Better, Not Bitter: A Journey from Heartbreak to Healing by Michelle Cowan is a powerful memoir about the author's experience of losing her husband to a drunk driver. The book chronicles Cowan's journey through grief, anger, and despair, as she and her teenage daughter try...

After the death of her estranged father, Tara Fox Hall went to his house to search for her diary that he took when she was fifteen. Because her father was a hoarder, she finds lots of junk, rotten food, porn, mail from decades ago, and...

Where Have I Been All My Life? How I Finally Grew Up After a Life of Putting Up, Giving Up and Shutting Up by Lisa Benson is an irresistible can't-put-down self-help book wrapped in a memoir. This "Little Miss Perfect" had brains and a plan....

The Last Real Immigrant by Joseph Galliani gives a detailed account of the Galliani family spanning three continents. Giorgio Joseph's father was brought up in Libya, which was, at the time, an Italian colony. He had not attended high school but was an excellent mechanic....

Sol Luckman has eloquently written a witty, insightful memoir in Musings From a Small Island: Everything Under the Sun. As an art major, I thoroughly enjoyed Sol’s humor and philosophical thoughts on the elusive purpose of art and his expression of life on his small...

Never Summer: A Thousand Rainbows by Stan Nicholas is an absorbing memoir about spending summers with his family as migrant laborers. They spent over fifteen summers of Stan’s youth driving on road trips to the North West from early June to early July. The family...

Canela con Miel y Clavos: Cinnamon with Honey and Nails is an introspective anthology of poems, short stories, personal anecdotes, and an essay by Dr. Robert J. Woodbine. Born in Queens, New York, to two Caribbean immigrants, Robert was still a child when he was...

Ten Lanterns: Light Your Way—Lighten Your Pain by Evagoras Evagorou is a motivational memoir and self-help book that traces the author's journey to his personal transformation through decades of experiential learning. Evagorou uses a train journey as a metaphor, recounting his encounters with illuminating individuals...

Hangmen: Riding with an Outlaw Motorcycle Club in the Old Days is a raw and gritty memoir that takes readers into motorcycle gangs in the 60s and 70s. Dale E. Arenson was a high school dropout from a broken family. His two options were enlisting...

Bipolar: A Gift of Thorns is a deeply insightful memoir by Dale Zurawski about coping with bipolar disorder. Her husband, Geoff, is battling prostate cancer, which propels her to seek a psychiatrist. She is diagnosed as bipolar, which leads her on a path to understanding...