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Historical Memoir Books
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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,247,140 ratings — published 1947
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,381,015 ratings — published 1956
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 85,429 ratings — published 2004
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,228,433 ratings — published 1997
They Called Us Enemy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.42 — 54,640 ratings — published 2019
St. Simons Memoir: The Personal Story of Finding the Island and Writing the St. Simons Trilogy of Novels (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.08 — 106 ratings — published 1978
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,335 ratings — published 2007
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.13 — 814,732 ratings — published 2010
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.26 — 81,001 ratings — published 1946
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.40 — 371,038 ratings — published 2015
Life and Death in Shanghai (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.33 — 14,113 ratings — published 1986
Homage to Catalonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.09 — 73,270 ratings — published 1938
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-memoir)
avg rating 3.72 — 20,379 ratings — published 1973
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.13 — 136,874 ratings — published 1845
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.48 — 361,406 ratings — published 1971
Neispričane priče (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.58 — 173 ratings — published
Alphabetical Diaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,484 ratings — published 2024
Priestdaddy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 3.85 — 26,968 ratings — published 2017
Češka Škola Ne Postoji (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 3.95 — 129 ratings — published 2009
Bright Young Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 3.98 — 234,361 ratings — published 2023
The Painter from Shanghai (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,272 ratings — published 2008
Care and Feeding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 3.55 — 8,113 ratings — published
Until I Meet My Husband (Memoir)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.34 — 689 ratings — published
Two Women Living Together (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,225 ratings — published 2019
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 3.93 — 381 ratings — published 2016
Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,162 ratings — published 2005
In a Sunburned Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 123,456 ratings — published 2000
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.54 — 1,853 ratings — published 2025
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 3.98 — 126,690 ratings — published 1962
Madonna in a Fur Coat (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.31 — 116,512 ratings — published 1943
Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.45 — 442 ratings — published 1983
Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.19 — 31,537 ratings — published 2025
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.15 — 349,682 ratings — published 1990
Anarchism and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,302 ratings — published 1910
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,574 ratings — published 1867
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.27 — 234,506 ratings — published 2003
Red Shadow, Russia Remembered: Book 3 - Out From Siberia & Leningrad 1932-1933 (Red Shadow: Russia Remembered 1916-1933)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Convergence: Two Women Cross the Planet in a Fight for their Love and Freedom (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.12 — 33,949 ratings — published 2023
Engel des Vergessens (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 3.87 — 990 ratings — published 2011
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 3.71 — 35,792 ratings — published 2012
Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 3.77 — 5,608 ratings — published 2025
The Untold Magellan Story Second Edition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Hammer of the Gods (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 3.86 — 13,891 ratings — published 1985
I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 3.69 — 21,654 ratings — published 1987
Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,585 ratings — published 2023
The History of Bones: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,145 ratings — published 2021
The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,603 ratings — published 2013
Red Shadow, Russia Remembered : Book 2 - Vladivostok to the Sea 1924-1931 (Red Shadow: Russia Remembered 1916-1933)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
The Fall and Rise of China (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-memoir)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,036 ratings — published 2010
“It is hard to describe the disappointment I felt. This is what Fidel did to every Cuban child, not just to me. There are no words to describe the degradation one feels when you are pushing, shoving, and begging for food, only to get none”
― Lights Out: A Cuban Memoir of Betrayal and Survival
― Lights Out: A Cuban Memoir of Betrayal and Survival
