Middle East
 

• Leila Ahmed. A Border Passage. Memoir about growing up in post-World War II Egypt as an upper-class girl.
• Fadwa Tuqan. A Mountainous Journey. Autobiography/memoir of an upper-class Palestinian woman poet growing up in conservative Nablus during the British mandate period (1920s-1940s).
• Hala Sakakini. Jerusalem and I. Memoir of a young Christian Palestinian woman from Jerusalem. (Gina P.)
• Fay Afaf Kanafani. Nadia: Captive of Hope. Autobiography of a Lebanese woman (born 1918) who experienced all the turmoil of Lebanon and Palestine, where she spent part of her married life.
• Leila Khaled. My People Shall Live. Memoir of a Palestinian woman guerrilla who was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and hijacked a plane in the 1970s. (Sunday)
• Huda Sharawi. Harem Years. Memoir of growing up in an upper class harem in Egypt; she later became a founder of Egyptian feminism. (Sara V.)
• Fatima Mernissi. Dreams of Trespass. Memoir of growing up in an upper class harem in Morocco (a little later and a different culture entirely from Sharawi -- interesting contrast.)
• Simin Daneshvar. Savushun. Novel about a young married woman in post-World War II Iran.
• Gohard Kordi. An Iranian Odyssey. Memoir of a young blind girl growing up in early 20th century Iran. (Kelly)
• Ali Ghalem. A Wife For my Son. (Novel, Algeria.)
• Michael Gorkin and Rafiqa Othman. Three Mothers, Three Daughters. Oral histories of Palestinian women of different generations and lower classes.
• Hanan al-Shaykh. Women of Sand and Myrrh. (Novel, Saudi Arabia.) (Jamie)
• Taj Al-Saltanah. Crowning Anguish : Memoirs of a Persian Princess from the Harem to Modernity, 1884-1914. Memoir of a Qajar princes in Iran who was a political activist.

• Aman: the story of a Somalian girl. As told to Virginia Lee Barnes and Janice Boddy.
• Three Swahili Women: Life Histories from Mombasa, Kenya, edited and translated by Sarah Mirza and Margaret Strobel. Oral histories of three women.
• Mpho 'M'atsepo, Singing Away the Hunger: the Autobiography of an African Woman. (Sarah H)
• Marjorie Shostak, Nisa, the Life and Words of a Kung Woman. Oral history.
• Mary Smith. Baba of Karo, a woman of the Moslem Hausa. Oral history.
• Mariama Ba. So Long a Letter. (Novel, set in Senegal.)
• Buchi Emecheta. The Bride Price. (Novel, Nigeria.)
• Tsitsi Dangarembga. Nervous Conditions. (Novel, Zimbabwe.)

Latin America and the Caribbean

• Paule Marshall. The Chosen Place, the Timeless People. (Novel, Caribbean.)
• Paule Marshall. Daughters. (Novel, Caribbean.)
• Julia Alvarez. In the Time of the Butterflies. (taken. Laura Kissel)
• Domitila Barrios de Chungara. Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, a Woman of the Bolivian Mines. With Moema Viezzer. Trans. Victoria Ortiz.
• Carolina Maria de Jesus. Beyond all Pity. Memoir of woman from a Brazilian slum.(Misti, Courtney [?])
• Edwidge Danticat. Breath, Eyes, Memory. (Christy) (Novel, Haiti.)
• Jamaica Kincaid. Annie John. Novel about a young girl growing up in Antigua.
• Julia Alvarez. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. (Novel, Dominican Republic.) (Betsy)
• Cristina Garcia. Dreaming in Cuban. (Novel, revolutionary Cuba.)
• Meda Benjamin, trans. and ed. Don't be Afraid, Gringo: the Story of Elvia Alvarado. (Novel, Honduras) (Nikki)
• Isabel Allende. The House of the Spirits. (Novel, Chile) (Megan Doyle)

India

• Viramma: Life of an Untouchable. By Viramma, Josiane Racine and Jean Luc Racine. (Jennifer)
• Shudha Mazumdar; edited with an introduction by Geraldine Forbes. Memoirs of an Indian woman.
• Parvati Athavale; translated by Justin E. Abbott. My story: autobiography of a Hindu widow.
• The memoirs of Dr. Haimabati Sen: from child widow to lady doctor. Translated by Tapan Raychaudhuri; edited by Geraldine Forbes.
• Manmohini Zutshi Sahgal; edited by Geraldine Forbes. An Indian freedom fighter recalls her life.
• Shauna Singh Baldwin. What the Body Remembers. (novel) (Megan Flynn)
• Bharati Mukherjee. The Tiger's Daughter. (novel)
• Suzanne Fisher Staples. Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind. (Novel. Pakistan.)
• Chitra Banerjee Divakruni. Sister of My Heart. (Novel, India) (Randi)