1. "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers
2. "A Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah 3. "A Moveable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway 4. "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson 5. "American Caesar" by William Manchester 6. "American Lion" by Jon Meacham 7. "American Prometheus" by Kai Bird 8. "American Sniper" by Chris Kyle 9. "American Sphinx" by Joseph J. Ellis 10. "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt 11. "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank 12. "Autobiography of a Face" by Lucy Grealy 13. "Autobiography of Mark Twain" by Mark Twain 14. "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton 15. "Black Boy" by Richard Wright 16. "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin 17. "Born Standing Up" by Steve Martin 18. "Born to Run" by Christopher McDougall 19. "Bossypants" by Tina Fey 20. "Cash" by Johnny Cash 21. "Catherine the Great" by Robert K. Massie 22. "Chronicles" by Bob Dylan 23. "Churchill: A Life" by Martin Gilbert 24. "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose 25. "Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness" by William Styron 26. "De Profundis and Other Prison Writings" by Oscar Wilde 27. "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight" by Alexandra Fuller 28. "Dorothy Parker" by Marion Meade 29. "Dreams from My Father" by Barack Obama 30. "Drinking: A Love Story" by Caroline Knapp 31. "Dust Tracks on a Road" by Zora Neale Hurston 32. "E=mc~2" by David Bodanis 33. "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert 34. "Endurance" by Alfred Lansing 35. "Everybody Was So Young" by Amanda Vaill 36. "Helen Keller: The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller 37. "I Am Malala" by Malala Yousafzai 38. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou 39. "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer 40. "Just Kids" by Patti Smith 41. "Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain 42. "Knock Wood" by Candice Bergen 43. "Life" by Keith Richards 44. "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela 45. "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius 46. "Mortality" by Christopher Hitchens 47. "My Life in France" by Julia Child 48. "Naked" by David Sedaris 49. "Napoleon" by Andrew Roberts 50. "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass 51. "Night" by Elie Wiesel
52. "Notes of a Native Son" by James Baldwin
53. "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac 54. "Open" by Andre Agassi 55. "Out of Africa" by Isak Dinesen 56. "Personal History" by Katharine Graham 57. "Robert A. Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson" by Robert A. Caro 58. "Running with Scissors" by Augusten Burroughs 59. "Savage Beauty" by Nancy Milford 60. "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand 61. "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher" by Timothy Egan 62. "Speak, Memory" by Vladimir Nabokov 63. "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson 64. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard P. Feynman 65. "Tennessee Williams" by John Lahr 66. "The Agony and the Ecstasy" by Irving Stone 67. "The Andy Warhol Diaries" by Andy Warhol 68. "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" by Gertrude Stein 69. "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X 70. "The Basketball Diaries" by Jim Carroll 71. "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath 72. "The Color of Water" by James McBride 73. "The Complete Maus" by Art Spiegelman 74. "The Complete Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi 75. "The Diary of Anais Nin" by Anais Nin 76. "The Diary of Frida Kahlo" by Carlos Fuentes 77. "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls 78. "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 79. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot 80. "The Kid Stays in the Picture" by Robert Evans 81. "The Last Lone Inventor" by Evan I. Schwartz 82. "The Liars' Club" by Mary Karr 83. "The Motorcycle Diaries" by Ernesto Che Guevara 84. "The Professor and the Madman" by Simon Winchester 85. "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" by Edmund Morris 86. "The Soul of A New Machine" by Tracy Kidder 87. "The Tender Bar" by J. R. Moehringer 88. "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston 89. "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion 90. "This Boy's Life" by Tobias Wolff 91. "Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr." by Ron Chernow 92. "Touching the Void" by Joe Simpson 93. "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck 94. "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand 95. "Under the Tuscan Sun" by Frances Mayes 96. "Updike" by Adam Begley 97. "Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)" by Stacy Schiff 98. "West with the Night" by Beryl Markham 99. "Wild Swans" by Jung Chang 100. "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed