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Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
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4.29 avg rating — 9,862 ratings
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Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir
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4.24 avg rating — 9,404 ratings
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When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
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4.33 avg rating — 7,431 ratings
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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
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3.82 avg rating — 97,722 ratings
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Untamed
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3.98 avg rating — 516,306 ratings
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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
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4.19 avg rating — 44,059 ratings
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This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
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4.25 avg rating — 3,321 ratings
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The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures
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4.01 avg rating — 8,876 ratings
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Speaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom, and the Fight of Our Lives Inside the Trump White House
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4.41 avg rating — 3,287 ratings
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The Undocumented Americans
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4.37 avg rating — 27,226 ratings
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Animal Quintet: A Southern Memoir
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3.99 avg rating — 277 ratings
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I Have Something to Tell You
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4.22 avg rating — 6,747 ratings
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Eat a Peach
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3.88 avg rating — 28,255 ratings
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A Promised Land
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4.31 avg rating — 276,834 ratings
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No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
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4.12 avg rating — 25,059 ratings
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One Life
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4.19 avg rating — 14,593 ratings
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The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life
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4.20 avg rating — 33,492 ratings
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Greenlights
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4.20 avg rating — 461,662 ratings
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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
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4.19 avg rating — 6,318 ratings
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Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
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4.20 avg rating — 8,383 ratings
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Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
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4.25 avg rating — 23,014 ratings
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Vagina Problems
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3.72 avg rating — 1,225 ratings
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The Watergate Girl
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4.08 avg rating — 1,741 ratings
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Hollywood Park
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4.28 avg rating — 16,707 ratings
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Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline
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4.30 avg rating — 3,038 ratings
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A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
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4.50 avg rating — 34,573 ratings
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A Very Punchable Face
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4.20 avg rating — 71,607 ratings
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Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage
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3.90 avg rating — 2,544 ratings
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Let Love Rule
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3.87 avg rating — 6,637 ratings
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Born to Fly
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3.36 avg rating — 459 ratings
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Something That May Shock and Discredit You
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3.84 avg rating — 3,640 ratings
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Stray
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3.84 avg rating — 6,115 ratings
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In Pursuit of Love: One Woman’s Journey from Trafficked to Triumphant
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4.45 avg rating — 1,277 ratings
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Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir
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4.17 avg rating — 10,561 ratings
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Almost American Girl
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4.22 avg rating — 14,801 ratings
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Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
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4.06 avg rating — 30,723 ratings
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The Hilarious World of Depression
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4.16 avg rating — 5,562 ratings
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GenderQueer: A Story from a Different Closet
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4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings
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DAWGS: A True Story of Lost Animals and the Kids Who Rescued Them
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4.64 avg rating — 89 ratings
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I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are
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3.97 avg rating — 15,552 ratings
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Denali: A Man, a Dog, and the Friendship of a Lifetime
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4.07 avg rating — 1,273 ratings
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Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
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3.96 avg rating — 8,802 ratings
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What They Meant for Evil: How a Lost Girl of Sudan Found Healing, Peace, and Purpose in the Midst of Suffering
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4.50 avg rating — 632 ratings
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Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
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4.22 avg rating — 2,525 ratings
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Wiving: A Memoir of Loving Then Leaving the Patriarchy
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3.91 avg rating — 161 ratings
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My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
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4.08 avg rating — 2,822 ratings
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Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco
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4.34 avg rating — 1,635 ratings
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Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
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3.72 avg rating — 1,202 ratings
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Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit
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3.82 avg rating — 2,141 ratings
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The Best of Me
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4.21 avg rating — 25,898 ratings
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American Daughter: A Memoir of Intergenerational Trauma, a Mother's Dark Secrets, and a Daughter's Quest for Redemption
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4.19 avg rating — 4,182 ratings
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Dolly Parton Songteller: My Life in Lyrics
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4.02 avg rating — 27,809 ratings
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In the Shadow of the Valley: A Memoir
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3.78 avg rating — 6,680 ratings
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What We Carry: A Memoir
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4.32 avg rating — 4,052 ratings
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Being Lolita
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4.18 avg rating — 9,390 ratings
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High Risk: Stories of Pregnancy, Birth, and the Unexpected
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4.39 avg rating — 799 ratings
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Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger: A Memoir
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3.93 avg rating — 2,567 ratings
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Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies, at Home and Abroad
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4.06 avg rating — 1,262 ratings
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Open Book
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4.09 avg rating — 114,320 ratings
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I'll Be Seeing You: A Memoir
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4.19 avg rating — 3,028 ratings
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The Times I Knew I Was Gay
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3.92 avg rating — 7,440 ratings
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Are You There, God? It's Me, Ellen
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3.47 avg rating — 319 ratings
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The Book of Atlantis Black: The Search for a Sister Gone Missing
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3.58 avg rating — 1,030 ratings
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Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber
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4.15 avg rating — 2,833 ratings
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Filthy Beasts: A Memoir
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3.78 avg rating — 1,018 ratings
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Big Freedia: God Save the Queen Diva!
