Crying in the Bathroom by Erika L.
FOODIE
Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
FRANCE
Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
My Life in France by Julia Child
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Paris in Winter: An Illustrated Memoir by David Coggins
LOSS
Name All the Animals: A Memoir by Alison Smith
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year by Anne Lamott
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
MEDICAL
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story by Abraham Verghese
Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
NATURE
H is for Hawk by Helen McDonald
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriott
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
WILL NEVER BE ASKED TO BE ON JERRY SPRINGER
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Hypocrite in a Pouffy Dress: Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless by Susan Jane Gilman
OVERCOMING
Lit by Mary Karr
The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me by Ellen Forney
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealey
Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously by Jessica Pan
What I Thought I Knew by Alice Eve Cohen
Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses by Claire Dederer
My Year with Eleanor by Noelle Hancock
Riding the Bus with My Sister by Rachel Simon
Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year by Esmé Raji Codell
ROUGH CHILDHOODS
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Educated by Tara Westover
The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner
The Liar's Club by Mary Karr
QUIRKY FAMILIES
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreath
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
The Egg and I by Betty McDonald
SOCIAL JUSTICE
Just Mercy: A Story of Mercy and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
March, Book 1, Book 2, Book 3 by John Lewis
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantu
The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande
TRAVEL
WAR
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
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