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Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist
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| 1901 |
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Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey
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| 1901 |
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Parallel Play: Growing Up with Undiagnosed Asperger's
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| 1901 |
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Robin
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| 1901 |
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I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World
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Malala Yousafzai (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 34,332 ratings
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| 1901 |
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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
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| 1907 |
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The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life
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| 1907 |
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Farangi Girl Growing Up in Iran: A Daughter's Story
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Ashley Dartnell (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 194 ratings
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| 1907 |
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Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books
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William Kuhn (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 955 ratings
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| 1907 |
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On The Plain Of Snakes: A Mexican Journey
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| 1907 |
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
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| 1907 |
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Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
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| 1913 |
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The Diary of Anaïs Nin: Volume Five 1947-1955
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4.23 avg rating — 956 ratings
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| 1913 |
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A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey
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3.80 avg rating — 979 ratings
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| 1913 |
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The Last Executioner: Memoirs of Thailand's Last Prison Executioner
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3.78 avg rating — 282 ratings
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| 1913 |
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Torn Lace Curtain
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3.94 avg rating — 35 ratings
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| 1913 |
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Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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3.69 avg rating — 547 ratings
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| 1913 |
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Transformation: The Breakthrough
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Whitley Strieber (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 1,059 ratings
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| 1919 |
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A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
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4.20 avg rating — 2,337 ratings
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| 1919 |
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There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say
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3.51 avg rating — 895 ratings
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| 1919 |
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Be True to Your School
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4.01 avg rating — 495 ratings
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| 1919 |
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The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes: Notes from Nepal
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3.52 avg rating — 120 ratings
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| 1919 |
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The Dead Do Talk
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3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings
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| 1924 |
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Reeva: A Mother's Story
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3.96 avg rating — 271 ratings
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| 1924 |
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Black on Red: My 44 Years Inside the Soviet Union
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4.32 avg rating — 150 ratings
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| 1924 |
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I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist
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3.63 avg rating — 4,159 ratings
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| 1924 |
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Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century
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3.88 avg rating — 30,147 ratings
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| 1928 |
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
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3.98 avg rating — 2,327 ratings
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| 1928 |
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Falling Backwards
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3.88 avg rating — 1,282 ratings
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| 1928 |
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Narrative of the Expedition to the China Seas and Japan, 1852-1854
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4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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| 1928 |
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Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman
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3.70 avg rating — 2,336 ratings
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| 1928 |
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I, Toto: The Autobiography of Terry, the Dog Who Was Toto
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4.12 avg rating — 173 ratings
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| 1928 |
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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
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| 1928 |
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition (Volume 12) (Mark Twain Papers)
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4.34 avg rating — 274 ratings
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| 1928 |
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Memoirs
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4.16 avg rating — 4,707 ratings
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| 1928 |
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Untamed
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Glennon Doyle (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 503,191 ratings
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| 1937 |
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John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs
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3.99 avg rating — 3,871 ratings
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| 1937 |
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The Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty: The Captain's Account of the Mutiny and His 3,600 Mile Voyage in an Open Boat
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3.85 avg rating — 3,314 ratings
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| 1937 |
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God's Missiles over Cuba
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3.92 avg rating — 48 ratings
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| 1937 |
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The Bastard from the Bush
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3.45 avg rating — 38 ratings
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| 1937 |
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
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4.39 avg rating — 11,959 ratings
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| 1937 |
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Mortality
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4.12 avg rating — 29,177 ratings
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| 1937 |
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What Is the What
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4.15 avg rating — 86,730 ratings
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| 1944 |
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When Hell Was in Session
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4.34 avg rating — 749 ratings
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| 1944 |
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So That Happened: A Memoir
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| 1944 |
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Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
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4.11 avg rating — 17,155 ratings
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| 1947 |
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From Constantinople to the Home of Omar Khayyam: Travels in Transcaucasia and Northern Persia for Historic and Literary Research
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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| 1947 |
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Scattered Pearls
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3.77 avg rating — 154 ratings
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| 1947 |
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Mot: A Memoir (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction)
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Sarah Einstein (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 141 ratings
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| 1950 |
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The Story of a Bad Boy
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3.86 avg rating — 322 ratings
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| 1950 |
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My Life Without God
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4.03 avg rating — 301 ratings
