Memoir

A surprising, behind-the-scenes look at the training, basic rules, lessons, and procedures of space travel. Former NASA…

An inspiring story of a trans child's journey towards becoming their truest self and of a mother's struggle to help her…

Author Eileen Garvin's older sister, Margaret, was diagnosed with severe autism at age three. Growing up alongside…

Growing up, Rebecca assumes sex is just a scary new thing they will "grow into" as they get older, but when they leave…

Award-winning author and social theorist Ibram X. Kendi weaves together history, law, science, ethics, and his own…

Endlessly honest and witty, this memoir about autism by Charlotte Ameia Poe is at times both hilarious and upsetting.…

This combination memoir and guide looks back on the author's more than thirty years experience being black and offer…

A combination of travel writing, memoir and science, Michael Pollan's newest book dives not into food, but into the…

How to Grow Up is absolutely the story of Michelle Tea's life, of her exes, her working class roots and her youthful…

As a teenager, Molly Case underwent an operation that saved her life. Nearly a decade later, she finds herself in the…

We're pretty much all familiar with Allie Brosh's comics—if not because someone's emailed or texted us a link to one…

When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be…

Surviving a hit by a plane, suicidal overdoses, STDs, being accused of attempted murder, and taking lethal combinations…

This book follows the life of early Italian feminist, famous anarchist and unyielding pacifist Leda Rafanelli, focusing…

It's 1982 and the Ramones are in a gutter-bound spiral. Following a run of inconsistent albums and deep in the throes of…

Age 39 and lonely in an unfulfilling marriage, literary academic Chris Kraus channels her frustration and creative…

Autistic people are often told and shown that our success in society will be measured by how much we manage to hide our…

A comic about the twists and turns of a complex, lifelong friendship between two women, from childhood to adulthood,…

Equal parts self-help book and memoir, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki follows Baek Sehee as she navigates…

From disenchanted Catholic schoolgirl and glam maniac to instigator on the 1980s hardcore punk scene, Nancy Barile…

Without a doubt, certain bands are pivotal - essential - to the history of punk, and hardcore. Dead Kennedys. Black…

Using his own experiences in entertainment and miscommunication, actor Alan Alda has created a guide to better…

A hypertext memoir, in a series of vignettes, some in the style of a choose-your-own adventure novel that traps you in…