- Gone to the woods, surviving a lost childhood, by Gary Paulsen ; pictures by Anna and Varvara Kendel
- The book of separation, a memoir, Tova Mirvis
- Travels with Charley, in search of America, John Steinbeck
- The little locksmith, a memoir, by Katharine Butler Hathaway ; foreword by Alix Kates Shulman ; afterword by Nancy Mairs
- A drinking life, by Pete Hamill
- The long accomplishment, a memoir of hope and struggle in matrimony, Rick Moody
- You don't have to say you love me, a memoir, Sherman Alexie
- Perfectly miserable, guilt, God and real estate in a small town, Sarah Payne Stuart
- Between them, remembering my parents, Richard Ford
- Spillane, king of pulp fiction : a biography, Max Allan Collins & James L. Traylor
- I know why the caged bird sings
- Poets on the peaks, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen & Jack Kerouac in the North Cascades, text and photographs by John Suiter
- My Venice and other essays, Donna Leon
- Shirley Jackson, a rather haunted life, Ruth Franklin
- The best of us, a memoir, Joyce Maynard
- Philip Roth, the biography, Blake Bailey
- Black boy, (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth, Richard Wright ; foreword by John Edgar Wideman ; afterword by Malcolm Wright
- Under magnolia, a southern memoir, by Frances Mayes
- Blind man's bluff, a memoir, James Tate Hill
- Sontag, her life and work, Benjamin Moser
- Little matches, a memoir of grief and light, Maryanne O'Hara
- Lots of candles, plenty of cake, Anna Quindlen
- A house of my own, stories from my life, Sandra Cisneros
- Letter to my daughter, Maya Angelou
- Growing up, Russell Baker. --
- Becoming Dr. Seuss, Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination, Brian Jay Jones
- Unsolaced, along the way to all that is, Gretel Ehrlich
- Dad's maybe book, Tim O'Brien
- Working, researching, interviewing, writing, Robert A. Caro
- On writing, a memoir of the craft, by Stephen King
- Rascal, by Sterling North
- The lost prince, a search for Pat Conroy, Michael Mewshaw
- Updike, Adam Begley
- A man without a country, Kurt Vonnegut ; edited by Daniel Simon
- Tell me a story, my life with Pat Conroy, Cassandra King Conroy
- Figures in a landscape, people and places : essays: 2001-2016, Paul Theroux
- We loved it all, a memory of life, Lydia Millet
- Bring your baggage and don't pack light, essays, Helen Ellis
- The voice is all, the lonely victory of Jack Kerouac, Joyce Johnson
- Writer, sailor, soldier, spy, Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures, 1935-1961, Nicholas Reynolds
- Hungry heart, adventures in life, love, and writing, Jennifer Weiner
- In the great green room, the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown, Amy Gary
- Hole in my life, a memoir by Jack Gantos, Jack Gantos
- What comes next and how to like it, a memoir, Abigail Thomas
- This boy's life, a memoir, Tobias Wolff
- Ghost songs, a memoir, Regina McBride
- Wishful drinking, directors, Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
- The princess diarist, Carrie Fisher
- The traveling feast, on the road and at the table with my heroes, Rick Bass
- Logical family, a memoir, Armistead Maupin