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| 1950 |
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Stillways: A Memoir
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3.88 avg rating — 128 ratings
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| 1950 |
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Zeitoun
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4.05 avg rating — 79,785 ratings
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| 1950 |
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Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
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Eric Metaxas (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 9,050 ratings
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| 1955 |
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W.E.B. Du Bois Speaks: Speeches and Addresses 1920-1963
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4.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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| 1955 |
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China Cry: The Nora Lam Story
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4.16 avg rating — 283 ratings
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| 1955 |
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Life As I Know It
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4.12 avg rating — 383 ratings
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| 1955 |
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The First Lady of Fleet Street: The Life of Rachel Beer: Crusading Heiress and Newspaper Pioneer
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3.23 avg rating — 65 ratings
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| 1955 |
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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
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3.94 avg rating — 8,814 ratings
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| 1955 |
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My Own Words
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4.03 avg rating — 26,741 ratings
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| 1961 |
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Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
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3.85 avg rating — 8,526 ratings
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| 1961 |
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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
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| 1961 |
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Breaking with Moscow
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3.83 avg rating — 121 ratings
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| 1961 |
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
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4.20 avg rating — 87,856 ratings
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| 1961 |
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Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1)
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Patrick Dennis (Pseudonym)
4.03 avg rating — 17,153 ratings
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| 1966 |
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Blind Ambition: The White House Years
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4.03 avg rating — 1,773 ratings
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| 1966 |
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A Narrative of Events, since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica
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| 1966 |
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Both Feet Firmly Planted in Midair: My Spiritual Journey
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| 1969 |
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Tortured for Christ
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4.36 avg rating — 17,172 ratings
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| 1969 |
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My Girls: A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
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4.27 avg rating — 3,430 ratings
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| 1971 |
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On Growing Up Tough: An Irreverent Memoir
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3.86 avg rating — 166 ratings
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| 1971 |
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Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh
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3.82 avg rating — 211 ratings
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| 1971 |
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Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela
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4.03 avg rating — 692 ratings
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| 1974 |
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The Dog Who Rescues Cats: The True Story of Ginny
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| 1974 |
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The Castle on Sunset: Love, Fame, Death and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont
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3.67 avg rating — 4,530 ratings
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| 1974 |
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The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement
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4.17 avg rating — 924 ratings
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| 1977 |
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Irish Journal
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3.86 avg rating — 2,050 ratings
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| 1977 |
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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
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3.86 avg rating — 13,366 ratings
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| 1979 |
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With Love from Diana: the Princess of Wales' Personal Astrologer Shares Her First-Hand Account of Diana's Turbulent Years
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3.61 avg rating — 23 ratings
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| 1979 |
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Wham! George & Me
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4.05 avg rating — 6,694 ratings
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| 1979 |
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Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
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Cassie Chambers (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 8,553 ratings
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| 1982 |
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Run, Don't Walk: The Curious and Chaotic Life of a Physical Therapist Inside Walter Reed Army Medical Center
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Adele Levine (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 1,322 ratings
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| 1982 |
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Wonderful Tonight
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3.72 avg rating — 15,865 ratings
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| 1982 |
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Elephant Dance: A Story of Love and War in the Kingdom of Elephants
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3.78 avg rating — 102 ratings
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| 1985 |
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Good Morning, Mr Mandela
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| 1985 |
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The Way It Spozed to Be (Innovators in Education)
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| 1985 |
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Planet Elephant: A Story of Family, Love and the Global Wildlife Trade
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4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings
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| 1988 |
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High Adventure: Being an Account of the Adventures of a Printer-Cowboy on the "S.S. Occidental Victory" Which Encountered Storms in the North Atlantic and Shipwreck in the Baltic Sea While Carrying Horses to Poland and Sugar to Finland
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| 1988 |
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For Those I Loved
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| 1988 |
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Couchsurfing in Iran: Revealing a Hidden World
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Stephan Orth (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 2,022 ratings
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| 1991 |
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The Log of a Circumnavigator: Being a Series of Informal Narratives Descriptive of a Trip around the World
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| 1991 |
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Escape to Honor (Honour)
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Larry Harris (Illustrator)
4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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| 1991 |
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Fire Lover: A True Story
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3.75 avg rating — 2,558 ratings
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| 1994 |
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Pages from the Goncourt Journals
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4.21 avg rating — 323 ratings
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| 1994 |
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Kinsey and Me
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3.55 avg rating — 7,053 ratings
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| 1994 |
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Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
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| 1997 |
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Bannock, Beans and Black Tea: Memories of a Prince Edward Island Childhood in the Great Depression
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| 1997 |
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Self-Portrait
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| 1997 |
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Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin
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4.12 avg rating — 293 ratings
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| 2000 |
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Rebus's Scotland
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Ian Rankin (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 471 ratings
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Jun 11, 2009 04:46AM
Um, "1984" is not a memoir.
