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Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
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Elizabeth Gilbert (Goodreads Author)
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Musical Chairs
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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Kay Redfield Jamison (Goodreads Author)
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My Story
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The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
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Melinda French Gates (Goodreads Author)
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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Susannah Cahalan (Goodreads Author)
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I Am Not Myself These Days
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Josh Kilmer-Purcell (Goodreads Author)
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Stupid Boy
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J.D. Stockholm (Goodreads Author)
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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David Grann (Goodreads Author)
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The Shack
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Sh*t My Dad Says
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
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Skinhead... The Life I Chose: Memoirs of a Real Skin
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Life After Darkness: Finding Healing and Happiness After the Cleveland Kidnappings
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Chickenhawk
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Robert Mason (Goodreads Author)
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Washington: A Life
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American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
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Orange Is the New Black
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Piper Kerman (Goodreads Author)
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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
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Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
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FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
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Steven Lomazow (Goodreads Author)
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Falling Leaves
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Is that Billinge Lump
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Tottie Limejuice (Goodreads Author)
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The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
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Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found
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Jennifer Lauck (Goodreads Author)
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
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HomoAmerican - The Secret Society
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Michael K. Dane (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Kai Bird (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 56,338 ratings
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The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
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2003 - Thanks for the Vodka
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Crying in H Mart
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Mornings on Horseback
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Schindler’s List
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Pelosi
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Molly Ball (Goodreads Author)
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Buck: A Memoir
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M.K. Asante (Goodreads Author)
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One Child
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Lit
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Joan's Descent Into Alzheimer's
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Jill Stoking (Goodreads Author)
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From Sequins to Sunshine - Year One (Lorna's Life in Spain Book 1)
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The stranger in my life
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Madness: A Bipolar Life
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Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
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Deborah Rodriguez (Goodreads Author)
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
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Waiter to the Rich and Shameless: Confessions of a Five-Star Beverly Hills Server
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Paul Hartford (Goodreads Author)
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Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
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The Fry Chronicles
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Desert Solitaire
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Come to the Edge
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Christina Haag (Goodreads Author)
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
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Silent Violence
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D.M. Samson (Goodreads Author)
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Obama: From Promise to Power
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The Road from Coorain
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Obama's Wars
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Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife
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Goodbye Teddy
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J.D. Stockholm (Goodreads Author)
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Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland
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The Wright Brothers
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This Is Your Captain Speaking: My Fantastic Voyage Through Hollywood, Faith and Life
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Elegy for Iris
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Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
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Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
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Breaking Free
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Kamikaze Kangaroos!: A trip around Oz in a van called Rusty
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Tony James Slater (Goodreads Author)
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Know My Name
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Living the Best Day Ever
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Hendri Coetzee (Goodreads Author)
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The Happy Hooker: My Own Story
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A Writer's Diary
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The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
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Wait Till Next Year
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader
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Cider with Rosie
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Amelia's Destiny (Amelia #2)
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D.G. Torrens (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 1,973 ratings
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A Man Without a Country
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Zeitoun
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Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter
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In Plain Sight: A True Story of Kidnapping and Rape
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Anna D. Stoddard (Goodreads Author)
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Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
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The Writing Life
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Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
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Alison Bechdel (Goodreads Author)
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For One More Day
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Mitch Albom (Goodreads Author)
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Beautiful Affliction
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Lene Fogelberg (Goodreads Author)
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The King's Speech
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
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Telling Teddy
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Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
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Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
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Jane Austen: A Life
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Cleopatra: A Life
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"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
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FYI: "What is the What" is not a memoir. Nor is "Sarah's Key." Both are great books, but they're fiction.
add:Time To Be In Earnest: A Fragment Of Autobiography|3831], P. D. JamesThis is fabulous. six stars
this was a good book..going to read more like this !
The Lovely Bones isn't a memoir or biography.
Hannibal
by Thomas Harris and
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller are both fiction, and I removed them.
Wow, I'm seeing a lot of fiction on this list.
Sue T wrote: "Wow, I'm seeing a lot of fiction on this list."Can we get them removed? One of the reasons I came to look at this list was to find good biographies to add to my TBR list, so I want to be sure I'm not reading a book I think is a biography then discover it was fiction.
Linda wrote: "Sue T wrote: "Wow, I'm seeing a lot of fiction on this list."Can we get them removed? One of the reasons I came to look at this list was to find good biographies to add to my TBR list, so I want ..."
Please don't remove them - even those are fiction-biography books, this list is still gorgeous.
Thank you so much for creating this list Heather! I have been looking for 'Oh the Glory of it all." for years but I couldn't remember the name, thought I knew I would recognize the cover. I found it on your list and now I can read it again! Your awesome!
