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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,304,445 ratings — published 1947
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,952,009 ratings — published 2018
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,234,534 ratings — published 2018
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,401,762 ratings — published 2006
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,596,433 ratings — published 2022
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 24 times as life-stories)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,070,181 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 24 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.16 — 636,409 ratings — published 2012
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.49 — 839,293 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 — 884,667 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 — 1,257,944 ratings — published 1997
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as life-stories)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,865,424 ratings — published 2006
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.41 — 844,689 ratings — published 2016
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,385,680 ratings — published 2011
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.37 — 926,782 ratings — published 1946
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as life-stories)
avg rating 3.83 — 513,186 ratings — published 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.13 — 824,266 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,396,580 ratings — published 1956
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,218,666 ratings — published 1996
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.20 — 485,901 ratings — published 2020
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.45 — 385,515 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 — 16,795 ratings — published 2007
The Story of Ruby Bridges (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.44 — 13,023 ratings — published 1995
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as life-stories)
avg rating 3.85 — 563,436 ratings — published 2014
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.37 — 298,173 ratings — published 1965
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.31 — 285,208 ratings — published 2020
The Last Lecture (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.26 — 367,839 ratings — published 2008
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.30 — 595,231 ratings — published 1969
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.67 — 271,751 ratings — published 2019
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.33 — 12,882 ratings — published 2001
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.41 — 214,515 ratings — published 2007
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as life-stories)
avg rating 3.67 — 143,276 ratings — published 2003
Gandhi: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.10 — 76,162 ratings — published 1927
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as life-stories)
avg rating 3.93 — 318,140 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 — 203,668 ratings — published 2012
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.20 — 93,446 ratings — published 2006
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.22 — 639,157 ratings — published 2021
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.36 — 421,523 ratings — published 2019
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.19 — 398,403 ratings — published 2000
Wishful Drinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as life-stories)
avg rating 3.82 — 95,745 ratings — published 2008
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.34 — 325,993 ratings — published 2002
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.36 — 96,430 ratings — published 1991
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.01 — 728,378 ratings — published 2000
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.07 — 207,667 ratings — published 2006
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.17 — 134,540 ratings — published 2017
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,268,056 ratings — published 2012
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)
by (shelved 9 times as life-stories)
avg rating 3.94 — 170,094 ratings — published 2016
The Princess Diarist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-stories)
avg rating 3.69 — 92,804 ratings — published 2016
Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,452 ratings — published 2011
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as life-stories)
avg rating 4.48 — 365,813 ratings — published 1971
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-stories)
avg rating 3.72 — 207,570 ratings — published 2010
“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
“After facing the relentless pandemic showdowns, many long for the glow of a new dawn and crave bright life stories with liberating slapsticks to shatter silenced desolation and pent-up rage, restoring self-value and broken identity.”
― Stilling our Mind
― Stilling our Mind
