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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 210,155 ratings — published 2006
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,354,976 ratings — published 1947
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,995,881 ratings — published 2018
The Argonauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 58,827 ratings — published 2015
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.22 — 655,195 ratings — published 2021
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.37 — 172,478 ratings — published 2019
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.93 — 326,564 ratings — published 2005
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,854 ratings — published 2011
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.73 — 86,386 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 — 601,316 ratings — published 1969
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.28 — 243,417 ratings — published 2003
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.48 — 856,627 ratings — published 2016
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.71 — 36,286 ratings — published 2012
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.21 — 387,990 ratings — published 2010
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.41 — 219,076 ratings — published 2007
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,410,900 ratings — published 2012
Things I Don't Want to Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.05 — 23,188 ratings — published 2014
The Cost of Living (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.17 — 25,957 ratings — published 2018
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.34 — 329,981 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 — 894,692 ratings — published 2012
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.85 — 567,107 ratings — published 2014
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.14 — 140,299 ratings — published 1845
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.67 — 144,752 ratings — published 2003
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,646,280 ratings — published 2022
The Undying (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,000 ratings — published 2019
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.16 — 642,243 ratings — published 2012
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.95 — 294,755 ratings — published 1993
Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.82 — 227 ratings — published 2001
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.83 — 600,587 ratings — published 2023
Pageboy (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.72 — 79,768 ratings — published 2023
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.99 — 449,837 ratings — published 2019
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.92 — 557,479 ratings — published 2018
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,254,368 ratings — published 2018
Motherhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.63 — 22,447 ratings — published 2018
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,691 ratings — published 1976
Virginia Woolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,055 ratings — published 1996
The Princess Diarist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.69 — 93,487 ratings — published 2016
Spectacles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,548 ratings — published 2015
Bluets (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.02 — 62,340 ratings — published 2009
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.02 — 80,426 ratings — published 400
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.16 — 672,019 ratings — published 1996
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.58 — 267,712 ratings — published 1992
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,419,011 ratings — published 2005
Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,392 ratings — published 2008
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,349 ratings — published 2024
Strong Female Character (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.38 — 46,607 ratings — published 2023
Arrangements in Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.72 — 5,928 ratings — published 2023
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.19 — 116,932 ratings — published 2018
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.20 — 415,001 ratings — published 2000
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.45 — 394,204 ratings — published 2016
“We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others.”
― Selected Essays
― Selected Essays
“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