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4.12 avg rating — 414 ratings
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The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past
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4.16 avg rating — 444 ratings
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Rootlines
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3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Betsey: A Memoir
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3.87 avg rating — 999 ratings
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Cheeky: A Head-to-Toe Memoir
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4.20 avg rating — 934 ratings
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All Boys Aren’t Blue
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4.18 avg rating — 47,264 ratings
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The Eagle Huntress: The True Story of the Girl Who Soared Beyond Expectations
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4.12 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
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3.80 avg rating — 57,069 ratings
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Lot Six
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3.98 avg rating — 374 ratings
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All The Young Men
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4.49 avg rating — 9,173 ratings
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Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America
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4.18 avg rating — 3,226 ratings
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More Myself: A Journey
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4.14 avg rating — 18,748 ratings
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My Vanishing Country
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3.97 avg rating — 3,880 ratings
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Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir
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4.51 avg rating — 11,466 ratings
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Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs
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3.66 avg rating — 2,190 ratings
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Nine Moons
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4.05 avg rating — 1,001 ratings
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Boots in the Ashes: Busting Bombers, Arsonists and Outlaws as a Trailblazing Female ATF Agent
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4.41 avg rating — 158 ratings
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The Places Left Unfilled
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4.08 avg rating — 497 ratings
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Trigger Warning: My Lesbian Feminist Life
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4.19 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Book of Moods: How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life
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3.84 avg rating — 4,771 ratings
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The Rural Diaries: Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on Mischief Farm
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4.41 avg rating — 23,898 ratings
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Maybe the People Would Be the Times
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4.14 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Hiding From Myself: My Complicated Rebirth into Womanhood and My Own Skin
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4.01 avg rating — 333 ratings
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I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird: A Daughter's Memoir (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
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4.37 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Windsor Diaries: 1940-45
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3.54 avg rating — 514 ratings
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Forever with Me: A Memoir
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4.58 avg rating — 72 ratings
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This Way Back
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4.78 avg rating — 59 ratings
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From Doctor to Healer: The Mountain Lion’s Gift
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4.95 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Noir Dirt Cheap: Film Noir In The Public Domain Vol I
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4.66 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Habit Launch: 10-Step Formula to Tailor Routines You Love to Perform and Skyrocket Your Well-being
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4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition
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3.83 avg rating — 906 ratings
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The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad
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4.06 avg rating — 7,201 ratings
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Uprising: Who the Hell Said You Can't Ditch and Switch -- The Awakening of Diamond and Silk
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4.32 avg rating — 194 ratings
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I Never Left Home: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary
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3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction)
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4.60 avg rating — 182 ratings
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I would love to have my book considered to add to this list. I published at the end of 2020. I share my stories of the lessons I learned with a mother who suffered from depression and bipolar disorder and how I rose above the struggle and turned them into stepping stones to success instead of obstacles in my life.