Lady Q: The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen

My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King

Reymundo Sanchez · 299 pages

Autobiographical account of the early life of a member of the Latin Kings of Chicago.

Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter

Shoko Tendo · 216 pages

Hell's Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club

Ralph Barger, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman · 259 pages

Dozens of photos, including many from private collections and from noted photographers, provide visual documentation to this extraordinary tale. Never simply a story about motorcycles, colorful characters, and high-speed thrills, Hell's Angel is the ultimate outlaw's tale of loyalty and betrayal, subcultures and brotherhood, and the real price of freedom.

Siberian Education: Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld

Nicolai Lilin · 447 pages

By the age of six, Nicolai Lilin had been given his first 'pike knife' by an uncle, and by the age of twelve, he had been convicted of attempted murder . . . Nicolai Lilin gained his 'education' as a member of the Siberian Urkas - a small and tight-knit community of 'honest criminals' in a forgotten corner of Eastern Europe . . . Siberian Education is his tale of an extreme childhood - exotic, vio

Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir

Stanley Tookie Williams · 400 pages

Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member

Sanyika Shakur · 383 pages

Mr. Nice

Howard Marks · 466 pages

THE BOOK: During the mid 1980's Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. Whether bars, recording studios or offshore banks, all were money laundering vehicles serving the core activity: dope dealingMarks began to deal small amounts of hashish while doing a postgraduate philosopy course at Oxford and soon he was moving much

Donnie Brasco

Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley · 413 pages

A Man of Honor: The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno

Joseph Bonanno · 416 pages

Joseph Bonanno provides a unique view of life inside the Mafia, describing the organization and its important figures and his vision of this closed society as a confederacy of men of honor.

Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker

Molly Bloom · 368 pages

Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood

Ice-T, Douglas Century · 251 pages

The hip-hop artist and television star shares the story of his early life, marked by the deaths of his parents, his involvement in gangs, and the single-minded work ethic that enabled his rise to international fame.

The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellín Cartel

Roberto Escobar Gaviria

Pimp: The Story of My Life

Iceberg Slim · 317 pages

This is the story of Iceberg Slim's life, as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. A trip through hell by the one man who lived to tell the tale. The dangers of jail, addiction and death that are still all too familiar.

From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens

50 Cent, Kris Ex · 223 pages

Orange Is the New Black

Piper Kerman

Lucky

Alice Sebold · 256 pages

In this memoir, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was transformed when at age 18 she was raped and beaten in a park near her college campus

Pablo Escobar: My Father

Juan Pablo Escobar · 368 pages

"THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER! When Pablo Escobar died in 1993, his seventeen-year-old son initially vowed revenge. But Juan Pablo quickly recognized that reaction entailed following in his father's footsteps--something neither he nor his father ever wanted. Their lives in immense danger, Juan Pablo, his mother, and his sister assumed new identities and fled to Argentina, where he would spend the

The Basketball Diaries

Jim Carroll · 210 pages

The Basketball Diaries is a 1978 memoir written by author and musician Jim Carroll. It is an edited collection of the diaries he kept between the ages of twelve and sixteen. The original classic story about growing up with drugs and sex and about learning to survive on the streets of New York--once again in print. An urban classic of coming of age.

For the Sins of My Father: A Mafia Killer, His Son, and the Legacy of a Mob Life

Albert Demeo, Mary Jane Ross · 288 pages

A Piece of Cake

Cupcake Brown · 480 pages

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The heart-wrenching, uplifting tale about a woman named Cupcake “[Cupcake] Brown’s confessional . . . memoir is one you can’t easily put down. Her life is nothing short of a miracle.”—Chicago Sun-Times There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-dea

The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars · 464 pages

Celebrate thirty years of the world's most notorious rock band with the deluxe collectors' edition of The Dirt—the outrageous, legendary, no-holds-barred autobiography of Mötley Crüe. Fans have gotten glimpses into the band's crazy world of backstage scandals, celebrity love affairs, rollercoaster drug addictions, and immortal music in Mötley Crüe books like Tommyland and The Heroin Diaries, but n

Every Little Step: My Story

Bobby Brown · 336 pages

Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

Mike Tyson · 580 pages

"A bare-knuckled, tell-all memoir from Mike Tyson, the onetime heavyweight champion of the world--and a legend both in and out of the ring"--

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Ishmael Beah · 234 pages

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (2007) is a memoir written by Ishmael Beah, an author from Sierra Leone. The book is a firsthand account of Beah's time as a child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone (1990s). Beah was 12 years old when he fled his village after it was attacked by rebels, and he wandered the war-filled country until brainwashed by an army unit that forced him to u