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Dickens
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3.89 avg rating — 2,350 ratings
score: 471,
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| 602 |
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
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Eric Metaxas (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 81,095 ratings
score: 469,
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| 602 |
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My Friend Leonard
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3.88 avg rating — 46,337 ratings
score: 469,
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| 604 |
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The World of Yesterday
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4.51 avg rating — 27,984 ratings
score: 467,
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| 605 |
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Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II
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4.15 avg rating — 4,047 ratings
score: 463,
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| 606 |
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My Dark Places
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3.84 avg rating — 7,475 ratings
score: 462,
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| 606 |
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Shakespeare and Company
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3.80 avg rating — 3,334 ratings
score: 462,
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| 608 |
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You're Never Weird on the Internet
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Felicia Day (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 49,814 ratings
score: 461,
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| 609 |
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Anxiety
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4.12 avg rating — 42 ratings
score: 457,
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5 people voted
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| 609 |
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Greenlights
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Matthew McConaughey (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 434,130 ratings
score: 457,
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| 611 |
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Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932
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3.93 avg rating — 13,364 ratings
score: 456,
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| 612 |
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The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy
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Robert Leleux (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 1,518 ratings
score: 451,
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| 612 |
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Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
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4.22 avg rating — 21,817 ratings
score: 451,
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| 614 |
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Experience
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3.90 avg rating — 4,025 ratings
score: 448,
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| 615 |
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White Line Fever: The Autobiography
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3.96 avg rating — 10,051 ratings
score: 446,
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| 615 |
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My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business
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3.89 avg rating — 14,693 ratings
score: 446,
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| 617 |
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The True History of the Elephant Man: The Definitive Account of the Tragic and Extraordinary Life of Joseph Carey Merrick
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3.84 avg rating — 1,028 ratings
score: 444,
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| 618 |
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Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business
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4.12 avg rating — 4,746 ratings
score: 438,
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| 619 |
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Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse
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3.86 avg rating — 4,444 ratings
score: 437,
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| 620 |
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And So It Goes: Adventures in Television
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3.74 avg rating — 1,521 ratings
score: 436,
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| 620 |
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The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress
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3.84 avg rating — 14,677 ratings
score: 436,
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| 620 |
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American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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4.03 avg rating — 139,425 ratings
score: 436,
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| 623 |
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The History of Joseph Smith by His Mother
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4.27 avg rating — 5,208 ratings
score: 430,
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| 624 |
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I Am Spock
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3.96 avg rating — 6,172 ratings
score: 429,
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| 625 |
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
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3.95 avg rating — 47,105 ratings
score: 428,
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| 626 |
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The White Masai
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3.55 avg rating — 10,525 ratings
score: 427,
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| 626 |
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Up Till Now
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3.84 avg rating — 3,221 ratings
score: 427,
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| 628 |
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Her Last Death
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3.35 avg rating — 3,527 ratings
score: 425,
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| 628 |
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The Seamstress
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4.14 avg rating — 7,625 ratings
score: 425,
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| 630 |
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I Lived to Tell It All
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4.15 avg rating — 994 ratings
score: 423,
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| 630 |
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Here Comes Trouble
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4.02 avg rating — 3,537 ratings
score: 423,
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| 632 |
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Young Stalin
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Simon Sebag Montefiore (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 7,606 ratings
score: 422,
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6 people voted
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| 633 |
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Diana: Portrait of a Princess
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4.34 avg rating — 265 ratings
score: 421,
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5 people voted
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| 634 |
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
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3.80 avg rating — 5,315 ratings
score: 419,
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| 635 |
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
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Stephanie Land (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 110,398 ratings
score: 418,
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| 635 |
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They Called Us Enemy
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4.42 avg rating — 50,871 ratings
score: 418,
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| 637 |
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Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
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4.42 avg rating — 23,802 ratings
score: 417,
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| 638 |
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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
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4.18 avg rating — 22,185 ratings
score: 416,
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| 639 |
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Lady Sings the Blues
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4.05 avg rating — 7,473 ratings
score: 413,
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| 640 |
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Road to Rouen
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Ben Hatch (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 580 ratings
score: 407,
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6 people voted
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| 641 |
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
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4.11 avg rating — 22,752 ratings
score: 405,
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| 641 |
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By Myself and Then Some
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3.98 avg rating — 4,443 ratings
score: 405,
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| 643 |
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Mao: The Unknown Story
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3.83 avg rating — 13,673 ratings
score: 404,
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| 644 |
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Billy Connolly
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3.97 avg rating — 4,838 ratings
score: 400,
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| 644 |
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Perking the Pansies - Jack and Liam move to Turkey
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Jack Scott (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 158 ratings
score: 400,
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| 644 |
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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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3.65 avg rating — 1,160 ratings
score: 400,
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| 644 |
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Don't Let It Get You Down Syndrome
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S.K. Dinning (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 33 ratings
score: 400,
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| 644 |
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The World At Large (Carpe Diem, book 1)
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4.03 avg rating — 111 ratings
score: 400,
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| 644 |
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With Angel's Wings
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Stephanie A. Collins (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 486 ratings
score: 400,
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| 644 |
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Our Symphony with Animals: On Health, Empathy, and Our Shared Destinies
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4.30 avg rating — 259 ratings
score: 400,
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4 people voted
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| 644 |
