It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. – James A. Baldwin
Memoir
My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir by Samantha Abeel ’00
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Shanghai Diary by Ursula Bacon
The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison
Lit! by Mary Karr
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lourde
The Color of Water by James McBride
Who Do You Think You Are? by Alyse Myers
Speak Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Monsoon Diary: A Memoir With Recipes by Shoba Narayan (Shoba Narayanaswamy CG ’87)
Paradise, Piece by Piece by Molly Peacock
Still Loved by the Sun by Migael Scherer
This Is How I Speak by Sandi Sonnenfeld ’85
Darkness Visible by William Styron
A Man without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
Night by Elie Weisel
Personal Essays/Commentary
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Burning Bush by Polly Laszlo Brody ’55
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
The White Album by Joan Didion
Why I’m Like This by Cynthia Kaplan
Living Out Loud by Anna Quindlan
The Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez
Naked by David Sedaris
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
Promiscuities by Naomi Wolf
Travel & Nature Writing
Honey from the Lion: An African Journal by Wendy Belcher ’84
Wendy Belcher '84
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
From Paris to the Moon by Adam Gropnik
High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver
The Big Oyster by Mark Kurlansky
Writing on Stone: Scenes from a Maine Island Life by Christina Marsden Gillis ’60
