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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 854,151 ratings — published 2016
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 652,822 ratings — published 2021
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,348,268 ratings — published 1947
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,640,353 ratings — published 2022
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 369,670 ratings — published 1971
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.41 — 859,146 ratings — published 2016
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,416,886 ratings — published 2005
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 1,873,549 ratings — published 2006
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 192,081 ratings — published 2013
Educated (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,990,050 ratings — published 2018
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 893,159 ratings — published 2012
The Choice: Embrace the Possible (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.57 — 141,873 ratings — published 2017
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,225,179 ratings — published 2018
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 946,817 ratings — published 1946
Bossypants (ebook)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,076,311 ratings — published 2011
Yes Please (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 566,459 ratings — published 2014
The Last Lecture (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.26 — 369,686 ratings — published 2008
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 144,552 ratings — published 2003
Gender Queer: A Memoir (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 82,267 ratings — published 2019
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.30 — 336,976 ratings — published 2018
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 117,033 ratings — published 2016
The Book of Cold Cases (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 136,040 ratings — published 2022
The Happiest Man on Earth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.62 — 143,892 ratings — published 2020
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 98,009 ratings — published 1991
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 210,866 ratings — published 2007
Untamed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 529,579 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 — 641,595 ratings — published 2012
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 448,212 ratings — published 2019
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 112,097 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 — 240,871 ratings — published 2009
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.43 — 18,568 ratings — published 2020
Know My Name (ebook)
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avg rating 4.67 — 277,681 ratings — published 2019
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 167,973 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 — 89,067 ratings — published 2018
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 101,501 ratings — published 2019
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 201,301 ratings — published 2012
A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 85,853 ratings — published 1989
Inside Out & Back Again (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 69,080 ratings — published 2011
Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 24,244 ratings — published 2004
The Story of My Life (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 152,665 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 — 1,285,910 ratings — published 1997
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 593,820 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 — 15,145 ratings — published 2011
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,229,612 ratings — published 1996
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 228,128 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 — 171,786 ratings — published 2016
The Best We Could Do (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 41,761 ratings — published 2017
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
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avg rating 3.86 — 518,935 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 — 3,845 ratings — published 2001
Why Not Me? (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 228,813 ratings — published 2015
“You are the master over someone who has told you his story.”
― Mort(e)
― Mort(e)
“...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
