Monkey Mind
....Daniel Smith
Freedom
....Jonathan Franzen
A Supposedly Funny Thing I'll Never Do Again
....David Foster Wallace
Art Objects
....Jeanette Winterson
The Black Swan
....Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Gypsy Boy
....Mikey Walsh
A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness
....Tom Davis
The Best American Essays 2011
....Edwidge Danticat, Robert Atwan
I Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives from the Other Side of Silence
....Kim Dana Kupperman
Crafting The Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Non-Fiction
....Dinty W. Moore
The Chairs Are Where the People Go: How to Live, Work, and Play in the City
....Misha Glouberman, Sheila Heti
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
....Rebecca Skloot
the imperfectionists
....Tom Rachman
Pulphead: Essays
....John Jeremiah Sullivan
What It Is Like To Go To War
....Karl Marlantes
Thinking, Fast and Slow
....Daniel Kahneman
Half-Broke Horses
....Jeannette Walls
Simply Complexity
....Neil Johnson
Wild Minds, Living the Writer's Life
....Natalie Goldberg
News from the Border
....Jane Taylor McDonnell
My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr.
....Coretta Scott King
Sunflower - On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
....Simon Wiesenthal
On Writing
....Stephen King
Naked, Drunk, and Writing
....Adair Lara
Follow the Story
....James B. Stewart
Inventing the Truth, The Art and Craft of Memoir
....Edited by William Zinsser
The Stone Gods
....Jeanette Winterson
Living to Tell the Tale
....Jane Taylor McDonnell
Thinking About Memoir
....Abigail Thomas
Writing About Your Life
....William Zinsser
Night
....Elie Wiesel
Before we Get Started
....Bret Lott
Writing Down the Bones
....Natalie Goldberg
My Father's House
....Sylvia Fraser
Fools Crow
....James Welch
No Future Without Forgiveness
....Desmond Tutu
Man's Search for Meaning
....Viktor Frankl
The Glass Castle
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Battle of the Sun
....Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
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east.bay.writer 
i appreciate this! i also appreciate finding that lovely ode to john lennon through you, as well. cheers!
Thanks for stopping by and commenting! It made me laugh so hard, I couldn’t resist sharing it.
Thanks so much for the recommendation, EBW.
Absolutely, Graham. Your writing is really great! I’m happy to share it.