindset that shaped his work.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Stephen King • Unknown Publisher

Part memoir, part master class, this book traces King's journey as a writer while offering concrete guidance on plot, character, dialogue, and the habits that sustain a writing life.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue)

Stephen King • Unknown Publisher

Blending personal anecdotes with concrete advice, this reissue presents King's candid lessons on craft, discipline, and the habits that sustain a writing life. It’s both a writer’s handbook and a window into the author’s

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Phil Knight • Unknown Publisher

Phil Knight recounts the chaotic, often exhilarating early years of Nike, mixing business detail with personal reflection as he navigates debt, loyal partners, and breakthrough moments that built a brand.

Mozart and the Whale: An Asperger's Love Story

Johnny Dodd ; Jerry Newport ; Mary Newport • Simon & Schuster • 2007

Two men with Asperger’s syndrome—Jerry Newport and Johnny Dodd—share their parallel lives and eventual romance, blending memoir, practical insight, and moments of tenderness across 272 pages.

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Loung Ung • Harpercollins • 2006

Loung Ung's memoir traces her childhood in Phnom Penh, the loss and displacement under the Khmer Rouge, and her lifelong scars and resilience as she rebuilds identity amid trauma and exile.

Chronicles : Volume One (Chronicles)

Bob Dylan • Simon & Schuster • 2005

Bob Dylan's Chronicles: Volume One is a partial, impressionistic memoir that mixes studio stories, road anecdotes, and reflective fragments to illuminate his creative life without offering a straight chronology.

Chronicles

Bob Dylan • Simon & Schuster • 2004

Part memoir, part fragmentary reflection, Chronicles collects Dylan's vivid recollections of music, touring, friends, and creative restlessness across three decades in a voice that's elliptical and immediate.

Mi Pais Inventado: Un Paseo Nostalgico Por Chile

Isabel Allende • Harpercollins • 2004

A 224-page blend of memoir, travelogue, and cultural portrait in which Allende revisits Chilean landscapes, history, and family memories with warmth and reflective detail.

My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile

Isabel Allende ; Margaret Sayers Peden • Harpercollins • 2003

Isabel Allende blends memoir, cultural reflection, and vivid anecdote to evoke Chile’s landscapes, people, and political past in a warmly nostalgic voice across 224 pages.

Wild Heart: A Life: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris

Suzanne Rodriguez • Harpercollins • 2003

Suzanne Rodriguez traces the life of American expatriate Natalie Clifford Barney—writer, salonnière, and unapologetic lesbian figure—placing her passions and provocations within the decadent, bohemian world of early-20th

Firebird

Mark Doty • Harpercollins • 2000

Mark Doty's Firebird traces the aftermath of his partner's death, blending memoir, lyric observation, and cultural reflection as the author navigates mourning, desire, and the work of remembering.

Golden Boy

Tim Kawakami • Andrews McMeel Pub • 2000

Tim Kawakami's Golden Boy is a tightly reported, character-driven narrative that follows its subject through successes, setbacks, and the personal costs of public attention. It blends reporting and profile to reveal how

My Life and The Paradise Garage

Gabriel Rotello ; Brent Nicholson Earle • Pub Distributing Co • 2000

Gabriel Rotello and Brent Nicholson Earle trace the rise of the Paradise Garage through firsthand recollections, cultural context, and music history, exploring its impact on LGBTQ community, club culture, and modern danc

My Place

Sally Morgan • Intl Specialized Book Service Inc • 2000

Sally Morgan's My Place blends personal memory, family stories, and cultural history as she uncovers her Aboriginal heritage and the forces that sought to silence it, offering a vivid portrait of survival and reclamation

On Writing

Stephen King • Simon & Schuster • 2000

Part memoir, part writing guide, Stephen King blends personal anecdotes with concrete advice on craft, process, and the habits that sustain a life of writing.

Poetry for Young People: Robert Louis Stevenson (Poetry For Young People)

Robert Louis Stevenson • Sterling Pub Co Inc • 2000

A 48-page illustrated introduction to Stevenson's lyrical, playful and reflective poems chosen for children, balancing familiar favorites with short verse suited to early readers and read-aloud moments.

