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Searching for Daddy

By Joanna Hart, Christine

Shame

By Sanghera, Jasvinder

Spilling the Beans (The Hungry Student)

By Dickson Wright, Clarissa

Broken

By Keenan, Shy

Unbroken Spirit: A true story of a girl's struggle to escape from abuse: The True Story of a Girl's Struggle to Break Free

By Ferzanna Riley

The Wolf of Wall Street

By Belfort, Jordan

Daughters of Shame

By Sanghera, Jasvinder

Tears of the Desert: One woman's true story of surviving the horrors of Darfur

By Bashir, Halima

The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves

By Siri Hustvedt

Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, Rabbit Remembered

By Updike, John

My Just Desire: The Life of Bess Raleigh, Wife to Sir Walter

By Beer, Anna R.

Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways

By Hemingway, Valerie

Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

By Miles, Sara

The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood

By Montgomery, Sy

Naked at the Albert Hall: The Inside Story of Singing

By Thorn, Tracey

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

By Dean, Michelle

Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus: the long-awaited memoir from the star of QI and The Great British Bake Off

By Sandi Toksvig

The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington

By Moorhead, Joanna

Talking As Fast As I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between

By Graham, Lauren

Talking As Fast As I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between

By Graham, Lauren

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII’s Most Dangerous Spy

By Purnell, Sonia

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