Pregnancy, Birth & Family Life:

The Kid by Dan Savage

Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott

No Bike Riding in the House by Melissa Faye Green

A Life’s Work by Rachel Cusk

Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth

Love, Marriage & Divorce:

No Cheating, No Dying by Elizabeth Weil

Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield

Slow Motion by Dani Shapiro

Happens Every Day by Isabel Gillies

This is Not the Story You Think It Is by Laura Munson

How to Sleep Alone in A King-Size Bed by Theo Pauline Nestor

The Grown Up Marriage by Judith Viorst

Illness & Death:

The Dead Girl by Melanie Thernstrom

The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso

Elegy for Iris by John Bayley

The Plague and I by Betty MacDonald

 Food:

Julie and Julia by Julie Powell

My Life in France by Julia Child

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin

Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl

Adventure, Outdoors, Sports:

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Tracks by Robyn Davidson

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Rowing to Latitude by Jill Fredston

Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn

The Boy Who Sailed Around the World Alone by Robin Lee Graham

If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name by Heather Lende

Mental Illness:

Darkness Visible by William Styron

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg

Marbles by Ellen Forney

Addiction:

Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man by Bill Clegg

Smashed by Koren Zailckas

Born Round by Frank Bruni

Beautiful Boy by David Sheff

Dysfunctional Families and Abuse:

The Source of All Things by Tracy Ross

West of Here by Tara Bray Smith

Oh the Glory of It All by Sean Wilsey

Live Through This by Debra Gwartney

Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison

Coming of Age / Education:

Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard

How I Grew by Mary McCarthy

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway

One L by Scott Turow

Spiritual Development 

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

Way of Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman