David SedarisWelcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its proverbial ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of...

Jean HarrisIn her stunning New York Times bestseller, Jean Harris details her journey from headmistress to prison inmate. On March l0, l980, her life changed dramatically when the bullets intended...

Jennifer Finney BoylanThe exuberant memoir of a man named James who became a woman named Jenny.She’s Not There is the story of a person changing genders, the story of a...

Jimmy Wayne* NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER* Imagine yourself a thirteen-year-old hundreds of miles away from home, in a strange city, and your mom leaves you at a bus station...

Kimberly Rae MillerA stunning memoir about a childhood spent growing up in a family of extreme hoarders and hiding squalor behind the veneer of a perfect family. Kim Miller is...

Julie PowellNearing thirty and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell resolved to reclaim her life by cooking, in the span of a single year, every one of the...

Barbara KingsolverAuthor Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they'd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow...

Avigail Myzlik   Incarcerated in a Bombay jail built for 800, Ronen is crammed in with 3500 prisoners, many waiting years just to stand trial, without knowing when their ordeal...

Ezra Yakhin ELNAKAM is the "nom de guerre" given to Ezra Yakhin in the LEHI. He was born in Jaffa in 1928 but his early childhood was spent in Yemin...

Gone to Ground: One woman's extraordinary account of survival in the heart of Nazi GermanyMarie Jalowicz SimonBerlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All...

Stephen King"Long live the King," hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King's On Writing.Part memoir, part masterclass by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb...

Roddy DoyleNovelist Roddy Doyle, with his legendary skill in illuminating ordinary experience, here shares the story of his parents' lives, largely in their own words. Born in 1923 and 1925,...