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Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
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Kevin and I in India
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Frank Kusy (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 1,464 ratings
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| 402 |
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Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
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3.75 avg rating — 6,407 ratings
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| 403 |
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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
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3.96 avg rating — 8,948 ratings
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| 404 |
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Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art
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3.90 avg rating — 7,306 ratings
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| 405 |
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
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Michael Patrick MacDonald (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 13,697 ratings
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| 406 |
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The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
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3.92 avg rating — 17,010 ratings
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| 407 |
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Comeback: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back
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3.93 avg rating — 10,749 ratings
score: 806,
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| 408 |
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Paris to the Moon
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3.75 avg rating — 15,370 ratings
score: 801,
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| 409 |
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The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
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Widad Akreyi (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 409 ratings
score: 800,
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| 409 |
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God’s Limited Edition: Through The Life Of SPB
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Nevin Promod (Goodreads Author)
4.65 avg rating — 34 ratings
score: 800,
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| 411 |
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Me
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4.32 avg rating — 70,879 ratings
score: 799,
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| 412 |
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Positive Vision: Enjoying the Adventures and Advantages of Poor Eyesight
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Ken Brandt (Goodreads Author)
4.74 avg rating — 35 ratings
score: 798,
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| 413 |
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Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir
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Kambri Crews (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 2,061 ratings
score: 796,
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| 414 |
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
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3.54 avg rating — 13,296 ratings
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| 414 |
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Dear Mr. Ted
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J.D. Stockholm (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 953 ratings
score: 787,
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| 416 |
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Every Living Thing (All Creatures Great and Small, #8)
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4.50 avg rating — 17,322 ratings
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| 416 |
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Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth
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Steve Snyder (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 8,577 ratings
score: 786,
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| 418 |
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Pack Your Bags and Get Out!
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3.59 avg rating — 949 ratings
score: 782,
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| 419 |
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The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
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4.32 avg rating — 7,450 ratings
score: 780,
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| 420 |
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
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4.15 avg rating — 22,929 ratings
score: 779,
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| 420 |
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Encounters and Dialogues with Martin Heidegger, 1929-1976
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3.68 avg rating — 917 ratings
score: 779,
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| 422 |
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Reflections of Mamie - A Story of Survival
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Rosemary "Mamie" Adkins (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 1,231 ratings
score: 777,
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| 423 |
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The Lost Girls
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John Glatt (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 7,386 ratings
score: 776,
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| 424 |
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Everything I Never Wanted to Be: A Memoir of Alcoholism and Addiction, Faith and Family, Hope and Humor
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Dina Kucera (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 2,274 ratings
score: 774,
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| 425 |
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Life on the Mississippi
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3.87 avg rating — 15,411 ratings
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| 426 |
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Mao's Last Dancer
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4.14 avg rating — 32,275 ratings
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| 427 |
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March: Book One (March, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 56,897 ratings
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| 427 |
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The Woman in Me
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3.83 avg rating — 555,168 ratings
score: 753,
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| 429 |
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.32 avg rating — 28,838 ratings
score: 751,
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| 430 |
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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
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3.71 avg rating — 19,656 ratings
score: 748,
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| 431 |
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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
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4.49 avg rating — 100,814 ratings
score: 745,
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| 432 |
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The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
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4.48 avg rating — 27,752 ratings
score: 729,
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| 433 |
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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Sebastian Junger (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 118,150 ratings
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| 434 |
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Life with Father
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3.89 avg rating — 3,459 ratings
score: 724,
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| 434 |
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Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
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Anne Lamott (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 25,969 ratings
score: 724,
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| 436 |
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Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity
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Kerry Cohen (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 11,968 ratings
score: 719,
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| 437 |
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The Upstairs Room
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Johanna Reiss (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 12,088 ratings
score: 715,
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| 438 |
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The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
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3.81 avg rating — 31,851 ratings
score: 714,
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| 439 |
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I Love Yous Are for White People
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3.52 avg rating — 8,145 ratings
score: 711,
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| 440 |
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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4.46 avg rating — 158,057 ratings
score: 710,
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| 440 |
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
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4.23 avg rating — 66,767 ratings
score: 710,
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| 442 |
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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
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4.22 avg rating — 78,355 ratings
score: 709,
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| 443 |
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The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen
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4.19 avg rating — 10,719 ratings
score: 706,
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| 444 |
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Slave: My True Story
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4.28 avg rating — 10,265 ratings
score: 705,
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| 444 |
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All Over But the Shoutin'
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4.13 avg rating — 29,282 ratings
score: 705,
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| 444 |
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The Moon's a Balloon
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4.10 avg rating — 8,297 ratings
score: 705,
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| 447 |
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Testament of Youth
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4.11 avg rating — 12,267 ratings
score: 701,
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| 448 |
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Steve Jobs: The Unauthorized Autobiography
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J.T. Owens (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 1,035 ratings
score: 700,
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| 448 |
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Justin Time: Autobiographical Stories from an American Spiritual Master
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J. Jaye Gold (Goodreads Author)
4.77 avg rating — 30 ratings
score: 700,
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| 448 |
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The Child I Left Behind: A Mother's Journey Toward Healing & Forgiveness
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Anjalia McGoldrick (Goodreads Author)
4.90 avg rating — 42 ratings
score: 700,
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| 451 |
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Tabby Cat Tales
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Becky Corwin-Adams (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 853 ratings
score: 695,
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| 452 |
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The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
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Hyeonseo Lee (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 99,668 ratings
score: 694,
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| 453 |
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
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3.77 avg rating — 7,869 ratings
score: 692,
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| 454 |
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Between the World and Me
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4.40 avg rating — 359,330 ratings
score: 691,
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| 455 |
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Lab Girl
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Hope Jahren (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 71,207 ratings
score: 682,
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8 people voted
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| 456 |
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Lips of a Mastodon
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Ted Bernal Guevara (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 2,875 ratings
score: 680,
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| 457 |
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Harpo Speaks!
