Heinrich von Kleist's novella Michael Kohlhaas (in the collection The Marquise of O— and Other Stories) (1810)

Jo Ann Beard's collection of autobiographical essays, The Boys of My Youth (1999)

Simone Schwarz-Bart's novel, The Bridge of Beyond (1972)

Mary McCarthy's memoir, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957)

Geoffrey Household's thriller, Rogue Male

Frederick and Steven Barthelme's memoir of gambling, writing, and family, Double Down

Janet Lewis's historical novel, The Wife of Martin Guerre

Marshall Frady's political profile, Wallace (1968)

Helen DeWitt's novel, The Last Samurai (2000)

John McPhee's account of a 1968 U.S. Open tennis semifinal, Levels of the Game (1969)

James Weldon Johnson's novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)

Charlotte Gill's memoir of tree-planting in British Columbia, Eating Dirt (2011)

Ben Katchor's collection of Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer comic strips, Cheap Novelties (1991)

W. Stanley Moss's memoir of the kidnapping of a Nazi general in World War II, Ill Met by Moonlight (1950)

Elizabeth Harrower's novel, The Watch Tower (1966)