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- The line becomes a river
- The line becomes a river : dispatches from the border
- The longest kill : the story of Maverick 41, one of the world's greatest snipers
- The lost landscape : a writer's coming of age
- The making of a justice : reflections on my first 94 years
- The man they wanted me to be : toxic masculinity and a crisis of our own making
- The most beautiful : my life with Prince
- The motherhood affidavits : a memoir
- The narrow door : a memoir of friendship
- The negotiator : a memoir
- The neuroscientist who lost her mind : my tale of madness and recovery
- The new girl : a trans girl tells it like it is
- The only girl in the world : a memoir
- The operator : firing the shots that killed Osama bin Laden and my years as a SEAL Team warrior
- The outsider : my life in intrigue
- The perfect predator : a scientist's race to save her husband from a deadly superbug
- The pianist from Syria : a memoir
- The pigeon tunnel : stories from my life
- The pigeon tunnel : stories from my life
- The plant messiah : adventures in search of the world's rarest species
- The point of vanishing : a memoir of two years in solitude
- The price of illusion : a memoir
- The princess diarist
- The push : a climber's journey of endurance, risk, and going beyond limits
- The ravenmaster : my life with the ravens at the Tower of London
- The real doctor will see you shortly : a physician's first year
- The restless wave : good times, just causes, great fights and other appreciations
- The restless wave : good times, just causes, great fights, and other appreciations
- The restless wave : good times, just causes, great fights, and other appreciations
- The room where it happened : a White House memoir
- The runner : four years living and running in the wilderness
- The secrets of my life
- The seven good years : a memoir
- The shattered lens : a war photographer's true story of captivity and survival in Syria
- The shepherd's life : modern dispatches from an ancient landscape
- The smallest lights in the universe : a memoir
- The sound of silence : growing up hearing with deaf parents
- The strangers we became : lessons in exile from one of Iraq's last Jews
- The survivors : a story of war, inheritance, and healing
- The targeter : my life in the CIA, hunting terrorists and challenging the White House
- The traveling feast : on the road and at the table with my heroes
- The truths we hold : an American journey
- The truths we hold : an American journey
- The undocumented Americans
- The undoing project : a friendship that changed our minds
- The ungrateful refugee : what immigrants never tell you
- The unpunished vice : a life of reading
- The unwinding of the miracle : a memoir of life, death, and everything that comes after
- The wild boy : a memoir
- The wine lover's daughter : a memoir
- The word detective : searching for the meaning of it all at the Oxford English Dictionary : a memoir
- The world as it is : a memoir of the Obama White House
- The wrong end of the table : a mostly comic memoir of a Muslim Arab American woman just trying to fit in
- The wrong way to save your life : essays
- The year I was Peter the Great : 1956 - Khrushchev, Stalin's ghost, and a young American in Russia
- The yellow house
- There is no f*cking secret : letters from a badass bitch
- They left us everything : a memoir
- Thick : and other essays
- Things my son needs to know about the world
- Things my son needs to know about the world
- Things that make white people uncomfortable
- Thirst : 2600 miles to home
- This is just my face : try not to stare
- This is me : loving the person you are today
- This kid can fly : it's about ability (not disability)
- This stops today : Eric Garner's mother seeks justice after losing her son
- This will be my undoing : living at the intersection of black, female, and feminist in (white) America
- Threading my prayer rug : one woman's journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim
- Time pieces : a Dublin memoir
- Tippi : a memoir
- To Pixar and beyond : my unlikely journey with Steve Jobs to make entertainment history
- To be honest
- To the new owners : a Martha's Vineyard memoir
- To throw away unopened
- Toil & trouble
- Tomorrow will be different : love, loss, and the fight for trans equality
- Too busy to die
- Topgun : an American story
- Tough love : my story of the things worth fighting for
- Trans figured : my journey from boy to girl to woman to man
- Trans like me : conversations for all of us
- Traveling with ghosts : a memoir
- Trials of the earth : the true story of a pioneer woman
- Triggered : how the left thrives on hate and wants to silence us
- Troublemaker : surviving Hollywood and Scientology
- True stories from an unreliable eyewitness : a feminist coming of age
- Truth doesn't have a side : my alarming discovery about the danger of contact sports
- Two paths : America divided or united
- Unbecoming : a memoir
- Uncensored : my life and uncomfortable conversations at the intersection of black and white America
- Uncomfortable labels : my life as a gay autistic trans woman
- Under the same sky : from starvation in North Korea to salvation in America
