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The Glass Castle

By Jeannette Walls

How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of Politics

By Duca, Lauren

The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Foundling's Story

By Cowan, Justine

If This Is a Man / The Truce

By Levi, Primo, Woolf, Stuart, Primo Levi

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

By Slovo, Gillian

Iris: A memoir of Iris Murdoch

By Bayley, John, John Bayley

Blood and Fire: William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army

By Hattersley, Roy

Iris and the Friends: A Year of Memories

By Bayley, John

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How one Jewish woman survived the holocaust

By Hahn Beer, Edith, Dworkin, Susan

Iris: A memoir of Iris Murdoch

By Bayley, John

Still Waters

By Lauck, Jennifer

Bess Of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth

By Mary S. Lovell

The Edwardians: Biography of the Edwardian Age

By Hattersley, Roy

Salvation: Scenes from the Life of St Francis

By Martin, Valerie

Theft by Finding: Diaries: Volume One

By Sedaris, David

Playing Cards In Cairo: Mint Tea, Tarneeb and Tales of the City (The Hungry Student)

By Miles, Hugh

Straight On Till Morning: The Life Of Beryl Markham

By Mary S. Lovell

Rabbit Stew and a Penny or Two

By Smith-Bendell, Maggie

Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood

By McNish, Hollie

Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman who Ruled an Empire

By Baird, Julia

Orange Is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison

By Piper Kerman

The Riviera Set

By Mary S. Lovell

Lady Caroline Lamb

By Jenkins, Elizabeth

Europe in the Eighteenth Century: Aristocracy and the Bourgeois Challenge

By Rude, George

Getting Even

By Allen, Woody

A Life Drawing

By Hughes, Shirley

Project Girl

By McDonald, Janet

Six Exceptional Women

By Lord, James

One Art: Letters

By Bishop, Elizabeth

Fierce Attachments: A Memoir (FSG Classics)

By Gornick, Vivian