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Memoir Books
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Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13169 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,913,078 ratings — published 2018
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10582 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,547,258 ratings — published 2022
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 8816 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,384,849 ratings — published 2005
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8027 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.23 — 622,507 ratings — published 2021
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7355 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,219,593 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7348 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.49 — 824,775 ratings — published 2016
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6196 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 876,988 ratings — published 2012
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6149 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.41 — 828,841 ratings — published 2016
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 5750 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,064,088 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5567 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,256,163 ratings — published 1947
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 5238 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,383,746 ratings — published 1956
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4709 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.83 — 509,643 ratings — published 2016
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 4550 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.93 — 310,976 ratings — published 2005
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4524 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,856,437 ratings — published 2006
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 4452 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.68 — 266,031 ratings — published 2019
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4346 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.85 — 560,486 ratings — published 2014
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4179 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.38 — 166,290 ratings — published 2019
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3954 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.83 — 587,038 ratings — published 2023
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 3948 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.30 — 589,772 ratings — published 1969
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 3734 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.86 — 515,783 ratings — published 2011
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3549 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.40 — 371,684 ratings — published 2015
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 3531 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.16 — 662,938 ratings — published 1996
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 3501 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.17 — 122,437 ratings — published 2017
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3367 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.21 — 366,600 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 3260 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.16 — 631,138 ratings — published 2012
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3253 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 205,513 ratings — published 2006
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 3128 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.01 — 724,915 ratings — published 2000
Running with Scissors (Paperback)
by (shelved 3005 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.77 — 405,992 ratings — published 2002
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2941 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.83 — 436,971 ratings — published 2023
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 2888 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.19 — 388,545 ratings — published 2000
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 2758 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.09 — 240,423 ratings — published 2012
Untamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2753 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.97 — 521,588 ratings — published 2020
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 2735 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,232,790 ratings — published 1997
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2715 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.90 — 202,577 ratings — published 2012
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2673 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.37 — 906,721 ratings — published 1946
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2668 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.34 — 322,729 ratings — published 2000
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2565 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.37 — 414,486 ratings — published 2019
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2464 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.31 — 281,459 ratings — published 2020
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 2375 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.95 — 285,720 ratings — published 1993
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2316 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.20 — 475,600 ratings — published 2020
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2292 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.93 — 524,569 ratings — published 2018
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 2275 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.27 — 235,091 ratings — published 2003
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2260 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.94 — 412,184 ratings — published 2022
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2219 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.89 — 177,243 ratings — published 2015
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2215 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.72 — 207,005 ratings — published 2010
What My Bones Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2096 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.49 — 80,614 ratings — published 2022
Why Not Me? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2071 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.90 — 227,569 ratings — published 2015
Finding Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2042 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.53 — 188,828 ratings — published 2022
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2020 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 451,054 ratings — published 1998
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 1988 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.26 — 578,533 ratings — published 1997
“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.”
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
“Just a middle-age man with all the privilege that unasked for gift affords. When in truth it seems, we see suffering as the province of children, mothers, wives and lovers. Broken, struck by the hand of a man’s blind ambition, brutish strength. What of the gentle-man with the soft voice…”
― More Than Love, A Husband's Tale
― More Than Love, A Husband's Tale
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