Autobiographies
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Autobiographies
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- 18 and life on Skid Row
- 18 holes with Bing : golf, life, and lessons from Dad
- 20th century boy : notebooks of the seventies
- 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
- 8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story from immigrant to the medal of honor
- 9 rules of engagement : a military brat's guide to life and success
- 99 : stories of the game
- A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
- A bad reaction : a memoir
- A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal
- A body of work : dancing to the edge and back
- A country between : making a home where both sides of Jerusalem collide
- A crime in the family
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A dream called home : a memoir
- A fine romance
- A fine romance
- A fine romance : a memoir
- A full life : reflections at ninety
- A girl walks into a book : what the Brontës taught me about life, love, and women's work
- A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
- A house full of daughters : a memoir of seven generations
- A life everlasting : the extraordinary story of one boy's gift to medical science
- A life in parts
- A lifetime of labor : the autobiography of Alice H. Cook
- A line in the river : Khartoum, city of memory
- A little thing called life : on loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and songs in between
- A man for all markets : from Las Vegas to Wall Street, how I beat the dealer and the market
- A mind unraveled : a memoir
- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy
- A new model : what confidence, beauty, and power really look like
- A new model : what confidence, beauty, and power really look like
- A normal life : a memoir
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- A personal odyssey
- A river in darkness : one man's escape from North Korea
- A sick life : TLC 'n me : stories from on and off the stage
- A small town love story : Colonial Beach, Virginia
- A stone of hope : a memoir
- A survivor's journey : from victim to advocate
- A tiger among us : a story of valor in Vietnam's A Shau Valley
- A time for action : empowering the faithful to reclaim America
- A work in progress : a memoir
- A world erased : a grandson's search for his family's Holocaust secrets
- A year without mom
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Above the line : my Wild Oats adventure
- Admissions : life as a brain surgeon
- Admissions : life as a brain surgeon
- Africa solo : my world record race from Cairo to Cape Town
- After Andy : adventures in Warhol land
- After the dance : my life with Marvin Gaye
- After the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search
- After the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search : a memoir
- Against the grain : bombthrowing in the fine American tradition of political cartooning
- Air traffic : a memoir of ambition and manhood in America
- Aire encantado : dos culturas, dos alas: una memoria
- Al Franken Giant of the Senate
- Alive, alive oh! and other things that matter
- All at sea : a memoir
- All day : a year of love and survival teaching incarcerated kids at Rikers Island
- All over the place : adventures in travel, true love, and petty theft
- All who go do not return : a memoir
- All you can ever know : a memoir
- Alligator candy : a memoir
- Almost there
- Alone : Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : defeat into victory
- Alone atop the hill : the autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, pioneer of the national Black press
- Alou : my baseball journey
- Alpine apprentice
- Always another country : a memoir of exile and home
- Always look on the bright side of life : a sortabiography
- Am I being too subtle? : straight talk from a business rebel
- American English, Italian chocolate : small subjects of great importance
- American dreamer : my life in fashion & business
- American radical : inside the world of an undercover Muslim FBI agent
- American radical : inside the world of an undercover muslim FBI agent
- American wife : love, war, faith, and renewal
- American wife : love, war, faith, and renewal
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An odyssey : a father, a son, and an epic
- An outlaw and a lady : a memoir of music, life with Waylon, and the faith that brought me home
- An unlikely journey : waking up from my American dream
- And now we have everything : on motherhood before I was ready
- And then I danced : traveling the road to LGBT equality
- And then all hell broke loose : two decades in the Middle East
- And then all hell broke loose : two decades in the Middle East
- And your daughters shall prophesy : stories from the byways of American women and religion
- Angels on Earth : inspiring stories of fate, friendship, and the power of connections
- Another kind of madness : a journey through the stigma and hope of mental illness
- Answering the call : an autobiography of the modern struggle to end racial discrimination in America
- Ants among elephants : an untouchable family and the making of modern India
- Anything for Amelia : a true story of the challenges endured by two gay men who had the desire to adopt a child
- Anywhere that is wild : John Muir's first walk to Yosemite
