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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Robert Fulghum
AIR
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard P. Feynman
SYJ
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
William Manchester
TLL
Adventures in the Screen Trade
William Goldman
AIT
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
Joyce Johnson
MCA
My Last Sigh
Luis Buñuel
MLS
Running in the Family
Michael Ondaatje
RIT
Growing Up
Russell Baker
GU
Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation
Philip Norman
STB
Out of Egypt: A Memoir
André Aciman
OOE
I, Me, Mine
George Harrison
IMM
The Emperor
Ryszard Kapuściński
TE
This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind
Ivan Doig
THO
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
Harry Crews
ACT
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
Humphrey Carpenter
JTA
I Dared to Call Him Father: The Miraculous Story of a Muslim Woman's Encounter with God
Bilquis Sheikh
IDT
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
TPO
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
Flora Rheta Schreiber
STC
A Circle of Quiet
Madeleine L'Engle
ACO
The Apostle : A Life of Paul
John Charles Pollock
TA:
Nicholas and Alexandra
Robert K. Massie
NAA
The Forgotten Soldier
Guy Sajer
TFS
Tortured for Christ
Richard Wurmbrand
TFC
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X
TAO
Never Cry Wolf
Farley Mowat
NCW
Harpo Speaks!
Harpo Marx
HS
Night
Elie Wiesel
N
Prime of Life
Simone de Beauvoir
POL
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing
ESI
Groucho and Me
Groucho Marx
GAM
Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot
SOT
To the Golden Shore: The Life of Adoniram Judson
Courtney Anderson
TTG
Letters to Milena
Franz Kafka
LTM
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist ― A Memoir about the Worker Movement and Spiritual Conversion
Dorothy Day
TLL
Cross Creek
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
CC
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí
TSL
My Early Life, 1874-1904
Winston S. Churchill
MEL
Saint Thomas Aquinas
G.K. Chesterton
STA
Storm of Steel
Ernst Jünger
SOS
The Autobiography of George Müller
George Müller
TAO
Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux
Thérèse of Lisieux
SOA
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
Charles Darwin
TAO
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini
TAO
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
William Styron
DVA
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
T.E. Lawrence
SPO
I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan
Alan Partridge
IPW
First Step 2 Forever
Justin Bieber
FS2
Taylor Swift: The Whole Story
Unknown
TST
Living Sacrifice: Willing to Be Whittled as an Arrow
Unknown
LSW
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom
TWM
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed
WFL
Unbroken: An Extraordinary True Story of Courage and Survival
Laura Hillenbrand
UAE
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
TIL
Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
AA
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
John Grogan
MAM
A Child Called "It"
Dave Pelzer
ACC
Running with Scissors
Augusten Burroughs
RWS
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
IKW
Yes Please
Amy Poehler
YP
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Greg Mortenson
TCO
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai
IAM
The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch
TLL
John Adams
David McCullough
JA
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
WBB
Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen
GI
A Million Little Pieces
James Frey
AML
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie ten Boom
THP
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King
OWA
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Daniel James Brown
TBI
Orange Is the New Black
Piper Kerman
OIT
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain
KCA
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living
Julie Powell
JAJ
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama
DFM
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
Chelsea Handler
AYT
A Long Way Gone
Ishmael Beah
ALW
Just Kids
Patti Smith
JK
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Marjane Satrapi
PTS
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
W
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Laura Hillenbrand
SAA
Sh*t My Dad Says
Justin Halpern
SMD
Elon Musk: Inventing the Future
Ashlee Vance
EMI
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Barack Obama
TAO
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Susannah Cahalan
BOF
The Story of My Life
Helen Keller
TSO
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin
TOR
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah
BAC
A Beautiful Mind
Sylvia Nasar
ABM
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
TYO
The Complete Maus
Art Spiegelman
TCM
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi
RLI
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
Chelsea Handler
MHL
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
AMF
All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot
ACG
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Sebastian Junger
TPS
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
James McBride
TCO
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
Chris Kyle
AST
Lucky
Alice Sebold
L
The Complete Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
TCP
Seriously... I'm Kidding
Ellen DeGeneres
SIK
A Stolen Life
Jaycee Dugard
ASL
How to Be a Woman
Caitlin Moran
HTB
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson
BFA
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Jenny Lawson
FHA
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
Bill O'Reilly
KLT
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
EHL
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon Winchester
TPA
Cleopatra: A Life
Stacy Schiff
CAL
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Robert K. Massie
CTG
Dry
Augusten Burroughs
D
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
NOT
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang
WST
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
Michael Lewis
TBS
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
TYA
