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Educated

Educated

A Memoir
by Tara Westover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of scho...
Biography & Autobiography
Random House • 353 pages • 2018-02-20
Know My Name

Know My Name

A Memoir
by Chanel Miller
Universally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel Miller's breathtak...
Biography & Autobiography
Penguin • 370 pages • 2019-09-24
Masterclass: Write a Bestseller

Masterclass: Write a Bestseller

How to plan, write and publish a bestselling work of fiction
by Jacq Burns
LEARN HOW TO WRITE A BOOK WHICH STANDS OUT FROM THE CROWD. There is no precise formula for writing a bestseller, but there are secrets, skills and techniques that will dramatically...
Language Arts & Disciplines
Teach Yourself • 260 pages • 2014-10-31
The Odd Woman and the City

The Odd Woman and the City

A Memoir
by Vivian Gornick
"Funny and elegiac and truth-dealing. . . . Ms. Gornick gets into the fat of feeling. She is as good a writer about friendship as we have." — New York Times A memoir of self-discov...
Biography & Autobiography
Macmillan + ORM • 125 pages • 2015-05-19
The Memoir and the Memoirist

The Memoir and the Memoirist

Reading and Writing Personal Narrative
by Thomas Larson
The memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top o...
Biography & Autobiography
Ohio University Press • 227 pages • 2007
Hope

Hope

A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland
by Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, Mary Jordan, Kevin Sullivan
The #1 New York Times Bestseller A bestselling book that inspired the nation: “We have written here about terrible things that we never wanted to think about again . . . Now we wan...
Biography & Autobiography
Penguin Books • 338 pages • 2016-04-26
Book of Lives

Book of Lives

A Memoir of Sorts
by Margaret Atwood
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE WASHINGTON POST • How does the gr...
Biography & Autobiography
Random House • 1025 pages • 2025-11-25
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die

1,000 Books to Read Before You Die

A Life-Changing List
by James Mustich
“The ultimate literary bucket list.” —THE WASHINGTON POST Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that’s as compulsively...
Reference
Workman Publishing • 961 pages • 2018-10-02
Still Woman Enough

Still Woman Enough

A Memoir
by Loretta Lynn, Patsi Bale Cox
In this riveting follow-up to her #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, Coal Miner's Daughter, Loretta Lynn continues her captivating story about triumph over the odds. Loretta Lyn...
Biography & Autobiography
Hyperion • 2002-04-03
Jeff Herman’s Guide to Book Publishers, Editors & Literary Agents, 29th Edition

Jeff Herman’s Guide to Book Publishers, Editors & Literary Agents, 29th Edition

Who They Are, What They Want, How to Win Them Over
by Jeff Herman
If you want to get published, read this book! Jeff Herman’s Guide unmasks nonsense, clears confusion, and unlocks secret doorways to success for new and veteran writers! This highl...
Reference
New World Library • 434 pages • 2023-01-03
All That Is Bitter and Sweet

All That Is Bitter and Sweet

A Memoir
by Ashley Judd, Maryanne Vollers
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From humanitarian and actress Ashley Judd comes “an important and moving memoir. . . . Every reader will be inspired” (Bill Clinton). “Enlightening . . ...
Biography & Autobiography
Ballantine Books • 434 pages • 2011-04-05
West with the Night

West with the Night

by Beryl Markham
The classic memoir of Africa, aviation, and adventure—the inspiration for Paula McLain’s Circling the Sun and “a bloody wonderful book” (Ernest Hemingway). Beryl Markham’s life sto...
Biography & Autobiography
Open Road Media • 310 pages • 2012-08-14
Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Memoirs of a Literary Forger
by Lee Israel
Now a major motion picture starring Melissa McCarthy—Lee Israel’s hilarious and shocking memoir of the astonishing caper she carried on for almost two years when she forged and sol...
Biography & Autobiography
Simon & Schuster • 2008-08-05
Seldom Disappointed

Seldom Disappointed

A Memoir
by Tony Hillerman
When Tony Hillerman looks back at seventy-six years spent getting from hardtimes farm boy to bestselling author, he sees lots of evidence that Providence was poking him along. For ...
History
Harper Collins • 354 pages • 2013-05-21
How to Open a Business Writing and Publishing Memoirs, Gift Books, Or Success Stories for Clients

How to Open a Business Writing and Publishing Memoirs, Gift Books, Or Success Stories for Clients

Make Hand-Crafted Personalized History
by Anne Hart
Learn what questions to ask and how to interview people for the significant moments in their life stories, and then write, publish, and bind by hand exquisitely-crafted personal gi...
Business & Economics
iUniverse • 273 pages • 2005-12
Thirteen Senses

Thirteen Senses

A Memoir
by Victor Villasenor
A daring memoir of love, magic, adventure, and miracles, Victor Villaseñor's Thirteen Senses continues the exhilarating family saga that began in the widely acclaimed bestseller Ra...
Biography & Autobiography
Rayo • 528 pages • 2001-08-21
Somewhere Towards the End

Somewhere Towards the End

A Memoir
by Diana Athill
Winner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography and a New York Times bestseller: a prize-winning, critically acclaimed memoir on life and aging —“An honest j...
Biography & Autobiography
W. W. Norton & Company • 191 pages • 2009-12-07

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