FIRST, YOU CRY by Betty Rollin The 1976 memoir by the NBC news reporter who was unexpectedly diagnosed with breast...

SKYWRITING: A LIFE OUT OF THE BLUE By Jane Pauley The former anchorwoman’s sudden diagnosis of manic-depressive illness, and successful...

ARE YOU THERE, GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET. by Judy Blume The difficulties tolerating female adolescence. FROM THE MIXED UP FILES...

ON REFLECTION by Helen Hayes The First Lady of the American Theatre “speaks.” AN UNFINISHED WOMAN by Lillian Hellman The...

LUST FOR LIFE by Irving Stone A “biographical” novel of Vincent Van Gogh. First published in 1934. ONE WRITER’S BEGINNINGS...

BLACKBERRY WINTER by Margaret Mead The anthropologist’s autobiography. WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand In this, the author’s debut 1936...

FOREVER AMBER by Kathleen Winsor When the book appeared in 1944, the public immediately began to talk about Amber St....

  KOOP by C. Everett Koop, M.D. The autobiography of Ronald Reagan’s controversial Surgeon General. 700 Sundays Billy Crystal reminiscences...

Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng A good idea of what the Chinese Cultural Revolution was all about....

Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann This 1966 novel blew away the “beautiful” myths about Hollywood. A thirty-million copy...

My Antonia by Willa Cather Written in 1918, Willa Cather’s, MY ANTONIA, tells the story of Antonia Shimerda, an immigrant...

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Exposes the horrid working and living conditions tolerated by the migrant workers in...