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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 837,969 ratings — published 2016
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 637,922 ratings — published 2021
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,300,430 ratings — published 1947
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 1,592,439 ratings — published 2022
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 365,549 ratings — published 1971
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.41 — 843,206 ratings — published 2016
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,400,253 ratings — published 2005
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 1,864,708 ratings — published 2006
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 186,175 ratings — published 2013
Educated (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,948,714 ratings — published 2018
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 884,081 ratings — published 2012
The Choice: Embrace the Possible (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.57 — 138,238 ratings — published 2017
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,208,404 ratings — published 2018
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 925,092 ratings — published 1946
Bossypants (ebook)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,069,627 ratings — published 2011
Yes Please (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 563,210 ratings — published 2014
The Last Lecture (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.26 — 367,684 ratings — published 2008
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 143,170 ratings — published 2003
Gender Queer: A Memoir (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 81,132 ratings — published 2019
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.30 — 329,635 ratings — published 2018
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 116,047 ratings — published 2016
The Book of Cold Cases (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 134,341 ratings — published 2022
The Happiest Man on Earth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.62 — 140,481 ratings — published 2020
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 96,340 ratings — published 1991
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 207,562 ratings — published 2007
Untamed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 525,538 ratings — published 2020
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 635,953 ratings — published 2012
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 436,253 ratings — published 2019
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 110,579 ratings — published 2007
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 238,739 ratings — published 2009
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 18,240 ratings — published 2020
Know My Name (ebook)
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avg rating 4.67 — 271,274 ratings — published 2019
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 167,206 ratings — published 1982
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.65 — 86,706 ratings — published 2018
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 101,056 ratings — published 2019
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 199,054 ratings — published 2012
A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 84,964 ratings — published 1989
Inside Out & Back Again (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 68,495 ratings — published 2011
Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 24,057 ratings — published 2004
The Story of My Life (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 152,018 ratings — published 1902
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,255,648 ratings — published 1997
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 585,600 ratings — published 1997
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.75 — 14,682 ratings — published 2011
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,217,574 ratings — published 1996
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 225,045 ratings — published 2014
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)
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avg rating 3.94 — 169,972 ratings — published 2016
The Best We Could Do (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 41,365 ratings — published 2017
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
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avg rating 3.86 — 517,234 ratings — published 2011
I Thought My Father Was God and Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 3,812 ratings — published 2001
Why Not Me? (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 228,188 ratings — published 2015
“In order to narrate her own life, she needs another person to listen, to aid in the tending of her interior.”
― Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
― Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
“...perpetuating the pain of the past. Is the telling the salve or the wound?”
― Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
― Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
