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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 — 9,776 ratings
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Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir
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4.24 avg rating — 9,343 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 — 7,365 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 — 96,798 ratings
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Untamed
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3.98 avg rating — 509,348 ratings
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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
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4.19 avg rating — 43,680 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 — 3,271 ratings
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The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures
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4.01 avg rating — 8,841 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 — 3,267 ratings
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The Undocumented Americans
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4.37 avg rating — 26,506 ratings
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Animal Quintet: A Southern Memoir
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 278 ratings
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I Have Something to Tell You
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4.22 avg rating — 6,709 ratings
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Eat a Peach
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3.88 avg rating — 28,053 ratings
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A Promised Land
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4.32 avg rating — 271,257 ratings
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No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
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4.12 avg rating — 24,598 ratings
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One Life
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4.19 avg rating — 14,463 ratings
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The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life
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4.20 avg rating — 33,243 ratings
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Greenlights
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4.20 avg rating — 447,367 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 — 6,192 ratings
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Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
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4.20 avg rating — 8,260 ratings
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Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
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4.25 avg rating — 22,741 ratings
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Vagina Problems
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3.72 avg rating — 1,215 ratings
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The Watergate Girl
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4.08 avg rating — 1,725 ratings
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Hollywood Park
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4.29 avg rating — 16,541 ratings
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Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline
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4.30 avg rating — 3,004 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 — 33,968 ratings
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A Very Punchable Face
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4.20 avg rating — 69,562 ratings
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Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage
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3.90 avg rating — 2,517 ratings
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Let Love Rule
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3.87 avg rating — 6,571 ratings
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Born to Fly
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3.36 avg rating — 455 ratings
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Something That May Shock and Discredit You
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3.84 avg rating — 3,618 ratings
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Stray
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3.84 avg rating — 6,072 ratings
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In Pursuit of Love: One Woman’s Journey from Trafficked to Triumphant
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4.46 avg rating — 1,250 ratings
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Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir
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4.17 avg rating — 10,491 ratings
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Almost American Girl
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4.22 avg rating — 14,694 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 — 30,486 ratings
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The Hilarious World of Depression
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4.16 avg rating — 5,524 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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4.67 avg rating — 86 ratings
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I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are
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3.97 avg rating — 15,485 ratings
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Denali: A Man, a Dog, and the Friendship of a Lifetime
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4.07 avg rating — 1,245 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 — 8,689 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 — 630 ratings
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Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
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4.23 avg rating — 2,502 ratings
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Wiving: A Memoir of Loving Then Leaving the Patriarchy
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3.89 avg rating — 159 ratings
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My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
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4.08 avg rating — 2,796 ratings
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Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco
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4.34 avg rating — 1,611 ratings
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Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
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3.72 avg rating — 1,179 ratings
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Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit
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3.82 avg rating — 2,112 ratings
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The Best of Me
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4.21 avg rating — 25,566 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 — 4,103 ratings
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Dolly Parton Songteller: My Life in Lyrics
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4.02 avg rating — 27,406 ratings
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In the Shadow of the Valley: A Memoir
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3.78 avg rating — 6,659 ratings
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What We Carry: A Memoir
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4.32 avg rating — 4,022 ratings
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Being Lolita
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4.19 avg rating — 9,219 ratings
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High Risk: Stories of Pregnancy, Birth, and the Unexpected
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4.40 avg rating — 788 ratings
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Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger: A Memoir
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3.93 avg rating — 2,549 ratings
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Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies, at Home and Abroad
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4.06 avg rating — 1,257 ratings
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Open Book
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4.09 avg rating — 113,301 ratings
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I'll Be Seeing You: A Memoir
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4.19 avg rating — 3,013 ratings
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The Times I Knew I Was Gay
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3.93 avg rating — 7,384 ratings
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Are You There, God? It's Me, Ellen
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3.48 avg rating — 313 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 — 1,028 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 — 2,820 ratings
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Filthy Beasts: A Memoir
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3.78 avg rating — 1,012 ratings
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Big Freedia: God Save the Queen Diva!
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4.10 avg rating — 410 ratings
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The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past
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4.15 avg rating — 441 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 — 976 ratings
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Cheeky: A Head-to-Toe Memoir
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4.20 avg rating — 926 ratings
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All Boys Aren’t Blue
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4.19 avg rating — 46,372 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 — 263 ratings
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Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
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3.81 avg rating — 56,422 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 — 8,985 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 — 3,200 ratings
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More Myself: A Journey
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4.14 avg rating — 18,607 ratings
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My Vanishing Country
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3.97 avg rating — 3,864 ratings
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Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir
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4.51 avg rating — 11,366 ratings
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Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs
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3.66 avg rating — 2,168 ratings
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Nine Moons
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4.05 avg rating — 978 ratings
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Boots in the Ashes: Busting Bombers, Arsonists and Outlaws as a Trailblazing Female ATF Agent
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4.42 avg rating — 157 ratings
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The Places Left Unfilled
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4.08 avg rating — 493 ratings
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Trigger Warning: My Lesbian Feminist Life
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4.20 avg rating — 46 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 — 4,726 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 — 23,634 ratings
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Maybe the People Would Be the Times
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4.13 avg rating — 211 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 — 510 ratings
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Forever with Me: A Memoir
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4.63 avg rating — 65 ratings
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This Way Back
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4.79 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition
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3.83 avg rating — 901 ratings
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The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad
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4.06 avg rating — 7,157 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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4.61 avg rating — 170 ratings
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The Rescuer: One Firefighter’s Story of Courage, Darkness, and the Relentless Love That Saved Him
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4.37 avg rating — 672 ratings
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Trust: America's Best Chance
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4.15 avg rating — 5,407 ratings
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Solutions and Other Problems
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4.21 avg rating — 38,463 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.