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Comedian Gone Wrong
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Jimmy Tudeski (Goodreads Author)
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| 794 |
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No Pressure, No Diamonds: Mining for Gifts in Illness and Loss
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Teri A. Dillion (Goodreads Author)
4.65 avg rating — 168 ratings
score: 299,
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| 803 |
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Scoundrel Time
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3.88 avg rating — 686 ratings
score: 298,
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| 803 |
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Isaiah Berlin: a life
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3.73 avg rating — 1,251 ratings
score: 298,
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| 803 |
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My Wicked, Wicked Ways
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4.03 avg rating — 2,195 ratings
score: 298,
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| 803 |
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Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22
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MariNaomi (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 1,233 ratings
score: 298,
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| 803 |
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A Stone for Benjamin
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Fiona Gold Kroll (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 336 ratings
score: 298,
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| 803 |
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Petty: The Biography
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Warren Zanes (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 5,698 ratings
score: 298,
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| 803 |
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Accidental Sisters: The Story of My 52 Year Wait to Meet My Biological Sister
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Katherine Linn Caire (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 391 ratings
score: 298,
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| 810 |
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Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia
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Stephen Fried (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 2,405 ratings
score: 297,
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| 810 |
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Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy
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Peter S. Canellos (Editor)
4.02 avg rating — 1,624 ratings
score: 297,
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| 810 |
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Songs from the Well: A Memoir of Love and Grief
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Adam Byrn Tritt (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings
score: 297,
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| 810 |
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Shark Lady: True Adventures of Eugenie Clark
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4.06 avg rating — 506 ratings
score: 297,
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| 810 |
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
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4.12 avg rating — 259,441 ratings
score: 297,
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| 815 |
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Lindbergh
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3.98 avg rating — 5,772 ratings
score: 296,
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| 815 |
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Songbook for Haunted Boys and Girls
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Wayne McNeill (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 37 ratings
score: 296,
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| 815 |
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
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4.28 avg rating — 38,563 ratings
score: 296,
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| 815 |
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We Are Bridges: A Memoir
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4.03 avg rating — 390 ratings
score: 296,
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| 815 |
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Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
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Keri Blakinger (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 4,949 ratings
score: 296,
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| 820 |
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His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra
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3.63 avg rating — 2,035 ratings
score: 295,
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| 820 |
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Mud, Sweat and Tears
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4.16 avg rating — 12,585 ratings
score: 295,
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| 820 |
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The Naked Civil Servant
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4.04 avg rating — 2,710 ratings
score: 295,
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| 820 |
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Heavy
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Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 43,973 ratings
score: 295,
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| 824 |
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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
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4.19 avg rating — 29,822 ratings
score: 294,
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3 people voted
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| 824 |
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Meditations
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4.28 avg rating — 327,416 ratings
score: 294,
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4 people voted
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| 824 |
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Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
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3.85 avg rating — 78,361 ratings
score: 294,
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4 people voted
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| 827 |
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Postcards from the Edge
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3.62 avg rating — 18,490 ratings
score: 293,
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| 827 |
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They Cage the Animals at Night: The True Story of an Abandoned Child's Struggle for Emotional Survival
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4.35 avg rating — 10,198 ratings
score: 293,
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| 829 |
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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3.97 avg rating — 3,691 ratings
score: 292,
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| 829 |
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Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade
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3.66 avg rating — 26,558 ratings
score: 292,
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3 people voted
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| 829 |
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Homer's Odyssey
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Gwen Cooper (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 15,913 ratings
score: 292,
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3 people voted
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| 829 |
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Yondering
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3.80 avg rating — 1,037 ratings
score: 292,
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| 829 |
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Seven: In the Lane of Hope
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Michael J. Marini (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 292,
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| 829 |
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Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait
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4.48 avg rating — 572 ratings
score: 292,
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| 829 |
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The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
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3.53 avg rating — 40,314 ratings
score: 292,
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| 836 |
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The Travels
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3.58 avg rating — 7,975 ratings
score: 291,
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| 836 |
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Virginia Woolf: A Biography
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4.18 avg rating — 3,048 ratings
score: 291,
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| 838 |
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Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family's Search for Hope
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Amanda LaPera (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 282 ratings
score: 290,
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3 people voted
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| 839 |
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Shatner Rules: Your Guide to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large
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3.80 avg rating — 1,678 ratings
score: 289,
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5 people voted
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| 839 |
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Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter
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Randy L. Schmidt (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 3,405 ratings
score: 289,
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4 people voted
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| 839 |
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Blue Nights
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3.94 avg rating — 46,783 ratings
score: 289,
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| 839 |
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
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4.39 avg rating — 8,714 ratings
score: 289,
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| 839 |
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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4.12 avg rating — 72,378 ratings
score: 289,
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| 844 |
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Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne
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4.01 avg rating — 15,720 ratings
score: 288,
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| 844 |
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Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
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Lena Dunham (Goodreads Author)
3.29 avg rating — 134,810 ratings
score: 288,
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3 people voted
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| 844 |
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
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Jesmyn Ward (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 28,015 ratings
score: 288,
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3 people voted
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| 847 |
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Heart in the Right Place
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Carolyn Jourdan (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 3,300 ratings
score: 287,
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| 847 |
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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3.87 avg rating — 196,603 ratings
score: 287,