- Apocalypse child : a life in end times : a memoir
- Apollo pilot : the memoir of astronaut Donn Eisele
- Are you anybody? : a memoir
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Asylum: : a survivor's flight from Nazi-occupied Vienna through wartime France
- At home in the world : reflections on belonging while wandering the globe : an adventure across 4 continents with 3 kids, 1 husband, and 5 backpacks
- At home in the world : stories and essential teachings from a monk's life
- Avid reader : a life
- BAD : the autobiography of James Carr
- Back from the dead
- Bad call : a summer job on a New York ambulance
- Baffled by love : stories of the lasting impact of childhood trauma inflicted by loved ones
- Bajo las palmas reales : una infancia cubana
- Balance : a story of faith, family, and life on the line
- Balcony on the moon : a Palestinian coming of age memoir
- Ballplayer
- Barbarian days : a surfing life
- Bare Bones : I'm not lonely if you're reading this book
- Based on a true story : a memoir
- Bastards : a memoir
- Be fierce : stop harassment and take your power back
- Be fierce : stop harassment and take your power back
- Bears in the streets : three journeys across a changing Russia
- Beautiful bodies : a memoir
- Beautiful scars : a life redefined
- Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience
- Because I come from a crazy family : the making of a psychiatrist / Edward M. Hallowell
- Because we are bad : OCD and a girl lost in thought
- Becoming
- Becoming
- Becoming Grandma : the joys and science of the new grandparenting
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Maria : love and chaos in the South Bronx : a memoir
- Becoming Ms. Burton : from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women
- Becoming grandma : the joys and science of the new grandparenting
- Been so long : my life and music
- Before pictures
- Behind the line of scrimmage : inside the front office of the NFL
- Being Jazz : my life as a (transgender) teen
- Being Jazz : my life as a (transgender) teen
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Believe me : my battle with the invisible disability of lyme disease
- Best seat in the house : your backstage pass through my WWE journey
- Better than new : lessons I've learned from saving old homes (and how they saved me)
- Bettyville : a memoir
- Between breaths : a memoir of panic and addiction
- Between the world and me
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Between two worlds : lessons from the other side
- Big bosses : a working girl's memoir of Jazz Age America
- Big girl : how I gave up dieting and got a life
- Black lotus : a woman's search for racial identity
- Black man in a white coat : a doctor's reflections on race and medicine
- Black privilege : opportunity comes to those who create it
- Blackout : remembering the things I drank to forget
- Bleaker house : chasing my novel to the end of the world
- Blessed life : my surprising journey of joy, tears, and tales from Harlem to Hollywood
- Blowing the bloody doors off : and other lessons in life
- Blue on blue : an insider's story of good cops catching bad cops
- Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
- Born bright : a young girl's journey from nothing to something in America
- Born to run
- Born to run
- Born to run
- Born with teeth : a memoir
- Bounty hunter 4/3 : my life in combat from Marine Scout Sniper to MARSOC
- Boy erased : a memoir
- Boys keep swinging : a memoir
- Braiding sweetgrass
- Brave
- Brave
- Breaking cover : my secret life in the CIA and what it taught me about what's worth fighting for
- Brief candle in the dark : my life in science
- Brief candle in the dark : my life in science
- Buffering : unshared tales of a life fully loaded
- But enough about me : a memoir
- But seriously
- Caca dolce : essays from a lowbrow life
- Caged eyes : an Air Force cadet's story of rape and resilience
- Call me American : a memoir
- Called to rise : a life in faithful service to the community that made me
- Camino a las estrellas : mi recorrido de Girl Scout a ingeniera astronáutica
- Can I say : living large, cheating death, and drums, drums, drums
- Can't help myself : lessons and confessions from a modern advice columnist
- Can't nothing bring me down : chasing myself in the race against time
- Capital Gaines : smart things I learned doing stupid stuff
- Cash : the autobiography
- Casting lots : creating a family in a beautiful, broken world
- Chancers : addiction, prison, recovery, love: one couple's memoir
- Change of seasons : a memoir
- Changing normal : how I helped my husband beat cancer
- Chasing grace : what the quarter mile has taught me about God and life
- Chasing space
- Chasing space : an astronaut's story of grit, grace, and second chances
- Chasing water : elegy of an Olympian
- Child soldier : when boys and girls are used in war
- Choose your own disaster : A. a memoir, B. a personality quiz, C. a mostly true and completely honest look at one young woman's attempt to find herself, D. all of the above
- Chutzpah & high heels : the search for love and identity in the Holy Land
- Classic style : hand it down, dress it up, wear it out
- Clay, water, brick : finding inspiration from entrepreneurs who do the most with the least
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Collected essays & memoirs
- Coming to my senses : the making of a counterculture cook
