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Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
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Wonderful Tonight
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3.72 avg rating — 15,865 ratings
score: 364,
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| 701 |
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections
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4.17 avg rating — 37,616 ratings
score: 364,
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4 people voted
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| 703 |
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13 Years in America
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Melanie Steele (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 166 ratings
score: 363,
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4 people voted
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| 703 |
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Drinking Games
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Sarah Levy (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 6,759 ratings
score: 363,
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| 705 |
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Boat Girl: A Memoir of Youth, Love & Fiberglass
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Melanie Neale (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 168 ratings
score: 362,
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| 705 |
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Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
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4.43 avg rating — 19,976 ratings
score: 362,
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| 707 |
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Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
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4.29 avg rating — 8,503 ratings
score: 361,
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| 707 |
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Passing Clouds
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score: 361,
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| 709 |
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Losing My Faculties: A Teacher's Story
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Brendan Halpin (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 390 ratings
score: 360,
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| 709 |
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Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
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3.83 avg rating — 35,955 ratings
score: 360,
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| 711 |
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Marie-Thérèse, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter
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3.98 avg rating — 2,794 ratings
score: 359,
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| 711 |
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Adventures in LA-LA Land
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3.75 avg rating — 28 ratings
score: 359,
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| 713 |
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The Gifted Ones
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Lisa Vaughn (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 69 ratings
score: 358,
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| 714 |
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
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3.87 avg rating — 41,714 ratings
score: 357,
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| 715 |
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I Am Ozzy
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4.14 avg rating — 32,678 ratings
score: 356,
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| 716 |
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Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
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Leah Remini (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 75,394 ratings
score: 355,
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| 716 |
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
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4.22 avg rating — 105,713 ratings
score: 355,
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| 718 |
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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4.15 avg rating — 36,180 ratings
score: 354,
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| 719 |
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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
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D.T. Max (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 9,667 ratings
score: 353,
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| 720 |
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The Last Black Unicorn
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3.84 avg rating — 68,681 ratings
score: 352,
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| 721 |
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Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero
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4.04 avg rating — 12,075 ratings
score: 351,
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| 721 |
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
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Lori Gottlieb (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 391,131 ratings
score: 351,
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| 723 |
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
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4.23 avg rating — 12,631 ratings
score: 350,
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| 723 |
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The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
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Sarah Krasnostein (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 29,695 ratings
score: 350,
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| 725 |
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 133,362 ratings
score: 349,
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| 726 |
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In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom
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Qanta A. Ahmed (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 7,796 ratings
score: 348,
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| 727 |
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Belonging
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3.88 avg rating — 1,609 ratings
score: 347,
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| 728 |
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Looking Through the Eyes of an Unseen Child
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3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 346,
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| 728 |
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Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
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4.16 avg rating — 1,903 ratings
score: 346,
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| 730 |
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A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder
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3.87 avg rating — 1,739 ratings
score: 345,
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| 730 |
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Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line
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4.31 avg rating — 8,887 ratings
score: 345,
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| 732 |
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Life Without...My Father by the Son I Became
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4.34 avg rating — 58 ratings
score: 343,
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5 people voted
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| 733 |
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It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
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3.71 avg rating — 41,144 ratings
score: 340,
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4 people voted
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| 733 |
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The Devil in the White City
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
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score: 340,
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| 735 |
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Hitler: A Study in Tyranny
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4.13 avg rating — 1,645 ratings
score: 339,
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4 people voted
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| 736 |
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If You Ask Me
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3.78 avg rating — 49,172 ratings
score: 338,
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| 737 |
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Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
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Kristen Iversen (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 4,536 ratings
score: 336,
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| 738 |
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Forever Liesl
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4.05 avg rating — 1,974 ratings
score: 335,
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| 738 |
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Virginia Woolf
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,953 ratings
score: 335,
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| 738 |
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The Gaze of the Gazelle: The Story of a Generation
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3.73 avg rating — 994 ratings
score: 335,
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| 738 |
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Run Baby Run
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4.23 avg rating — 16,731 ratings
score: 335,
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| 738 |
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On the Road
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3.61 avg rating — 441,389 ratings
score: 335,
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| 743 |
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Oh the Glory of It All
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3.62 avg rating — 5,666 ratings
score: 334,
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| 743 |
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Huey Long
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4.23 avg rating — 2,123 ratings
score: 334,
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| 745 |
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Diana
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3.90 avg rating — 1,524 ratings
score: 333,
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| 745 |
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Dibs in Search of Self
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4.24 avg rating — 14,510 ratings
score: 333,
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| 747 |
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Murder of a Medici Princess
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3.94 avg rating — 1,338 ratings
score: 332,
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| 747 |
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My Word is My Bond
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3.73 avg rating — 2,419 ratings
score: 332,
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| 747 |
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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
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3.83 avg rating — 24,040 ratings
score: 332,
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| 750 |
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Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman's Survival Under Saddam Hussein
