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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 808,602 ratings — published 2016
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 600,665 ratings — published 2021
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.41 — 808,979 ratings — published 2016
Bossypants (ebook)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,056,876 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,199,835 ratings — published 1947
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 1,473,084 ratings — published 2022
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 173,611 ratings — published 2013
Educated (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 1,865,491 ratings — published 2018
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 868,625 ratings — published 2012
The Choice: Embrace the Possible (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.57 — 130,575 ratings — published 2017
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 357,285 ratings — published 1971
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 880,486 ratings — published 1946
Yes Please (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 556,529 ratings — published 2014
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,364,814 ratings — published 2005
The Last Lecture (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.26 — 363,891 ratings — published 2008
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 1,845,277 ratings — published 2006
Grief Is for People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 17,402 ratings — published 2024
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 400,361 ratings — published 2022
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.30 — 314,507 ratings — published 2018
The Book of Cold Cases (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 130,654 ratings — published 2022
The Happiest Man on Earth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.61 — 130,385 ratings — published 2020
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 202,659 ratings — published 2007
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 25,661 ratings — published 2018
Untamed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 515,782 ratings — published 2020
Scrappy Little Nobody (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 106,353 ratings — published 2016
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 407,794 ratings — published 2019
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 106,845 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 — 234,394 ratings — published 2009
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 17,434 ratings — published 2020
Know My Name (ebook)
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avg rating 4.68 — 258,545 ratings — published 2019
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 71,950 ratings — published 2016
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.65 — 81,450 ratings — published 2018
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 99,873 ratings — published 2019
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 194,501 ratings — published 2012
A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 83,275 ratings — published 1989
Inside Out & Back Again (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 67,037 ratings — published 2011
Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 23,693 ratings — published 2004
The Story of My Life (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 151,088 ratings — published 1902
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,204,127 ratings — published 1997
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 569,418 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 3.76 — 13,615 ratings — published 2011
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,194,132 ratings — published 1996
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,168,968 ratings — published 2018
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 218,197 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 — 165,525 ratings — published 2016
The Best We Could Do (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 40,333 ratings — published 2017
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
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avg rating 3.86 — 513,945 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 — 3,754 ratings — published 2001
Why Not Me? (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 226,744 ratings — published 2015
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,112,031 ratings — published 1997
“...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
“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
