- Sometimes the magic works, lessons from a writing life, Terry Brooks
- I know why the caged bird sings
- The mockingbird next door, life with Harper Lee, Marja Mills
- One drop, my father's hidden life--a story of race and family secrets, Bliss Broyard
- The faith of a writer, life, craft, art, Joyce Carol Oates
- Screening room, family pictures, Alan Lightman
- This is the story of a happy marriage, written and read by Ann Patchett
- All God's children need traveling shoes, Maya Angelou. --
- Don't tell the girls, a family memoir, by Patricia Reilly Giff
- My foreign cities, a memoir, Elizabeth Scarboro
- The woman who watches over the world, a native memoir, Linda Hogan
- Here if you need me, a true story, Kate Braestrup
- An American childhood, Annie Dillard. --
- The perfect hour, the romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, by James L.W. West III
- Marriage and other acts of charity, Kate Braestrup
- Loss of Eden, a biography of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Joyce Milton
- Silk parachute, John McPhee
- Marquand, an American life, Millicent Bell. --
- Gone to the woods, surviving a lost childhood, by Gary Paulsen ; pictures by Anna and Varvara Kendel
- War within and without, diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944. --
- The lost landscape, a writer's coming of age, Joyce Carol Oates
- Travels with Charley, in search of America, John Steinbeck
- The Hemingway women, Bernice Kert. --
- My dog Skip, by Willie Morris
- Hole in my life, a memoir by Jack Gantos, Jack Gantos
- Theodor Seuss Geisel, Donald E. Pease
- A woman of uncertain character, the amorous and radical adventures of my mother Jennie (who always wanted to be a respectable Jewish mom) by her bastard son, Clancy Sigal
- Stay here with me, a memoir, Robert Olmstead
- This boy's life, a memoir, Tobias Wolff
- When all the world was young, a memoir, Barbara Holland
- On writing, a memoir of the craft, by Stephen King
- Nabokov in America, on the road to Lolita, Robert Roper
- The lost prince, a search for Pat Conroy, Michael Mewshaw
- Philip Roth, the biography, Blake Bailey
- Zora Neale Hurston., claiming a space, produced by Randall MacLowry, Tracy Heather Strain ; written and directed by Tracy Heather Strain ; senior series producer, Susan Bellows ; a Film Posse, Inc. production for American Experience, DVD/Widescreen
- Floor sample, a creative memoir, by Julia Cameron
- The princess diarist, Carrie Fisher
- The dangerous summer, Ernest Hemingway ; introduction by James A. Michener. --
- I am Scout, the biography of Harper Lee, Charles J. Shields
- Growing up, Russell Baker. --
- This isn't going to end well, the true story of a man I thought I knew, by Daniel Wallace ; illustrations by William Nealy
- A man without a country, Kurt Vonnegut ; edited by Daniel Simon
- Tomie dePaola, his art and his stories, Barbara Elleman
- The Christmas box miracle, my spiritual journey of destiny, healing, and hope, Richard Paul Evans
- Three weeks with my brother, Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparks
- The way we lived then, Dominick Dunne
- Running with the bulls, my years with the Hemingways, Valerie Hemingway
- Another life, a memoir, Michael Korda
- You don't have to say you love me, a memoir, Sherman Alexie
- Black boy, (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth, Richard Wright ; with a forward by Edward P. Jones