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Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13028 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,884,787 ratings — published 2018
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10373 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,504,623 ratings — published 2022
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 8747 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,372,852 ratings — published 2005
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7897 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.23 — 609,486 ratings — published 2021
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7309 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,207,972 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7293 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.49 — 815,061 ratings — published 2016
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6172 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 872,009 ratings — published 2012
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6071 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.41 — 816,855 ratings — published 2016
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 5721 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,059,561 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5534 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,221,852 ratings — published 1947
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 5193 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,373,136 ratings — published 1956
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4696 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.84 — 507,083 ratings — published 2016
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4498 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,849,606 ratings — published 2006
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 4488 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.93 — 305,421 ratings — published 2005
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 4389 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.68 — 261,611 ratings — published 2019
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4336 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.85 — 558,064 ratings — published 2014
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4123 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.38 — 163,856 ratings — published 2019
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3902 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.83 — 581,281 ratings — published 2023
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 3894 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.30 — 585,373 ratings — published 1969
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 3725 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.86 — 514,673 ratings — published 2011
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3523 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.40 — 369,210 ratings — published 2015
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 3508 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.15 — 660,524 ratings — published 1996
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 3487 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.17 — 121,812 ratings — published 2017
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3302 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.21 — 359,514 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 3236 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.16 — 626,972 ratings — published 2012
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3221 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 203,670 ratings — published 2006
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 3114 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.01 — 722,547 ratings — published 2000
Running with Scissors (Paperback)
by (shelved 2995 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.77 — 404,841 ratings — published 2002
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2930 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.83 — 432,927 ratings — published 2023
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 2853 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.19 — 383,035 ratings — published 2000
Untamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2739 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.98 — 518,225 ratings — published 2020
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 2734 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.09 — 238,963 ratings — published 2012
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2699 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.90 — 201,693 ratings — published 2012
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 2686 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,215,662 ratings — published 1997
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2663 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.34 — 320,260 ratings — published 2000
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2646 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.37 — 891,079 ratings — published 1946
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2530 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.37 — 409,139 ratings — published 2019
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2451 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.31 — 278,404 ratings — published 2020
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 2347 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.95 — 281,537 ratings — published 1993
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2271 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.20 — 466,604 ratings — published 2020
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 2258 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.27 — 232,417 ratings — published 2003
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2241 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.93 — 512,842 ratings — published 2018
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2224 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.94 — 405,563 ratings — published 2022
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2205 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.72 — 206,454 ratings — published 2010
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2203 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.89 — 176,120 ratings — published 2015
Why Not Me? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2063 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.90 — 227,054 ratings — published 2015
What My Bones Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2048 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.49 — 78,042 ratings — published 2022
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2006 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 448,119 ratings — published 1998
Finding Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1989 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.53 — 183,214 ratings — published 2022
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 1963 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.26 — 573,265 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
“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?”
― Debbie.
― Debbie.
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