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Abelard, Pierre, The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Adams, Henry, The Education of Henry Adams
Albom, Mitch, Tuesdays with Morrie
Ambrose, Stephen E., Undaunted Courage
Anderson, Arn, Arn Anderson 4 Ever
Anderson, Christopher, Jack and Jackie
Angelou, Maya, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Baker, Russell, Growing Up
Ball, Lucille, Love, Lucy
Barkley, Charles, Outrageous! The Fine Life and Flagrant Good Times of Basketball’s Irresistible Force
Bate, Walter Jackson, Samuel Johnson
Bauby, Jean-Dominique, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Bedford, Sybille, Aldous Huxley: A Biography
Berg, A. Scott, Lindbergh
Bernardin, Joseph Cardinal, The Gift of Peace: Personal Reflections
Blackman, Ann, Seasons of Her Life
Blake, Robert, Disraeli
Boswell, James, Life of Samuel Johnson
Brent, Stuart, The Seven Stairs
Brodie, Fawn, Thomas Jefferson
Brown, Tom, The Tracker: The Story of Tom Brown, Jr.
Broyard, Anatole, Kafka Was the Rage
Burch, Jennings Michael, They Cage the Animals at Night
Bush, Barbara, Barbara Bush: A Memoir
Caine, Michael, What’s It All About?
Callow, Simon, Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu
Caro, Robert A., The Power Broker
Carpenter, Humphrey, The Inklings
Carr, Caleb, The Devil Soldier
Carroll, Jim
Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971-1973
The Basketball Diaries
Carson, Ben, Gifted Hands
Carter, Dan, The Politics of Rage
Chernow, Ron, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Christie, Agatha, An Autobiography
Clapesattle, Helen, The Doctors Mayo
Conway, Jill Ker
The Road from Coorain
True North: A Memoir
Conway, Jill Ker (ed.)
Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women
Written by Herself Vol. II: Women’s Memoirs from Britain, Africa, Asia, and the
United States
Crow Dog, Mary, Lakota Woman
Darroch, Sandra J., Ottoline
Davidson, Harold, Edward Borein, Cowboy Artist
Davis, Miles, Miles: The Autobiography
DeMille, Agnes, Reprieve
DiBiase, Ted, Every Man Has His Price
Dickens, Monica, One Pair of Hands
Donald, David Herbert, Lincoln
Douglass, Frederick, My Bondage and My Freedom
Dubner, Stephen, Turbulent Souls
Durrell, Gerald, My Family and Other Animals
Eiseley, Loren, All the Strange Hours
Ellis, Joseph J., American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
Ellmann, Richard, James Joyce
Fermi, Laura, Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi
Feynman, Richard, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Fisher, M.F.K., Among Friends (and other titles)
Fox, Mem, Dear Mem Fox …
Frank, Anne, The Diary of a Young Girl
Franklin, Benjamin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Friedman, Myra, Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin
Fuller, Elizabeth L., Me and Jezebel: When Bette Davis Came for Dinner...
Gandhi, Mahatma, Gandhi’s Autobiography
Gilbert, Martin, Churchill
Gilbreth, Frank, Jr., and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Cheaper by the Dozen
Gleick, James, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
Goodwin, Doris Kearns, Wait Till Next Year
Graham, Katharine, Personal History
Grant, Ulysses S., Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
Grealy, Lucy, Autobiography of a Face
Green, Tim, A Man and His Mother
Greene, Bob and Michael Jordan, Hang Time: Days and Dreams with Michael Jordan
Gretzky, Wayne, Gretzky: An Autobiography
Gunther, John, Death Be Not Proud
Guralnick, Peter, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
Haley, Alex, Roots
Hamilton, Mary, Trials of the Earth
Hamper, Ben, Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
Hanff, Helene, Q’s Legacy
Hart, Moss, Act One
Helfgott, Gillian, Love You to Bits and Pieces
Hickam, Homer H., Rocket Boys
Hopkins, Jerry and Daniel Sugarman, No One Here Gets Out Alive
Hornbacher, Marya, Wasted
Huxley, Elspeth, The Flame Trees of Thika
Iooss, Walter, Rare Air: Michael on Michael
Isaacson, Walter, Kissinger: A Biography
Jackson, Bo, Bo Knows Bo
Jackson, Phil, Sacred Hoops
Jacobus, de Voragine, The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints
Joravsky, Ben, Hoop Dreams
Jordan, Michael, For the Love of the Game: My Story
Kazin, Alfred, New York Jew
Kedar, Karyn, God Whispers
Keller, Helen, The Story of My Life
Kennedy, John F., Profiles in Courage
Kenney, Lucy, Alexander the Great or the Learned Camel
Klein, Gerda Weissmann, All but My Life
Kovic, Ron, Born on the Fourth of July
Kuroyanagi, Tetsuko, Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window
Kuusisto, Stephen, Planet of the Blind
La Motta, Jake, Raging Bull
Lahr, John, Notes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr
Lax, Eric, Woody Allen: A Biography
Lee, Spike, The Best Seat in the House: A Basketball Memoir
Levi, Primo, Survival in Auschwitz
Lewis, John, Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
Lindbergh, Charles A., "We"
Livesay, Harold, American Made
Lund, Doris, Eric
Mahmoody, Betty, Not Without My Daughter
Manchester, William R.
