Memoir

Award-winning poet Saeed Jones weaves a series of stinging, memorable vignettes into a powerful coming-of-age memoir.

Award-winning poet Saeed Jones weaves a series of stinging, memorable vignettes into a powerful coming-of-age memoir.

Dan Kois, his wife and their two children did what many families secretly dream of doing: They packed up their belongings and spent a year living abroad.

Dan Kois, his wife and their two children did what many families secretly dream of doing: They packed up their belongings and spent a year living abroad.

NPR correspondent Aarti Namdev Shahani recounts her family’s gut-wrenching struggle to immigrate despite a broken system.

NPR correspondent Aarti Namdev Shahani recounts her family’s gut-wrenching struggle to immigrate despite a broken system.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Samantha Power’s new memoir is a record of her impressive life.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Samantha Power's new memoir is a record of her impressive life.

In her stirring memoir, All You Can Ever Know, Nicole Chung hopes to find the Korean birth parents who gave her up for adoption.

In her stirring memoir, All You Can Ever Know, Nicole Chung hopes to find the Korean birth parents who gave her up for adoption.

In Erin Williams’ graphic memoir, Commute, she asks hard questions about shame, compliance and desire, both in her own life and in the larger culture.

In Erin Williams’ graphic memoir, Commute, she asks hard questions about shame, compliance and desire, both in her own life and in the larger culture.

In Augusten Burroughs’ new memoir, Toil & Trouble, he reveals his biggest secret yet: He is a witch.

In Augusten Burroughs’ new memoir, Toil & Trouble, he reveals his biggest secret yet: He is a witch.

With a reporter’s instinct for detail, Vargas writes about the challenges of surviving as an outsider in America.

With a reporter’s instinct for detail, Vargas writes about the challenges of surviving as an outsider in America.

This powerful memoir reflects on the past and probes the economic and social causes of poverty in America.

This powerful memoir reflects on the past and probes the economic and social causes of poverty in America.

In The Ungrateful Refugee, her first work of nonfiction, Dina Nayeri offers a searing, nuanced and complex account of her life as a refugee.

In The Ungrateful Refugee, her first work of nonfiction, Dina Nayeri offers a searing, nuanced and complex account of her life as a refugee.

The journeys Jill Heinerth describes in Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver make for exciting, edge-of-your-seat reading.

The journeys Jill Heinerth describes in Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver make for exciting, edge-of-your-seat reading.

Michael Crouch lends an earnestness to the narration. As focused as the story is, he makes everything feel big and new.

Michael Crouch lends an earnestness to the narration. As focused as the story is, he makes everything feel big and new.

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