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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
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Bad Feminist
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What If This Were Enough?: Essays
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I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
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The Liars' Club
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Play It As It Lays
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Lucky
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Girl, Interrupted
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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.
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We Should All Be Feminists
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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My Life in France
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Holidays on Ice
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
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I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections
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Eat, Pray, Love
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Elizabeth Gilbert (Goodreads Author)
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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
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Jia Tolentino (Goodreads Author)
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So Many Africas: Six Years in a Zambian Village
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Jill Kandel (Goodreads Author)
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Of Bees & Boys: Lines from a Southern Lawyer
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Allen Mendenhall (Goodreads Author)
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Born on a Blue Day
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Daniel Tammet (Goodreads Author)
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We Learn Nothing
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
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The Two Week Traveller
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Matthew Lightfoot (Goodreads Author)
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Animal Quintet: A Southern Memoir
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Dancing with Death: An Inspiring Real-Life Story of Epic Travel Adventure
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Jean-Philippe Soulé (Goodreads Author)
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Wind, Sand and Stars
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The Best American Essays of the Century
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Joyce Carol Oates (Editor)
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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Barack Obama (Goodreads Author)
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Educated
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Tara Westover (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 1,798,392 ratings
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My Life
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Bill Clinton (Goodreads Author)
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The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
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The Night Sky: A Journey from Dachau to Denver and Back
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Maria Sutton (Goodreads Author)
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Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
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13 Years in America
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Melanie Steele (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 166 ratings
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The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia
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Alden Jones (Goodreads Author)
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Chance Encounters: Travel Tales from Around the World
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Poems from a Runaway
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Ben Westwood (Goodreads Author)
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You Can't Drive Your Car to Your Own Funeral
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Broken and alone... right?: I think we should talk...
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The Color of the Elephant
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Christine Herbert (Goodreads Author)
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
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Reading Water: Lessons from the River
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Rebecca Lawton (Goodreads Author)
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Unhinged: Putting the Pieces Back Together
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Olena Rose (Goodreads Author)
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This Boy's Life
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Learning to Dance in the Rain
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Melanie L. Bennett (Goodreads Author)
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Traveling with Ghosts: A Memoir
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Shannon Leone Fowler (Goodreads Author)
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Snapshots (Matthew Lightfoot Travel Books)
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Matthew Lightfoot (Goodreads Author)
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The Color of Water
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James McBride (Goodreads Author)
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Tell It to the World: International Justice and the Secret Campaign to Hide Mass Murder in Kosovo
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Eliott Behar (Goodreads Author)
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Hand to Mouth to India
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Tom Thumb (Goodreads Author)
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Acquainted with the Night: A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children
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With Love, The Argentina Family: Memories of Tango and Kugel; Mate with Knishes
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Mirta Ines Trupp (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 90 ratings
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I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays
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Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith
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Martha N. Beck (Goodreads Author)
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An Age of License: A Travelogue
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Lucy Knisley (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 6,453 ratings
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Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
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Lucy Knisley (Goodreads Author)
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Geisha, a Life
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String Too Short to Be Saved: Recollections of Summers on a New England Farm
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The White Hindu
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Ambaa (Goodreads Author)
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Planet of the Blind
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Ten Thousand Miles by Freight Train: A Memoir of Beauty and Freedom on the Rails
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Carrot Quinn (Goodreads Author)
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Pieces of Soap: Essays
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A Family by Any Other Name: Exploring Queer Relationships
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The Many Faces of Religion: From The Journey
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Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life
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Meeting Mogwyn: A Glimpse into the Victorian Past
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Colin Edward Mason (Goodreads Author)
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Where Fault Lies: A Survivor's Story of Game, Shame & Blame
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Carrie May Lucas (Goodreads Author)
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走得越远,离自己越近 The Farther I Walk, The Closer I Get To Me
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Wandering
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Melissa Burovac (Goodreads Author)
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The Jewish Daughter Diaries: True Stories of Being Loved Too Much by Our Moms
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Rachel Ament (Goodreads Author)
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Karate Stupid: A True Story of Survival
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Why Beer Matters
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Evan Rail (Goodreads Author)
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Hawai'i One Summer
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Ghost No More
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CeeCee James (Goodreads Author)
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Those Whom I Would Like to Meet Again
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Bad Dyke: Salacious Stories from a Queer Life
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Allison Moon (Goodreads Author)
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On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness
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Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew (Goodreads Author)
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I Am Your Doctor: And This Is My Humble Opinion
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Jordan Grumet (Goodreads Author)
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Untangling the Knot: Queer Voices on Marriage, Relationships & Identity (OpenBook)
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Born in Sarajevo
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Call It Wonder: an odyssey of love, sex, spirit, and travel
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Kate Evans (Goodreads Author)
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Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry
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Invisible 2: Personal Essays on Representation in SF/F
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Cuba Open from the Inside: Travels in the Forbidden Land
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Chris Messner (Goodreads Author)
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My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married
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Breaking the Silence
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Diamante Lavendar (Goodreads Author)
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Strange Borderlands
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Ben Berman (Goodreads Author)
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Stories of Music, Volume 1
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Willkommen im Erdgeschoss: Wie ich mich mit 17 im Rollstuhl wiederfand
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#Caste is Not a Rumour: The Online Diary of Rohith Vemula
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The Green Reaper: Memoirs of an Eco-Mortician
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Elizabeth Fournier (Goodreads Author)
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Healing My Life from Incest to Joy
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Donna Jenson (Goodreads Author)
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Walking Over Eggshells
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Lucinda E. Clarke (Goodreads Author)
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Italy Through the Rear-View Mirror: Finding Connection and Belonging