Best Authors Books

A selection of recommended authors books worth reading.

• The Glass Castle A MemoirJeannette Walls
• Into the WildJon Krakauer
• I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsMaya Angelou
• Maus I Ii Paperback Box SetArt Spiegelman
• The White Album EssaysJoan Didion
• Girl, Interrupted A MemoirSusanna Kaysen
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running A MemoirHaruki Murakami
• 84, Charing Cross RoadHelene Hanff
• A Moveable Feast The RestoredErnest Hemingway
• Surprised by Joy the Shape of My Early LifeC. S. Lewis
• The Book of Disquiet Penguin ClassicsFernando Pessoa
• The Anthony Bourdain Reader New, Classic, and Rediscovered WritingAnthony Bourdain
• A Midwife's Tale The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
• Mark TwainRon Chernow
• The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1 an Experiment in Literary Investigation the ClassAleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
• Travels with Charley in Search of AmericaJohn Steinbeck
• America, U.S.A. How Race Shadows the Nation's AnniversariesEddie S. Glaude Jr.
• Prairie Fires The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls WilderCaroline Fraser
• Night TrilogyElie Wiesel
• Simple PassionAnnie Ernaux
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 2Maya Angelou
• The Best Minds A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good IntentionsJonathan Rosen
• The PilgrimagePaulo Coelho
• True Crime a MemoirPatricia Cornwell
• Brother, I'm Dying National Book Award FinalistEdwidge Danticat
• Journals of Sylvia Plath CompSylvia Plath
• Peoples HistorianDave Zirin
• Men We ReapedJesmyn Ward
• Monsters in the Archives My Year of Fear with Stephen KingCaroline Bicks
• Angela's Ashes A MemoirFrank McCourt
• Baldwin: A Love StoryNicholas Boggs
• The Library BookSusan Orlean
• Letter to the Father/Brief an den Vater BilingualFranz Kafka
• The Professor and the Madman A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English DictionarySimon Winchester
• Crazy Brave A MemoirJoy Harjo
• West with the NightBeryl Markham
• Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas & Other AmeHunter S. Thompson
• Letter to My DaughterMaya Angelou
• Black Boy : a Record of Childhood and YouthRichard Wright
• Storm of SteelErnst Junger
• I Am, I Am, I Am Seventeen Brushes with DeathMaggie O'Farrell
• Green Hills of AfricaErnest Hemingway
• Blue Nights A MemoirJoan Didion
• How to Lose Your Mother A Daughter's MemoirMolly Jong-Fast
• Letters to MilenaFranz Kafka
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Pulitzer Prize FinalistDave Eggers
• Draft No. 4 On the Writing ProcessJohn McPhee
• Man for All SeasonsRobert Bolt
• If I Die in a Combat ZoneTim O'Brien
• Traveling Mercies Some Thoughts on FaithAnne Lamott
• The Water Is Wide A MemoirPat Conroy
• A Thousand Naked Strangers A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and BackKevin Hazzard
• Wind, Sand and StarsAntoine de Saint-Exupéry
• TraversalMaria Popova
• Journal of a NovelJohn Steinbeck
• Book of Lives a Memoir of SortsMargaret Atwood
• LincolnDavid Herbert Donald
• Notes to JohnJoan Didion
• The Letters of Jrr Tolkien Revised and Expanded Edition a Memoir in CorrespondenJ.R.R. Tolkien
• Running in the FamilyMichael Ondaatje