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Jean Sasson (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 6,052 ratings
score: 331,
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| 751 |
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 235,867 ratings
score: 330,
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| 751 |
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A Thousand Miles from Nowhere: A Hippy Trip of Discovery
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4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 330,
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| 753 |
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Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
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Kate Clifford Larson (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 28,680 ratings
score: 327,
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| 754 |
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Yes, Chef
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Marcus Samuelsson (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 18,582 ratings
score: 325,
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| 755 |
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
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3.86 avg rating — 3,316 ratings
score: 324,
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| 755 |
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Eisenhower: Soldier and President
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4.03 avg rating — 12,637 ratings
score: 324,
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| 755 |
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Turkey: Surviving the Expats
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Jack Scott (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 324,
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| 755 |
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Hitch 22: A Memoir
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4.02 avg rating — 22,315 ratings
score: 324,
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| 759 |
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Sleeping Arrangements
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3.86 avg rating — 796 ratings
score: 323,
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| 760 |
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The Lives of the Artists
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3.77 avg rating — 32,773 ratings
score: 322,
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| 760 |
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
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4.17 avg rating — 48,729 ratings
score: 322,
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| 760 |
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Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt #3)
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4.11 avg rating — 22,344 ratings
score: 322,
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| 760 |
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The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
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3.99 avg rating — 28,228 ratings
score: 322,
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| 764 |
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Not My Father's Son
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4.05 avg rating — 46,867 ratings
score: 321,
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| 765 |
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A Three Dog Life
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3.79 avg rating — 9,867 ratings
score: 320,
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| 766 |
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I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
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3.74 avg rating — 85,832 ratings
score: 319,
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| 766 |
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Giants: The Dwarfs of Auschwitz
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4.02 avg rating — 982 ratings
score: 319,
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| 766 |
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Are We Nearly There Yet?: A Family's 8000-Mile Car Journey Around Britain
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Ben Hatch (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 1,570 ratings
score: 319,
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| 769 |
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From This Moment On
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3.87 avg rating — 5,969 ratings
score: 318,
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| 769 |
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The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary"
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4.04 avg rating — 3,419 ratings
score: 318,
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| 771 |
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The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order
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4.05 avg rating — 1,674 ratings
score: 316,
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| 772 |
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Veeck As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck
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4.12 avg rating — 2,114 ratings
score: 315,
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| 772 |
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
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3.73 avg rating — 6,528 ratings
score: 315,
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| 774 |
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Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
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3.72 avg rating — 4,247 ratings
score: 314,
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| 775 |
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Hidden Figures
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Margot Lee Shetterly (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 112,496 ratings
score: 311,
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| 775 |
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 216,454 ratings
score: 311,
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| 777 |
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
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3.71 avg rating — 160,524 ratings
score: 310,
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| 778 |
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What Falls Away: A Memoir
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3.95 avg rating — 1,959 ratings
score: 307,
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| 779 |
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Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers
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4.28 avg rating — 5,838 ratings
score: 304,
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| 779 |
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And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran: Blind Hero of the French Resistance
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4.21 avg rating — 2,521 ratings
score: 304,
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| 781 |
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Is That it?
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3.93 avg rating — 840 ratings
score: 303,
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| 781 |
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Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
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David Michaelis (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 5,853 ratings
score: 303,
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| 783 |
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Gandhi: An Autobiography
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4.10 avg rating — 74,152 ratings
score: 301,
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| 784 |
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Black Market Baby: An Adopted Woman's Journey
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Renee Clarke (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 482 ratings
score: 300,
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| 784 |
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A Long and Winding Road: A Caregiver's Tale of Life, Love and Chaos
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Linda Brendle (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 42 ratings
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| 784 |
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The Horse Lover: A Cowboy's Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs
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H. Alan Day (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 187 ratings
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| 784 |
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Lessons from a CF Cornerman: 38 Lessons I Learned During My Wife's Illness And Lung Transplant
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4.68 avg rating — 44 ratings
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| 784 |
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For the Children
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Geza Tatrallyay (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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| 784 |
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Scorpion 12.3: A Memoir of Sex and Transformation
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3.96 avg rating — 302 ratings
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| 784 |
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The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way
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Francis Shenstone (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 60 ratings
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| 784 |
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Maybe You Will Survive: A Holocaust Memoir
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4.45 avg rating — 1,559 ratings
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| 784 |
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The Pale-Faced Lie
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David Crow (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 28,673 ratings
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| 784 |
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All Who Believed: A Memoir of Life in the Twelve Tribes
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4.41 avg rating — 82 ratings
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| 794 |
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The Lost Boy - A Foster Child's Search For The Love Of A Family
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Dave Pelzer (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 71,370 ratings
score: 299,
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| 794 |
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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
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4.16 avg rating — 53,520 ratings
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| 794 |
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Choosing to SEE: A Journey of Struggle and Hope
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4.29 avg rating — 15,199 ratings
score: 299,
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| 794 |
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In My Hands: Compelling Stories from a Surgeon and His Patients Fighting Cancer
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4.35 avg rating — 468 ratings
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Fixing the Fates: An Adoptee's Story of Truth and Lies
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3.62 avg rating — 247 ratings
score: 299,
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| 794 |
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Resilience Road: Exploring Your Authentic Life Path
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3.98 avg rating — 365 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