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4.23 avg rating — 4,199 ratings
score: 679,
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| 457 |
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,089,997 ratings
score: 679,
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| 459 |
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The Sabi
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Diane Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 1,247 ratings
score: 677,
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| 460 |
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Cherished Cats and Childhood Capers
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Becky Corwin-Adams (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 887 ratings
score: 670,
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| 461 |
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The Kiss
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3.57 avg rating — 6,543 ratings
score: 668,
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| 461 |
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Freedom: My Book of Firsts
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3.54 avg rating — 5,600 ratings
score: 668,
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| 463 |
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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
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4.32 avg rating — 22,467 ratings
score: 661,
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| 464 |
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Chanel Bonfire
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Wendy Lawless (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 6,251 ratings
score: 660,
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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4.21 avg rating — 75,364 ratings
score: 660,
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| 466 |
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Reminiscing About Retail: Confessions of a Cashier
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Becky Corwin-Adams (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 889 ratings
score: 655,
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| 467 |
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Princess Sultana's Daughters
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Jean Sasson (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 12,533 ratings
score: 654,
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| 467 |
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Autobiography of a Yogi
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4.25 avg rating — 71,889 ratings
score: 654,
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| 469 |
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Mother, was it worth it?
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Tottie Limejuice (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 982 ratings
score: 651,
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| 469 |
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A Writer's Diary 1873-1881
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3.72 avg rating — 1,481 ratings
score: 651,
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| 471 |
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
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4.15 avg rating — 23,770 ratings
score: 649,
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| 472 |
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On the Move: A Life
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4.03 avg rating — 21,341 ratings
score: 648,
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| 473 |
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Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity
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4.58 avg rating — 39,086 ratings
score: 647,
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| 474 |
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Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
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3.90 avg rating — 117,951 ratings
score: 646,
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Alicia: My Story
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4.14 avg rating — 11,739 ratings
score: 643,
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| 475 |
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My Booky Wook
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3.43 avg rating — 24,324 ratings
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| 477 |
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Adventures of an Air Force Wife
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Becky Corwin-Adams (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 844 ratings
score: 640,
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| 478 |
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Richard the Third
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3.98 avg rating — 2,968 ratings
score: 638,
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| 479 |
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J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
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4.05 avg rating — 16,315 ratings
score: 636,
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Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie Is Not the Answer
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4.04 avg rating — 29,826 ratings
score: 636,
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| 481 |
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She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
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Jennifer Finney Boylan (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 12,991 ratings
score: 635,
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Lakota Woman
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3.97 avg rating — 8,755 ratings
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Wishful Drinking
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3.82 avg rating — 91,840 ratings
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Storm of Steel
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4.15 avg rating — 20,792 ratings
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Theodore Rex
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4.19 avg rating — 50,836 ratings
score: 629,
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God's Smuggler
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4.38 avg rating — 46,172 ratings
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| 487 |
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The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
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3.76 avg rating — 13,447 ratings
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| 488 |
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Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting
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4.12 avg rating — 8,264 ratings
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| 489 |
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Finding Fish
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4.15 avg rating — 5,153 ratings
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| 490 |
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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
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3.94 avg rating — 8,814 ratings
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| 491 |
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Gracie: A Love Story
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,287 ratings
score: 603,
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| 492 |
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The Cost of Hope: A Memoir
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Amanda Bennett (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 1,742 ratings
score: 600,
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| 492 |
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Together: A Journey for Survival
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Ann Arnold (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 1,683 ratings
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| 492 |
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Escaping the Amazon
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Alex De Bruyn (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 951 ratings
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| 492 |
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Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa's Fighting Spirit
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Tim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 1,940 ratings
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| 492 |
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Bigger than All the Night Sky: The Start Of Spiritual Awakening. A Memoir.
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4.04 avg rating — 375 ratings
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Choosing Light: When an Earthquake Buried Me and My Family for 5 Days, I Learned to Fully Live
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Viral Dalal (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 1,100 ratings
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| 498 |
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The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
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4.05 avg rating — 6,982 ratings
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An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
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3.99 avg rating — 12,732 ratings
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Something Like an Autobiography
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4.13 avg rating — 4,446 ratings
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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.
Jean wrote: "please add my book. country life. true story in my own words. full of shocks? & surprises! please share it. click here new on kindle--https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_......"This constitutes spam, and is inappropriate for a Goodreads listopia discussion. I have flagged the comment.
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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