John Quincy Adams: American Visionary

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer

Into the Wild

His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer

The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner

Thomas Carlyle: A Biography

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

Dickens: A Biography

Notes on Grief

Gore Vidal

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

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

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

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

A Moveable Feast