The Mute's Soliloquy

Pramoedya Ananta Toer • Penguin Group USA • 2000

Pramoedya Ananta Toer's The Mute's Soliloquy follows a reflective, restrained narrator who pieces together personal and national history from confinement and marginalization, blending intimate testimony with political wi

There Are No Letters Like Yours: The Correspondence of Isabelle De Charriere and Constant D'Hermenches

Isabelle De Charriere • Univ of Nebraska Pr • 2000

This edited correspondence collects the letters between Isabelle de Charrière and Constant d'Hermenches, tracing their intellectual friendship, emotional intimacies, and the cultural world they inhabited in the late 18th

Whose Face Is in the Mirror?: The Story of One Woman's Journey from the Nightmare of Domestic Abuse to True Healing

Dianne Schwartz • Hay House Inc • 2000

Dianne Schwartz chronicles her escape from domestic abuse and the slow work of healing across practical steps, emotional honesty, and spiritual reflection, offering a candid roadmap for reclaiming self-worth.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Lori Gottlieb • Unknown Publisher

Memoir and pop-psychology blend as therapist Lori Gottlieb recounts her own therapy journey while exploring the lives of her patients, offering clear, compassionate lessons on vulnerability and change.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

Lori Gottlieb • Unknown Publisher

Therapist and columnist Lori Gottlieb blends memoir, case stories, and clinical insight as she follows her patients’ crises and confronts her own when she becomes a therapy client. Warm, witty, and instructive, the book

Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956

Michael Korda • HarperCollins • 2006

Michael Korda mixes personal recollection with concise historical narrative to chronicle the causes, events, and aftermath of Hungary's 1956 uprising, offering both eyewitness detail and accessible context in just over 2

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Jeannette Walls • Simon & Schuster • 2006

In The Glass Castle, Walls recounts life with her brilliant, alcoholic father and free-spirited mother, from desert towns and Welch, West Virginia, to her escape to New York City. Clear-eyed and unsentimental, she transf

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (P.S.)

Marya Hornbacher • Harpercollins • 2006

Marya Hornbacher recounts her descent into anorexia and bulimia and the chaotic, often harrowing struggles of recovery with candid, visceral prose that refuses easy answers.

Autobiography of a Face

Lucy Grealy • Harpercollins • 2003

Lucy Grealy chronicles her childhood cancer, facial disfigurement, and search for acceptance with brutal honesty and poetic clarity in this acclaimed memoir of resilience and selfhood.

Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess. Translated by Constantine FitzGibbon. Introduction by Primo Levi

Rudolf Hoss • Sterling Pub Co Inc • 2000

Höss recounts his life and role in creating and operating Auschwitz, describing administrative, logistical, and ideological aspects of the camp while reflecting on duty, obedience, and guilt. FitzGibbon's translation and

Strike and Hold: A Memoir of the 82nd Airborne in World War II

T. Moffatt Burriss • Potomac Books Inc • 2000

T. Moffatt Burriss recounts his jump into Sicily, fierce fighting in Italy and Normandy, and the brutal close-quarters combat that forged brothers in arms. Plainspoken, vivid episodes put you in the mud, the hedgerows, a

The Autobiography of Mark Twain

Mark Twain • Harpercollins • 2000

A richly candid autobiography by Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), collecting his reminiscences, essays, and observations across decades in a voice that ranges from comic to sharply opinionated.

Night

Elie Wiesel • Farrar Straus & Giroux • 2006

Elie Wiesel’s Night recounts his adolescent experiences in Nazi concentration camps, tracing the loss of faith, family, and innocence in stark, lyrical prose. It’s a short but searing testimony about memory and moral wit

Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism

Temple Grandin • Random House Inc • 2006

Temple Grandin blends memoir and insight to show how her visual, detail-focused mind navigates autism, animal behavior, and design, offering practical perspectives for professionals and general readers alike.

Truth & Beauty: A Friendship

Ann Patchett • Harpercollins • 2005

Ann Patchett recounts her decades-long friendship with fellow novelist Lucy Grealy, exploring devotion, rivalry, caregiving, and the ways love can both sustain and consume two artists’ lives.

Me and My Shadow: Living with Multiple Sclerosis

Carole MacKie ; Sue Brattle • Trafalgar Square • 2003

Two friends share personal accounts and practical strategies for living with multiple sclerosis, blending honest memoir with usable advice and emotional insight across diagnosis, treatment, and daily adaptations.

