A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldierby Ishmael Beah

Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life by Sandra Beasley

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson

Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

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

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

My Dark Places: an L. A. Crime Memoir by James Ellroy

Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos

The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner

Cherry by Mary Karr

On Writing: a Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer

Crazy for the Storm: a Memoir of Survival by Norman Ollestad

Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir

Invincible: My Journey from NFL Fan to Team Captain by Vince Papale

A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer

Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison

Leaving Dirty Jersey: a Crystal Meth Memoir by James Salant 

Lost in Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia by Mark Salzman

My Bloody Life: the Making of a Latin King and Once a King, Always a King: the Unmaking of a Latin King by Reymundo Sanchez 

The Imposter's Daughter by Laurie Sandell

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff & its companion book Beautiful Boy: a Father's Journey Through his Son's Addiction by David Sheff

Stitches by David Small

Maus: a Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman

Devil in the Details by Jennifer Traig

Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Kids are All Right by Diana Welch, et al.

Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America by Elizabeth Wurtzel