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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
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Elephant Dance: A Story of Love and War in the Kingdom of Elephants
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Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
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Open An Autobiography
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Patient Heal Thyself
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3.89 avg rating — 274 ratings
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
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3.73 avg rating — 6,539 ratings
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Girlfriends Forever
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Susan Branch (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 467 ratings
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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
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Lewis Buzbee (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 2,831 ratings
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The Hospital by the River
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Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
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3.98 avg rating — 9,567 ratings
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Somewhere Towards the End
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Campervan Kama Sutra - Outback Australia, with a camper trailer, three kids and a dog*
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John Perrier (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations With Gerald R. Ford
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3.79 avg rating — 1,124 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 312,386 ratings
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The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
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3.75 avg rating — 1,652 ratings
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Balanda: My Year in Arnhem Land
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3.46 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill
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3.81 avg rating — 1,939 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 715,788 ratings
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Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia
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3.57 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
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Paul Collins (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 2,849 ratings
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A Different Drummer: My Thirty Years with Ronald Reagan
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4.01 avg rating — 524 ratings
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Prairie Tale
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3.62 avg rating — 8,653 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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Jeannette Walls (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 1,336,059 ratings
score: 97,
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Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran
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4.07 avg rating — 554 ratings
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This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor
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4.31 avg rating — 2,414 ratings
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Het komt allemaal weer omhoog : de memoires van een erotisch filmmaker
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison
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3.96 avg rating — 1,978 ratings
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Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI
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Ryan Smithson (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 1,466 ratings
score: 97,
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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4.35 avg rating — 52,953 ratings
score: 96,
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Dog Years
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3.90 avg rating — 2,999 ratings
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The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice
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3.77 avg rating — 274 ratings
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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
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4.32 avg rating — 22,490 ratings
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Moon Princess, The: Memories of the Shan States
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3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Queen of Education: Rules for Making School Work
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LouAnne Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Going Rogue: An American Life
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3.30 avg rating — 11,827 ratings
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
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William Kamkwamba (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 32,102 ratings
score: 93,
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Madness: A Bipolar Life
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4.03 avg rating — 14,709 ratings
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An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
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4.19 avg rating — 6,701 ratings
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Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back & How You Can Too
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3.70 avg rating — 1,193 ratings
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I Remember...A Memoir of Nazi Invasion Forced Exile and Concentration Camp
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4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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A Distant Prayer: Miracles of the 49th Combat Mission
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4.32 avg rating — 867 ratings
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American Son: A Portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr.
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3.84 avg rating — 558 ratings
score: 86,
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The Journey Home
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Radhanath Swami (Goodreads Author)
4.58 avg rating — 5,378 ratings
score: 85,
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
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4.48 avg rating — 22,760 ratings
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Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
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Thomas Norman DeWolf (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 222 ratings
score: 83,
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Cockroaches
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4.42 avg rating — 1,717 ratings
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From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today
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3.81 avg rating — 63 ratings
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An American Story
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3.44 avg rating — 101 ratings
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My Struggle: Book Two
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4.33 avg rating — 23,670 ratings
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Assassination Vacation
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3.93 avg rating — 47,079 ratings
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The BIG Black Lie: How I Learned The Truth About The Democrat Party
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Kevin Jackson (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 84 ratings
score: 76,
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Life as a Geezer
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3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Geisha, a Life
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3.93 avg rating — 27,025 ratings
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Hillbilly Gothic: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood
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Adrienne Martini (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 319 ratings
score: 73,
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From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King
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4.21 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Surprised by Grace: A True Story of Relentless Love
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Elizabeth Sherrill (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe
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4.71 avg rating — 1,789 ratings
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Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
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4.01 avg rating — 5,397 ratings
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PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives
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3.99 avg rating — 131,088 ratings
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Mustangs: Wild Horses of the West
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4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Thirty-Six Years in the White House (Annotated)
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3.82 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Wishful Drinking
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3.82 avg rating — 91,883 ratings
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Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
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The Elephant Whisperer
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Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture
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Thomas Chatterton Williams (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 1,029 ratings
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Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
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3.55 avg rating — 14,469 ratings
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Only the Strong Survive: Memoirs of a Soul Survivor
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God in My Corner
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4.01 avg rating — 140 ratings
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