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Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1665 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,974,301 ratings — published 2018
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1366 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,331,550 ratings — published 1947
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1214 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,243,620 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1172 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.48 — 847,909 ratings — published 2016
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1070 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,410,857 ratings — published 2005
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 1019 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,073,613 ratings — published 2011
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 990 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,623,320 ratings — published 2022
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 938 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,402,865 ratings — published 1956
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 859 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.41 — 853,264 ratings — published 2016
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 809 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 888,694 ratings — published 2012
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 755 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.83 — 515,119 ratings — published 2016
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 750 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.30 — 598,261 ratings — published 1969
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 727 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.22 — 647,297 ratings — published 2021
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 715 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.16 — 639,440 ratings — published 2012
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 689 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.85 — 565,046 ratings — published 2014
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 638 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,870,440 ratings — published 2006
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 623 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.16 — 669,309 ratings — published 1996
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 604 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,018,134 ratings — published 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 599 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.13 — 828,747 ratings — published 2010
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 570 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.86 — 518,257 ratings — published 2011
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 567 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,225,445 ratings — published 1996
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 565 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,392,571 ratings — published 2011
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 559 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,334 ratings — published 2015
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 528 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.93 — 322,495 ratings — published 2005
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 525 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.31 — 287,396 ratings — published 2020
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 519 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.37 — 938,641 ratings — published 1946
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 509 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.20 — 406,749 ratings — published 2000
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 499 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.37 — 299,911 ratings — published 1965
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 498 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.83 — 597,021 ratings — published 2023
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 494 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,274,390 ratings — published 1997
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 470 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.83 — 444,706 ratings — published 2023
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 461 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.21 — 382,163 ratings — published 2010
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 420 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.67 — 274,796 ratings — published 2019
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 419 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.19 — 491,420 ratings — published 2020
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 417 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.34 — 327,950 ratings — published 2000
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 415 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.90 — 204,255 ratings — published 2012
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 402 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.01 — 730,476 ratings — published 2000
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 395 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 208,792 ratings — published 2006
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 389 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.27 — 590,803 ratings — published 1997
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 387 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.22 — 206,983 ratings — published 2004
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Paperback)
by (shelved 384 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.48 — 367,729 ratings — published 1971
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 376 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.17 — 123,786 ratings — published 2017
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 373 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.09 — 243,328 ratings — published 2012
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 371 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.94 — 233,441 ratings — published 1995
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 368 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.89 — 179,288 ratings — published 2015
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 365 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.95 — 424,377 ratings — published 2022
The Princess Diarist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 360 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.69 — 93,076 ratings — published 2016
Running with Scissors (Paperback)
by (shelved 358 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.77 — 408,319 ratings — published 2002
Wishful Drinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 357 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 3.82 — 96,086 ratings — published 2008
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 355 times as biography-memoir)
avg rating 4.28 — 241,285 ratings — published 2003
“Parents are the bones we cut our teeth on, but they never talk about the parents’ own teeth. They never talk about the bite that you learn to see coming.”
― From Under the Truck: A Decidedly Un-Celebrity Memoir from the Enigmatic Actor
― From Under the Truck: A Decidedly Un-Celebrity Memoir from the Enigmatic Actor
“Healing didn’t ask me to forget what happened. It asked me to finally face it.”
― THE FACE I HAD TO MEET: Healing the Wounds on My Skin and the Ones Beneath It
― THE FACE I HAD TO MEET: Healing the Wounds on My Skin and the Ones Beneath It
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biography-autobiography-memoir and memoir-biography