- Underground in Berlin : a young woman's extraordinary tale of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany
- Unfaithful music & disappearing ink
- Unfaithful music & disappearing ink
- Unhinged : an insider's account of the Trump White House
- United : thoughts on finding common ground and advancing the common good
- Unqualified : love and relationship advice from a celebrity who just wants to help
- Unsinkable : from Russian orphan to paralympic swimming world champion
- Unstoppable : my life so far
- Until we are free : my fight for human rights in Iran
- Use the power you have : a brown woman's guide to politics and political change
- Vacationland : true stories from painful beaches
- Walking with Peety : the dog who saved my life
- Watching porn : and other confessions of an adult entertainment journalist
- We are all shipwrecks : a memoir
- We are not here to be bystanders : a memoir of love and resistance
- We are the luckiest : the surprising magic of a sober life
- We have always been here : a queer Muslim memoir
- We were rich and we didn't know it : a memoir of my Irish boyhood
- We're better than this : my fight for the future of our democracy
- We're going to need more wine : stories that are funny, complicated, and true
- Welcome to the jungle : facing bipolar without freaking out
- Well, that escalated quickly : memoirs and mistakes of an accidental activist
- What happened
- What is a girl worth? : my story of breaking the silence and exposing the truth about Larry Nassar and USA gymnastics
- What set me free : a true story of wrongful conviction, a dream deferred, and a man redeemed
- What the eyes don't see : a story of crisis, resistance, and hope in an American city
- What you have heard is true : a memoir of witness and resistance
- When I die, take my panties : turning your darkest moments into your greatest gifts
- When I spoke in tongues : a story of faith and its loss
- When breath becomes air
- When in French : love in a second language
- When they call you a terrorist : a Black Lives Matter memoir
- Where the light enters : building a family, discovering myself
- Where the past begins : a writer's memoir
- Where there's hope : healing, moving forward, and never giving up
- Wherever you go, there they are : stories about my family you might relate to
- Whiskey in a teacup : what growing up in the South taught me about life, love, and baking biscuits
- Whiskey tango foxtrot : strange days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Whistleblower at the CIA : a path of dissent
- White American youth : my descent into America's most violent hate movement -- and how I got out
- Why did I get a B? : and other mysteries we're discussing in the faculty lounge
- Why not me?
- Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
- Wild game : my mother, her lover, and me
- Wildflower
- Will's red coat : the story of one old dog who chose to live again
- Winter
- With all due respect : defending America with grit and grace
- Women's work : a reckoning with home and help
- Would you rather? : a memoir of growing up and coming out
- Wrestling with the devil : a prison memoir
- Year of no clutter : a memoir
- Year of the monkey
- Year of yes : [how to dance it out, stand in the sun and be your own person]
- Yes we (still) can : politics in the age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
- You all grow up and leave me : a memoir of teenage obsession
- You don't have to say you love me : a memoir
- You're never weird on the Internet (almost) : a memoir
- You've been so lucky already : a memoir
- 99 : stories of the game
- A Bookshop in Berlin : The rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A carnival of losses : notes nearing ninety
- A cave in the clouds : a young woman's escape from ISIS
- A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A fine romance
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A gift from darkness : how I escaped with my daughter from Boko Haram
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A letter from Paris : a true story of hidden art, lost romance, and family reclaimed
- A life in parts
- A life well played : my stories
- 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 man without a country
- 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 promised land
- A promised land
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A stone of hope : a memoir
- Above the line : my Wild oats adventure
- Accused : my fight for truth, justice and the strength to forgive
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Acid for the children : a memoir
- Admissions : life as a brain surgeon
- Adrenalized : life, Def Leppard, and beyond
- Afropessimism
- After the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search
- Against memoir : complaints, confessions & criticisms
- Air traffic : a memoir of ambition and manhood in America
- Al Franken, giant of the Senate
- All at sea : a memoir
- All over the place : adventures in travel, true love, and petty theft
- All that you leave behind : a memoir
- All things wise and wonderful
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Almost there
- Am I there yet? : the loop-de-loop, zigzagging journey to adulthood
- American fix : inside the opioid addiction crisis - and how to end it
