Category Notable Nonfiction

Tuesdays With Morrie Mitch Albom Memoir “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”   Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older,…

The Glass Castle Jeanette Walls Memoir  The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his…

Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil John Berendt  True Crime Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting…

Heart Berries Terese Marie Mailhot Memoir Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder, Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins…

Educated Tara Westover Memoir Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure…

Look Me In The Eye John Elder Robison Memoir From the time he was three or four years old, John Elder Robison realised that he was different from other people. He was unable to make eye contact or connect with…

When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor…

Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance Memoir The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty…

The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down Anne Fadiman  Memoir

If You Tell Gregg Olsen True Crime After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now.…