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Addario, L. (2015). It's What I Do:  A Photographer's Life of Love and War.  New York:  Penguin Press.

Albright, M. (2009).  Read My Pins:  Stories of a Diplomat's Jewel Box. New York:  Harper Collins.

Ali, A. (2007).  Infidel
.  New York:  Free Press.

Alinejad, M. (2018).  New York: Little, Brown and Company.

Allende, I. (1995).  Paula. New York:  Harper Collins.

Alexander, J. (2013)  Chasing Chaos. New York:  Broadway Books.

Anderson, J. (2000). A Year by the Sea. New York:  Crown Publishing.

Andrews, J. (2008) Home:  A Memoir of My Early Years. New York:  Hyperion.

Angleou, M. (1986) All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes.  New York:  Random House.

_________. (1975) Gather Together in My Name.  New York:  Random House.

__________. (1969) Now I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.  New York:  Random House.

__________. (1976) Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas.  New York:  Random House.

Armstrong, K. (2004). The Spiral Staircase:  My Climb Out of Darkness.  New York:  Knopf Doubleday.

___________. (1982). Through the Narrow Gate:  A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery.  New York:  St. Martins Press.

Arroyo, R. (2005). Mother Angelica:  The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve and a Network of Miracles.  New York:  Doubleday.

Bachrach, N. (2009). The Center of the Universe:  A Memoir.  New York:  Knopf Doubleday.

Baer, R and Baer, D. (2011). The Company We Keep:  A Husband and Wife True-Life Spy Story.  New York:  Crown Publishing.

Bagget, J., Corbett, J. and Pressner, A.  (2012). The Lost Girls:  Three Friends, Four Continents and One Unconventional Detour Around the World.  New York:  Harper Collins.

Barker, K. (2010)  The Taliban Shuffle.  New York: Penguin Random House.

Barraco, J. ( 2015). The Butterfly Groove. She Writes Press.

Bartels, P. (2012).  King Peggy:  An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village.  New York:  Knopf.

Batalion, J. (2021). The Light of Days. New York: William Morrow. 
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Bayer-Sager, C. (2016). They're Playing Our Song.  New York:  Simon and Shuster.

Bloom, M. (2014). Molly's Game.  New York:  Harper Collins. 

Bolz-Weber, N. (2015). Accidental Saints:  Finding God in All the Wrong People.  New York:  Convergent Books.

Braestrup, K. (2008).  Here If You Need Me:  A True Story.  New York:  Little, Brown and Co.

Braestrup, K, (2011)  Marriage and Other Acts of Charity.   New York:  Little, Brown and Co.


Braestrup, K. (2015) Anchors and Flares.  New York:  Little Brown and Company. 

Bragg, R. (1997).  All Over But the Shoutin'.  New York:  Knopf Doubleday.

Breen, C. (2003). When Summers in the Meadow.  New York:  Soho Press.

Briggs, K. (2007). Double-Crossed:  Uncovering the Catholic Churches Betrayal Of American Nun.  New York:  Knopf Doubleday.

Britain, V. (2005). Testament of Youth.  New York:  Penguin.

Brooks, G. (1991)  Foreign Correspondence:  A Pen Pals Journey from Down Under to All Over.  New York:  Knopf Doubleday.

Brown Taylor. B. (2009). Leaving Church:  A Memoir of Faith.  New York: Harper Collins.

Caldwell, G. (2010) Let's Take the Long Way Home:  A Memoir of Friendship.  New York:  Random House.

Carter, J. (2008) A Remarkable Mother.  New York:  Simon and Schuster.

Chang. J. (1991). Wild Swans: Three Daughter of China.  New York:  Simon and Schuster.

Cheny, T. (2008).  Manic:  A Memoir.  New York:  Harper Collins.

Child, J.  (2006).  My Life in France. New York: Knopf.

Chilton, K. (2010).  Hazel Scott:   The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUAC.  Ann Arbor:  U of Michigan Press.

Chozick, A. (2018). Chasing Hillary.  ​New York: Harper.

Chung, N. (2018).  All You Can Ever Know.  New York:  Catapult. 

Codell, R. (1999).  Educating Esme:  Diary of a Teacher's 1st Year.   Chapel Hill:  Algonquin Books.

Cohen, A. (2009). What I Thought I Knew:  A Memoir.  New York:  Penguin.

Collins, G. (2009). When Everything Changed:  The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present.  New York:  Little, Brown and Co.

Conway, J. (1990).  The Road From Coorain.  New York:  Knopf Doubleday.

Cooney, K. (2014).  The Woman Who Would Be King:  New York:  Crown Publishing.

Cooper, H. (2009).  The House on Sugar Beach. New York:  Simon and Schuster.

Cooper, H.  (2017). 
Madame President:  The Extraordinary Life of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.  New York: Simon and Schuster.

Copeland, M. (2014). Life in Motion:  An Unlikely Ballerina.  New York:  Touchstone Books.

Cordery, S. (2007).  Alice:  Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker.  New York:  Wiking.

Cross, J. (2006).  Secret Daughter:  A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away.  New York:  Viking.

Cunningham, L. (2000).  Sleeping Arrangements. New York:  Penguin.

David, A. (2015). An Improbable Friendship. New York: Arcade.

Davis, B. (2019).  The World According to Fannie Davis.  New York:  Hachette Books

DeWoskin, R. (2006).  Foreign Babes in Bejing.  New York:  Norton, W.W. & Company.

Didion, J. (2005).  The Year of Magical Thinking.  New York:  Knopf Doubleday.

Dinan, K. (2017). The Yellow Envelope.  Naperville, Ill.:  Sourcebooks.

Dorey-Stein. (2018).  From the Corner of the Oval.  ​New York:  Speigel and Gray.

Downey, K. (2014).  Isabella:  The Warrior Queen. New York:  Random House.

Drummond, R. (2011).  The Pioneer Woman:  Black Heels to Tractor Wheels--A Love Story.  New York:  Harper Collins.

Dye, J. (2010). Growing Older:  A Chronicle of Death, Life and Vegetables.  New York:  Chelsea Green.

Dumas, F. (2008).  Laughing Without an Accent.  New York:  Random House.

Dunn, J. (2007). But Enough About Me:  A Jersey Girl's Unlikely Adventures Among the Absurdly Famous.  New York:  Harper Collins.

Durham, J. (2105).  The Hand on the Mirror.  New York:  Grand Central Publishing.

Erelle, A. (2015) In the Skin of a Jihadist:  A Young Journalist Enters the ISIS Recruit.  New York:  Harper Collins.

Enss, C. (2005).  Hearts West:  True Stories of Mail Order Brides on the Frontier.  Globe Pequot Press.

Ephron, N.  (2008).  I Feel Bad About My Neck:  And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman.  New York:  Knopf Doubleday.

Essinger, J. (2014). Ada"s Algorithm. New York:  Melville Publishing.

Evans, R. (2015). Searching for Sunday. New York:  Harper Collins. 

Evans, R. (2021) Wholehearted Faith. New York: Harper One.

Fagone, J. (2018).  The Woman Who Smashed Codes.  New York:  Harper Collins.

Fiorina, C. (2006).  Tough Choices:  A Memoir.  New York:  Penguin.

Fisher, T. (2018).  My Girls.  New York:  Harper Collins.

Flynn, L. ( 2009).  Swallow the Ocean:  A Memoir.  New York:  Counterpoint.

Forna, A. (2021). The Window Seat. New York:  Grove Press. 
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Fox. A. (2019).  Life Undercover.  New York:  Random House.

Fox, M. (2013).  The Riddle of the Labyrinth.  New York:  Harper Collins.

Fraser, Antonia. (2001). Marie Antoinette:  The Journey.  New York:  Knopf Doubleday.

Frick, K.  (2007).  Life in the Frontal Lobe.  New York:  Random House.

Fulwiler, J.  (2014).  Something Other Than God.  San Francisco:  Ignatius Press.

Gage, N. (1983). Eleni. New York: Random House.

Gallagher, D. (2002). How I Came into my Inheritance: and other True Stories.  New York:  Knopf Doubleday.

Garis, L. (2008).  House of Happy Endings.  New York:  Farras, Straus, Giroux.

Geniesse, J. (2001).  Passionate Nomad.  New York: Modern Library.

Gilbert. E. (2006).  Eat, Pray, Love:  One Woman's Search for Everything.  New York:  Penguin.

Gilman, D. (1989). A New Kind of Country.  New York:


Goldberg, M. (2105).  The Goddess Pose.  New York:  Knopf.

Goodman, M. (2013).  Eighty Days:  Nellie Bly and Elisabeth Bisland's Race Around the World. New York:  Random House.

Grandin, T. (1995).  Thinking in Pictures:  My Life with Autism. New York:  Vintage Books.

Grealy, L. and Patchett, A. (2003). Autobiography of a Face.  New York:  Houghton Mifflin.

Grieson, B. (2014).  What Makes Olga Run? ​New York:  Holt and Sons.

Gruber, R. (2010).  Haven.  New York:  Open Road Media.

Hancock, N. (2011).  My Year With Eleanor.  New York:  Harper Collins.

Hawking, J. (2014). Traveling to Infinity. New York:  Alma Publishing.

Hazlip, S. (1995).  The Sweeter the Juice.  New York:  Free Press.

Hegar, M. (2017). Shoot Like A Girl. New York: Berkly.

Henderson, A. (2013). Un-Remarried Widow. New York, Simon and Schuster.

Hepburn, K. (1991). ME:  Stories of My Life.  New York:  Random House.

Hirshman, L. (2015).  Sisters in Law. New York: Harper Collins.

Holt. N. (2016). Rise of the Rocket Girls. New York:  LIttle, Brown and Company.

Immonen, J. (2014). Row For Freedom. New York:  Thomas Nelson.

Issacson, W. (2021). The Code Breakers. New York:  Simon and Schuster.
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Iverster, J. (2015). Outskirts of Hope. Amazon Digital Services.

Janzen, R. (2009).  Mennonite in a Little Black Dress.  New York:  Holt Henry.

Jahren, H. (2016). Lab Girl. New York:  Knopf

Javins, M. (2006).  Stalking the Wild Dik Dik:  One Woman's Solo Misadventure across Africa.  New York:  Avalon.

Jordan M. and Sullivan, K. (2006). Prison Angel. New York: Penguin.

Kaplan, J. (2020).  The Genius of Women. New York: Dutton.

Karr, M. (2005).  The Liar's Club:  A Memoir.  New York:  Penguin.

Keller, H. (1903).  The Story of My Life.  New York:  Penguin.

Kiernan, D. (2013).  The Girls of Atomic City.  New York:  Touchstone.

Killilea, M. (1952).  Karen.  New York:  Random House.

Kimmel, H. (2002). A Girl Named Zippy:  Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana.  New York:  Crown Publishing.

King, M. (2015). Bastards:  A memoir. (2015).  New York: W.W. Norton and Co.

King, C. (2012).  A Natural Woman.  New York:  Grand Central Publishing.


Koppel, L. (2013) The Astronauts' Wives Club. New York:  Grand Central Publishing

________. (2008).  The Red Leather Diary:  reclaiming a life through the pages of a journal.  New York:  Harper.

Kubker. E. (1998). The Wheel of Life:  A Memoir of Living and Dying.  New York:  Scribner.

Kuhn, W.  (2010).  Reading Jackie:  An Autobiography in Books.  New York:  Doubleday.

Lamott. A. (2008). Grace (Eventually) Thoughts on Faith.  New York:  Penguin.

________.
(2006).  Plan B:  Further Thoughts on Faith.  New York:  Penguin.

________. (2014).  Small Victories:  Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace.  New York: Penguin.

________. (2000). Traveling Mercies:  Some Thoughts on Faith.  New York:  Penguin.

Lauer, B. (2004).  Hiding in Plain Sight.  Hanover, New Hampshire:  Smith and Kraus.

Lauck, J. (2001).  Blackbird:  A Childhood Lost and Found.  New York:  Washington Square Press.

Lee, H. (2015). The Girl With Seven Names. New York:  Harper Collins.


Lemmon, G. (2011).  The Dressmaker of Khair Khana.  New York:  Harper Collins.

__________. (2015). Ashley's War. New York: Harper.


Lepore, J. (2013).  Book of Ages:  The LIfe and Opinions of Jane Franklin.  New York:  Alfred Knopf.

L'Engle, M. (1984).  The Irrational Season.  New York:  Harper Collins.

Linbergh, A.  (1955). Gift From the Sea.  New York:  Knopf Doubleday.

Lindhout, A. and Corbett, S. (2014) A House in the Sky. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Lin-Liu, J. (2008).  Serve the People:  A Stir Fried Journey Through China.  New York:  Houghton Mifflin.

Lovell, M. (1992).  Cast No Shadow.  New York:  Norton and Company.

Lovell, M.  (2003).  The Sisters:  The Saga of the Mitford Family.  New York:  Norton and Company.

Mabry. D. (2014). Maude. Amazon Digital Services.

MacLaine, S. (1986).  Out on a Limb.  New York:  Random House.

Maeder, J.  (2014).  When I Married My Mother. New York:  Vivant Press.

Mahmoody, B. (1987).  Not Without My Daughter.  New York:  St. Martin's Press.

Major, C. (2007). Come by Here.  New York:  Wiley.

Malley, B. (1991).  Take my ex-husband but not too far. 

Markham, B. (1982).  West With the Night.  New York:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Massie, R. (2011).  Catherine the Great:  Portrait of a Woman.  New York:  Simon and Schuster.

Mayes, F. (1996).  Under the Tuscan Sun:  At Home in Italy.  New York:  Crown Publishing.

Mazzeo. T. (2018). Eliza Hamilton.  New York:  Simon and Schuster.

McBride, R. (2015).  Ghost Songs. New York:  Tin House.

MacRae, S. (2014). A World Elsewhere:  An American Woman in Wartime Germany.  New York:  Penguin.

McBride, J. (2006).  The Color of Water:  A Black Man's Tribute to HIs White Mother.  New York:  Penguin.

McCarthy, M. (1972).  Memories of a Catholic Girlhood.  New York:  Houghton Mifflin.

McClure. T. (2009). A Pearl in the Storm.  New York Harper Collins.

Metaxas. E. (2015). Seven Women: And the Secret of Their Greatness.  New York:  Harper Collins


Millner, C. (2007).  The Golden Road.  New York:  Penguin Press.

Min, A (1994).  Red Azalea.  New York:  Knopf Doubleday.

Moerke, D. (2019).  Murder, Motherhood and Miraculous Grace.  New YOrk: Tyndale Press.


Molloy, A. (2013).  However Long the Night. New York: New York. Harper Collins.

Montgomery, B. (2014). Grandma Gatewood's Walk:  The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail.  Chicago:  Chicago Review Press.

Moore, K. (2017). Radium Girls:  The Dark Story of America's Shining Girls.  Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks.

Morris, S. (1997).  Rage to Fame.  Random House:  New York.


_______. (1980). Edith Kermit Roosevelt:  Portrait of a First Lady.  New York:  Modern Library

Mosley, L. (2015). Driving Hungry. New York: Random House.

Mulgrew, K. (2019). New York: William Murrow.

Mundy, L. (2017) Code Girls. New York:  Hatchette.

Murray, P. (1987).  Song in a Weary Throat. New York:  Harper and Row.

Muzyka, Z. (2014).  Life by the Cup. New York: Atria Books.

Nafisi, A. (2003).  Reading Lolita in Tehran. New York:  Random House.

Neal, M. (2011).  To Heaven and Back. New York:  Doubleday Publishing.

Neal, T. (2018). Freckled. 

Nemirovsky, I. (2006).  Suite Francaise.  New York:  Knopf Doubleday.

Nies, J. (2008).  The Girl I Left Behind.  New York:  Harper Collins.

Nimura, J. (2021).  The Doctors Blackwell.  New York: Norton.


Niven, J. (2003).  Ada Blackfoot:  A True Story of Survival in the Arctic.  New York:  Hyperion.

Noor, Q. (2003). Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life. New York: Miramax.

Novak, M.  (1992).  Lonely Girls with Burning Eyes.  New York:  Little and Brown

Novogratz, J. (2009). The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World.
   
 New York: Rodate Press.

Obama, M. (2018). Becoming. New York: Crown Publishing.

O'Brien, K. (2018). Fly Girls.  New York: Houghton Mifflin.

Odele, K. & Posner, J. (2015).  Find Me Unafraid. New York:  Harper-Collins.

Olson, L. (2019).  Madame Fourcades Secret War.  New York: Random House.

O'Neill, M. (2006). Mostly True: A Memoir of Family, Food and Baseball. New York: Scribner.


Osborne, F. (2008). The Bolter.  New York: Random House.

Packard, J. (1999).  Victoria's Daughters. New York:  St. Martins Press.

Pandl, J. (2012). Memoirs of a Sunday Brunch. Chapel Hill N.C.:  Algonquin Books.

Parker, S. (2020).  A Game of Birds and Wolves.  New York: Little and Brown.

Parravani, C. (2013) Her. New York:  MacMilllan and Company.

Patchett, A. (2013).  This is the Story of a Happy Marriage.  New York:  Harper Collins.

_________ (2005). Truth and Beauty: A Friendship. New York: Harper Collins.

__________(2021). These Precious Days.  New York:  Harper Collins.

Patterson, K. (2014). Stories of My life. New York:  Dial Publishing.

Pauley. J. (2005).  Sky Writing:  A life Out of the Blue.  New York:  Random House.

Payne. D. (2019). Diamond Doris.  New York: Headline.

Pearson, J. (2014). Wolves at the Door.  New York: Diversion Books.

Peirce. L. (2017). Empress of the East. New York:  Basic Books.

Peterson, B. (2010). I Want to be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth. New York: De Capo Publishing.

Peterson, M. (2015).  White Dresses. New York:  William Morrow.

Piper, K. (2018).  A Girl's Guide to Missiles. New York:  Penguin Press.
 
Pola, V. (2013).  A Bridge Between:  Northern Italy Come Hell or High Water. New York:  Pesciolino Press.

Popham, P. (2011).  The Lady and the Peacock:  the Life of Aung San Suu Kyi.  New York:  Edbury.

Powell, J. (2009). Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously. New York: Viking Press.    

Power, S. (2019).  The Education of an Idealist.  New York:  Harper-Collins.

Prejean, H. (2019).  River of Fire.  New York: Random House.

Rapp, E. (2013).  The Still Point of the Turning World.  New York:  Penguin Press.

Rappaport. H. (2014). The Romanov Sisters:  The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra. New York:  St. Martin's Press.


Reichl, R. (2010). Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table. New York: Random House.

Reichel. R. (2019).  Save Me the Plums.  New York:  Random House.

Rehman, S. (2016) Threading My Prayer Rug. New York:  Archade Publishing.

Rice, C. (2010).  Extraordinary Ordinary People:  A Family Memoir.  New York:  Crown Publishing.

Rice. S. (2020). Tough Love.  New York: Simon and Schuster.


Richman, J. (2005).  Riding with the Shadows of Saints.  New York:  Crown Publishing.

Roberts, C.  (2004).  Founding Mothers.  New York:  Harper Collins.

__________. (2000).  From This Day Forward.  New York:  Harper Collins.

Roberts, S, (2021). Cokie: A Life Well Lived.  New York:  Harper.

Rodriquez, D. (2007).  Kabul Beauty School.  New York:  Random House.

Rosenblatt, D. (2013).  After the Apple:  Women in the Bible:  Love, Lust and Longing. New York:  Mediterranean Publishing

Rowell, V. (2008). The Women Who Raised Me. New York: Harper Collins.

Rowley, J. (2006).  Whisper My Secret. New York:  Penguin.

Russell, S. (2008). Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist. New York: Basic Books.

Salda, S. (2010). The Bread of Angels: A Journey to Love and Faith. New York: Knopf Doubleday.

Sarton, M. (1996).  The House by the Sea.  New York:  Norton, W. W. and Company.


Schwalbe, A. (2012).  The End of Your Life Book Club.  New York:  Knopf.

Schiff, S. (2010). Cleopatra: A Live. New York: Little. Brown and Company.

Schlyer, K. (2016). Almost Anywhere. New York: Skyhorse Publishing.

Schreiber. L. (1996).  Midstream.  New York:  Globe Pequot Press.

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Schultz, C. (2007).  And His Lovely Wife. New York:  Random House.

Schulman, C. (2016). Her Again. New York:
Harper.

Sensbach, J. (2005).  Rebecca's Revival:  Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World. Cambridge, Ma:  Harvard U Press.

Sesay, I. (2019).  Beneath the Tamarind Tree. New York:  Harper Collins.


Shapiro. D (2010).  Devotion.  New York:  Harper-Collins.

Shapiro, D. (2019). Inheritance. New York:  Harper-Collins. 

Skloot, R. (2010). The Immortal Life of Henrietta Sacks. New York: Crown Publishing.

Slaughter, C. (2002). Before the Knife: Memoirs of an African Childhood. New York: Knopf Doubleday.


Slevin,. P. (2015). Michelle Obama: A Life.  New York: Knopf Publishing.

Silverman, S. (2016).  Casting Lots. Boston:  Da Capo Press.

Sotomayor, S. (2013)  My Beloved World  New York:  Knopf Doubleday.

Souder, W. (2012).  On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson.  New York:  Crown Publishing.

Spacek, S. (2012).  Sissy Spacek:  My extraordinary, ordinary life.  New York:  Hyperion.

Specht, R. (1997). Tisha:  the Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness.  New York: Bantam Books.


Spurling, H. (2010). Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth. New York: Simon and Schuster.

St. John, W. (2009) Outcasts United:  An American Town, A Refuge Team and One Woman's Quest of Make a Difference. New York:  Spiegel and Grau.

Steinhem, G. (2015).  My Life on the Road.  New York:  Random House.

Stewart, E. (2008) Letters of a Woman Homesteader.  New York:  BiblioBazaar.

Stern, J. (2010). Denial: A Memoir of Terror. New York: Harper Collins.

Stevenson, W.  (2011).  Spymistress:  The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of WWII. New York:  Arcade Publishing.

Strayed, C. (2012).  Wild:  From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.  New York:  Knopf, Doubleday.

Summit. P. (2013). Sum It Up. New York:  Random House.

Thieme, E. (2014). Kilimanjaro Diaries. New York:  Create Space.

Tirone-Smith, M. (2005). Girls of a Tender Age. New York: Free Press

​Trewethey, N. (2020). Memorial Drive. New York: Ecco.

Trillium, C. (2006).  About Alice.  New York:  Random House

​Tur, K. (2017).  Unbelievable:  My Front Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History.  New York:  Harper Collins.

Turner, T. (2018).  Tina Turner: My Love Story. New York:  Simon and Schuster.
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Tweit, S. (2009). Walking Nature Home: A Life's Journey. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Valentine, S. (2019).  When I Was White.  New York:  St. Martins Press.


Volk, P.  (2013). Shocked:  My Mother, Schiaparelli and Me.  New York:  Random House.

.Volk, P. (2002).  Stuffed:  Adventures of a Restaurant Family. New York:  Knopf Doubleday.

Walker, A. (1996).  The Same Road Twice.  New York:  Scribner.

Wall, C. (2014).  Mr. Owita's Guide to Gardening.  New York:  Penguin Press.

Wallach, J. (2005). The Desert Queen:  The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell:  Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia.
        New York:  Knopf DoubleDay.

Walls, J.  (2006).  The Glass Castle.  New York:  Scribner.

Ward, C. (2021).  On All Fronts. New York: Penguin Books. 
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Weber, C. (2011)  Surprised by Oxford. New York:  Harper Collins


Weiss, M.  (2010).  Tide, Feather, Snow:  A Life in Alaska.  New York:  Harper Collins.

Welch, L. (2009).  The Kids Are All Right.  New York:  Random House.

Weller, S. (2008).  Girls Like Us:  Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon and the Journey of a Generation.  New York:  Washington Square Press.

________ 
(2015)  The News Sorority.  ​New York:  Penguin Press

West, J. (1976).  The Woman Said Yes.  New York:  Harvest Books.

Westover, T. (2018). Educated. New York: Random House.

Wheelwright, J. (2012).  The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess.  New York: W.W. Norton. 

Wickendon, D. (2011). Nothing Daunted:  The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West.  New York:  Scribner.

Williams-Paisley, K. (2017). Where the Light Gets In. New York:  Three Rivers.

Willner, N. (2016).  40 Autumns:  
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