- The mockingbird next door, life with Harper Lee, Marja Mills
- Under magnolia, a Southern memoir, Frances Mayes
- My dog Skip, Willie Morris
- Under Magnolia, a southern memoir, Frances Mayes
- Capote, a biography, Gerald Clarke. --
- The mockingbird next door, life with Harper Lee, Marja Mills
- The best of us, a memoir, Joyce Maynard
- The faith of a writer, life, craft, art, Joyce Carol Oates
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider, the story of E.B. White, Barbara Herkert ; illustrated by Lauren Castillo
- Flannery, a life of Flannery O'Connor, Brad Gooch
- The princess diarist, Carrie Fisher
- Bill Peet, an autobiography, Bill Peet
- The dangerous summer, Ernest Hemingway ; introduction by James A. Michener. --
- Mom & me & mom, Maya Angelou
- Perfectly miserable, guilt, God and real estate in a small town, Sarah Payne Stuart
- Maurice Sendak, Charlotte Guillain
- Between them, remembering my parents, Richard Ford
- An American childhood, Annie Dillard. --
- Gone to the woods, surviving a lost childhood, by Gary Paulsen ; pictures by Anna and Varvara Kendel
- The lost landscape, a writer's coming of age, Joyce Carol Oates
- Lots of candles, plenty of cake, Anna Quindlen
- The discomfort zone, a personal history, Jonathan Franzen
- You don't have to say you love me, a memoir, Sherman Alexie
- Speak, memory, an autobiography revisited, by Vladimir Nabokov
- We'll always have Paris, a mother/daughter memoir, Jennifer Coburn
- I know why the caged bird sings, Maya Angelou
- Growing up, Russell Baker. --
- Nine-headed dragon river, Zen journals, 1969-1985, Peter Matthiessen. --
- Hemingway's boat, everything he loved in life, and lost, 1934-1961, Paul Hendrickson
- The writing life, Annie Dillard
- Literary life, a second memoir, Larry McMurtry
- Lots of candles, plenty of cake, Anna Quindlen
- My life as a villainess, essays, Laura Lippman
- I know why the caged bird sings, Maya Angelou
- The way forward is with a broken heart, Alice Walker
- A house of my own, stories from my life, Sandra Cisneros
- The planter of modern life, Louis Bromfield and the seeds of a food revolution, Stephen Heyman
- Rascal, by Sterling North
- A ticket to the circus, a memoir, Norris Church Mailer
- Updike, Adam Begley
- Letter to my daughter, Maya Angelou
- On writing, a memoir of the craft, Stephen King
- American masters., producer, Rita Coburn Whack, Bob Hercules, Jay Alix, Una Jac ; director, Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack, Widescreen
- Create dangerously, the immigrant artist at work, Edwidge Danticat
- Edith Wharton, Hermione Lee
- A man without a country, Kurt Vonnegut ; edited by Daniel Simon
- James Patterson by James Patterson, the stories of my life, James Patterson
- Dav Pilkey, by Chris Bowman
- Black boy (American hunger), a record of childhood and youth, Richard Wright ; foreword by Edward P. Jones
- Becoming Dr. Seuss, Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination, Brian Jay Jones