An incomplete, alphabetical list of
some of my favorites:
- "13 1/2" by Nevada Barr
- "A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana" by Haven Kimmel
- "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
- "Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths" by Bruce Feiler
- "Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch: Tales from a Bad Neighborhood" by Hollis Gillespie
- "Confessions of a Recovering Slut: And Other Love Stories" by Hollis Gillespie
- "Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America" by Firoozeh Dumas
- "Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu" by J. Maarten Troost
- "Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure" by Sarah Macdonald
- "Jesusland: A Memoir" by Julia Scheeres
- "Let the Right One In: A Novel" by John Ajvide Lindqvist
- "Letters to a Young Poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke
- "My Lobotomy" by Howard Dully
- "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" by T.S. Eliot
- "Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout
- "Rain of Gold" by Victor E. Villaseñor
- "Road-side Dog" by Czeslaw Milosz
- "She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana" by Haven Kimmel
- "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach
- "Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson" by Mitch Albom
- "The Bridges of Madison County" by Robert James Waller
- "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
- "The Girl in the Red Coat: A Memoir" by Roma Ligocka
- "The Glass Castle: A Memoir" by Jeannette Walls
- "The Help" by Katheryn Stockett
- "The Heretic's Daughter: A Novel" by Kathleen Kent
- "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold
- "The Mercy of Thin Air" by Ronlyn Domingue
- "The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust" by Edith H. Beer
- "The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry" edited by Alan Kaufman
- "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink
- "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
- "The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific" by J. Maarten Troost
- "The Space Between Us: A Novel" by Thirty Umrigar
- "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger
- "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" by Sylvia Plath
- "Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the POEMFONE Poets" edited by Jordan Trachtenberg
- "Walking the Trail: One Man's Journey along the Cherokee Trail of Tears" by Jerry Ellis
"There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative."
...Ralph Waldo Emerson
