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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 203,559 ratings — published 2006
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,219,671 ratings — published 1947
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.23 — 608,624 ratings — published 2021
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,882,905 ratings — published 2018
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.38 — 163,663 ratings — published 2019
The Argonauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,728 ratings — published 2015
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.93 — 305,002 ratings — published 2005
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.74 — 81,900 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 — 585,062 ratings — published 1969
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.27 — 232,223 ratings — published 2003
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.49 — 814,406 ratings — published 2016
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 46,866 ratings — published 2011
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.85 — 557,903 ratings — published 2014
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.40 — 207,109 ratings — published 2007
The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.17 — 23,644 ratings — published 2018
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.34 — 320,092 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 — 871,709 ratings — published 2012
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.71 — 35,645 ratings — published 2012
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.21 — 359,086 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,372,411 ratings — published 1956
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.66 — 140,924 ratings — published 2003
The Undying (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,757 ratings — published 2019
Things I Don't Want to Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,714 ratings — published 2014
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,207,177 ratings — published 2018
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.13 — 135,999 ratings — published 1845
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.95 — 281,238 ratings — published 1993
Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.85 — 206 ratings — published 2001
Pageboy (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.73 — 76,613 ratings — published 2023
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,501,460 ratings — published 2022
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.93 — 512,029 ratings — published 2018
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,365,862 ratings — published 2011
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.73 — 33,982 ratings — published 1976
Virginia Woolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,972 ratings — published 1996
The Princess Diarist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.70 — 91,640 ratings — published 2016
Spectacles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,431 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 — 626,702 ratings — published 2012
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.73 — 93,882 ratings — published 1985
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.15 — 660,363 ratings — published 1996
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,372,018 ratings — published 2005
Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,199 ratings — published 2008
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.83 — 580,803 ratings — published 2023
Strong Female Character (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.40 — 42,163 ratings — published 2023
Arrangements in Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.74 — 5,436 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 — 102,691 ratings — published 2018
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.19 — 382,653 ratings — published 2000
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.46 — 373,139 ratings — published 2016
Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.28 — 10,466 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 — 572,870 ratings — published 1997
A History of My Brief Body (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,626 ratings — published 2020
The Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.16 — 46,888 ratings — published 2008
“We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others.”
― Selected Essays
― Selected Essays
“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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