Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

"I AM afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go," said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.

Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting and sipping at our cups of green tea ...

Gender Queer

by Maia Kobabe

Do you have everything?

The Glass Castle

by Jeannette Walls

I WAS SITTING IN a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rootin...

Fear no evil

by Anatoly Shcharansky

Mémoires d'Hadrien

by Marguerite Yourcenar

My dear Mark, Today I went to see my physician Hermogenes, who has just returned to the Villa from a rather long journey...

Mémoires

by Giacomo Casanova

"YESTERDAY," SHE said, "you left with me two portraits of my Venetian sister M. M. I beg you to make me a present of the...

A Long Way Gone

by Ishmael Beah

Educated

by Tara Westover, Orah Danḳner

Crying in H Mart

by Michelle Zauner

On Writing

by Stephen King

Memoirs of Fanny Hill

by John Cleland

I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering your desires as indispensible orders: ungracious then as th...

Angela's Ashes

by Frank McCourt

My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born.

The Liars' Club

by Mary Karr

My sharpest memory is of a single instant surrounded by dark.

Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée

by Simone de Beauvoir

'Tis

by Frank McCourt

When the MS Irish Oak sailed from Cork in October 1949, we expected to be in New York City in a week.

A Piece of Cake

by Cupcake Brown

Memoirs of a Beatnik

by Diane di Prima

I awoke to the sounds of morning in the West Village.

Darkness Visible

by William Styron

IN PARIS ON A CHILLY EVENING LATE IN OCTOBER OF 1985 I first became fully aware that the struggle with the disorder in m...

Wasted

by Marya Hornbacher

It was that simple: One minute I was your average nine-year-old, shorts and a T-shirt and long brown braids, sitting in ...