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The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book...

By Joan Didion

$18.00

Into the Wild (Paperback)

By Jon Krakauer

$16.00

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Paperback...

By Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by)

$18.00

The White Album: Essays (FSG Classics) (...

By Joan Didion

$18.00

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and...

By James Patterson, Matt Eversmann

$28.00

The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth;...

By Tove Ditlevsen, Tiina Nunnally (Translated by), Michael Favala Goldman (Translated by)

$20.00

Molly (Paperback)

By Blake Butler

$17.95

One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder (...

By Brian Doyle, David James Duncan (Introduction by)

$19.99

These Precious Days: Essays (Paperback)

By Ann Patchett

$19.00

Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)

By David Sedaris

$19.99

The Seven Storey Mountain (Paperback)

By Thomas Merton

$17.99

84, Charing Cross Road (Paperback)

By Helene Hanff

$16.00

Travels with Charley in Search of America (...

By John Steinbeck

$14.00

A Moveable Feast (Paperback)

By Ernest Hemingway

$18.99

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its...

By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.

$19.00

The World of Yesterday (Paperback)

By Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell (Translated by)

$24.95

Poet Warrior: A Memoir (Paperback)

By Joy Harjo

$16.95

A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life...

By Mark Dawidziak

$19.00

Capote's Women: A True Story of Love,...

By Laurence Leamer

$20.00

String Theory: David Foster Wallace on...

By David Foster Wallace, John Jeremiah Sullivan (Introduction by)

$21.95

Simple Passion (Paperback)

By Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie (Translated by)

$12.95

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (Paperback)

By Roxane Gay

$18.99

Alphabetical Diaries (Hardcover)

By Sheila Heti

$27.00

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While all autobiographers take liberty with the truth, the controversy surrounding James Frey’sA Million Little Piecesunderscores ethical questions of how far writers of nonfiction should go, says a West Virginia University professor and scholar of autobiography.

All autobiographers are unreliable narrators, and all humans are liars to various degrees, and yet issues of authenticity and accuracy in autobiography continue to present legal, ethical, narrative and practical problems for readers, writers and publishers,said Timothy Dow Adams, chair of the WVU English Department and author ofTelling Lies in Modern American Autobiography.

A Million Little Piecesbecame a best seller after Oprah Winfrey picked it for her nationwide book club. The Smoking Gun, an investigative Web site, and other news outlets have questioned the truthfulness of the book about Frey’s drug addiction and alcoholism. On Thursday, the author appeared on Winfrey’s talk show and admitted to fabricating details about characters and embellishing some events recounted in the book.

Controversies about lying in autobiography have long been common, said Adams, who has written extensively about the subject. They include the legal battle between Mary McCarthy, author ofMemories of a Catholic Girlhood,and Lillian Hellman, whose three autobiographers were challenged by McCarthy onThe Dick Cavett Show.

Other American autobiographies whose truth value has been challenged include Gertrude Stein’sThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas,Richard Wright’sBlack Boy,Sherwood Anderson’sA Story-Teller’s Storyand Ernest Hemingway’sA Moveable Feast,he added.

Modern authors, such as W.G. Sebald in his novelsThe EmigrantsandAusterlitz ,frequently combine fact and fiction to produce fictive autobiographies or biographies that include within their fictional structure such actual documents as photographs, postcards or newspaper clippings, Adams explained.

Many contemporary writers deliberately make use of a literary tec

Here’s my to-read list for 2014. It’s incomplete, always changing, and I’m sure I won’t get to all of these, not by a long shot, but it’s a convenient list when I’m choosing my next book. You may see a few of them featured on Books Can Save a Life. I’ve included titles that will be published in 2014, so you won’t find all of them on the shelves yet.

If you have enticing choices on your list, please share them in the comments!

Watch for my book giveaway in February to celebrate the second anniversary of Books Can Save a Life.

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The Snow Child, by Eowyn Ivey    “If All of Rochester Read the Same Book,” 2014

The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt

Someone, by Alice McDermott

Carthage, by Joyce Carol Oates

Arctic Summer, by Damon Galgut

The Unknowns, by Gabriel Roth

The Circle, by David Eggers

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, by Haruki Murakami

The Signature of All Things, by Elizabeth Gilbert

Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson

How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti

The Paying Guests,by Sarah Waters

And Then We Came to the End; The Unnamed; To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, by Joshua Ferris

Orfeo, by Richard Powers

Never Go Back, by Lee Child

The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

The Snow Queen, by Michael Cunningham

The Bone Clocks, by David Mitchell

The Interestings, by Meg Wolitzer

The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton

Lila, by Marilynne Robinson

By Blood, Ellen Ullman

Canada, by Richard Ford

In Sunlight and in Shadow; and Winter’s Tale, by Mark Helprin

The Cuckoo’s Calling,by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) and Untitled (2014)

The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, by Bob Shacochis

Off Course, by Michelle Huneven

Gone Girl; Dark Places, by Gillian Flynn (movies in 2014)

Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel (Best book of the 21