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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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