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Memoir Books
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Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12873 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,840,394 ratings — published 2018
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10074 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,437,033 ratings — published 2022
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 8643 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,353,684 ratings — published 2005
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7715 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.23 — 590,317 ratings — published 2021
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7262 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,188,425 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7210 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.49 — 800,083 ratings — published 2016
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6156 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 863,503 ratings — published 2012
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5985 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.41 — 798,813 ratings — published 2016
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 5707 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,052,005 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5464 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,161,757 ratings — published 1947
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 5131 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,355,976 ratings — published 1956
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4674 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.84 — 501,323 ratings — published 2016
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4491 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,837,731 ratings — published 2006
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 4406 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.93 — 297,373 ratings — published 2005
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4328 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.85 — 554,144 ratings — published 2014
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 4315 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.68 — 255,299 ratings — published 2019
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4064 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.39 — 160,493 ratings — published 2019
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3855 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.83 — 569,271 ratings — published 2023
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 3837 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.30 — 578,548 ratings — published 1969
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 3712 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.86 — 512,658 ratings — published 2011
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3489 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.40 — 364,733 ratings — published 2015
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 3482 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.15 — 656,792 ratings — published 1996
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 3454 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.17 — 120,943 ratings — published 2017
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3234 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.21 — 349,299 ratings — published 2010
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3208 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.16 — 620,317 ratings — published 2012
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3191 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 201,418 ratings — published 2006
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 3111 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.01 — 719,188 ratings — published 2000
Running with Scissors (Paperback)
by (shelved 2971 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.77 — 403,057 ratings — published 2002
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2900 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.83 — 426,239 ratings — published 2023
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 2810 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.19 — 374,120 ratings — published 2000
Untamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2724 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.98 — 511,298 ratings — published 2020
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 2722 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.09 — 236,825 ratings — published 2012
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2699 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.90 — 200,564 ratings — published 2012
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2640 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.34 — 316,587 ratings — published 2000
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 2623 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,189,712 ratings — published 1997
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2591 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.37 — 867,350 ratings — published 1946
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2502 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.37 — 400,896 ratings — published 2019
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2418 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.32 — 273,220 ratings — published 2020
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 2317 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.94 — 276,409 ratings — published 1993
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 2241 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.27 — 229,425 ratings — published 2003
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2222 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.20 — 451,700 ratings — published 2020
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2201 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.72 — 205,832 ratings — published 2010
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2191 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.89 — 174,707 ratings — published 2015
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2191 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.94 — 493,619 ratings — published 2018
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2172 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.94 — 392,766 ratings — published 2022
Why Not Me? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2064 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.90 — 226,167 ratings — published 2015
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1978 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 443,683 ratings — published 1998
What My Bones Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1977 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.50 — 74,384 ratings — published 2022
Finding Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1954 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.53 — 176,329 ratings — published 2022
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 1929 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.26 — 564,556 ratings — published 1997
“Everyone knows that Africa is not reasonable place but if we can get
across that neither are we, we strengthen the bond with the continent.
People are not conscious beings, just ask any marketer. Irrationality
of the early explorers, irrationality of the new ones, irrationality
of the place we go into. What a great canvas we have to paint on...”
― Living the Best Day Ever
― Living the Best Day Ever
“From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”
~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”
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~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”
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