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Personal Narrative Books
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Owl Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.23 — 44,818 ratings — published 1987
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,387,415 ratings — published 1956
Fireflies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,189 ratings — published 1985
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.26 — 580,591 ratings — published 1997
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.93 — 312,837 ratings — published 2005
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,268,181 ratings — published 1947
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,389,047 ratings — published 2005
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.51 — 40,335 ratings — published 1983
Shortcut: An Award-Winning Suspenseful Picture Book About Trains and Family for Kids (Ages 4-8)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.03 — 559 ratings — published 1992
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,782 ratings — published 1994
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.37 — 911,880 ratings — published 1946
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,922,699 ratings — published 2018
Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a Kid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.23 — 846 ratings — published 2005
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,702 ratings — published 1854
When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading Rainbow Books)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,524 ratings — published 1982
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,559,905 ratings — published 2022
The Night Walk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.28 — 758 ratings — published 2018
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.72 — 46,329 ratings — published 2019
Kitchen Dance: A Charming Picture Book About Family, Music, and Bedtime Joy for Kids (Ages 4-7)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.16 — 397 ratings — published 2008
Jabari Jumps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.38 — 5,597 ratings — published 2017
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,553 ratings — published 2015
The Bicycle Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.93 — 772 ratings — published 1982
A Chair for My Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.21 — 26,361 ratings — published 1982
Crow Call (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,328 ratings — published 2009
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.07 — 452,199 ratings — published 1998
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.72 — 207,161 ratings — published 2010
Saturdays and Teacakes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.42 — 503 ratings — published 2004
Thank You, Mr. Falker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.54 — 17,687 ratings — published 1998
The Relatives Came (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.22 — 16,395 ratings — published 1985
Thunder Cake (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.38 — 7,091 ratings — published 1990
The Leaving Morning (Orchard Paperbacks)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.83 — 130 ratings — published 1992
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.26 — 81,165 ratings — published 1946
Hijab Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.46 — 20,706 ratings — published 2023
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,372 ratings — published 2022
Beautiful Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.16 — 39,592 ratings — published 2021
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.20 — 478,336 ratings — published 2020
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.29 — 18,215 ratings — published 1953
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.17 — 63,672 ratings — published 2013
Hello Ocean (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.90 — 655 ratings — published 2001
Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.50 — 10,018 ratings — published 1985
All the Places to Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,285 ratings — published 1994
Blackout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,169 ratings — published 2011
Smoky Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,438 ratings — published 1994
Juana and Lucas: Big Problemas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.15 — 315 ratings — published 2019
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.07 — 879,098 ratings — published 2012
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.86 — 115,157 ratings — published 2019
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.37 — 296,135 ratings — published 1965
A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,944 ratings — published 2017
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.17 — 122,670 ratings — published 2017
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.13 — 18,464 ratings — published 2017
“The presence in a memoir or an essay of the truth speaker - the narrator that a writer pulls out of his or her own agitated and boring self to organize a piece of experience - it was about this alone that I felt I had something to say; and it was to those works in which such a narrator comes through strong and clear that I was invariably drawn.”
― The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
― The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
“Legacy for my daughter matters more than competition, one-upping, or trying to make someone look bad. These pages exist for the long-term endurance of this narrative, so she can see another perspective and a bigger picture, whether I am here or gone.”
― Calling Out the Shadows: A Father's Stand Against the Current: Clarity over comfort. Transparency over secrecy. Structure over spin. Love over anger.
― Calling Out the Shadows: A Father's Stand Against the Current: Clarity over comfort. Transparency over secrecy. Structure over spin. Love over anger.