- Coming to my senses : the making of a counterculture cook
- Conceivability : what I learned exploring the frontiers of fertility
- Confessions
- Confessions of a cartel hit man
- Confessions of a funeral director : how the business of death saved my life
- Confessions of a funeral director : how the business of death saved my life
- Consequence : a memoir
- Cop under fire: : moving beyond hashtags of race, crime & politics for a better America
- Costly grace : an evangelical minister's rediscovery of faith, hope and love
- Counting backwards : a doctor's notes on anesthesia
- Counting the days while my mind slips away : a love letter to my family
- Courage to soar : a body in motion, a life in balance
- Courageous faith : my story from a life of obedience
- Course correction : a story of rowing and resilience in the wake of Title IX
- Crash course : from the good war to the forever war
- Crashing the party : an American reporter in China
- Cravings
- Cravings : how I conquered food : a memoir
- Crawl of fame : Julie Moss and the fifteen feet that created an ironman triathlon legend
- Crazy is my superpower : how I triumphed by breaking bones, breaking hearts, and breaking the rules
- Crossings : a doctor-soldier's story
- Crux : a cross-border memoir
- Curators : behind the scenes of natural history museums
- Cured : the tale of two imaginary boys
- Danger close : my epic journey as a combat helicopter pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Dangerous ground : my friendship with a serial killer
- Dangerous ground : my friendship with a serial killer
- Dangerous territory : my misguided quest to save the world
- Daring to drive : a Saudi woman's awakening
- Dark days : a memoir
- Darling days
- Daughter of heaven : a memoir with earthly recipes
- Dear America : notes of an undocumented citizen
- Dear Fatty
- Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life
- Dear world : a Syrian girl's story of war and plea for peace
- Death need not be fatal
- Delta lady : a memoir
- Devotion
- Dig in your heels : the glamorous (and not so glamorous) life of a young breast cancer survivor
- Dimestore
- Dinner with Edward : the story of a remarkable friendship
- Dirty Jewess : a woman's courageous journey to religious and political freedom
- Dirty wars and polished silver : the life and times of a war correspondent turned ambassatrix
- Disaster Falls : a family story
- Distilled : a memoir of family, Seagram, baseball and philanthropy
- Diversifying diplomacy : my journey from Roxbury to Dakar
- Doing time like a spy : how the CIA taught me to survive and thrive in prison
- Doll parts : a memoir
- Dolly on Dolly : interviews and encounters
- Don't let my past be your future
- Don't stop believin' : the man, the band, and the song that inspired generations
- Down city : a daughter's story of love, memory, and murder
- Down the rabbit hole : curious adventures and cautionary tales of a former Playboy bunny
- Dr. Z : the lost memoirs of an irreverent football writer
- Dreamers
- Driving Miss Norma : one family's journey saying "yes" to living
- Drop the ball : achieving more by doing less
- Earning it : hard-won lessons from trailblazing women at the top of the business world
- Educated : a memoir
- Educated : a memoir
- El intruso : mi vida en clave de intriga
- Elena vanishing : a memoir
- Eloquent rage : a black feminist discovers her superpower
- Empty hands, a memoir : one woman's journey to save children orphaned by AIDS in South Africa
- Enchanted air : two cultures, two wings : a memoir
- Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
- Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
- Ernest Hemingway : the last interview and other conversations
- Estranged : leaving family and finding home : a memoir
- Every body yoga : let go of fear, get on the mat, love your body
- Every day I fight
- Every day is extra
- Everything all at once : [how to unleash your inner nerd, tap into radical curiosity, and solve any problem]
- Everything all at once : how to unleash your inner nerd, tap into radical curiosity, and solve any problem
- Everything is horrible and wonderful : a tragicomic memoir of genius, heroin, love, and loss
- Exile on Front Street : my life as a Hells Angel ... and beyond
- Explore/create : my life in pursuit of new frontiers, hidden worlds, and the creative spark
- Eyes wide open : overcoming obstacles and recognizing opportunities in a world that can't see clearly
- Fail until you don't : fight, grind, repeat
- Failure is an option : an attempted memoir
- Fall down 7 times get up 8 : a young man's voice from the silence of autism
- Falling : a daughter, a father, and a journey back
- Falling with wings : a mother's story
- Fashion climbing
- Feast : true love in and out of the kitchen
- Fierce : how competing for myself changed everything
- Film stars don't die in Liverpool : a true love story
- Find a way
- Finding Gobi : a little dog with a very big heart
- Finding Gobi : a little dog with a very big heart
- Finding magic : a spiritual memoir
- Finding my virginity : the new autobiography
- Finding the edge : my life on the ice
- Fire in my eyes : an American warrior's journey from being blinded on the battlefield to gold medal victory
- Fire road : the napalm girl's journey through the horrors of war to faith, forgiveness & peace : a memoir of hope
- First they killed my father : a daughter of Cambodia remembers
