Favorite Fiction/Memoirs
Explore our curated list of favorite fiction memoirs—discover captivating stories that blend truth and imagination. Find your next great read today!
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Lady Oracle
by Margaret Atwood
From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—the "brilliant and funny" story (Joan Didion, bestselling author of Let Me Tell You What …
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Wilderness Tips
by Margaret Atwood
Some writers have moments when they change the way we look at ourselves and the world, but Margaret Atwood has them all the time. In …
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Surfacing
by Margaret Atwood
From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—this story of an artist who goes in search of her missing father on a …
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Cat's Eye
by Margaret Atwood
A breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life—from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Disturbing, …
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The Edible Woman
by Margaret Atwood
The novel that put the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments on the literary map. The Booker Prize winner's first novel is …
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Alias Grace
by Margaret Atwood
The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments reveals the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century in …
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Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the internationally acclaimed MaddAddam trilogy is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the …
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (The New York …
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
Sethe. Proud and beautiful, she escaped from slavery but is haunted by its heritage - from the fires of the flesh to the heartbreaking challenges …
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Bird by Bird
by Anne Lamott
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An essential volume for generations of writers young and old. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this modern classic will continue …
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Operating Instructions
by Anne Lamott
It seems no mother of a newborn has ever been more hilarious, more honest, or more touching than Ann Lamott is in OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS. A …
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Dry
by Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Burroughs describes his experiences working in advertising in Manhattan and chronicles his battle with alcoholism.
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Night Bloom
by Mary Cappello
Of the mysterious Night Blooming Cereus, Mary Cappello writes: "The flower fell into our neighborhood like a shooting star." That neighborhood was a working-class suburb …
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain De Botton
A bestselling author draws on the work of one of history’s most important writers to show us how to best live life in a book …
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Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway is the portrait of a single day in a woman's life.
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A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
Woolf's celebrated essay based on the thesis that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
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Hildegard of Bingen
by Saint Hildegard
In one series, the original writings of the universally acknowledged teachers of the Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish, and Islamic traditions have been critically selected, …
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New Seeds of Contemplation
by Thomas Merton
On spiritual rebirth through encounter with God in an expanded version, by the author of Seven Storey Mountain.
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Under the Banner of Heaven
by Jon Krakauer
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated …
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The Woman Warrior
by Maxine Hong Kingston
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it …
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Chögyam Trungpa
by Fabrice Midal
"His work was unique in its emphasis on a secular rather than religious approach to spirituality. Among the practices that he encouraged his students to …