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My Life on the Road
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4.07 avg rating — 36,414 ratings
score: 400,
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| 644 |
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Living with the In-Laws
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Nolan Yuma (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 400,
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| 653 |
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Natalie Wood: a memoir by her sister
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3.71 avg rating — 876 ratings
score: 398,
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| 654 |
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Between Inca Walls, A Peace Corps Memoir
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3.96 avg rating — 351 ratings
score: 397,
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| 655 |
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Andrew Carnegie
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3.86 avg rating — 5,773 ratings
score: 396,
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| 655 |
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My Life
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4.05 avg rating — 1,896 ratings
score: 396,
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| 655 |
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Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland
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Chris Thrall (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 771 ratings
score: 396,
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| 655 |
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Home Shopping Diva: Lessons, Lyrics, and Lipstick
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3.98 avg rating — 299 ratings
score: 396,
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| 655 |
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Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
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4.31 avg rating — 100,085 ratings
score: 396,
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| 655 |
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The Expo Affair: A Cold War Escape Story
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Geza Tatrallyay (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 396,
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| 655 |
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See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During the Interwar Era
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 396,
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| 662 |
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When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
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Ariana Neumann (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 7,295 ratings
score: 394,
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| 663 |
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Goodnight, and Thanks for the Vodka [2002]
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4.07 avg rating — 474 ratings
score: 392,
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| 663 |
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
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3.73 avg rating — 4,679 ratings
score: 392,
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| 665 |
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The Real James Herriot: A Memoir of My Father
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4.27 avg rating — 6,431 ratings
score: 391,
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| 665 |
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
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4.19 avg rating — 28,561 ratings
score: 391,
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| 665 |
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Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris
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4.16 avg rating — 6,778 ratings
score: 391,
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| 668 |
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Tisha: The Wonderful True Love Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
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4.33 avg rating — 10,365 ratings
score: 390,
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| 668 |
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Geisha, a Life
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3.93 avg rating — 27,009 ratings
score: 390,
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| 668 |
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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4.19 avg rating — 66,980 ratings
score: 390,
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| 671 |
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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
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4.13 avg rating — 31,854 ratings
score: 389,
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| 672 |
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Gather Together in My Name
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4.31 avg rating — 18,184 ratings
score: 386,
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| 672 |
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
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3.91 avg rating — 11,931 ratings
score: 386,
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| 672 |
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You Can't Drive Your Car to Your Own Funeral
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4.01 avg rating — 326 ratings
score: 386,
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| 675 |
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A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
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4.28 avg rating — 23,356 ratings
score: 384,
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| 675 |
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
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Ashlee Vance (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 437,745 ratings
score: 384,
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| 677 |
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Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo
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4.03 avg rating — 3,086 ratings
score: 383,
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| 677 |
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The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
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4.40 avg rating — 19,436 ratings
score: 383,
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| 679 |
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Small Sacrifices
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4.26 avg rating — 31,909 ratings
score: 382,
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| 680 |
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Stitches: A Memoir
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4.06 avg rating — 27,790 ratings
score: 381,
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| 681 |
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Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
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3.91 avg rating — 6,167 ratings
score: 380,
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| 681 |
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Going Rogue: An American Life
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3.30 avg rating — 11,825 ratings
score: 380,
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| 681 |
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Keaton
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4.15 avg rating — 102 ratings
score: 380,
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| 681 |
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A Year at Mulberry Cottage (Mulberry Cottage #2)
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4.12 avg rating — 253 ratings
score: 380,
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| 685 |
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Just a Geek: Unflinchingly Honest Tales of the Search for Life, Love, and Fulfillment Beyond the Starship Enterprise
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Wil Wheaton (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 9,708 ratings
score: 378,
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| 686 |
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Shantaram
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Gregory David Roberts (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 234,938 ratings
score: 376,
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| 686 |
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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
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4.03 avg rating — 4,665 ratings
score: 376,
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| 688 |
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Go Forward With Faith: The Biography of Gordon B. Hinckley
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4.55 avg rating — 8,212 ratings
score: 375,
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| 689 |
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His Excellency: George Washington
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3.96 avg rating — 43,010 ratings
score: 374,
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| 689 |
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Glimpses into the Life and Heart of Marjorie Pay Hinckley
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Virginia H. Pearce (Editor)
4.52 avg rating — 3,687 ratings
score: 374,
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| 691 |
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Jim Henson: The Biography
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Brian Jay Jones (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 15,378 ratings
score: 373,
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| 691 |
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What Has He Done Now?: Tales from a North West Childhood in the 60s and Early 70s
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3.56 avg rating — 889 ratings
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| 693 |
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How to Be a Woman
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3.71 avg rating — 110,167 ratings
score: 370,
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| 693 |
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
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Heather Morris (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 1,131,232 ratings
score: 370,
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| 695 |
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Derby Days: Local Football Rivalries and Feuds (Hooligans #4)
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Dougie Brimson (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 910 ratings
score: 368,
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| 695 |
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My Inventions
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3.91 avg rating — 12,584 ratings
score: 368,
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| 697 |
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Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel
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4.43 avg rating — 2,613 ratings
score: 367,
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| 697 |
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A Very Punchable Face
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Colin Jost (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 67,170 ratings
score: 367,
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| 699 |
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My Early Life, 1874-1904
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4.26 avg rating — 4,818 ratings
score: 365,
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| 699 |
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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John Perkins (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 39,158 ratings
score: 365,
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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