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Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit
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4.29 avg rating — 3,487 ratings
score: 287,
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Dean and Me:
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4.07 avg rating — 3,833 ratings
score: 287,
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Watch Over You
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Mason Sabre (Goodreads Author)
4.52 avg rating — 144 ratings
score: 287,
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3 people voted
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| 847 |
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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3.61 avg rating — 7,383 ratings
score: 287,
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| 853 |
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Manic: A Memoir
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Terri Cheney (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 12,085 ratings
score: 286,
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| 853 |
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The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History
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4.05 avg rating — 9,221 ratings
score: 286,
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| 853 |
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Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
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Samantha Irby (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 47,103 ratings
score: 286,
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| 856 |
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Blankets
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4.06 avg rating — 124,020 ratings
score: 284,
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| 856 |
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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
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4.14 avg rating — 18,263 ratings
score: 284,
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| 858 |
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Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
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Stacy Pershall (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 3,890 ratings
score: 282,
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3 people voted
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| 859 |
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Princess Sultana's Circle
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Jean Sasson (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8,784 ratings
score: 281,
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| 859 |
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The Queen Mother: The Official Biography
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score: 281,
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| 859 |
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The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
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Candace Fleming (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 13,301 ratings
score: 281,
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| 859 |
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The Story Keeper
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Fred Feldman (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 128 ratings
score: 281,
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| 863 |
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The Pigman & Me (The Pigman, #3)
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3.75 avg rating — 1,023 ratings
score: 280,
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| 863 |
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Herman Melville
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3.76 avg rating — 29 ratings
score: 280,
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| 863 |
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Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories
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3.85 avg rating — 14,285 ratings
score: 280,
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| 866 |
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The Kenneth Williams Diaries
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4.22 avg rating — 874 ratings
score: 279,
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| 867 |
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41: A Portrait of My Father
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George W. Bush (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 11,652 ratings
score: 278,
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| 868 |
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We Bought a Zoo
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3.54 avg rating — 8,048 ratings
score: 277,
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| 868 |
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
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4.49 avg rating — 25,362 ratings
score: 277,
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| 868 |
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The End of Your Life Book Club
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Will Schwalbe (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 55,667 ratings
score: 277,
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| 871 |
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
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4.33 avg rating — 15,808 ratings
score: 276,
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| 872 |
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American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
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4.09 avg rating — 13,950 ratings
score: 275,
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| 872 |
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Cherry
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3.81 avg rating — 10,535 ratings
score: 275,
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| 872 |
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Bournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls
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4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
score: 275,
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| 872 |
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H is for Hawk
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3.74 avg rating — 79,388 ratings
score: 275,
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| 872 |
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
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3.87 avg rating — 57,877 ratings
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| 877 |
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She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana
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4.06 avg rating — 10,168 ratings
score: 274,
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| 877 |
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The Egg and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #1)
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3.88 avg rating — 10,187 ratings
score: 274,
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| 879 |
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The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
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4.20 avg rating — 8,732 ratings
score: 273,
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| 879 |
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Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings
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3.77 avg rating — 10,464 ratings
score: 273,
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| 879 |
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The Complete Old Fools Trilogy (Old Fools, #1-3)
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Victoria Twead (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 24 ratings
score: 273,
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| 879 |
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Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty
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2.94 avg rating — 4,898 ratings
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Oscar Wilde
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4.01 avg rating — 5,147 ratings
score: 273,
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| 879 |
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
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4.14 avg rating — 24,376 ratings
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| 885 |
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Goodbye Junie Moon
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June Collins (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 339 ratings
score: 272,
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| 885 |
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More Fool Me (Memoir, #3)
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3.44 avg rating — 6,324 ratings
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| 887 |
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England, My England (Hooligan #2)
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Dougie Brimson (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 68 ratings
score: 271,
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| 888 |
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Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat
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4.05 avg rating — 7,679 ratings
score: 270,
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| 888 |
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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
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4.43 avg rating — 46,985 ratings
score: 270,
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| 888 |
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It's a Long Story: My Life
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4.13 avg rating — 9,850 ratings
score: 270,
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| 891 |
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I Choose to Live
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3.81 avg rating — 5,004 ratings
score: 269,
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| 891 |
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Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
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4.29 avg rating — 10,828 ratings
score: 269,
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| 891 |
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Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
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Bill Browder (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 105,372 ratings
score: 269,
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| 894 |
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One Hundred Demons
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4.18 avg rating — 9,793 ratings
score: 268,
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| 894 |
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Private Battles and The Khaki Cage
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4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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| 896 |
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Don't Shoot, It's Only Me
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3.98 avg rating — 400 ratings
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| 896 |
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Laughter is Sacred Space: The Not-So-Typical Journey of a Mennonite Actor
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4.05 avg rating — 162 ratings
score: 267,
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| 896 |
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
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4.19 avg rating — 19,978 ratings
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| 896 |
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Yeager: An Autobiography
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4.24 avg rating — 6,141 ratings
score: 267,
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Fire in the Bones: William Tyndale – Martyr, Father of the English Bible
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4.12 avg rating — 1,227 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