- Philip Roth, the biography, Blake Bailey
- The princess diarist, Carrie Fisher
- Bill Peet, an autobiography, Bill Peet
- Here if you need me, a true story, Kate Braestrup
- The best of us, a memoir, Joyce Maynard
- The Bradbury chronicles, the life of Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller
- Sontag, her life and work, Benjamin Moser
- I know why the caged bird sings
- The mockingbird next door, life with Harper Lee, Marja Mills
- In Pharaoh's army, memories of the lost war, Tobias Wolff
- Lots of candles, plenty of cake, Anna Quindlen
- This is the story of a happy marriage, written and read by Ann Patchett
- Becoming Madeleine, a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters, Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Léna Roy
- I know why the caged bird sings, Maya Angelou
- You don't have to say you love me, a memoir, Sherman Alexie
- Sometimes you have to lie, the life and times of Louise Fitzhugh, renegade author of Harriet the spy, Leslie Brody
- When we were the Kennedys, a memoir from Mexico, Maine, Monica Wood
- A man without a country, Kurt Vonnegut ; edited by Daniel Simon
- Jack London, an American life, Earle Labor
- Mom & me & mom, Maya Angelou
- Author, the JT LeRoy story., Amazon Studios, A&E IndieFilms, RatPac Documentary Films in association with Complex Corporation present a Vice production ; written and directed by Jeff Feuerzeig ; produced by Jeff Feuerzeig, Jim Czarnecki, Danny Gabai ; produced by Molly Thompson ; produced by Brett Ratner, Widescreen
- I am Scout, the biography of Harper Lee, Charles J. Shields
- I know why the caged bird sings, Maya Angelou
- Hemingway's boat, everything he loved in life, and lost, 1934-1961, Paul Hendrickson
- Beatific soul, Jack Kerouac on the road, Isaac Gewirtz
- James Baldwin, Randall Kenan and Amy Sickels ; [introduction by Lesléa Newman]
- Gone to the woods, surviving a lost childhood, by Gary Paulsen ; pictures by Anna and Varvara Kendel
- James Baldwin, living in fire, Bill V. Mullen
- Orion on the dunes, a biography of Henry Beston, by Daniel G. Payne
- The discomfort zone, a personal history, Jonathan Franzen
- Perfectly miserable, guilt, God and real estate in a small town, Sarah Payne Stuart
- Lots of candles, plenty of cake, Anna Quindlen
- My life as a villainess, essays, Laura Lippman
- Looking back, a book of memories, Lois Lowry
- The heart of a woman, Maya Angelou
- Letter to my daughter, Maya Angelou
- Figures in a landscape, people and places : essays: 2001-2016, Paul Theroux
- We loved it all, a memory of life, Lydia Millet
- Lost names, scenes from a Korean boyhood, Richard E. Kim
- The story of Charlotte's Web, E. B. White's eccentric life in nature and the birth of an American classic, Michael Sims
- Together, memoir of a marriage and a medical mishap, by Judy Goldman
- This boy's life, a memoir, Tobias Wolff
- Becoming Dr. Seuss, Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination, Brian Jay Jones
- On writing, a memoir of the craft, by Stephen King
- Plant dreaming deep
- Hemingway., a Florentine Films production ; directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward ; produced by Sarah Botstein, Lynn Novick, Ken Burns, DVD/Widescreen
- I know why the caged bird sings, Maya Angelou
- Updike, Adam Begley
- Townie, a memoir, Andre Dubus III
- Mencken, the American iconoclast, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers