Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt

Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy

Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found, by Jennifer Lauck

Chinese Cinderella, by Adeline Yen Mah

The Color of Love, by Gene Cheek

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, by James McBride

Girl, Interrupted, by Susan Kaysen

Hole in My Life, by Jack Gantos

I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust, by L. Bitton-Jackson

Into the Wild, by John Krakaur

It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life, by Lance Armstrong

King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography, by Chris Crutcher

Little Girl Lost, by Drew Barrymore

Little X, Sonsyrea Tate

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah 

Lucky, by Alice Sebold

No Excuses: The True Story of a Congenital Amputee Who Became a Champion in Wrestling and Life, by Kyle Maynard

A Piece of Cake: A Memoir, by Cupcake Brown

Project Girl, by Janet McDonald

Slave, by Mende Nazar and Damien Lewis

Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self, by Lori Gottlieb

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, by Marya Hornbacher

When I Was Elena, by Ellen Urbani Hiltebrand  

When I Was a Soldier, by Valerie Zenatti