Almond, Steve.  (Not that You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions.  New York: Random House, 2007.

Allende, Isabel.  Paula.  New York: Harper Collins, 1994.

Ames, Jonathan.  What’s Not to Love?: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer.  New York: Crown, 2000. 

Auvinen, Karen.  Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living.  New York: Scribner, 2018. 

Baldwin, James.  The Fire Next Time.  New York: Dial Press, 1963. 

Black, Emily Rapp.  The Still Point of the Turning World.  New York: Penguin, 2013. 

Bourdain, Anthony.  Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.  New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2000. 

Burroughs, Augusten.  Running with Scissors.  New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002.

Common.  Let Love Have the Last Word: A Memoir.  New York: Atria, 2019.

Crosley, Sloane.  I Was Told There’d Be Cake.  New York: Riverhead, 2008. 

Daum, Meghan.  The Problem With Everything: A Journey Through the New Culture Wars.  New York: Gallery Books, 2019.

Dillard, Annie.  The Writing Life.  New York: Harper & Row, 1989. 

Ephron, Nora.  I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman.  New York: Vintage, 2008. 

Fennelly, Beth Ann.  Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs.  New York: Norton, 2017. 

Frangello, Gina. Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason.  Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2021. 

Frank, Michael.  The Mighty Franks.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. 

Gawande, Atul.  Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science.  New York: Metropolitan Books, 2002. 

Gay, Roxane.  Hunger: A Memoir of My Body.  New York: Harper, 2017. 

Gilbert, Elizabeth.  Eat Pray Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia.  New York: Riverhead, 2006. 

Gladwell, Malcolm.  Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know.  Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2019.   

Gornick, Vivian.  The Situation and the Story: The Art of the Personal Narrative. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

Gottlieb, Lori.  Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. 

Gottlieb, Robert.  Avid Reader: A Life.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. 

Harris, Mark.  Mike Nichols: A Life.  New York: Penguin, 2021. 

Hart, Moss.  Act One: An Autobiography.  New York: New American Library, 1960. 

Karr, Mary.  The Art of Memoir.  New York: Harper, 2015.

Keegan, Marina.  The Opposite of Loneliness.  New York: Scribner, 2014. 

King, Stephen.  On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.  New York: Scribner, 2010. 

Lamott, Anne.  Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year.  New York: Pantheon, 1993. 

Laplante, Alice.  The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Creative Writing.  New York: Norton, 2007. 

Lopate, Phillip. The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present. New York: Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1995. Print.

Maynard, Joyce.  At Home in the World: A Memoir, 25th anniversary edition.  London: Picador, 2013. 

Moore, Dinty.  To Hell With It: Of Sin and Sex, Chicken Wings, and Dante’s Entirely Ridiculous, Needlessly Guilt-Inducing Inferno.  University of Nebraska Press: Nebraska, 2021.   

Moore, Lorrie.  See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary.  New York: Knopf, 2018. 

Morgan, Leslie.  The Naked Truth.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019. 

Nabokov, Vladimir.  Speak, Memory.  New York: Vintage, 1989. 

Obama, Michelle.  Becoming.  New York: Crown, 2018. 

Orlean, Susan.  The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters With Extraordinary People.  New York: Random House, 2001. 

Pajevic, Tanya.  The Secret Life of Grief: A Memoir.  Boulder, CO: Abbondanza Press, 2016. 

Pastiloff, Jennifer.  On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard.  New York: Dutton, 2019. 

Raeburn, Daniel.  Vessels: A Love Story.  New York: Norton, 2016. 

Reichl, Ruth.  Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise.  New York: Penguin, 2005.

Sedaris, David.  When You Are Engulfed in Flames.  New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008.

Stielstra, Megan.  The Wrong Way to Save Your Life.  New York: Harper Perennial, 2017. 

Westover, Tara.  Educated: A Memoir.  New York: Random House, 2018. 