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill
Mantle, Mickey
The Mick
The Mickey Mantle Story
Martin, John B., Adlai Stevenson of Illinois
Massie, Robert, Nicholas and Alexandra
McBride, James, The Color of Water
McCall, Nathan, Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
McCourt, Frank, Angela’s Ashes
McCullough, David
Brave Companions
Mornings on Horseback
Truman
Mead, Margaret, Blackberry Winter
Mehta, Ved, Up at Oxford
Menchu, Rigoberta, I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
Merton, Thomas
Entering the Silence
The Seven Storey Mountain
Morgan, Judith, Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel: A Biography
Naifeh, Steven and Gregory White Smith, Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
Neruda, Pablo, Memoirs
Ngor, Haing, A Cambodian Odyssey
Peck, M. Scott, The Road Less Traveled
Peel, Robert
Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Authority
Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery
Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Trial
Pelzer, David J., A Child Called "It"
Quennell, Peter, Casanova in London
Reid, Alastair, Whereabouts: Notes on Being a Foreigner
Remstein, Henna, Barbara Walters
Ringelblum, Emanuel, Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto
Ritter, Lawrence, The Glory of Their Times
Roberts, Cokie, We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters
Robinson, Jackie, Jackie Robinson: My Own Story
Rodman, Dennis, Bad as I Wanna Be
Rose, Phyllis, Parallel Lives
Rosselli, John, The Life of Mozart
Roth, David, Crazy from the Heat
Roth, Philip, Patrimony: A True Story
Rousseau, Jean- Jacques, The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Roy, Travis, Eleven Seconds
Royko, Mike, Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
Salt, Henry Stephens, Life of Henry David Thoreau
Sandburg, Carl
Abraham Lincoln; The Prairie Years
Abraham Lincoln; The War Years
Sasson, Jean P., Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
Sedaris, David, Naked
Selzer, Richard, Raising the Dead
Sharon, Ariel, Warrior: The Autobiography of Ariel Sharon
Sheean, Vincent, Personal History
Sheehan, Neil, A Bright Shining Lie
Simon, Paul, Freedom’s Champion
Singletary, Mike, Singletary on Singletary
Smith, Gene, Lee and Grant
Smith, Robert Paul, Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing.
Sobel, Dava, Longitude
Steel, Danielle, His Bright Light
Stein, Gertrude, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Stern, Howard, Private Parts
Stone, Irving, Clarence Darrow for the Defense
Suberman, Stella, The Jew Store
Suskind, Ron, A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
Teresa, Mother, A Simple Path
Thurber, James, My Life and Hard Times
Unterecker, John E., Voyager: A Life of Hart Crane
Vaill, Amanda, Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, a Lost Generation Love Story
Valens, Evans G., The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont
West, Cameron, First Person Plural
White, Ryan and Ann Marie Cunningham, Ryan White: My Own Story
White, Theodore H., In Search of History: A Personal Adventure
White, Timothy, Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley
Wiesel, Elie, Night
Williams, Gregory Howard, Life on the Color Line
Wolf, Rich, I Remember Harry Carey
Wolff, Tobias, This Boy’s Life
Wright, Christopher Norton, No Hero, I Confess
Wright, Richard, Black Boy
X, Malcolm, with Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Yogananda, Paramhansa, Autobiography of a Yogi
Young, Carrie, Nothing to Do but Stay
Zehme, Bill, The Way You Wear Your Hat
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