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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 202,076 ratings — published 2006
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,183,766 ratings — published 1947
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.23 — 595,458 ratings — published 2021
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,853,610 ratings — published 2018
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.38 — 161,349 ratings — published 2019
The Argonauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.02 — 56,316 ratings — published 2015
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.93 — 299,541 ratings — published 2005
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.74 — 80,615 ratings — published 2014
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.30 — 580,205 ratings — published 1969
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.27 — 230,151 ratings — published 2003
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.49 — 804,809 ratings — published 2016
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 46,483 ratings — published 2011
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.85 — 555,493 ratings — published 2014
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.40 — 204,919 ratings — published 2007
The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.17 — 23,124 ratings — published 2018
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.34 — 317,503 ratings — published 2000
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 866,451 ratings — published 2012
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.71 — 35,503 ratings — published 2012
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,361,612 ratings — published 1956
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.66 — 140,220 ratings — published 2003
The Undying (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,663 ratings — published 2019
Things I Don't Want to Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,139 ratings — published 2014
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,194,977 ratings — published 2018
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.13 — 134,735 ratings — published 1845
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.94 — 277,661 ratings — published 1993
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.21 — 351,979 ratings — published 2010
Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.86 — 204 ratings — published 2001
Pageboy (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.73 — 75,908 ratings — published 2023
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,454,458 ratings — published 2022
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.94 — 498,938 ratings — published 2018
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,357,911 ratings — published 2011
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.73 — 33,806 ratings — published 1976
Virginia Woolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,966 ratings — published 1996
The Princess Diarist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.70 — 91,143 ratings — published 2016
Spectacles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,398 ratings — published 2015
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.16 — 622,553 ratings — published 2012
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.73 — 92,700 ratings — published 1985
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.15 — 657,998 ratings — published 1996
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,359,806 ratings — published 2005
Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,155 ratings — published 2008
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.83 — 573,345 ratings — published 2023
Strong Female Character (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.41 — 40,964 ratings — published 2023
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.21 — 97,702 ratings — published 2018
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.19 — 376,405 ratings — published 2000
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.46 — 367,451 ratings — published 2016
Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.28 — 10,229 ratings — published 2021
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.26 — 567,077 ratings — published 1997
A History of My Brief Body (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,586 ratings — published 2020
The Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.16 — 45,692 ratings — published 2008
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,600 ratings — published 2014
“Malone's commentary on Sonnet 93 was a defining moment in the history not only of Shakespeare studies but also of literary biography in general. What has emerged in our time as a dominant form of life writing can trace its lineage back to this extended footnote.”
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“We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others.”
― Selected Essays
― Selected Essays
