Rinker Buck's memoir of his teenage flight across the United States, Flight of Passage (1997)

Kathleen Collins's book of stories, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? (2016)

Teffi's memoir of the traveling through Russia during the Revolution, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea (1931)

Josephine Tey's mid-century mystery, Brat Farrar (1949)

John Berger and Jean Mohr's illustrated profile of an English country doctor, A Fortunate Man (1967)

Yasushi Inoue's short novel, Bullfight (1949)

Kao Kalia Yang's memoir of her family in Laos, Thailand, and the United States, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir (2008)

Tom Drury's novel The End of Vandalism (1994)

Sidney Lumet's filmmaking memoir, Making Movies (1995)

Angela Carter's show-business novel, Wise Children (1991)

Mary Austin's nature vignettes from the California desert, The Land of Little Rain (1903)

Georges Simenon's crime novel The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (1938)

Thomas Geoghegan’s memoir of his life as a labor lawyer, Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It’s Flat on Its Back (1991)

Joan London’s novel Gilgamesh (2001)

David W. Maurer’s guide to the lore and lingo of the underworld, The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man (1940)

Natalia Ginzburg’s book of essays, The Little Virtues (1962)

Seth Kantner’s novel Ordinary Wolves (2004)

Hector Abad’s memoir of his father, Oblivion (2006)

Madeleine St. John’s novel The Women in Black (1993)

Iris Origo’s War in the Val d’Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944 (1947)

Toni Cade Bambara’s book of short stories Gorilla, My Love (1972)

Marion Winik’s collection of elegies, The Glen Rock Book of the Dead (2008)

Charles Portis’s novel The Dog of the South (1979)