Personal Memoirs

I Live a Life Like Yours

by Jan Grue; read by Graham Halstead

A brilliantly rendered essayistic autobiography from an award-winning Norwegian author about life in a vulnerable body. Learn More

I Dream with Open Eyes

by George Prochnik; read by Malcolm Hillgartner

A journey of reckoning and renewal, this story of family history and future dreams is an examination of the individual imagination as a catalyst for social change. Learn More

How to Treat People

by Molly Case; read by Henrietta Meire

A fascinating and poignant memoir of the body and its care, told through the experiences of a young nurse. Learn More

How to Begin When Your World Is Ending

by Molly Phinney Baskette; read by Molly Phinney Baskette

Moving, witty, and probing, Molly Baskette's practical and spiritual perspective will appeal to readers of Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and Kate Bowler's Everything Happens for a Reason. Learn More

How to Be a Good Creature

by Sy Montgomery; read by Sy Montgomery

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National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals—her friends—who have profoundly affected her in this stunning, poetic, and life-affirming memoir. Learn More

How I Shed My Skin

Jim Grimsley; read by Henry Leyva

White people declared that the south would rise again. Black people raised a fist and chanted for black power. Somehow we negotiated a space between those poles and learned to sit in classrooms together. Lawyers, judges, adults declared that the days of separate schools were over, but we were the ones who took the next step. History gave us a piece of itself. We made of it what we could. -Jim Grimsley Learn More

Horses Never Lie About Love

Jana Harris; read by Susanna Burney

When Jana Harris and her husband landed in Washington State, Harris realized that she could fulfill her lifelong dream of raising and riding horses. But in True Colors, her first broodmare, Harris got more than she bargained for: a complex, traumatized animal whose outsized personality would transform everyone around her, both human and equine. Learn More

High Yella

by Steve Majors; read by Terrence Kidd

In his remarkable and moving memoir, Steve Majors gathers the shards of a broken past to piece together a portrait of a man on an extraordinary journey toward Blackness, queerness, and parenthood. High Yella delivers its hard-won lessons on love, life, and family with exceptional grace. Learn More

Her: A Memoir

Christa Parravani; read by the author

Cosmopolitan Best Books of the Year Pick
A Library Journal Best of the Year Selection

In this haunting memoir of identity and love, photographer Parravani deconstructs the intense bonds between identical twins, as she struggles with the trauma of her charismatic sister’s self-destruction, and an unexpectedly rising tide of similar self-destruction in herself. Learn More

Healing Wounds

by Diane Carlson Evans with Bob Welch; foreword by Joseph Galloway; read by Janet Metzger

What is the price of honor? It took ten years for Vietnam War nurse Diane Carlson Evans to answer that question—and the answer was a heavy one. Learn More

Head On

by Larry Csonka; read by Phil Thron

Larry Csonka's Head On is a captivating, nostalgic account of grit, grace, and gumption told by an iconic Hall of Famer who continues to gain ground—figuratively, literally, and unapologetically—every day. Learn More

Harder to Breathe

by Ryan Dusick; read by Ryan Dusick

Two decades after Songs About Jane, Maroon 5's original drummer presents an unflinching examination of fame, anxiety, mental health, and recovery. Learn More

Hard Work

Roy Williams with Tim Crothers; foreword by John Grisham; read by Alan Winter

How determination took Coach Williams from an impoverished home in the mountains of North Carolina to the very pinnacle of coaching success, culminating in the 2009 NCAA National Championship (his second in five years). An inspirational story for anyone willing to commit themselves to their dreams. Learn More

Hank and Jim

by Scott Eyman; read by David Colacci

Kirkus Best of 2017

New York Times bestselling author Scott Eyman tells the story of the remarkable friendship of two Hollywood legends who, though different in many ways, maintained a close friendship that endured all of life’s twists and turns. Learn More

Hallucinations from Hell

by Gregg H. Turner; read by Gregg H. Turner

From his time at Creem Magazine in the 1970s and '80s to the formation of the Angry Samoans in Los Angeles, and all the travels, trials, and tribulations that occurred after, Gregg Turner takes us through a wild ride of stories he's heard, stories he's lived, and some he may or may not have made up. Learn More

Half Broke

by Ginger Gaffney; read by Christa Lewis

Resonant, smart, and beautifully written, Half Broke tears at the heart of what it takes to find wholeness after years of trauma and addiction and offers profound insight on how working with animals can satisfy our universal need for connection. Learn More

Guidebook to Relative Strangers

by Camille T. Dungy; read by Allyson Johnson

2018 National Book Critics Circle Awards

An award winning African American poet debuts in prose with a stunningly graceful and honest exploration of race, motherhood, and history. Learn More

Guardian

by Thomas Pecora with Jon Land & Lindsay Preston; read by Eric Jason Martin

A CIA security officer recounts a twenty-four-year career protecting America's intelligence personnel and senior USG Officials against a backdrop of the War on Terror. Learn More

Grayson

Lynne Cox; read by Lynne Cox

Seventeen-year-old long distance swimmer Lynne Cox was out training in the cold Pacific one morning when she became aware that an 18-foot baby gray whale was following her, apparently lost and separated from its mother, without whom it would surely die. Something so enormous as a mother whale 50 feet long suddenly seemed very small in the vast Pacific. . . . Learn More

Graced by Waters

by John Dietsch; foreword by Paul VanDevelder; read by Jim Denison

John Dietsch—fly fishing coordinator and stuntman for Brad Pitt on the timeless film A River Runs Through It—explores our connection to the outdoors through the prism of fly fishing and investigates its transformative and healing power in the face of loss. Learn More

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