Strauss, Darin.  Half a Life: A Memoir.  New York: Random House, 2011. 

Strayed, Cheryl.  Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.  New York: Knopf, 2012.

Tolchin, Martin.  Politics, Journalism, and the Way Things Were: My Life at the Times, the Hill, and Politico.  Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2019. 

Wolff, Tobias.In Pharoah’s Army: Memories of the Lost War. New York: Vintage, 1995.

Almond, Erin.  Witches’ Dance.  Philadelphia: Lanternfish Press, 2019.

Almond, Steve and Julianna Baggott.  Which Brings Me to You: A Novel in Confessions. Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 2006. 

Atwood, Margaret.  The Handmaid’s Tale.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.  

Austen, Jane.  Persuasion.  New York: Dover, 2007. 

Baker, Nicholson.  Vox.  New York: Random House, 1992. 

Bender, Aimee.  The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel.  New York: Doubleday, 2010. 

Boyle, T.C.  If the River Was Whiskey: Stories.  St. Louis, MO: San Val, 1990.

Byatt, A. S.  Possession.  New York: Vintage, 1991. 

Carlson, Ron.  Ron Carlson Writes a Story.  Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf, 2007.

Dufresne, John.  The Lie That Tells a Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction.  New York: Norton, 2003.

Dunn, Sarah.  The Arrangement.  New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2017.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott.  The Great Gatsby.  New York: Scribner, 2004.

Forster, E. M.  A Room With a View.  New York: Signet, 1986. 

Frangello, Gina.  A Life in Men.  Chapel Hill, NC:  Algonquin, 2014.

Giraldi, William.  Busy Monsters: A Novel.  New York: Norton, 2012. 

Haig, Matt.  The Midnight Library.  New York: Viking, 2020. 

Hempel, Amy.  The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel.  New York: Scribner, 2006.

Hill, Nathan.  The Nix: A Novel.  New York: Vintage, 2016

Hoffman, Alice.  Practical Magic.  New York: Putnam, 1995. 

Hood, Ann.  The Book That Matters Most.  New York: Norton, 2016. 

Houston, Pam.  Cowboys Are My Weakness.  New York: Norton, 1992. 

Irving, John.  The World According to Garp.  New York: Dutton, 1978. 

Kincaid, Jamaica.  Lucy.  New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990. 

Kirn, Walter.  Up In The Air.  New York: Doubleday, 2001. 

Lahiri, Jhumpa.  Unaccustomed Earth.  New York: Random House, 2008. 

LaPlante, Alice.  The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Creative Writing.  New York: Norton, 2007. 

Lojewski, Kimberly.  Worm Fiddling Nocturne in the Key of a Broken Heart: Stories.  DeLand, Florida: Burrow Press, 2018. 

Martin, Steve.  Pure Drivel.  New York: Hachette, 1998. 

Maynard, Joyce.  To Die For.  New York: Dutton, 1992. 

Moore, Lorrie.  Birds of America: Stories.  New York: Knopf, 1998.   

Morrison, Toni.  Beloved.  New York: Knopf, 1987. 

Munro, Alice.  Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories.  New York: Knopf, 2001. 

Nabokov, Vladimir.  Pale Fire.  New York: Vintage, 1989. 

Naslund, Sena Jeter.  Ahab’s Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer: A Novel.  New York: William Morrow, 2005.

Norman, Howard.  The Bird Artist.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.

Russell, Karen.  St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.  New York: Vintage, 2007.

Semple, Maria.  Where’d You Go, Bernadette: A Novel.  New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.  

Styron, William.  Sophie’s Choice.  New York: Vintage, 1992. 

Towles, Amor.  A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel.  New York: Viking, 2016.

Weaver, Rachel.  Point of Direction.  IG Publishing, 2014. 

Wharton, Edith.  The House of Mirth.  New York: Penguin, 1993. 

Wolff, Tobias.  The Night in Question.  New York: Vintage, 1997.