Tag Archives: Personal Memoirs

The Butterfly Mosque

by G. Willow Wilson

The extraordinary story of an all-American girl’s conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with a young Egyptian man, The Butterfly Mosque is a…

The Broken King

by Michael Thomas

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD From the author of Man Gone Down—a New…

Beautiful Thing

by Sonia Faleiro

“A tour de force of heartrending reportage . . . which blends rigorous journalistic research with the narrative skills of a novelist. . ….

Bandit

by Molly Brodak

A “raw, poetic and compulsively readable” (Kathryn Stockett) memoir by a woman whose father robbed banks.

Barefoot to Avalon

by David Payne

From New York Times notable author David Payne, “the most gifted American novelist of his generation” (Dallas Morning News), comes an astonishing memoir of…

All Tomorrow’s Parties

by Rob Spillman

Rob Spillman’s intimate, spirited memoir of his fierce pursuit of an artistic life as a young man and a lively portrait of Berlin in…

About My Life and the Kept Woman

by John Rechy

“A small-town lad’s awakening, sexual and intellectual–which takes him to big-city demimondes and books that begged, in their day, to be banned. . ….