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Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4707 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,884,921 ratings — published 2018
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4296 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,504,822 ratings — published 2022
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3783 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,372,919 ratings — published 2005
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3018 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.23 — 609,557 ratings — published 2021
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2993 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,208,016 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2654 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.49 — 815,089 ratings — published 2016
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 2253 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,059,574 ratings — published 2011
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2126 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.41 — 816,907 ratings — published 2016
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2114 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,222,003 ratings — published 1947
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 2022 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.68 — 261,637 ratings — published 2019
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1997 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.07 — 872,023 ratings — published 2012
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 1819 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,373,205 ratings — published 1956
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1780 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.83 — 581,310 ratings — published 2023
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1706 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.85 — 558,072 ratings — published 2014
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 1663 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,849,638 ratings — published 2006
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 1544 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.86 — 514,677 ratings — published 2011
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 1526 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.30 — 585,394 ratings — published 1969
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1486 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.16 — 626,994 ratings — published 2012
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1404 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.84 — 507,091 ratings — published 2016
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1391 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.38 — 163,865 ratings — published 2019
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 1370 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.93 — 305,444 ratings — published 2005
Running with Scissors (Paperback)
by (shelved 1359 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.77 — 404,841 ratings — published 2002
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 1300 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.15 — 660,536 ratings — published 1996
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 1200 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.17 — 121,814 ratings — published 2017
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1195 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.21 — 359,533 ratings — published 2010
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1162 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.93 — 512,883 ratings — published 2018
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1124 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.20 — 466,640 ratings — published 2020
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1112 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.83 — 432,938 ratings — published 2023
Untamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1071 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.98 — 518,244 ratings — published 2020
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 1044 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.09 — 238,968 ratings — published 2012
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 1039 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.01 — 722,558 ratings — published 2000
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1029 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.94 — 405,591 ratings — published 2022
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 1024 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.95 — 281,554 ratings — published 1993
Finding Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1015 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.53 — 183,234 ratings — published 2022
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 958 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,215,737 ratings — published 1997
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 947 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.31 — 278,419 ratings — published 2020
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 934 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.19 — 383,058 ratings — published 2000
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 907 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.40 — 369,222 ratings — published 2015
Why Not Me? (Paperback)
by (shelved 894 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.90 — 227,055 ratings — published 2015
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 892 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.37 — 409,161 ratings — published 2019
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 878 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.90 — 201,697 ratings — published 2012
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)
by (shelved 848 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.94 — 166,784 ratings — published 2016
What My Bones Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 840 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.49 — 78,057 ratings — published 2022
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 836 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.37 — 891,219 ratings — published 1946
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 797 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.72 — 206,458 ratings — published 2010
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 773 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.07 — 203,676 ratings — published 2006
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 767 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.34 — 320,270 ratings — published 2000
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 764 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.29 — 191,396 ratings — published 2025
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 734 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.16 — 194,838 ratings — published 2007
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 695 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.42 — 129,190 ratings — published 2021
“Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by the publisher of one of my early books. (At least on that occasion I lived up to the title by ridiculing the word in my introduction to the book's first chapter.) It is actually a pity that our culture doesn't have a good vernacular word for an oppositionist or even for someone who tries to do his own thinking: the word 'dissident' can't be self-conferred because it is really a title of honor that has to be won or earned, while terms like 'gadfly' or 'maverick' are somehow trivial and condescending as well as over-full of self-regard. And I've lost count of the number of memoirs by old comrades or ex-comrades that have titles like 'Against the Stream,' 'Against the Current,' 'Minority of One,' 'Breaking Ranks' and so forth—all of them lending point to Harold Rosenberg's withering remark about 'the herd of independent minds.' Even when I was quite young I disliked being called a 'rebel': it seemed to make the patronizing suggestion that 'questioning authority' was part of a 'phase' through which I would naturally go. On the contrary, I was a relatively well-behaved and well-mannered boy, and chose my battles with some deliberation rather than just thinking with my hormones.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
