Niles Public Library District

Biographies & Memoirs

Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee	by Charles J. Shields
Diary of a Young Girl	by Anne Frank
Dreams From My Father	by Barack Obama
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare	by Stephen Greenblatt
My Life in France	by Julia Child
Traveling Mercies	by Anne Lamott
Running with Scissors	by Augusten Burroughs
Glass Castle	by Jeanette Walls
Liar’s Club	by Mary Karr
Tender at the Bone	by Ruth Reichl
Language of Baklava	by Diana Abu-Jaber
Lipstick Jihad	by Azadeh Moaveni
All Over but the Shoutin’	by Rick Bragg
Life and Times of Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir	by Bill Bryson
Road from Coorain	by Jill Ker Conway
Cheaper by the Dozen	by Frank B. Gilbreth
Wait Til Next Year	by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Rocket Boys	by Homer Hickam
West with the Night	by Beryl Markham
Angela’s Ashes	by Frank McCourt
Reading Lolita in Tehran	by Azar Nafisi
Here if You Need Me	by Kate Braestrup
Florist’s Daughter	by Patricia Hampl
Story of Chicago May	by Nuala O’Faolain
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake	by Frank W. Abagnale
Don’t Let’s Go To the Dogs Tonight	by Alexandra Fuller
A Girl Named Zippy	by Haven Kimmel
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	by Maya Angelou
It’s Not About the Bike	by Lance Armstrong
Story of My Life	by Helen Keller
A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic, 1994	by Sylvia Nasar
Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life	by Julia Bloch Frey
Kate Remembered	by Scott A. Berg
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius	by Dave Eggers
Marie Antoinette: The Journey	by Antonia Fraser
Personal History	by Katharine Graham
Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother	by James McBride
Crazy Horse	by Larry McMurtry
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values	by Robert Pirsig
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago	by Mike Royko
Tuesdays With Morrie	by Mitch Albom
An American Childhood	by Annie Dillard
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America	by Firoozeh Dumas
What Falls Away	by Mia Farrow
Living to Tell the Tale	by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
Worth Fighting For	by John McCain
Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan	by Edmund Morris
Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth	by Richard Wright
Paula	by Isabel Allende
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited	by Vladimir Nabokov
Up From Slavery	by Booker T. Washington
Autobiography of Malcolm X	by Malcolm X
Madam Secretary	by Madeleine Albright
My Life	by Bill Clinton
Living History	by Hillary Clinton
My American Journey	by Colin Powell
My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan	by Nancy Reagan