"The Friday Night Knitting Club" is fiction. Why do people put fiction titles on non-fiction lists??
Here's a real fun wild and crazy memoir about the movie biz and about finding true love...please vote for this cover - Kiss Me Quick Before I Shoot :)
Khaled Hosseini's Books (Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns) are Fiction.
Without moving from the first page there are at least three fiction novels on this.
"Eat, Pray, Love" ranks higher up than "First they killed my father"? The world is ending...
No one even mentioned A Playboy Virgin's Manifesto by Atticus Rockefellar. Oh, the humanity!http://www.amazon.com/Playboy-Virgins...
The following are fiction: #113 A Thousand Splendid Suns
#128 Memoirs of a Geisha
Shall I delete? Any others that need to go?
I added a list description: NOTE: This list is for non-fiction only.
Hopefully, this will stop the tide of fiction.
Too bad one can only have 100 books on a list. I've read so many more great ones than are on my list.
Not really sure if I'd classify Torey Hayden's books as memoirs but they all are great.
how can i print out a list of just the title and author
A million little pieces was later proved to be fiction
A number of the books on the list are fiction, for example, Winds of War
Morgan wrote: "a thousand splendid suns is fiction..." Deleted.
Also Brick Lane and Pope Joan are novels as well. Laura Ingallss Wilder's books are generally classified as fiction
one more. A tree grows in Brookly is fiction as well.
How can we search for specific titles on this list?
I call "stupid" or "a--hole" on every single one of the people putting fiction on this list.
Lesley wrote: "Three cups of tea is fiction."It's marketed as a memoir.
Amazon has added: 'From Viking PressIn regards to the 60 Minutes episode that aired April 17, 2011: "Greg Mortenson’s work as a humanitarian in Afghanistan and Pakistan has provided tens of thousands of children with an education. 60 Minutes is a serious news organization and in the wake of their report, Viking plans to carefully review the materials with the author."'
If we start judging memoirs and biographies on their truthfulness, it will open a huge can of worms, and so far as I know, librarians haven't been given any guidance on the issue.
this list could use a minimum number of ratings - like 1000 - to avoid author spam.
Winds of War and the Bell Jar are both fiction
She's Come Undone, Great Expectations and Uncle Tom's Cabin are all fiction.
Removed for being children's fiction: Little House on the Prairiehttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
NONE of the "Little House" series is autobiography. When confronted by a journalist about the scene in one of the books in which a family member is chased by ravenous wolves, which of course is not something wolves do to humans, LIW replied with great dignity that she had not intended to write history; she intended to write stories for children.
This author does have an actual memoir, but it doesn't, at least in my opinion, hold the charm and interest level that her children's series commands.
Oh wow...I'm going to find that whole series here, aren't I? Removed from #124, see above, Farmer Boy:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...
..and less than 1 minute later, I find the entire series in one boxed set; I wasn't so clairvoyant as to see it coming, but expected to find it one title at a time...and likely I still will. Anyway, gone from #194:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
From #466 On the Banks of Plum Creek:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
Also from page 5, The Long Winter:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
P.6 Little Town on the Prairie
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
Also from p6 Those Happy Golden Years
and The First Four Years
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
p. 10, By the Shores of Silver Lake:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
#744, removed for being fictional, Great Expectations:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
#221, removed for being fictional, Sherman Alexie's Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indianhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
Travel book removed from #209:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Removed:
The Winds of War, fiction:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
and Good Grief, also fiction:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
The ones by McCullough on Truman and John Adams are not memoirs. They are extremely well researched biographies. A memoir is a non -fiction book written from personal experience. Or a written account of one's memory of certain events or people. One could write a memoir of a person to whom one is or was very close as a spouse, or child. I agree - a lot of fiction on this list as well!
Cheryl wrote: "The ones by McCullough on Truman and John Adams are not memoirs. They are extremely well researched biographies. A memoir is a non -fiction book written from personal experience. Or a written accou..."Take another look at the title of the listopia. Memoir, biography, autobiography. McCullough is dull as dirt, imho, but his books are clearly within the parameters of the listmaker.
If you see fiction and want me to pull it, give me titles and tell me what page each is on, and I'll be happy to do it. I have a little time right now and will check the list to see what jumps out at me.
Can someone help me find the name of this memoir I read once? (I was expecting to find it on this list)It was a memoir by an Iranian?-I think- woman who was imprisoned and coerced into marrying her prison guard for a while and now lives in Canada. I wanted to show my mum it, but I can't remember the name of it. I recall it had a picture of a woman looking off a building on the front cover. If anyone can help that'd be awesome. Thanks.
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Beautiful, honest memoir that appeals to both men and women which is so rare. It is very funny, but have your kleenex near by and the phone numbers of family members handy to tell them you love them and value them