- American wife : love, war, faith, and renewal
- Americanized : rebel without a green card
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An excellent choice : panic and joy on my solo path to motherhood
- An unlikely journey : waking up from my American dream
- Anchor & flares : a memoir of motherhood, hope, and service
- And now we have everything : on motherhood before I was ready
- And then all hell broke loose : two decades in the Middle East
- Ants among elephants : an untouchable family and the making of modern India
- Apocalypse child : a life in end times : a memoir
- Apple : skin to the core
- Apropos of nothing : autobiography
- Are you anybody? : a memoir
- Ask me about my uterus : a quest to make doctors believe in women's pain
- Back in the game : one gunman, countless heroes, and the fight for my life
- Bad call : a summer job on a New York ambulance
- Balcony on the moon : coming of age in Palestine
- Ballplayer
- Bang Bang : my life in ink
- Banned book club
- Bare Bones : I'm not lonely if you're reading this book
- Be fierce : stop harassment and take your power back
- Beautiful bodies : a memoir
- Because I come from a crazy family : the making of a psychiatrist / Edward M. Hallowell
- Because we are bad : OCD and a girl lost in thought
- Becoming
- Becoming
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming grandma : the joys and science of the new grandparenting
- Been so long : my life and music
- Being Jazz : my life as a (transgender) teen
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Believe me : my battle with the invisible disability of lyme disease
- 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)
- Bettyville : a memoir
- Between gods : a memoir
- Big bosses : a working girl's memoir of Jazz Age America
- Binge
- Black is the body : stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine
- Black like me
- Black man in a white coat : a doctor's reflections on race and medicine
- Bleaker house : chasing my novel to the end of the world
- Blowing the bloody doors off : and other lessons in life
- Blue sky kingdom : an epic family journey to the heart of the Himalayas
- Body leaping backward : memoir of a delinquent girlhood
- Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- Born both : an intersex life
- Born just right
- Born to run
- Born to run
- Born with teeth : a memoir
- Boy erased : a memoir
- 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
- Breaking cover : my secret life in the CIA and what it taught me about what's worth fighting for
- Brief candle in the dark : my life in science
- Brother & sister
- Brown, white, black : an American family at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and religion
- But enough about me : a memoir
- Call me American : a memoir
- Call me American : a memoir
- Call me American : the extraordinary true story of a young Somali immigrant
- Call sign chaos : learning to lead
- Can't help myself : lessons and confessions from a modern advice columnist
- Can't hurt me : master your mind and defy the odds
- Cancer looks good on you : Barclay's guide to cultivating style, sanity, silliness and self-love -- in sickness and in health
- Capital Gaines : smart things I learned doing stupid stuff
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Chancer : how one good boy saved another : a memoir
- Chapter and verse : New Order, Joy Division and me
- Chase darkness with me : how one true-crime writer started solving murders
- Chasing Hillary : ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
- 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
- Civilianized : a young veteran's memoir
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Clay, water, brick : finding inspiration from entrepreneurs who do the most with the least
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Color me creative : unlock your imagination
- Comedy sex god
- Comedy sex god
- Coming to my senses : the making of a counterculture cook
- Coming to my senses : the making of a counterculture cook
- Consent : a memoir of unwanted attention
- Cop under fire: : moving beyond hashtags of race, crime & politics for a better America
- Costly grace : an evangelical minister's rediscovery of faith, hope and love
- Counting backwards : a doctor's notes on anesthesia
- Cravings : how I conquered food : a memoir
- Crossing the line : a fearless team of brothers and the sport that changed their lives forever
- Cubed : the puzzle of us all
- Damages
- Dance me to the end : ten months and ten days with ALS
- Dancing with the octopus : a memoir
- Danger close : my epic journey as a combat helicopter pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Dapper Dan : made in Harlem : a memoir
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Daring to drive : a Saudi woman's awakening
- Dawn of the new everything : encounters with reality and virtual reality
- Dear America : notes of an undocumented citizen
- Dear America : notes of an undocumented citizen
- Dear Mr. You
- 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
- Deep Creek : finding hope in the high country
- Deep creek : finding hope in the high country
- Definitely Hispanic : growing up Latino and celebrating what unites us