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Lobstergirl wrote: "Um, "1984" is not a memoir."Really? But it's so realistic! :)
I just removed it.
Jessie wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "Um, "1984" is not a memoir."Really? But it's so realistic! :)
I just removed it."
Jana wrote: but it is proof that time machines existed)"Jessie wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "Um, "1984" is not a memoir."Really? But it's so realistic! :)
I just removed it."
Yes, Little Women is fiction, so I'm removing it.
Am I reading this correctly that people actually posted Twilight, Eragorn, and Harry Potter, among others? So frustrating.Also a shame that The Liar's Club isn't higher on the list, it was one of the memoirs that brought the genre to mainstream. It gets my vote!
Removed for being fiction:New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
Stuck Rubber Baby, by Howard Cruse
Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer
The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks
The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
Eragon, by Christopher Paolini
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J.K. Rowling
The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling
The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J.K. Rowling
Eclipse, by Stephenie Meyer
Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Stone Fox, by John Reynolds Gardiner
I am also under the impression that "Shiloh" is a novel. Is this correct?
Yes, I believe it is. Thanks for cleaning up the list, Susanna!
And removed Shiloh, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, also for being fiction.No problem.
I just joined Goodreads. I love memoir, and thus, this list! Thanks to Susanna for keeping it updated.
What's the general opinion about the "Little House" books being on here?
My two cents: I've always considered them fiction, based on Laura Ingalls Wilder's life, but made "nice" by her writer daughter, Rose, for a depression-era audience ready for something uplifting. Kind of a reversal of James Frey's A Million Little Pieces.
And also, aren't' they children's books? I read them when I was around nine years old. Or does that matter?
Yeah, I've always considered them very much fictionalized memoir. Little House on the Prairie in particular.
"Into the Wild" isn't an autobiography or memoir. It's a biography.
Memoirs of a Geisha is fiction, despite the title. Additionally, I would consider "The King's Speech" more of a biography than autobiography/memoir, since it's written by Lionel Logue's grandson.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks isn't a memoir or autobiography, as well.
You add books to the list at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes."
You go to the tab next to "all votes"; it's called "add books to this list." You'll find options to search your own bookshelves, or to do a more general search.
A tree grows in brooklyn, isn't that fiction?
Indeed it is. Removed.
The Little House series is fictional. The ISBN of each volume of the series will confirm this. When confronted about the impossible nature of the supposed chase of Pa by wolves, Ingalls sniffed,"I wasn't aware I was writing history. I thought I was writing stories for children". The series, wonderful though it is, should be stricken from the list.
If they're on your personal shelves, they should be available at the tab next to "all votes."
And those are both biographies, not memoirs or autobiographies, from the look of them.
To remove a vote from your list: either click the "x" next to the name of the book on the list on the right hand side (your own personal list), or click "remove" where "vote for this book" was on the book description, before you voted for it.To remove a book from your bookshelves: go to "my books" link at the top bar of GoodReads, type the name into the search form, and you can click an 'x' to remove it.
If the books you want to add to a Listopia are not on an existing list already, go to the tab next to "all votes," and you'll find an option to either vote for books from your shelves, or to do a general site search. (Caveat: the book must already be in the database.)
There's a "help" link if you click the arrow next to your portrait/screen ID at the top right of GR pages. If that's not helpful enough, or you have bugs, try the group "GR Feedback." It's prominently listed if you click "groups" at the top bar on any GR page.
Was the list you tried to create "Collected Speeches by One Individual"? Because I see such a list, with 11 works on it.
Don't know if you can, if you're not a GR librarian. (I know list creators can do some things on the edit page, but I don't know if they can remove books. If you see an "edit" link at the end of the list description, "remove books" should be the last option at the bottom of that page - if you can do it.)
