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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 206,299 ratings — published 2006
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,272,757 ratings — published 1947
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.23 — 628,772 ratings — published 2021
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.38 — 167,251 ratings — published 2019
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,926,204 ratings — published 2018
The Argonauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 57,603 ratings — published 2015
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.93 — 313,532 ratings — published 2005
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.74 — 84,049 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 — 591,787 ratings — published 1969
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.27 — 236,384 ratings — published 2003
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.49 — 829,774 ratings — published 2016
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,650 ratings — published 2011
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.71 — 35,916 ratings — published 2012
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.41 — 211,238 ratings — published 2007
The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.17 — 24,489 ratings — published 2018
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.34 — 323,951 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 — 879,867 ratings — published 2012
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.85 — 561,589 ratings — published 2014
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.13 — 137,505 ratings — published 1845
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.21 — 369,830 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,388,665 ratings — published 1956
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.67 — 142,528 ratings — published 2003
The Undying (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,846 ratings — published 2019
Things I Don't Want to Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 21,594 ratings — published 2014
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.95 — 287,402 ratings — published 1993
Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.86 — 208 ratings — published 2001
Pageboy (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.72 — 77,708 ratings — published 2023
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,564,586 ratings — published 2022
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.93 — 529,735 ratings — published 2018
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,224,760 ratings — published 2018
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,310 ratings — published 1976
Virginia Woolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,985 ratings — published 1996
The Princess Diarist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.69 — 92,426 ratings — published 2016
Spectacles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,480 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 — 632,972 ratings — published 2012
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.16 — 664,060 ratings — published 1996
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,390,554 ratings — published 2005
Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,282 ratings — published 2008
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.83 — 589,376 ratings — published 2023
Strong Female Character (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.39 — 44,080 ratings — published 2023
Arrangements in Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.73 — 5,657 ratings — published 2023
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.20 — 108,817 ratings — published 2018
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.19 — 391,729 ratings — published 2000
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.45 — 381,222 ratings — published 2016
Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.28 — 10,863 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 — 581,351 ratings — published 1997
A History of My Brief Body (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,712 ratings — published 2020
The Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.16 — 48,810 ratings — published 2008
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.00 — 429,577 ratings — published 2019
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.29 — 16,775 ratings — published 2014
“Per questo, si scrive. Si sono moltiplicate le memorie di chi vuole raccontare la vecchiaia propria o dei propri familiari, la morte di una persona cara, o quella a cui egli stesso è prossimo. Si scrive perché si pensa. Si pensa perché si vive.”
― L'età grande. Riflessioni sulla vecchiaia
― L'età grande. Riflessioni sulla vecchiaia
“These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the things one does not remember are as important; perhaps they are more important.”
― Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
― Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
