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Owl Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.23 — 44,971 ratings — published 1987
Fireflies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,193 ratings — published 1985
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,401,993 ratings — published 1956
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,328,073 ratings — published 1947
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.27 — 590,293 ratings — published 1997
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.93 — 321,902 ratings — published 2005
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.51 — 41,237 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 — 3,785 ratings — published 1994
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.37 — 937,135 ratings — published 1946
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,971,371 ratings — published 2018
Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a Kid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.23 — 849 ratings — published 2005
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.77 — 208,435 ratings — published 1854
When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading Rainbow Books)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,532 ratings — published 1982
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,409,725 ratings — published 2005
The Night Walk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.28 — 766 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 — 48,539 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 — 5,667 ratings — published 2017
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,105 ratings — published 2015
The Bicycle Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.93 — 777 ratings — published 1982
A Chair for My Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.21 — 26,387 ratings — published 1982
Crow Call (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,338 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 — 458,418 ratings — published 1998
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.72 — 207,832 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 — 17,709 ratings — published 1998
The Relatives Came (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.22 — 16,419 ratings — published 1985
Thunder Cake (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.38 — 7,137 ratings — published 1990
The Leaving Morning (Orchard Paperbacks)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.82 — 129 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 — 81,578 ratings — published 1946
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,619,915 ratings — published 2022
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,491 ratings — published 2022
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.19 — 490,730 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 4.30 — 18,544 ratings — published 1953
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.17 — 64,131 ratings — published 2013
Hello Ocean (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.90 — 663 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 4.49 — 10,234 ratings — published 1985
All the Places to Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,288 ratings — published 1994
Blackout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,179 ratings — published 2011
Smoky Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,445 ratings — published 1994
Juana and Lucas: Big Problemas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.15 — 317 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 — 888,167 ratings — published 2012
A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,987 ratings — published 2017
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.13 — 18,542 ratings — published 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.83 — 514,868 ratings — published 2016
Booked (The Crossover, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.17 — 20,280 ratings — published 2016
Mrs. Mack (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.15 — 418 ratings — published 1998
All But My Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.34 — 23,378 ratings — published 1959
Shoeless Joe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.97 — 17,173 ratings — published 1982
“The story of the self is simply the insight into the emotions of the protagonist and how he interacts with the outside world.”
― Learn Creative Writing: A guide to writing perfect drafts
― Learn Creative Writing: A guide to writing perfect drafts
“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
