"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", Maya Angelou; "The Prime of Life", Simone De Beauvoir; "The Italics Are Mine", Nina Berberova; "Testament of Youth", Vera Brittain; "A Life of Her Own", Emilie Carles; "Life and Death in Shanghai", Nien Cheng; "Silent Dancing", Judith Oritiz Cofer; "My Apprenticeships", Colette; "The Road from Coorain", Jill Ker Conway; "Notes", Eleanor Coppola; "The Price of My Soul", Bernadette Devlin; "The White Album", Joan Didion; "An American Childhood", Anne Dillard; "Out of Africa", Isak Dinesen; "The War", Marguerite Duras; "As They Were", M.F.K. Fisher; "An Angel at My Table", Janet Frame; "Diary", Anne Frank "Journey into the Whirlwind", Eugenia Semyonova Ginzburg; "Family Sayings", Natalia Ginzburg; "Fierce Attachments", Vivian Gornick; "Times and Places", Emily Hahn; "When Heaven and Earth Changed Places", Le Ly Hayslip; "Pentimento", Lillian Hellman; "Lost in Translation", Eva Hoffman; "Lady Sings the Blues", Billie Holiday; "Mules and Men", Zora Neale Hurston; "Diary", Carolina Maria De Jesus; "Minor Characters", Joyce Johnson; "The Story of My Life", Helen Keller; "The Woman Warrior", Maxine Hong Kingston; "Totto-Chan", Tetsuko Kuroyanagi; "Gift from the Sea", Anne Morrow Lindbergh; "Motherwit", Onnie Lee Logan; "Zami: A New Spelling of My Name", Audre Lorde; "West with the Night", Beryl Markham; "Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life", Emma Mashinini; "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood", Mary McCarthy; "Blackberry Winter", Margaret Mead; "The Loony-Bin Trip", Kate Millet; "Daughters and Rebels", Jessica Mitford; "Coming of Age in Mississippi", Anne Moody; "Memoir of a Modernist's Daughter", Eleanor Munro; "Diary", Anais Nin; "Daughters of Han", Ning Lao Tai Tai; "Nisa: The Life and Words of a Kung Woman", Nisa; "Art & Ardor", Cynthia Ozick; "Diary", Sylvia Plath; "Gifts of Passage", Santha Rama Rau; "Cross Creek", Majorie Kinnan Rawlings; "Confession", V. Sackville-West; "The Measures of My Days", Florida Scott-Maxwell; "Bronx Primitive", Kate Simon; "Landscape for a Good Woman", Carolyn Day Steedman; "The Autobiography of Alice B. Tolkas", Gertrude Stein; "Meatless Days", Sara Suleri; "Leftover Life to Kill", Caitlin Thomas; "Diary", Sophia Tolstoy; "Daybook", Anne Truitt; "Berlin Diaries", Marie Vassiltchikov; "Diary", Virginia Woolf.