4.26.2009

TBR LIST- BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS

Alphabetical by Title

  • As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Calapinto
  • The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
  • Battle for Sanity: My Journey with Fibromyalgia by Kara M. Ferris
  • Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction by David Sheff
  • Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
  • Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas
  • The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
  • Chasing Down the Dawn: Stories from the Road by Jewel Kilcher
  • Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
  • Clapton: The Autobiography by Eric Clapton
  • The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
  • Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America by Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson
  • Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of Wars, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper
  • Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
  • Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan's Most Rigorous Zen Temple by Kaoru Nonomura
  • Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
  • Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
  • First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria by Eve Brown-Waite
  • First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
  • Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality by Joan Frances Casey
  • Forbidden Bread by Erica Johnson Debeljak
  • The Freedom Writer's Diary by Erin Gruwell
  • Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life by Gerald Martin
  • Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
  • The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search to Find the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner
  • Happily Ever After: The Drew Barrymore Story by Leah Furman
  • A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
  • In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom by Qanta A. Ahmed
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
  • Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • Insomniac by Gayle Greene
  • Invisible Sisters: A Memoir by Jessica Handler
  • A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor by Dana Canedy
  • Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez and Kristen Ohlson
  • The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej by Paul M. Handley
  • The Last Dive: A Father and Son's Fatal Descent into the Ocean's Depths by Bernie Chowdhury
  • Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Leftovers by Heather Waldorf
  • The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired by Francine Prose
  • A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
  • Lost Boy by Brent Jeffs
  • The Lost Daughters of China: Adopted Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past by Karin Evans
  • Love in Condition Yellow: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage by Sophia Raday
  • Love Junkie: A Memoir by Rachel Resnick
  • A Lucky Child: Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy by Thomas Buergenthal
  • Lucky Man: A Memoir by Michael J. Fox
  • May and Amy by Josceline Dimbleby
  • Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
  • The Mistress' Daughter by A.M. Holmes
  • Multiple Bles8ings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets by Jon Gosselin
  • My FBI by Louis J. Freeh
  • My Life with the Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall
  • My Times: A Memoir of Dissent by John L. Hess
  • Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody and William Hoffer
  • On Writing by Stephen King
  • Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, An American Town by Warren St. John
  • Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
  • Personal History by Katherine Graham
  • The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal by Lily Koppel
  • Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey by Rachel Simon
  • The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine by Somaly Mam
  • Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together by Ron Hall
  • A Separate Peace by John Knowles
  • Shattered Reality by Kimberly Cheryl
  • She Always Knew How: Mae West, a Personal Biography by Charlotte Chandler
  • Sinatra: The Life by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan
  • The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong
  • Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper by Peter Hill
  • Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir
  • Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover if Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie is Not the Answer by Jen Lancaster
  • Sugar of the Crop: My Journey to Find the Children of Slaves by Sana Butler
  • Teasing Secrets from the Dead by Emily Craig
  • That Went Well by Terrell Harris Dougan
  • Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
  • Three Weeks with my Brother by Micah Sparks and Nicholas Sparks
  • We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families by Philip Gourevitch
  • When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
  • Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
  • A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
  • The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman

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