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1. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Cheryl Strayed
A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built ... More
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2. Bossypants
by Tina Fey
Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once and acted weird around her. ... More
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3. To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again
by Mary C Neal
"Previously published by CreateSpace in 2011, under the title To heaven and back: the true story of a doctor's extraordinary walk with God"--T.p. ... More
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4. Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
by Jenny Lawson
Internet star Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her comedic and pointed debut. Lawson takes readers on a hilarious journey recalling her bizarre ... More
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5. A Stolen Life: A Memoir
by Jaycee Dugard
Dugard recounts, in her own words, her story of being kidnapped on June 10, 1991. She was 11 years old.
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6. Cleopatra: A Life
by Stacy Schiff
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. ... More
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7. I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections
by Nora Ephron
If there is any solace in growing older, it is that you will find yourself guffawing in hysterical recognition at the situations Nora Ephron ... More
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8. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
by Jung Chang
Through the lives of three different women - grandmother, mother and daughter - this book tells the story of 20th-century China. At times scarcely ... More
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9. Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
by Bob Spitz
Julia Child, the warble-voiced doyenne of television cookery, became an iconic cult figure and joyous rule-breaker as she touched off a food ... More
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10. Just Kids
by Patti Smith
A prelude to fame, Just Kids recounts the friendship of two young artists--Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe - whose passion fueled their lifelong ... More
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11. The Complete Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
Satrapis groundbreaking two-part graphic memoir of her unforgettable girlhood within a large family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution--now ... More
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12. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran ... More
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13. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
by Anna Quindlen (Read by)
In this irresistible memoir, the "New York Times "bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Anna Quindlen writes about looking back and ... More
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14. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
by Maxine Hong Kingston
Sensitive account of growing up female and Chinese-American in a California laundry.
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15. Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
by Gabrielle Hamilton
Gabrielle Hamilton's childhood home in rural Pennsylvania, with her four siblings and her parents who threw grand parties (hundreds of guests came to ... More
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16. Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
by Dorothy Wickenden
The acclaimed and captivating true story of two restless society girls who left their affluent lives to "rough it" as teachers in the wilds of ... More
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17. Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand
by William J Mann
In 1960, Barbra Streisand was just a seventeenyear- old Jewish kid with plenty of talent and even more ambition. Four years later, she had taken over ... More
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18. The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels: A Love Story
by Ree Drummond
Fans of Drummond's blog and cookbook will eat up this breathless blow-by-blow chronicle of falling in love with Marlboro Man, a.k.a. her husband, and ... More
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19. Autobiography of a Face
by Lucy Grealy
At age 9, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the ... More
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20. Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry
Ten-year-old prodigy Akiane Kramarik shares her artwork, poetry, and her fascinating story in this collection of the best of her full-color paintings ... More
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21. Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?
by Jeanette Winterson
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit", was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal ... More
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22. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
It's three a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties; she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby ... More
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23. My Life in France
by Julia Child
When Julia Child arrived in Paris in 1948, a 'six-foot-two-inch, thirty-six-year-old, rather loud and unserious Californian', she spoke barely a few ... More
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24. The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life -- in good times and bad -- that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a ... More
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25. Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
by Marjorie Shostak
Nisa, a member of the !Kung tribe of hunters-and-gatherers from southern Africa's Kalahari desert, would be considered a remarkable woman in any ... More
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