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A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Ate traces the arc of Padma Lakshmi's unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the camera -- a tantalizing... See More
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can... See More
The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors, now a Major Motion Picture! Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave... See More
"As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we'd ever done together as father and son, and I... See More
THE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -- FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG THE MOON The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world's most gifted storytellers... See More
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR New York Times Book Review ? The New Yorker ? Entertainment Weekly ? Time ? Washington Post ? San Francisco Chronicle ? Chicago Tribune ? Christian Science Monitor ? Slate ? St. Louise Post-Dispatch... See More
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ? An exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and... See More
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ? From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a... See More
Why would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Through five lengthy hospital stays, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and all sense of what it means to... See More
This bestselling memoir from a seasoned New York City reporter is "a vivid report of a journey to the edge of self-destruction" (New York Times). As a child during the Depression and World War II, Pete Hamill learned early... See More
From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. ? "Scintillating... One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that has vanished forever." -- The New York Times... See More
"Absorbing... a testament to the ways in which narrative truth-telling -- from the greatest works of literature to the most intimate family stories -- sustains and strengthens us." -- O: The Oprah Magazine In this stunning... See More
This is not your mother's memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch, a lifelong swimmer and Olympic hopeful escapes her raging father and alcoholic and suicidal mother when she accepts a swimming scholarship which... See More
Moving, harrowing, and ultimately uplifting, Lori Schiller's memoir is a classic testimony to the ravages of mental illness and the power of perseverance and courage. At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child-the... See More
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? A work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean Richly textured with memories from... See More
A New York Times Notable Book. This "harrowing, lyrical autobiographical memoir... is a striking meditation on the distorting effects of our culture's preoccupation with physical beauty" (Publishers Weekly). It took Lucy... See More
An exceptional father-son story from the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us. Paul Coates was an enigmatic... See More
The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy. "Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate." -- O, The Oprah Magazine When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever... See More
If you're fat and fail every diet, if you're thin but can't get thin enough, if you lose your job, if your child dies, if you are diagnosed with cancer, if you always end up with exactly the wrong kind of person, if you... See More
A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new... See More
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ? A gripping memoir about the nature of addiction and the meaning of recovery from a bold and talented literary voice. "Anyone who has ever felt broken and wished for a better life will find inspiration... See More
A New York Times bestseller: The "magnificent" memoir by one of the bravest and most original writers of our time -- "A tour de force of literature and love" (Vogue). One of the New York Times' "50 Best Memoirs of the... See More
The Guardians opens with a story from the July 24, 2008, edition of the Riverdale Press that begins, "An unidentified white man was struck and instantly killed by a Metro-North train last night as it pulled into the station... See More
Zami: A Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers "Zami is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre... See More
This New York Times-bestselling feminist classic remains as fresh and relevant in our current climate as when it was first published. Covering two decades -- from the early sixties to the early eighties -- the pieces in... See More
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe -- and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl... See More
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year "Brilliant, meditative, and full of surprises, wisdom, and wonder." -- Ann Lamott, author of Imperfect Birds "I am leaving you all my journals, but you must... See More
In Appetites, Caroline Knapp confronts Freud's famous question, "What do women want?" and boldly reframes it, asking instead: How does a woman know, and then honor, what it is she wants in a culture bent on shaping... See More
Susanna Kaysen, who wrote about her teenage depression in the bestseller Girl, Interrupted, now takes on another taboo: her vagina-which suddenly and inexplicably starts to hurt. And neither Kaysen's cheery gynecologist, nor... See More
"Warm, witty, imaginative... This is a rich and winning book." -- The New Yorker From Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most important African American writers of the twentieth century, comes her riveting autobiography -- now... See More