- Democracy : stories from the long road to freedom
- Democrazy : a true story of weird politics, money, madness, and finger food
- Dimestore
- Dinner with Edward : the story of a remarkable friendship
- Dirty wars and polished silver : the life and times of a war correspondent turned ambassatrix
- Disaster Falls : a family story
- Disloyal, a memoir : the true story of the former personal attorney to the president of the United States
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- Doing time like a spy : how the CIA taught me to survive and thrive in prison
- Dolly Parton, songteller : my life in lyrics
- Don't stop believin'
- Don't you ever : my mother and her secret son
- Double cup love : on the trail of family, food, and broken hearts in China
- Down city : a daughter's story of love, memory, and murder
- Drawing blood : a memoir
- Drawing fire : a Pawnee, artist, and Thunderbird in World War II
- Dream big : a true story of courage and determination
- Dreamers
- Dry
- Dylan & me : 50 years of adventures
- Echo in Ramadi : the firsthand story of U.S. Marines in Iraq's deadliest city
- Educated : a memoir
- Educated : a memoir
- Educated : a memoir
- Elena vanishing : a memoir
- Enchanted air : two cultures, two wings : a memoir
- Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
- Every body yoga : let go of fear, get on the mat, love your body
- Every day is extra
- Every day is extra
- Every day is extra
- Every man a hero : a memoir of D-Day, the first wave at Omaha Beach, and a world at war
- Every tool's a hammer : life is what you make it
- Everything all at once : [how to unleash your inner nerd, tap into radical curiosity, and solve any problem]
- Everything happens for a reason : and other lies I've loved
- Everything you ever wanted : a memoir
- Facts and fears : hard truths from a life in intelligence
- Failure is an option : an attempted memoir
- Fairest : a memoir
- Fall down 7 times get up 8 : a young man's voice from the silence of autism
- Falling : a daughter, a father, and a journey back
- Fast into the night : a woman, her dogs, and their journey north on the Iditarod Trail
- Feast : true love in and out of the kitchen
- Field notes from an unintentional birder : a memoir
- Fierce : how competing for myself changed everything
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Gobi : a little dog with a very big heart
- Finding family : my search for roots and the secrets in my DNA
- Fit not healthy : how one woman's obsession to be the best nearly killed her
- Five presidents : my extraordinary journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford
- Flawed
- Flunk, start : reclaiming my decade lost in Scientology
- Following Fifi : my adventures among wild chimpanzees : lessons from our closest relatives
- Footnotes : how running makes us human
- For the love of money : a memoir
- Forever and ever, amen : a memoir of music, faith, and braving the storms of life
- Formation : a woman's memoir of stepping out of line
- Fortunate son : my life, my music
- Free refills : a doctor confronts his addiction
- From broken glass : my story of finding hope in Hitler's death camps to inspire a new generation
- From scratch : a memoir of love, Sicily, and finding home
- From the corner of the oval
- From the left : a life in the crossfire
- Full battle rattle : my story as the longest-serving special forces A-Team soldier in American history
- Funny girl : funniest. stories. ever.
- Furiously happy : a funny book about horrible things
- Furnishing eternity : a father, a son, a coffin, and a measure of life
- Getting real
- Ghost songs : a memoir
- Gilliamesque : a pre-posthumous memoir : TG's bio(degradable) autography : a singular person's first first person singular palin-dromic biograph : my me, me, me memoir
- Girl in the woods : a memoir
- Girl on the block : a true story of coming of age behind the counter
- Girl, wash your face : stop believing the lies about who you are so you can become who you were meant to be
- Give a girl a knife : a memoir
- Go ask Ali : half-baked advice (and free lemonade)
- Gone : a girl, a violin, a life unstrung
- Good boy : my life in seven dogs
- Good for the money : my fight to pay back America
- Good husbandry : a memoir : growing food, love, and family on Essex Farm
- Good husbandry : growing food, love, and family on Essex farm
- Good vibrations : my life as a Beach Boy
- Goodbye, sweet girl : a story of domestic violence and survival
- Grace notes
- Grace period : my ordination to the ordinary
- Gratitude
- Gray day : my undercover mission to expose America's first cyber spy
- Greek to me : adventures of the comma queen
- Greenlights
- Growing up Fisher : musings, memories, and misadventures
- Half broke : a memoir
- Happily Ali after : and other fairly true tales
- Have dog, will travel : a poet's journey
- Head case : my brain and other wonders
- Healing children : a surgeon's stories from the frontiers of pediatric medicine
- Heart berries : a memoir
- Heartland : a memoir of working hard and being broke in the richest country on Earth
- Heavy : an American memoir
- Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
- Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
