Biography & Memoir

12 Years a Slave

Solomon Northup • Unknown Publisher

12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup belongs on this shelf for readers looking for memoir or biography with a clearer point of view.

A Diary from Dixie

Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut • Harvard Univ Pr • 2003

A Diary from Dixie by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut fits readers who are after a life on the page, not just background facts.

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

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 by Anne Frank works best for readers who want memoir or bi

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank • Unknown Publisher

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is one of the cleaner fits here for a stronger entry point into personal narrative.

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

Shattered Love: A Memoir by Richard Chamberlain belongs on this shelf for readers looking for a personal account that brings context as well as story.

Greene on Capri: A Memoir

Shirley Hazzard • Farrar, Straus and Giroux • 2001

Try Greene on Capri: A Memoir by Shirley Hazzard when you want a stronger entry point into personal narrative.

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

Stephen King • Unknown Publisher

On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (10th Anniversary Edition) (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) by Stephen King makes sense when you are in the mood for a life story that offers more than just dates and milest

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Stephen King • Unknown Publisher

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King lands well when the goal is a stronger entry point into personal narrative.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue)

Stephen King • Unknown Publisher

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue) by Stephen King is an easy title to try when you want a life on the page, not just background facts.

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Phil Knight • Unknown Publisher

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight gives this shelf another solid option for a life story that offers more than just dates and milestones.

Mozart and the Whale: An Asperger's Love Story

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

Try Mozart and the Whale: An Asperger's Love Story by Johnny Dodd ; Jerry Newport ; Mary Newport when you want a stronger entry point into personal narrative.

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Loung Ung • Harpercollins • 2006

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung is one of the cleaner fits here for a stronger entry point into personal narrative.

Chronicles : Volume One (Chronicles)

Bob Dylan • Simon & Schuster • 2005

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan. “I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now

Chronicles

Bob Dylan • Simon & Schuster • 2004

Chronicles by Bob Dylan is an easy title to try when you want a life story with perspective, voice, and lived detail.

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

Wild Heart: A Life: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris by Suzanne Rodriguez belongs on this shelf for readers looking for a life on the page, not just background facts.

Firebird

Mark Doty • Harpercollins • 2000

Firebird by Mark Doty gives this shelf another solid option for a nonfiction read shaped by voice rather than dry summary.

Golden Boy

Tim Kawakami • Andrews McMeel Pub • 2000

Golden Boy by Tim Kawakami works best for readers who want a life story that offers more than just dates and milestones.

My Life and The Paradise Garage

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

Try My Life and The Paradise Garage by Gabriel Rotello ; Brent Nicholson Earle when you want a nonfiction read shaped by voice rather than dry summary.

My Place

Sally Morgan • Intl Specialized Book Service Inc • 2000

My Place by Sally Morgan adds a credible option for readers after a life story with perspective, voice, and lived detail.

On Writing

Stephen King • Simon & Schuster • 2000

Try On Writing by Stephen King when you want a life on the page, not just background facts.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson • Sterling Pub Co Inc • 2000

Poetry for Young People: Robert Louis Stevenson (Poetry For Young People) by Robert Louis Stevenson fits readers who are after a personal account that brings context as well as story.

The Mute's Soliloquy

Pramoedya Ananta Toer • Penguin Group USA • 2000

The Mute's Soliloquy by Pramoedya Ananta Toer lands well when the goal is a life story with perspective, voice, and lived detail.

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

Isabelle De Charriere • Univ of Nebraska Pr • 2000

There Are No Letters Like Yours: The Correspondence of Isabelle De Charriere and Constant D'Hermenches by Isabelle De Charriere is a strong place to start if you want a life story that offers more than just dates and mil

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

Try Whose Face Is in the Mirror?: The Story of One Woman's Journey from the Nightmare of Domestic Abuse to True Healing by Dianne Schwartz when you want a personal account that brings context as well as story.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Lori Gottlieb • Unknown Publisher

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb makes sense when you are in the mood for memoir or biography that feels grounded in experience.

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

Lori Gottlieb • Unknown Publisher

Try Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb when you want a life on the page, not just background facts.

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

Michael Korda • HarperCollins • 2006

Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 by Michael Korda is one of the cleaner fits here for memoir or biography with a clearer point of view.

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Jeannette Walls • Simon & Schuster • 2006

In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric, and severely mis

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

Marya Hornbacher • Harpercollins • 2006

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (P.S.) by Marya Hornbacher adds a credible option for readers after a stronger entry point into personal narrative.

Autobiography of a Face

Lucy Grealy • Harpercollins • 2003

Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy is an easy title to try when you want a life story with perspective, voice, and lived detail.

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

Rudolf Hoss • Sterling Pub Co Inc • 2000

Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess. Translated by Constantine FitzGibbon. Introduction by Primo Levi by Rudolf Hoss lands well when the goal is a life on the page, not just background facts.

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

"Mark Twain's autobiography is a classic of American letters, to be ranked with the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Adams.... It has the marks of greatness in it--style, scope, imagination, laughter, trage

Night

Elie Wiesel • Farrar Straus & Giroux • 2006

Night by Elie Wiesel gives this shelf another solid option for a life story with perspective, voice, and lived detail.

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

Temple Grandin • Random House Inc • 2006

Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin gives this shelf another solid option for a life story with perspective, voice, and lived detail.

Truth & Beauty: A Friendship

Ann Patchett • Harpercollins • 2005

Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett is a strong place to start if you want a stronger entry point into personal narrative.

Me and My Shadow: Living with Multiple Sclerosis

Carole MacKie ; Sue Brattle • Trafalgar Square • 2003

Me and My Shadow: Living with Multiple Sclerosis by Carole MacKie ; Sue Brattle makes sense when you are in the mood for a life story with perspective, voice, and lived detail.

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

Steel My Soldiers' Hearts : The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of U.S. Army, 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, Vietnam by David H. Hackworth ; Eilhys England is a strong place to start if you want memoir or biography th

A True Story of Love and Survival in the Holocaust by

Kathleen Janger ; Michael Korenblit • Charles River Pr • 2001

A True Story of Love and Survival in the Holocaust by by Kathleen Janger ; Michael Korenblit is one of the cleaner fits here for a life story with perspective, voice, and lived detail.

Papillon

Henri Charriere • Harpercollins • 2001

Papillon by Henri Charriere is one of the cleaner fits here for a personal account that brings context as well as story.

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

Denise Chong • Scribner • 2001

The Girl in the Picture: The Remarkable Story of Vietnam's Most Famous Casualty by Denise Chong is one of the cleaner fits here for a stronger entry point into personal narrative.

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

Robert Marion • Harpercollins • 2001

The Intern Blues: The Timeless Classic About the Making of a Doctor by Robert Marion makes sense when you are in the mood for memoir or biography with a clearer point of view.

A Child Called It

Dave Pelzer • Orion • 2000

A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer is one of the cleaner fits here for a life story with perspective, voice, and lived detail.

Cush

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

Cush by Samuel H. Sprott, Louis R. Smith, Andrew Quist is one of the cleaner fits here for a personal account that brings context as well as story.

Hide : A Child's View of the Holocaust

Naomi Samson • Univ of Nebraska Pr • 2000

Hide : A Child's View of the Holocaust by Naomi Samson is worth a look if what you want most is a personal account that brings context as well as story.

His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina

Danielle Steel • Delta • 2000

His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina by Danielle Steel adds a credible option for readers after memoir or biography that feels grounded in experience.

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

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,) by C. Knight Aldrich ; Francis Trowbridge Sherman lands well when the goal is memoi

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

Israel J. Rosengarten • Syracuse Univ Pr • 2000

SURVIVAL The story of a sixteen-year-old Jewish boy 1987 by Israel J. Rosengarten works best for readers who want a life story with perspective, voice, and lived detail.

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

THE GIRL IN THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF KIM PHUC, THE PHOTOGRAPH, AND THE VIETNAM WAR by Denise Chong works best for readers who want a life story with perspective, voice, and lived detail.

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

Denise Chong • Simon And Schuster • 2000

The Girl in the Picture, The Remarkable Story of Vietnam's Most Famous Casualty by Denise Chong lands well when the goal is a life story with perspective, voice, and lived detail.

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

Denise Chong • Simon & Schuster Australia • 2000

The Girl in the Picture: The Remarkable Story of Vietnam's Most Famous Casualty by Denise Chong makes sense when you are in the mood for a life story with perspective, voice, and lived detail.

Will to Freedom: A Perilous Journey Through Fascism and Communism

Egon Balas • Syracuse University Press • 2000

Will to Freedom: A Perilous Journey Through Fascism and Communism by Egon Balas lands well when the goal is a life story that offers more than just dates and milestones.

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

Marcus Luttrell • Unknown Publisher

Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell is a strong place to start if you want a stronger entry point into personal narrative.

Man's Search For Meaning: Classic Editions

Viktor E Frankl • Unknown Publisher

Viktor E. Frankl blends a harrowing Holocaust memoir with the development of logotherapy, arguing that the search for meaning — not pleasure or power — is the central human drive and a source of resilience.

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl • Unknown Publisher

Viennese psychiatrist tells his grim experiences in a German concentration camp which led him to logotherapy, an existential method of psychiatry.

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

Viktor E. Frankl • Unknown Publisher

Man's Search for Meaning (OLD EDITION/OUT OF PRINT) by Viktor E. Frankl gives this shelf another solid option for memoir or biography that feels grounded in experience.

Man's Search for Meaning, Gift Edition

Viktor E. Frankl • Unknown Publisher

Man's Search for Meaning, Gift Edition by Viktor E. Frankl is an easy title to try when you want memoir or biography with a clearer point of view.

THE ORTON DIARIES

Joe Orton • Methuen Publishing Ltd • 2007

THE ORTON DIARIES by Joe Orton is one of the cleaner fits here for a life story that offers more than just dates and milestones.

The Reagan Diaries

Ronald Reagan • Harpercollins • 2007

The Reagan Diaries by Ronald Reagan lands well when the goal is a stronger entry point into personal narrative.

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

This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay is worth a look if what you want most is a nonfiction read shaped by voice rather than dry summary.

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

Adam Kay • Unknown Publisher

This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Medical Resident by Adam Kay adds a credible option for readers after a life story with perspective, voice, and lived detail.

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

Adam Kay • Unknown Publisher

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay is an easy title to try when you want a life story with perspective, voice, and lived detail.

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

Reagan's Path to Victory: The Shaping of Ronald Reagan's Vision: Selected Writings by Ronald Reagan ; Martin Anderson ; Kiron K. Skinner ; Annelise Anderson is one of the cleaner fits here for a life on the page, not jus

Selected Letters of Eugene O'Neill

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

Selected Letters of Eugene O'Neill by Travis Bogard ; Eugene O'Neill ; Jackson R. Bryer fits readers who are after a personal account that brings context as well as story.

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

Try THE PAPERS OF GENERAL NATHANAEL GREENE 7 APRIL - 30 SEPTEMBER 1782 VOL XI by Richard K. Showman ; Nathanael Greene ; Dennis Michael Conrad ; Rhode Island Historical Society when you want memoir or biography that feel

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

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

The Harold Letters 1928-1943: The Story of an American Intellectual by Clement Greenberg ; Janice Van Horne is worth a look if what you want most is a life on the page, not just background facts.

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

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) by Ann D. Gordon ; Elizabeth Cady Stan