FUNNY/SAD/QUIRKY/HAUNTING memoir of a difficult childhood and coming of age as an outsider in rural Arkansas.

CANDID AND HEARTFELT memoir of a difficult marriage, sudden widowhood tries a bit too hard for simple answers.

THOUGHTFUL, POETIC MEMOIR of an evangelical girlhood by a writer who came to find the divine in nature.

THE FUNNIEST BOOK yet about sleep disorders! A comedian’s jokey, frank memoir of these and other challenges.

BRUTALLY CANDID, SNARKILY funny memoir of an anxious childhood in 1970s North Carolina.

DOWAGER QUEEN of memoir Diana Athill shares the story of her complex friendship with a gifted but troubled man.

QUIRKY, OFTEN POETIC memoir of art, nature, family, and Native culture from Leslie Marmon Silko.

FASCINATING PREMISE–a woman’s diary of a year spent celibate by choice–doesn’t pan out. Psychobabble ahoy!

THOUGHTFUL, UPBEAT, sometimes hilarious memoir by a lesbian mom whose partner was birth mom to their daughter. B PLUS

SHE LOOKS JUST LIKE YOU: A MEMOIR OF (NONBIOLOGICAL LESBIAN) MOTHERHOOD
Beacon
2010

A DECAYING HIGH-SOCIETY family and its wild dysfunctions, made vivid in this memoir by a Vanderbilt descendant. B PLUS

DEAD END GENE POOL: A MEMOIR
Gotham Books
2010