Becoming
From the South Side of Chicago to the White House, an intimate memoir of resilience, identity, and finding your voice while navigating marriage, motherhood, and public life.
When Breath Becomes Air
A neurosurgeon at 36 faces terminal lung cancer and must confront what makes life worth living. A profound memoir on mortality, meaning, and the doctor who became the patient.
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
A raw, unforgettable story of resilience and redemption. Four siblings raised by brilliant but alcoholic parents learn to survive poverty and neglect, then escape to build new lives.
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
From childhood in rural South Africa to 27 years in prison to the presidency: one man's extraordinary journey from freedom fighter to Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
Pulitzer Prize winner chronicles a childhood of crushing poverty, alcoholism, and hunger in 1930s Limerick, Ireland told with stunning humor and heartbreaking honesty.
Into the Wild
A young man abandons everything after college, renames himself Alexander Supertramp, and ventures into Alaska's wilderness where he dies alone in an abandoned bus. What drove him to this fate?
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
A raw, honest memoir of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike through grief, self-destruction, and rebirth on a journey that broke her down and built her back up again.
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah's hilarious and heartbreaking memoir about growing up mixed race in apartheid South Africa, where his very existence was illegal and his mother's fierce love shaped everything.
Educated
A young woman raised by survivalists in rural Idaho enters her first classroom at 17 and journeys from isolation to earning a PhD at Cambridge University.
Man's Search for Meaning
A psychiatrist's harrowing account of surviving Nazi concentration camps reveals how finding purpose in suffering can sustain the human spirit in humanity's darkest hours.