- The Tradition - Jericho Brown
- Deathbed Sext - Christopher Salerno
- Rough Draft: AMemoir - Katy Tur
- Lit - Mary Karr
- Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
- Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
- And We Stay - Jenny Hubbard
- The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
- Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom - Sylvia Plath
- The Art of Memoir - Mary Karr
- Bird Songs in Literature: Bird Songs and the Poems They Have Inspired - Joseph Wood Krutch
- Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath - Heather Clark
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin - Kip Wilson
* these I have finished there are a number I am still reading at this time.