- Cheever, a life, Blake Bailey
- The selected letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, edited by William Anderson
- Mockingbird, a portrait of Harper Lee, Charles J. Shields
- The Reacher guy, the authorised biography of Lee Child, Heather Martin
- Hemingway in love, his own story/, A. E. Hotchner
- Brother, I'm dying, Edwidge Danticat
- On the outskirts of normal, forging a family against the grain, Debra Monroe
- Elia Kazan, a life
- Two lives, Gertrude and Alice, Janet Malcolm
- The Thirties, from notebooks and diaries of the period, Edmund Wilson ; edited with an introduction by Leon Edel
- Salinger, David Shields, Shane Salerno
- I never left home, poet, feminist, revolutionary, Margaret Randall
- The call of stories, teaching and the moral imagination, Robert Coles
- Susan Sontag, the making of an icon, Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock
- The death of Santini, the story of a father and his son, Pat Conroy
- Burning the days, recollection, James Salter
- Townie, a memoir, Andre Dubus III
- Tasha, a son's memoir, Brian Morton
- Devils, lusts and strange desires, the life of Patricia Highsmith, Richard Bradford
- Letter to my daughter, Maya Angelou
- James Patterson, the stories of my life, [written and] read by James Patterson
- Sister mother husband dog, etc., Delia Ephron
- Tasha, a son's memoir, Brian Morton
- These precious days, Ann Patchett
- At home in the world, a memoir, Joyce Maynard
- Hemingway at war, Ernest Hemingway's adventures as a World War II correspondent, Terry Mort
- Dreamer of Dune, the biography of Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert
- Sontag, her life, Benjamin Moser
- Pure joy, Danielle Steel
- The princess diarist, Carrie Fisher ; read by Carrie Fisher and Billie Lourd
- My Venice and other essays, Donna Leon
- Inside a pearl, my years in Paris, Edmund White
- Green hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway ; with illustrations by Edward Shenton
- The best of us, a memoir, Joyce Maynard
- Autumn in Venice, Ernest Hemingway and his last muse, Andrea Di Robilant
- Figures in a landscape, people and places : essays: 2001-2016, Paul Theroux
- Mother on fire, a true moth %#$@ about parenting!, Sandra Tsing Loh
- Horizon, Barry Lopez
- Senior moments, looking back, looking ahead, Willard Spiegelman
- Party of the century, the fabulous story of Truman Capote and his black and white ball, Deborah Davis
- The memory of all that, George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and my family's legacy of infidelities, Katharine Weber
- Snapshots in history's glare, Gore Vidal
- The unknown Henry Miller, a seeker in Big Sur, Arthur Hoyle
- The mockingbird next door, life with Harper Lee, Marja Mills
- James Patterson, the stories of my life, by James Patterson
- Where the past begins, a writer's memoir, Amy Tan ; read by the author
- Hemingway's Havana, a reflection of the writer's life in Cuba, Robert Wheeler
- Salinger, a film by Shane Salerno
- The best of us, a memoir, Joyce Maynard
- Hemingway's widow, the life and legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway, Timothy Christian