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Biography Memoir Books
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Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1611 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,870,143 ratings — published 2018
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1332 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,204,124 ratings — published 1947
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1195 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,201,594 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1131 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.49 — 810,064 ratings — published 2016
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1038 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,366,749 ratings — published 2005
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 1012 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,057,666 ratings — published 2011
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 920 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,480,675 ratings — published 2022
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 908 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,367,799 ratings — published 1956
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 827 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.41 — 810,939 ratings — published 2016
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 796 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 869,464 ratings — published 2012
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 745 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.84 — 505,574 ratings — published 2016
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 726 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.30 — 582,971 ratings — published 1969
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 697 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.16 — 624,985 ratings — published 2012
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 680 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.23 — 602,697 ratings — published 2021
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 678 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.85 — 556,919 ratings — published 2014
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 630 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,846,379 ratings — published 2006
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 607 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.15 — 659,355 ratings — published 1996
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 597 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.39 — 999,707 ratings — published 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 593 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.13 — 806,734 ratings — published 2010
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 568 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.86 — 514,128 ratings — published 2011
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 547 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,195,415 ratings — published 1996
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 543 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.40 — 367,401 ratings — published 2015
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 539 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,362,515 ratings — published 2011
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 521 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.93 — 302,574 ratings — published 2005
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 513 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.31 — 276,874 ratings — published 2020
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 486 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.83 — 577,791 ratings — published 2023
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 484 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.37 — 883,049 ratings — published 1946
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 481 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.19 — 379,952 ratings — published 2000
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 479 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.37 — 292,096 ratings — published 1965
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 466 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,206,944 ratings — published 1997
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 457 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.83 — 430,764 ratings — published 2023
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 446 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.21 — 355,925 ratings — published 2010
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 412 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.34 — 318,956 ratings — published 2000
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 410 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.90 — 201,329 ratings — published 2012
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 405 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.68 — 259,296 ratings — published 2019
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 393 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.01 — 721,549 ratings — published 2000
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 391 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.20 — 461,829 ratings — published 2020
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 388 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 202,865 ratings — published 2006
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 379 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.22 — 200,794 ratings — published 2004
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 376 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.48 — 357,837 ratings — published 1971
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 370 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.17 — 121,494 ratings — published 2017
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 366 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.26 — 570,272 ratings — published 1997
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 363 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.09 — 238,235 ratings — published 2012
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 361 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.89 — 175,743 ratings — published 2015
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 360 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.94 — 231,283 ratings — published 1995
The Princess Diarist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 358 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.70 — 91,433 ratings — published 2016
Running with Scissors (Paperback)
by (shelved 353 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.77 — 404,358 ratings — published 2002
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 350 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.94 — 401,708 ratings — published 2022
Wishful Drinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 349 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.82 — 93,950 ratings — published 2008
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 348 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.27 — 231,230 ratings — published 2003
“Clearly, the lies we tell ourselves can be considered true if we believe them.”
― Clearly Lies Are True
― Clearly Lies Are True
“The good did not breathe joy into me,
Did not drive away the fear- No, it spun me back into the dark,
Until I found the balance between it all.”
― Borderline: A Poetic Memoir
Did not drive away the fear- No, it spun me back into the dark,
Until I found the balance between it all.”
― Borderline: A Poetic Memoir
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