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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 — 44,900 ratings — published 1987
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,395,053 ratings — published 1956
Fireflies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,191 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 — 585,248 ratings — published 1997
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.93 — 317,179 ratings — published 2005
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,298,047 ratings — published 1947
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,399,367 ratings — published 2005
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.51 — 40,765 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 — 558 ratings — published 1992
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,784 ratings — published 1994
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.37 — 924,107 ratings — published 1946
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,946,747 ratings — published 2018
Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a Kid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.23 — 848 ratings — published 2005
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,584 ratings — published 1854
When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading Rainbow Books)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,525 ratings — published 1982
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,589,915 ratings — published 2022
The Night Walk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.28 — 763 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 — 47,198 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 4.37 — 5,636 ratings — published 2017
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.40 — 374,336 ratings — published 2015
The Bicycle Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.93 — 776 ratings — published 1982
A Chair for My Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.21 — 26,379 ratings — published 1982
Crow Call (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,334 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 — 455,187 ratings — published 1998
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.72 — 207,517 ratings — published 2010
Saturdays and Teacakes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.42 — 505 ratings — published 2004
Thank You, Mr. Falker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.54 — 17,694 ratings — published 1998
The Relatives Came (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.22 — 16,403 ratings — published 1985
Thunder Cake (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.38 — 7,121 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 — 81,347 ratings — published 1946
Hijab Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.45 — 21,642 ratings — published 2023
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,433 ratings — published 2022
Beautiful Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.16 — 39,983 ratings — published 2021
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.20 — 484,542 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 — 18,400 ratings — published 1953
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.17 — 63,909 ratings — published 2013
Hello Ocean (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.90 — 659 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 — 10,130 ratings — published 1985
All the Places to Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,286 ratings — published 1994
Blackout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,173 ratings — published 2011
Smoky Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,440 ratings — published 1994
Juana and Lucas: Big Problemas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.15 — 314 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 — 883,740 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 — 115,830 ratings — published 2019
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.37 — 297,841 ratings — published 1965
A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,970 ratings — published 2017
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.17 — 123,180 ratings — published 2017
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.13 — 18,507 ratings — published 2017
“at the end of the day, the narratives, myths, and frameworks you use to make sense of the world are only approximations, they are never the truth. If you are able to pick the most suitable one for the moment or your situation , by reframing, this is an essential skill for survival in a fast changing and uncertain world.”
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“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
