historical

• adolf hitler - mein kampf (1926)
• anne frank - the diary of a young girl (1947)
• antonia fraser - marie antoinette: the journey (2006)
• dave cullen - columbine (2009)
• dee brown - bury my heart at wounded knee (1970)
• eric rauchway - murdering mckinley (2003)
• eric schlosser - fast food nation (2001)
• erik larson - the devil in the white city 2003)
• frederick douglass - the narrative of an american slave (1845)
• harriet jacobs - incidents in the life of a slave girl (1861)
• hayden herrera - frida: a biography of frida kahlo (2002)
• hellen keller - the story of my life (1903)
• holly george-warren - rolling stone book of the beats (1999)
• howard zinn - a people's history of the united states (1980)
• jack beatty - the age of betrayal (2008)
• james m. mcpherson - abraham lincoln (2009)
• karen blixen - out of africa (1937)
• malcolm x - the autobiography of malcolm x (1965)
• martin luther king jr. - the autobiography (1998)
• randy shilts - the life & times of harvey milk (1982)
• robert dallek - an unfinished life: john f. kennedy (2001)
• stephen hawking - a brief history of time (1988)
• truman capote - in cold blood (1965)

literary

• d.t. max - every ghost is love story (2011)
• dave eggers - a heartbreaking work of a staggering genius (2000)
• david lipsky - altho of course you end up becoming yrself (2010)
• elie wiesel - night (1956)
• emily dickinson - the letters of emily dickinson (1894)
• ernest hemingway - a moveable feast (1964)
• fernando de pessoa - the book of disquiet (1982)
• frank mccourt - angela's ashes (1996)
• frank o'hara - city poet: the life & times of frank o'hara (1993)
• franz kafka - the diaries of franz kafka (1963)
• george grossmith - the diary of a nobody (1888)
• henry david thoreau - walden (1854)
• isaac asimov - i.asimov: a memoir (1994)
• joan didion - the year of magical thinking (2005)
• jon krakaeur - into the wild (1996)
• marjane satrapi - persepolis (2000)
• maya angelou - i know why the caged bird sings (1969)
• oscar wilde - de profundis (1897)
• susan cheever - e.e. cummings: a life (2014)
• ✔ sylvia plath - the unabridged journals (2000)
• tim o'brien - the things they carried (1990)
• virginia woolf - orlando: a biography (1928)
• zelda & f. scott fitzgerald - the love letters

music

• bob dylan - chronicles, vol. i (2005)
• jesse jarnow - big day coming: ylt & the rise of indie rock (2012)
• jonathan cott - the essential interviews: bob dylan (2006)
• kurt cobain - journals (2003)
• michael azerrad - come as you are: the nirvana story (1993)
• michael azerrad - our band could be your life: scenes from the american indie underground 1981-1991 (2001)
• simon goddard - mozzipedia (2009)

miscellaneous

• john m. macgregor - henry darger: in the realms of the unreal
• jon krakauer - where men win glory: odyssey of pat tillman (2009)
• jung chang - wild swans (1991)
• kay redfield jamison - an unquiet mind (1995)
• marya hornbacher - wasted (1998)
• portia de rossi - unbearable lightness (2010)
• walter isaacson - steve jobs (2011)