- Five presidents : my extraordinary journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford
- Flunk, start : reclaiming my decade lost in Scientology
- For single mothers working as train conductors
- For the love of money : a memoir
- Forgiveness : a memoir
- Fortunate son : my life, my music
- Fortunate son : my life, my music
- Forty autumns : a family's story of courage and survival on both sides of the Berlin Wall
- Forward : a memoir
- Forward : my story
- Fragments of Isabella : a memoir of Auschwitz
- Frank & Charli : Woodstock, true love, and the sixties
- Frantumaglia : a writer's journey
- Freedom without justice : the prison memoirs of Chol Soo Lee
- From the corner of the oval
- From the left : a life in the crossfire
- From the outside : my journey through life and the game I love
- Full battle rattle : my story as the longest-serving special forces A-Team soldier in American history
- Full disclosure
- Fully functioning human (almost) : living in an online/offline world
- Furious George : my forty years surviving NBA divas, clueless GMs, and poor shot selection
- Furiously happy : a funny book about horrible things
- Game 7, 1986 : failure and triumph in the biggest game of my life
- Game face : a lifetime of hard-earned lessons on and off the basketball court
- Gamelife : a memoir
- Gator : my life in pinstripes
- George Washington Carver : in his own words
- George the dog, John the artist : a rescue story
- Getting off : one woman's journey through sex and porn addiction
- Ghost : my thirty years as an FBI undercover agent
- Ghost songs : a memoir
- Giant of the Senate
- Gilliamesque : a pre-posthumous memoir : TG's bio(degradable) autography : a singular person's first first person singular palin-dromic biograph : my me, me, me memoir
- Girl on a wire : walking the line between faith and freedom in the Westboro Baptist Church
- Girl on pointe : Chloe's guide to taking on the world
- Girl walks out of a bar : a memoir
- Girl, wash your face : stop believing the lies about who you are so you can become who you were meant to be
- Give a girl a knife : a memoir
- Go ask Ali : half-baked advice (and free lemonade)
- Go big or go home : the journey toward the dream
- Go home!
- God and Starbucks : an NBA superstar's journey through addiction and recovery / Vin Baker, with Joe Layden
- Gone : a girl, a violin, a life unstrung
- Good Friday on the rez : a Pine Ridge odyssey
- Good things happen slowly : a life in and out of jazz
- Goodbye to all that
- Goodbye, sweet girl : a story of domestic violence and survival
- Gorilla and the bird : a memoir of madness and a mother's love
- Grace notes
- Gratitude
- Greetings from Utopia Park : surviving a transcendent childhood
- Gridiron genius : a master class in winning championships and building dynasties in the NFL
- Growing up Fisher : musings, memories & misadventures
- Growing up Fisher : musings, memories, and misadventures
- Guidebook to relative strangers : journeys into race, motherhood, and history
- Had I known : a memoir of survival
- Hail to the chin : further confessions of a B movie actor
- Hang time : my life in basketball
- Happiness : the crooked little road to semi-ever after : a memoir
- Has anyone seen my pants?
- Have dog, will travel : a poet's journey
- Have dog, will travel : a poet's journey
- Head ball coach : my life in football, doing it differently--and winning
- Healing children : a surgeon's stories from the frontiers of pediatric medicine
- Heart berries : a memoir
- Heart berries : a memoir
- Heartland : a memoir of working hard and being broke in the richest country on Earth
- Heating & cooling : 52 micro-memoirs
- Heavy : an American memoir
- Here is real magic : a magician's search for wonder in the modern world
- Higher is waiting
- Higher is waiting
- Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
- Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
- Hindsight : & all the things I can't see in front of me
- Hitler, my neighbor : memories of a Jewish childhood, 1929-1939
- Hold still : a memoir with photographs
- Hopeful healing : essays on managing recovery and surviving addiction
- Hourglass : time, memory, marriage
- Housebroken : admissions of an untidy life
- How I shed my skin : unlearning racist lessons of a Southern childhood
- How did I get here? : making peace with the road not taken, a memoir
- How to be a Muslim : an American story
- How to be a Muslim : an American story
- How to be alone : if you want to, and even if you don't
- How to make white people laugh
- How to murder your life : a memoir
- How to weep in public : feeble offerings on depression from one who knows
- How to write an autobiographical novel : essays
- How we did it : the Subban plan for success in hockey, school and life
- Hundreds of interlaced fingers : a kidney doctor's search for the perfect match
- Hungry heart : adventures in life, love, and writing
- Hunter killer : inside America's unmanned air war
- Hunter of stories
- Hunting El Chapo : the inside story of the American lawman who captured the world's most-wanted drug lord
- Hunting the truth : memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
- Hurricane Street
- I am Brian Wilson : a memoir
- I am Charlie Wilson
- I am a secret service agent : my life spent protecting the President
- I am nobody : confronting the sexually abusive coach who stole my life
- I am, I am, I am : seventee