Life
Keith Richards
L
90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life
Don Piper
9MI
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
WIT
My Life in France
Julia Child
MLI
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Steve Martin
BSU
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer
TGW
Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I
Truman
David McCullough
T
Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
AH
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Marcus Luttrell
LST
Zeitoun
Dave Eggers
Z
All Things Bright and Beautiful
James Herriot
ATB
Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
Ron Hall
SKO
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
Tracy Kidder
MBM
Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
LP
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh
TLO
Open
Andre Agassi
O
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann
TLC
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
Władysław Szpilman
TPT
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Rob Lowe
SIO
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
John Steinbeck
TWC
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Alison Weir
TSW
The Lost Boy
Dave Pelzer
TLB
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
Tucker Max
IHT
Black Like Me
John Howard Griffin
BLM
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
Marjane Satrapi
P2T
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
Bill Bryson
IAS
A Year in Provence
Peter Mayle
AYI
Scar Tissue
Anthony Kiedis
ST
Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
LWT
The Liars' Club
Mary Karr
TLC
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
TAO
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson
TLA
The Wright Brothers
David McCullough
TWB
'Tis A Memoir
Frank McCourt
'AM
Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
David Sedaris
BFS
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Blaine Harden
EFC
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Kay Redfield Jamison
AUM
Papillon
Henri Charrière
P
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Roald Dahl
BTO
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Vicki Myron
DTS
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Dava Sobel
LTT
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
Eben Alexander
POH
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Tony Hsieh
DHA
Wishful Drinking
Carrie Fisher
WD
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
DAO
H is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
HIF
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
Adventures in the Screen Trade
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
My Last Sigh
Running in the Family
Growing Up
Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation
Out of Egypt: A Memoir
I, Me, Mine
The Emperor
This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
I Dared to Call Him Father: The Miraculous Story of a Muslim Woman's Encounter with God
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
A Circle of Quiet
The Apostle : A Life of Paul
Nicholas and Alexandra
The Forgotten Soldier
Tortured for Christ
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Never Cry Wolf
Harpo Speaks!
Night
Prime of Life
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Groucho and Me
Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
To the Golden Shore: The Life of Adoniram Judson
Letters to Milena
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist ― A Memoir about the Worker Movement and Spiritual Conversion
Cross Creek
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
My Early Life, 1874-1904
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Storm of Steel
The Autobiography of George Müller
Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan
First Step 2 Forever
Taylor Swift: The Whole Story
Living Sacrifice: Willing to Be Whittled as an Arrow
Tuesdays with Morrie
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Unbroken: An Extraordinary True Story of Courage and Survival
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Angela's Ashes
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
A Child Called "It"
Running with Scissors
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Yes Please
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
The Last Lecture
John Adams
When Breath Becomes Air
Girl, Interrupted
A Million Little Pieces
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Orange Is the New Black
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
A Long Way Gone
Just Kids
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Walden
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Sh*t My Dad Says
Elon Musk: Inventing the Future
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
The Story of My Life
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
A Beautiful Mind
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Complete Maus
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
A Moveable Feast
All Creatures Great and Small
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
Lucky
The Complete Persepolis
Seriously... I'm Kidding
A Stolen Life
How to Be a Woman
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
Einstein: His Life and Universe
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Cleopatra: A Life
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Dry
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
Twelve Years a Slave
Life
90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
My Life in France
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Infidel
Truman
Alexander Hamilton
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Zeitoun
All Things Bright and Beautiful
Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
Liar's Poker
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Open
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
The Lost Boy
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
Black Like Me
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
A Year in Provence
Scar Tissue
Long Walk to Freedom
The Liars' Club
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
The Wright Brothers
'Tis A Memoir
Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Papillon
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Wishful Drinking
Down and Out in Paris and London
H is for Hawk