These authors don’t just recount what happened in their memoirs; they sit with hard questions and identify the turning points that made them who they are. Sometimes they make us laugh, sometimes the stories hit hard. Either way, there's often a lesson for us all, even in these deeply personal accounts.
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Easy Beauty
A Memoir
Mother Mary Comes to Me
The Manicurist's Daughter
A Memoir
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Quitter
A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery
The Hollow Half
A Memoir of Bodies and Borders
Let's Pretend This Never Happened
A Mostly True Memoir
Light and Thread
Translated by Maya West, E Yaewon, and Paige Aniyah Morris
I Am, I Am, I Am
Seventeen Brushes with Death
Year of the Tiger
An Activist's Life
The Home Place
Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
None of the Above
Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary
Mainline Mama
A Memoir
Becoming Little Shell
A Landless Indian's Journey Home
Feeding Ghosts
A Graphic Memoir
Simply More
A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me
A True (as Told to Me) Story
A Thousand Ways to Die
The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America
Educated
A Memoir
How to Say Babylon
A Memoir
Things in Nature Merely Grow
The Waterbearers
A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters
Hijab Butch Blues
A Memoir
What My Bones Know
A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Stay with Me, I Want to Be Alone
A Chaplain's Search for Meaning
Trans
A Memoir
The Blue Jay's Dance
A Memoir of Early Motherhood
Next of Kin
A Memoir
Nonviolent
A Memoir of Resistance, Agitation, and Love
Stay True
A Memoir
Between Two Kingdoms
A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
Leaving Home
A Memoir in Full Colour
I'll Tell You When I'm Home
A Memoir
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies
A Lyric Essay
Reasons to Stay Alive
Carry
A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
Another Word for Love
A Memoir
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
| # | Title | Subtitle | Author(s) | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ma and Me | A Memoir | Putsata Reang | 2023 | |
| 2 | Easy Beauty | A Memoir | Chloé Cooper Jones | 2022 | |
| 3 | Mother Mary Comes to Me | Arundhati Roy | 2025 | ||
| 4 | The Manicurist's Daughter | A Memoir | Susan Lieu | 2025 | |
| 5 | A Mind Spread Out on the Ground | Alicia Elliott | 2020 | ||
| 6 | Quitter | A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery | Erica C Barnett | 2021 | |
| 7 | The Hollow Half | A Memoir of Bodies and Borders | Sarah Aziza | 2025 | |
| 8 | Let's Pretend This Never Happened | A Mostly True Memoir | Jenny Lawson | 2013 | |
| 9 | Light and Thread | Han Kang | 2026 | ||
| 10 | I Am, I Am, I Am | Seventeen Brushes with Death | Maggie O'Farrell | 2019 | |
| 11 | Year of the Tiger | An Activist's Life | Alice Wong | 2022 | |
| 12 | The Home Place | Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature | J Drew Lanham | 2017 | |
| 13 | None of the Above | Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary | Travis Alabanza | 2023 | |
| 14 | Mainline Mama | A Memoir | Keeonna Harris | 2025 | |
| 15 | Becoming Little Shell | A Landless Indian's Journey Home | Chris La Tray | 2025 | |
| 16 | Feeding Ghosts | A Graphic Memoir | Tessa Hulls | 2024 | |
| 17 | Simply More | A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much | Cynthia Erivo | 2025 | |
| 18 | Nobody Will Tell You This But Me | A True (as Told to Me) Story | Bess Kalb | 2021 | |
| 19 | A Thousand Ways to Die | The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America | Trymaine Lee | 2025 | |
| 20 | Educated | A Memoir | Tara Westover | 2022 | |
| 21 | How to Say Babylon | A Memoir | Safiya Sinclair | 2024 | |
| 22 | Things in Nature Merely Grow | Yiyun Li | 2025 | ||
| 23 | The Waterbearers | A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters | Sasha Bonét | 2025 | |
| 24 | Hijab Butch Blues | A Memoir | Lamya H | 2024 | |
| 25 | What My Bones Know | A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma | Stephanie Foo | 2023 | |
| 26 | Stay with Me, I Want to Be Alone | A Chaplain's Search for Meaning | Keith W Wakefield | 2025 | |
| 27 | Trans | A Memoir | Juliet Jacques | 2016 | |
| 28 | The Blue Jay's Dance | A Memoir of Early Motherhood | Louise Erdrich | 2010 | |
| 29 | Next of Kin | A Memoir | Gabrielle Hamilton | 2025 | |
| 30 | Nonviolent | A Memoir of Resistance, Agitation, and Love | James, Jr Lawson and Emily Yellin | 2026 | |
| 31 | Stay True | A Memoir | Hua Hsu | 2022 | |
| 32 | Between Two Kingdoms | A Memoir of a Life Interrupted | Suleika Jaouad | 2021 | |
| 33 | Leaving Home | A Memoir in Full Colour | Mark Haddon | 2026 | |
| 34 | I'll Tell You When I'm Home | A Memoir | Hala Alyan | 2025 | |
| 35 | No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies | A Lyric Essay | Julian Aguon | 2022 | |
| 36 | Reasons to Stay Alive | Matt Haig | 2016 | ||
| 37 | Carry | A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land | Toni Jensen | 2021 | |
| 38 | Another Word for Love | A Memoir | Carvell Wallace | 2025 | |
| 39 | Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? | Jeanette Winterson | 2013 |