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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,350,365 ratings — published 1947
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,991,830 ratings — published 2018
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,252,312 ratings — published 2018
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,417,536 ratings — published 2005
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,642,091 ratings — published 2022
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as life-stories)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,076,576 ratings — published 2011
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.16 — 641,778 ratings — published 2012
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.48 — 854,936 ratings — published 2016
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.41 — 859,767 ratings — published 2016
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.07 — 893,682 ratings — published 2012
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,287,335 ratings — published 1997
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as life-stories)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,873,913 ratings — published 2006
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,397,650 ratings — published 2011
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as life-stories)
avg rating 3.83 — 516,642 ratings — published 2016
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.19 — 496,007 ratings — published 2020
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.36 — 947,750 ratings — published 1946
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.14 — 833,174 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,409,452 ratings — published 2012
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,229,968 ratings — published 1996
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.31 — 289,119 ratings — published 2020
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.45 — 393,457 ratings — published 2016
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.49 — 16,831 ratings — published 2007
The Story of Ruby Bridges (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.44 — 13,045 ratings — published 1995
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.37 — 301,531 ratings — published 1965
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as life-stories)
avg rating 3.85 — 566,701 ratings — published 2014
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.41 — 218,694 ratings — published 2007
The Last Lecture (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.26 — 369,803 ratings — published 2008
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.67 — 278,022 ratings — published 2019
Gandhi: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.10 — 76,825 ratings — published 1927
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.33 — 12,940 ratings — published 2001
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.30 — 600,787 ratings — published 1969
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as life-stories)
avg rating 3.67 — 144,604 ratings — published 2003
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.36 — 428,315 ratings — published 2019
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as life-stories)
avg rating 3.93 — 325,782 ratings — published 2005
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-stories)
avg rating 3.90 — 204,759 ratings — published 2012
Wishful Drinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-stories)
avg rating 3.82 — 96,482 ratings — published 2008
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.20 — 93,856 ratings — published 2006
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.22 — 653,688 ratings — published 2021
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.17 — 138,637 ratings — published 2017
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)
by (shelved 10 times as life-stories)
avg rating 3.94 — 171,858 ratings — published 2016
The Princess Diarist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as life-stories)
avg rating 3.69 — 93,407 ratings — published 2016
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.20 — 413,445 ratings — published 2000
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.34 — 329,557 ratings — published 2000
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.36 — 98,188 ratings — published 1991
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.27 — 594,130 ratings — published 1997
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.01 — 731,920 ratings — published 2000
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.07 — 209,886 ratings — published 2006
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-stories)
avg rating 3.83 — 447,151 ratings — published 2023
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-stories)
avg rating 3.95 — 428,139 ratings — published 2022
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,291,987 ratings — published 2012
“Do you ever think about how many stories are out there?' she asks, placing a finger on the glass. 'How many dramas are unfolding around us right at this very moment? I wonder how long a book you would need to record them. You'd probably need an entire library to hold a single evening in Manhattan. An hour. A minute.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?”
― Fire Exit
― Fire Exit