Steel My Soldiers' Hearts : The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of U.S. Army, 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, Vietnam

David H. Hackworth ; Eilhys England • Simon & Schuster • 2003

Veteran David H. Hackworth chronicles the 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry’s dramatic turnaround in Vietnam, blending combat reportage, leadership analysis, and personal testimony across operations, training, and morale rebu

A True Story of Love and Survival in the Holocaust by

Kathleen Janger ; Michael Korenblit • Charles River Pr • 2001

Kathleen Janger and Michael Korenblit recount their experiences of persecution, separation, and resilience during World War II, blending personal memory with historical context to trace how love sustained them through un

Papillon

Henri Charriere • Harpercollins • 2001

Henri Charrière's Papillon chronicles his years in French penal colonies and repeated escape attempts, blending gritty detail with a stubborn will to survive and reclaim freedom.

The Girl in the Picture: The Remarkable Story of Vietnam's Most Famous Casualty

Denise Chong • Scribner • 2001

Denise Chong traces the life of the girl immortalized in a famous Vietnam War photograph, combining investigative reporting, interviews, and historical context to reveal the person and the politics behind the picture.

The Intern Blues: The Timeless Classic About the Making of a Doctor

Robert Marion • Harpercollins • 2001

Robert Marion draws on his own intern year to chronicle the triumphs, exhaustion, moral dilemmas, and camaraderie of hospital life in a full-length, humanizing account of medical training.

A Child Called It

Dave Pelzer • Orion • 2000

Dave Pelzer recounts his childhood as one of the most severely abused children in California, tracing the physical and emotional cruelty he endured and how he ultimately survived and rebuilt his life.

Cush

Samuel H. Sprott, Louis R. Smith, Andrew Quist • Livingston Press (AL) • 2000

A concise, richly illustrated exploration of the Cushitic world—its peoples, languages, and historical arc—blending scholarship and travel-minded narrative across 173 pages.

Hide : A Child's View of the Holocaust

Naomi Samson • Univ of Nebraska Pr • 2000

Naomi Samson's Hide recounts life in hiding during the Holocaust from a child's perspective, blending recollection and reflection to reveal how survival reshaped identity and family bonds.

His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina

Danielle Steel • Delta • 2000

Danielle Steel chronicles the life of Nick Traina—son of famous parents, a bright but troubled young man—tracing his passions, struggles with mental illness, and the love that shaped him in a concise, readable biography.

Quest for a Star: The Civil War Letters and Diaries of Colonel Francis T. Sherman of the 88th Illinois (Voices of the Civil War Series,)

C. Knight Aldrich ; Francis Trowbridge Sherman • Univ of Tennessee Pr • 2000

A 213-page edited collection of Colonel Francis T. Sherman's wartime letters and diary entries, telling of battles, logistics, and soldierly life from the 88th Illinois across the conflict's key moments.

SURVIVAL The story of a sixteen-year-old Jewish boy 1987

Israel J. Rosengarten • Syracuse Univ Pr • 2000

This 218‑page narrative follows a Jewish teenager navigating perilous choices and social pressures; clear prose and measured pacing foreground survival of body and self rather than sensationalism.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

T.E Lawrence • PENGUIN BOOKS LTD • 2000

Part adventure, part introspection, Seven Pillars of Wisdom recounts Lawrence’s leadership in the Arab Revolt and the desert campaigns against the Ottoman Empire, blending tactical detail with lyrical reflections on iden

THE GIRL IN THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF KIM PHUC, THE PHOTOGRAPH, AND THE VIETNAM WAR

Denise Chong • Penguin Group USA • 2000

Denise Chong follows Kim Phuc from the moment her napalm-burned image shocked the world to her long path toward healing, faith, and activism, blending biography, history, and photojournalism in clear, compassionate prose

The Girl in the Picture, The Remarkable Story of Vietnam's Most Famous Casualty

Denise Chong • Simon And Schuster • 2000

Denise Chong traces the life of the young woman captured in Eddie Adams’s famous Saigon photograph, weaving archival research, interviews, and historical context to reveal who she was and what her image came to mean.

The Girl in the Picture: The Remarkable Story of Vietnam's Most Famous Casualty

Denise Chong • Simon & Schuster Australia • 2000

Denise Chong traces the life of the girl in Nick Ut’s Vietnam photograph, blending investigative reporting, survivor testimony, and historical context to reveal the woman behind the image and the costs of fame in wartime

Will to Freedom: A Perilous Journey Through Fascism and Communism

Egon Balas • Syracuse University Press • 2000

Egon Balas's Will to Freedom chronicles a personal journey through oppression, ideological conflict, and survival under fascist and communist regimes, blending memoir and historical insight into one compelling testimony.

Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10

Marcus Luttrell • Unknown Publisher

Marcus Luttrell recounts Operation Redwing and the firefight that left him the lone survivor, blending battlefield detail with reflections on comradeship and sacrifice.