- Hold on, but don't hold still : hope and humor from my seriously flawed life
- Hold still : a memoir with photographs
- Hollywood Park : a memoir
- Home work : a memoir of my Hollywood years
- Hourglass : time, memory, marriage
- Housebroken : admissions of an untidy life
- How did I get here? : making peace with the road not taken, a memoir
- 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 build a boat : a father, his daughter, and the unsailed sea
- How to change your mind : what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence
- How to treat people : a nurse's notes
- How to write an autobiographical novel : essays
- How we fight for our lives : a memoir
- Howard Stern comes again
- Hunger : a memoir of (my) body
- Hunger makes me a modern girl : a memoir
- Hurricane street
- I am Brian Wilson : a memoir
- I am C-3PO : the inside story
- I am Malala : the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban
- I am these truths : a memoir of identity, justice, and living between worlds
- I am, I am, I am : seventeen brushes with death
- I can't date Jesus : love, sex, family, race, and other reasons I've put my faith in Beyoncé
- I hate everyone, except you
- I hate myselfie : a collection of essays
- I have something to say : mastering the art of public speaking in an age of disconnection
- I have something to tell you : a memoir
- I have the right to : a high school survivor's story of sexual assault, justice, and hope
- I might regret this : essays, drawings, vulnerabilities, and other stuff
- I miss you when I blink : essays
- I should have honor : a memoir of hope and pride in Pakistan
- I used to have cancer : how I found my own way back to health
- I'm Keith Hernandez : a memoir
- I'm just a person
- I'm special : and other lies we tell ourselves
- I'm still here : Black dignity in a world made for whiteness
- I'm your huckleberry
- I.M. : a memoir
- If at birth you don't succeed : my adventures with disaster and destiny
- Imagine wanting only this
- Imperfect courage : live a life of purpose by leaving comfort and going scared
- Implosion : a memoir of an architect's daughter
- In other words
- In pieces
- In pieces
- In pieces : a memoir
- In real life : my journey to a pixelated world
- In shock : my journey from death to recovery and the redemptive power of hope
- In the country of women : a memoir
- In the name of Gucci : a memoir
- Inferno : a doctor's Ebola story
- Infinite hope : a black artist's journey from World War II to peace
- Infinite hope : how wrongful conviction, solitary confinement, and 12 years on death row failed to kill my soul
- Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love
- Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love
- Initiated : memoir of a witch
- Inside out : a memoir
- Inside out : a memoir
- Inside the five-sided box : lessons from a lifetime of leadership in the Pentagon
- Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me
- Into the planet : my life as a cave diver
- 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)
- Iron ambition : my life with Cus D'Amato
- Is rape a crime? : a memoir, an investigation, and a manifesto
- It's a long story : my life
- It's good to be Gronk
- It's not okay
- It's not yet dark
- Jackie's girl : my life with the Kennedy family
- Jackie, a boy, and a dog : a warm cold war story
- Jell-O girls : a family history
- JoJo's guide to the sweet life : #peaceouthaterz
- Just getting started
- Just show up : and other enduring values from baseball's Iron Man
- Justice failed : how "legal ethics" kept me in prison for 26 years
- Keep moving : and other tips and truths about aging
- Kickflip boys : a memoir of freedom, rebellion, and the chaos of fatherhood
- Killing it : an education
- Kingpin : prisoner of the war on drugs
- Know my name : a memoir
- L'appart : the delights and disasters of making my Paris home
- Lab Girl
- Lab girl
- Lacks self-control : true stories I waited until my parents died to tell
- Lady in waiting : my extraordinary life in the shadow of the crown
- Last things : a graphic memoir of loss and love
- Late migrations : a natural history of love and loss
- Leap in : a woman, some waves, and the will to swim
- Lessons : my path to a meaningful life
- Let her fly : a father's journey
- Let it bang : a young black man's reluctant odyssey into guns
- Let them eat pancakes : one man's personal revolution in the City of Light
- Liar : a memoir
- Life in code : a personal history of technology
- Life will be the death of me : and you, too!
- Life's work : from the trenches, a moral argument for choice
- Lights on, rats out : a memoir
- Limits of the known
- Little panic : dispatches from an anxious life
- Logical family : a memoir
- Long way home
- Look at you now : my journey from shame to strength
- Lot six : a memoir
- Love thy neighbor : a Muslim doctor's struggle for home in rural America
- Love warrior : a memoir
- Love, Africa : a memoir of romance, love, and survival
- Love, loss, and what we ate
- Lucky bastard : my life, my dad, and the things I'm not allowed to say on TV
- Lust & wonder
- M train
- Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive
- Make trouble
- Make trouble : standing up, speaking out, and finding the courage to lead
- Mama's boy : a story from our Americas