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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 207,532 ratings — published 2006
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,301,075 ratings — published 1947
The Argonauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 58,008 ratings — published 2015
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.22 — 638,112 ratings — published 2021
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.37 — 168,951 ratings — published 2019
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,949,223 ratings — published 2018
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.93 — 317,603 ratings — published 2005
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,038 ratings — published 2011
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.73 — 85,019 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 — 594,876 ratings — published 1969
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.27 — 238,895 ratings — published 2003
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.49 — 838,180 ratings — published 2016
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.71 — 36,017 ratings — published 2012
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.21 — 375,239 ratings — published 2010
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.41 — 214,180 ratings — published 2007
The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.17 — 24,963 ratings — published 2018
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.34 — 325,758 ratings — published 2002
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 884,168 ratings — published 2012
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.85 — 563,244 ratings — published 2014
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,097 ratings — published 1845
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,395,757 ratings — published 1956
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.67 — 143,192 ratings — published 2003
The Undying (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,902 ratings — published 2019
Things I Don't Want to Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 22,100 ratings — published 2014
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.95 — 289,974 ratings — published 1993
Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.82 — 225 ratings — published 2001
Pageboy (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.72 — 78,485 ratings — published 2023
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,593,058 ratings — published 2022
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.99 — 436,406 ratings — published 2019
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.92 — 538,901 ratings — published 2018
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,233,438 ratings — published 2018
Motherhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.63 — 21,974 ratings — published 2018
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,419 ratings — published 1976
Virginia Woolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,988 ratings — published 1996
The Princess Diarist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.69 — 92,768 ratings — published 2016
Spectacles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,500 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 — 636,035 ratings — published 2012
Bluets (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.03 — 60,639 ratings — published 2009
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.16 — 666,490 ratings — published 1996
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.58 — 262,956 ratings — published 1980
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,400,493 ratings — published 2005
Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,322 ratings — published 2008
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.83 — 593,144 ratings — published 2023
Strong Female Character (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.39 — 44,912 ratings — published 2023
Arrangements in Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 3.73 — 5,756 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 — 111,637 ratings — published 2018
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.19 — 397,572 ratings — published 2000
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.45 — 385,020 ratings — published 2016
Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
by (shelved 4 times as life-writing)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,094 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 — 585,682 ratings — published 1997
“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
“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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