Man's Search For Meaning: Classic Editions

Viktor E Frankl • Unknown Publisher

Viktor E. Frankl recounts his years in Nazi camps and distills logotherapy, arguing our deepest drive is to find meaning, not pleasure or power. Memoir and psychology meet in a bracing, humane guide to resilience.

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl • Unknown Publisher

Viktor E. Frankl recounts life in Nazi camps and develops logotherapy, arguing that meaning—even amid extreme suffering—gives people the will to live and acts as a compass for choices and values.

Man's Search for Meaning (OLD EDITION/OUT OF PRINT)

Viktor E. Frankl • Unknown Publisher

Viktor E. Frankl reflects on life in Nazi concentration camps and presents logotherapy’s core idea: meaning can be found even in the harshest circumstances, shaping how we live and choose today.

Man's Search for Meaning, Gift Edition

Viktor E. Frankl • Unknown Publisher

Viktor E. Frankl's classic explores how meaning—even in the darkest circumstances—can sustain life and shape choices, blending wartime memoir with psychological insight into human resilience.

THE ORTON DIARIES

Joe Orton • Methuen Publishing Ltd • 2007

Joe Orton's collected diaries offer a textured, day-by-day view of his life, friendships, and artistic struggles, pairing immediacy with mordant humor across private moments and public ambitions.

The Reagan Diaries

Ronald Reagan • Harpercollins • 2007

A full, unvarnished compilation of President Ronald Reagan’s diary entries covering private reflections, policy moments, and the rhythms of presidential life over decades of public service.

Sailing Alone Around the World (Voyages)

Joshua Slocum • Sterling Pub Co Inc • 2004

Joshua Slocum's classic voyage traces his 1890s solo sail around the globe aboard the Spray, blending nautical detail, resourcefulness, and wry observations of ports and peoples he met along the way.

This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

Adam Kay • Unknown Publisher

Adam Kay's eyewitness diary captures the chaos, dark humor, and human cost of working in medicine, blending short, sharp anecdotes with clear-eyed empathy for patients and staff.

This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Medical Resident

Adam Kay • Unknown Publisher

Composed from candid diary entries, this memoir traces the gruelling, absurd and moving realities of medical residency with dark humour and raw honesty, revealing what training actually feels like day to day.

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

Adam Kay • Unknown Publisher

Adam Kay's diary slices through hospital life with sharp humor and wrenching candor, charting the pressures, absurdities, and costs of being a junior doctor while revealing the human stories behind clinical routines.

Reagan's Path to Victory: The Shaping of Ronald Reagan's Vision: Selected Writings

Ronald Reagan ; Martin Anderson ; Kiron K. Skinner ; Annelise Anderson • Simon & Schuster • 2004

This 560-page collection traces Reagan's intellectual development and public messaging, edited with context by Martin Anderson, Kiron K. Skinner, and Annelise Anderson to show how ideas became policy.

Selected Letters of Eugene O'Neill

Travis Bogard ; Eugene O'Neill ; Jackson R. Bryer • Hal Leonard Corp • 2004

This curated collection gathers Eugene O'Neill's correspondence, revealing his evolving voice, theatrical ambitions, and personal trials across decades. Edited by Travis Bogard and Jackson R. Bryer, it illuminates the mi

THE PAPERS OF GENERAL NATHANAEL GREENE 7 APRIL - 30 SEPTEMBER 1782 VOL XI

Richard K. Showman ; Nathanael Greene ; Dennis Michael Conrad ; Rhode Island Historical Society • Univ of North Carolina Pr • 2000

This edited volume presents Greene’s letters, orders, and related documents for 7 April–30 September 1782, carefully annotated and contextualized by editors and historical society contributors for scholars and serious re

The Harold Letters 1928-1943: The Story of an American Intellectual

Clement Greenberg ; Janice Van Horne • Perseus Books Group • 2000

Collected letters from Clement Greenberg to 'Harold' across 1928–1943 trace intellectual development, artistic debates, and personal life, offering a close-up on modernist thought before Greenberg's fame.

The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Vol. II: Against an Aristocracy of Sex, 1866-1873 (Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony)

Ann D. Gordon ; Elizabeth Cady Stanton ; Susan B. Anthony • Rutgers Univ Pr • 2000

This volume collects letters, speeches, articles, and organizational records from 1866–1873, tracing strategy, debate, and daily work behind the early suffrage movement led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.