Memoir and Nonfiction

​             Today, there are many ways to write a book on a nonfiction subject that you are passionate about. Below I provide some examples of the different types of nonfiction I enjoy reading and am interested in editing.
     
​Please note that I don’t coach business or motivational books.
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​Classic Memoir

The Liar's Club, Lit, Cherry by Mary Karr

The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

Duke of Deception by Geoffrey Wolff

This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff

Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

Growing Up by Russell Baker


Contemporary Memoir
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An Unquiet Mind  by Kay Redfield Jamison

The Color of Water by James McBride

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
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Educated by Tara Westover


Hybrid Memoir or Memoir Plus

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie F00

The Rumi Prescription: How an Ancient Mystic Poet Changed My Manic Modern Life by Melody Moezzi

Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams
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​ Narrative Nonfiction: People, Places, Events

Hidden Valley Road; Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

Lost Girls: An American Mystery by Robert Kolker

Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson 

Devil in the City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

​Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown




Psychology/Personal Growth/Self Help
Grit by Angela Duckworth
​Mindset by Carol S. Dweck, PhD
Tell Me a Story: Sharing Stories to Enrich your Childs World by Elaine Reese, PhD
Quiet by Susan Cain
The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron, PhD
Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, Ed.D
Helping Your Anxious Child by Ronald Rapee, PhD, et al.
The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner, PhD