While I love biographies, there is something special about a memoir that gives you an amazing insight into one aspect of the authors’ lives.
Series
- The Prison Doctor: Women Inside by Dr. Amanda Brown (The Prison Doctor #2)
- First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung (Daughter of Cambodia #1)
- Lucky Child by Loung Ung (Daughter of Cambodia #2)
Standalones – Novels
- The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman
- Born Free by Joy Adamson
- Confessions of a Male Nurse by Michael Alexander
- Confessions of a School Nurse by Michael Alexander
- Radio Okapi Kindu by Jennifer Bakody
- Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World by Elspeth Beard
- Six Legs Walking by Elizabeth Bernays
- Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker
- Rolling with the Punchlines: A Memoir by Urzila Carlson
- Get Well Soon! by Kristy Chambers
- It’s Not You, Geography, It’s Me by Kristy Chambers
- The Gender Games by Juno Dawson
- Shotgun Angels by Jay Demarcus
- Survival: The Inspirational Story of the Thredbo Disaster’s Sole Survivor by Stuart Diver
- Beyond the Wand by Tom Felton
- My Caesarean edited by Amanda Fields
- Zlata’s Diary by Zlata Filipovic
- Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Gap by Benjamin Gilmour
- 50 Years at Gombe by Jane Goodall
- My Life with the Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall
- Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham
- Marley and Me by John Grogan
- The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
- The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris
- Blackout by Sarah Hepola
- Survival Lessons by Alice Hoffman
- Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
- A Gift from Darkness by Patience Ibrahim & Andrea C. Hoffman
- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
- This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
- Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay
- Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis
- On Writing by Stephen King
- Pirate Hunters by Robert Kurson
- The Answer to the Riddle is Me by David Stuart MacLean
- Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
- Twelve Patients by Dr. Eric Manheimer, MD
- We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee
- Know My Name by Chanel Miller
- The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
- Laughing All the Way to the Mosque by Zarqa Nawaz
- The Fish Ladder by Katharine Norbury
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Rosa Parks: My Story by Rosa Parks
- Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
- This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Philipps
- Anna: A Teenager on the Run by Anna Podgajecki
- Cleaving by Julie Powell
- Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
- Madly, Deeply by Alan Rickman
- A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter
- Gogo Mama by Sally Sara
- Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
- Wild by Cheryl Strayed
- The Southern Education of a Jersey Girl by Jaime Primak Sullivan
- Up All Day by Rebecca Weller
- Bad Ground by Tony Wright, Todd Russell and Brant Webb
- Things I Wish I’d Known edited by Victoria Young
- I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai