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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 208,832 ratings — published 2006
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,332,482 ratings — published 1947
The Argonauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 58,446 ratings — published 2015
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.22 — 647,588 ratings — published 2021
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.37 — 170,732 ratings — published 2019
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,975,215 ratings — published 2018
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.93 — 322,644 ratings — published 2005
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,496 ratings — published 2011
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.73 — 85,742 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 — 598,398 ratings — published 1969
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.28 — 241,370 ratings — published 2003
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.48 — 848,236 ratings — published 2016
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.71 — 36,142 ratings — published 2012
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.21 — 382,400 ratings — published 2010
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.41 — 216,965 ratings — published 2007
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,403,212 ratings — published 1956
The Cost of Living (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.17 — 25,541 ratings — published 2018
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.34 — 328,018 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 — 888,901 ratings — published 2012
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.85 — 565,124 ratings — published 2014
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,931 ratings — published 1845
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.67 — 144,087 ratings — published 2003
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,624,262 ratings — published 2022
The Undying (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,942 ratings — published 2019
Things I Don't Want to Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 22,735 ratings — published 2014
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 — 639,562 ratings — published 2012
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.95 — 292,740 ratings — published 1993
Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.82 — 226 ratings — published 2001
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.83 — 597,142 ratings — published 2023
Pageboy (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.72 — 79,283 ratings — published 2023
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.99 — 443,904 ratings — published 2019
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.92 — 549,860 ratings — published 2018
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,244,027 ratings — published 2018
Motherhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.63 — 22,251 ratings — published 2018
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,532 ratings — published 1976
Virginia Woolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,010 ratings — published 1996
The Princess Diarist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.69 — 93,092 ratings — published 2016
Spectacles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,521 ratings — published 2015
Bluets (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.03 — 61,511 ratings — published 2009
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.16 — 669,400 ratings — published 1996
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.58 — 265,312 ratings — published 1992
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,411,203 ratings — published 2005
Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,356 ratings — published 2008
Strong Female Character (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.39 — 45,911 ratings — published 2023
Arrangements in Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.72 — 5,861 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 — 114,576 ratings — published 2018
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.20 — 407,109 ratings — published 2000
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.45 — 389,838 ratings — published 2016
Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,363 ratings — published 2021
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.27 — 590,963 ratings — published 1997
“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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“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
