1.The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

2.The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston

3.The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride

4.Don’t Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller

5.A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile by Agate Nesaule

6.The Language of Baklava: A Memoir by Diana Abu-Jaber

7.The Storyteller’s Daughter: One Woman’s Return to Her Lost Homeland by Saira Shah

8.Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams

9.I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

10.Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez

11.The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer

12.Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp

13.Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

14.The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr

15.H Is for Hawk by Helen McDonald

16.Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance

17.The Light of the World: A Memoir by Elizabeth Alexander

18.Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon*

19.Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

20.Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett

21.The Caliph’s House: A Year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah

22.Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir by Peter Balakian

23.Broken: A Love Story by Lisa Jones

24.Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach

25.Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat

26.Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott

27.All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou

28.The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou

29.Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

30.Becoming by Michelle Obama

31.Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama

32.Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir by John Edgar Wideman

33.The Places In Between by Rory Stewart

34.The Long Goodbye: A Memoir by Meghan O’Rourke

35.An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield

36.Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at The Table by Ruth Reichel

37.Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman by Nuala O’Faolain

38.What Comes Next and How to Like It by Abigail Thomas

39.Daughter of the Queen of Sheba by Jackie Lyden

40.A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas

41.Fierce Attachments: A Memoir by Vivian Gornick

42.Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint by Nadia Bolz-Weber

43.Ake: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka

44.Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir by Danielle Trussoni

45.The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit

46.Almost There by Nuala O’Faolain

47.After Long Silence by Helen Fremont

48.Let’s Pretend this Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

49.My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem

50.Love Warrior: A Memoir by Glennon Doyle Melton

51.French Lessons: A Memoir by Alice Kaplan

52.Name All the Animals: A Memoir by Alison Smith

53.Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd

54.Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

55.Lit by Mary Karr

56.Devotion: A Memoir by Dani Shapiro

57.This Boy’s Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolf

58.All Over but the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg

59.Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott

60.Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

61.The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

62.Limbo: A Memoir by A. Manette Ansay

63.Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing by Jennifer Weiner

64.Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

65.Finding Manana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus by Mirta Ojito

66.Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen

67.The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper

68.Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

69.Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found by Jennifer Lauck

70.Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriquez

71.Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas

72.Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni

73.I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail by Gail Storey

74.The Stone Fields: An Epitah for the Living by Courtney Brkcic

75.Fury: A Memoir by Koren Zailckas

76.My Invented Country: A Memoir by Isabel Allende

77.Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

78.Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

79.Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Alison

80.Lucky by Alice Sebold

81.Bossypants by Tina Fey

82.My Life in France by Julia Child

83.Marriage and Other Acts of Charity: A Memoir by Kate Braestrup

84.Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller

85.The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman

86.Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

87.The Names of Things by Susan Brind Morrow

88.Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

89.Here if You Need Me by Kate Braestrup

90.An American Childhood by Annie Dillard

91.My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayer

92.The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan

93.Heart in the Right Place: A Memoir by Carolyn Jourdan

94.In the Body of the World: A Memoir by Eve Ensler

95.Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamaties, and Occasional Moments of Grace by Ayelet Waldman

96.Walking Home: A Pilgrimage from Humbled to Healed by Sonia Choquette

97.Water Oak: The Happiness of Longing by Sue Frederick

98Dog Medicine: How My Dog Saved Me From Myself by Julie Barton

99.The Book of Separation by Tova Mirvis

100.The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Dr. Eva Edith Enger

101.The Secret Life of Grief: A Memoir by Tanja Pajevic (me!)