John Quincy Adams: American Visionary

Into the Wild

First Loves: A Memoir

Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: The internationally bestselling classic

Thomas Carlyle: A Biography

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer

The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner

Henry James: The Imagination of Genius, A Biography

Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland

Private Correspondence

Gore Vidal

What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love

Lincoln and the Abolitionists: John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Blackout: Remembering the things I drank to forget

Life After Death