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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,352,770 ratings
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Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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You Can't Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties
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This Childhood of Mine: A Memoir of My Last Summer with My Mentally Ill Mother and Alcoholic Father
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Running with Scissors
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The Punk-Rock Queen of the Jews: A Memoir
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Lucky
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The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
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A Painted House
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The Liars' Club
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Life on the Mississippi
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Negative Space
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Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind
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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
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A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
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3.80 avg rating — 37,557 ratings
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Coming to Astoria: An Immigrant's Tale
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3.43 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Between Inca Walls, A Peace Corps Memoir
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Separate Things: A Memoir
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This Boy's Life
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Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
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4.22 avg rating — 21,915 ratings
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Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland
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3.61 avg rating — 775 ratings
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Educated
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City of Angeles
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Leaving Little Havana: A Memoir of Miami's Cuban Ghetto
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Hollywood Park
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High on Arrival
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3.85 avg rating — 9,440 ratings
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How Green Was My Valley
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4.21 avg rating — 18,780 ratings
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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4.07 avg rating — 201,291 ratings
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Stories I Only Tell My Friends
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3.88 avg rating — 85,243 ratings
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The Nutcracker Chronicles: A Fairytale Memoir
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4.24 avg rating — 58 ratings
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One Writer's Beginnings
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4.06 avg rating — 4,095 ratings
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The Pale-Faced Lie
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4.27 avg rating — 29,153 ratings
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Becoming
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Just Kids
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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
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The Gaze of the Gazelle: The Story of a Generation
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The Sunset Strip Diaries
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Boat Girl: A Memoir of Youth, Love & Fiberglass
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With Love, The Argentina Family: Memories of Tango and Kugel; Mate with Knishes
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3.89 avg rating — 92 ratings
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French Illusions: My Story as an American Au Pair in the Loire Valley (Book 1)
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3.82 avg rating — 1,137 ratings
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Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
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Overlay: A Tale of One Girl's Life in 1970s Las Vegas
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Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir
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My Convent Life: From L'Histoire de Ma Vie, with a new chronology of her life and work
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4.08 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Child Star: An Autobiography
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Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia – A Literary Memoir of Missionary Life and Political Turmoil
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3.59 avg rating — 141 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
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My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Memories of Childhood
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
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Look Me in the Eye
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My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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4.31 avg rating — 2,037 ratings
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
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When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading Rainbow Books)
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To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography
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While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement
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4.10 avg rating — 2,449 ratings
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Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age
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3.88 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
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Tales of the Titmouse
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Precious: A True Story
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Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany
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3.92 avg rating — 306 ratings
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Far Away and Long Ago
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3.92 avg rating — 490 ratings
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Boy's Life
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This Shadow Follows Me
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Goodbye Crackernight
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The Upstairs Room
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Torn by God: A Family's Struggle with Polygamy: A Novel
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Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen
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Torn From The Inside Out
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Four Eyes Were Never Better Than Two
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Reflections of El: In Search of Self
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Through Innocent Eyes: The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth
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The Wishmaster: Peace for all your wishes
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The Little Bastards
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Small Fry: A Memoir
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3.81 avg rating — 27,889 ratings
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Growing Up Greenpoint: A Kid's Life in 1970s Brooklyn
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4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Mama Didn't Raise This Woman
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Finding Myself in Borneo: Sojourns in Sabah
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GenderQueer: A Story from a Different Closet
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In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy
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Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi
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The Mason House
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Mamaji
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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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Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence
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3.80 avg rating — 4,167 ratings
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Not Less Than Everything: One Man’s Quest for Spiritual Enlightenment
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3.87 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Blue Light of the Screen: On Horror, Ghosts, and God
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3.92 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Memoir of a Misfit Chef: A Rise From The Ashes
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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