"Suite Française" is a wonderful book, but it's a work of fiction and should probably not be on this list. (Everyone should read it though and I love this list overall- so many good choices.)
Removed for being fiction: Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder. This is historical fiction, though it is based on some of Ingalls Wilder's experiences as a child. Yep, I double-checked it.
Ditto the rest of the "Little House" series by Ingalls Wilder. These include: By the Shores of Silver Lake; On the Banks of Plum Creek; Little House on the Prairie; The Long Winter; Farmer Boy; These Happy Golden Years; and The First Four Years, all by that author, all fiction. I left Laura Ingalls Wilder's farm journalism title alone because I suspect it is fine but did not confirm; the others were confirmed as fiction, so I zapped them. Confessions of a Prairie Bitch is for real, and it stands.
On a more positive note: thank you to the many people who recommended The Glass Castle. I saw the overwhelming number of people that liked it, went and read it, agreed, and came back to vote for it. Very satisfying, and I can honestly say I wouldn't have looked at it twice if it hadn't come up on a listopia.
While the Bounty trilogy is not an autobiography, it is non-fiction and all 3 books Mutiny On the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, and Pitcairn Island by Nordoff and Hall, should be included.
Then add them. Use the tab at the top of the page. I can't add them, because to do so I have to vote for them, and I haven't read them. But every Goodreads member can add books to the list. Go for it!
Mr. Slack, you don't vote for books down here in the comments section; you vote at the top of the page, at the tab next to "all votes."Also, you can claim your GR author's page at the bottom of this page, at "Is this you?": http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... .
Removed:Into the Wild
Immortal Life, Skloot
Fast Food Nation
Roots
Maus
She Said Yes
All the President's Men
He's Just Not That Into You
Mopped up my own mess: how embarrassing. Tempting to stay quiet, but I think we are supposed to note anything we removed. Abraham Lincoln: Commander in Chief is (obviously, what was I thinking?) not a memoir or autobiography, but a biography. Also, though Du Bois's John Brown was a brilliant biography, John Brown ALSO did not live to write his own story. In both cases, only I had been dumb enough to vote for these, so the harm was minimal. I vow not to visit this site once I have taken my sleeping pills!
I think that A Street Cat Named Bob and How He Saved My Life is the same book as its earlier release, A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets. is there a way to combine the two votes for each under one title? I think this is a call for (trumpet sounds):
a SUPER-LIBRARIAN!!!
If it were just my vote, I'd be happy to go in and zap "my" title (I added the former w/o seeing the latter) and my vote and then vote for the other incarnation, but I can't kill mine without taking another person's vote with me.
What a great list! I did notice one book that is a biography and not a memoir - I believe Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand shouldn't be on the list.Thanks!
Question for the supers: what do we do with something that calls itself a memoir, but is written by someone other than the subject? In other words, "...a Memoir of My..." (mother, sister, father, country, gerbil, whatever). I would think it would become a biography, but this is tricky territory, and I don't want to touch anything if it may prove to be a mistake.
Why is "A Million Little Pieces" on this list? The discredited author admitted in 2006 that much of the book was fiction
Janet wrote: "Why is "A Million Little Pieces" on this list? The discredited author admitted in 2006 that much of the book was fiction"
I go by the Goodreads catalog, and there, it is still listed as memoir. If one of the employees feels bold enough to step in and axe it, that's fine with me, but I would not hazard to do so as a volunteer...
Donna wrote: "Janet wrote: "Why is "A Million Little Pieces" on this list? The discredited author admitted in 2006 that much of the book was fiction"
I go by the Goodreads catalog, and there, it is still list..."
Donna, please pass along this link to the employees; it's a compelling reason to remove the book from this list (and to change the info in the catalog):
Author Is Kicked Out of Oprah Winfrey's Book Club http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/27/boo...
#60, Unbroken, isn't a memoir#95 and #126 - 84, Charing Cross Rd - are duplicates
Judith wrote: "Blue Poppies: A Spiritual Travelogue from the Himalaya"If you want to add a memoir, use the tabs above the list to do so. This comment section is provided for technical issues like the ones mentioned by Janet.
Janet wrote: "Donna wrote: "Janet wrote: "Why is "A Million Little Pieces" on this list? The discredited author admitted in 2006 that much of the book was fiction"
I go by the Goodreads catalog, and there, it ..."
If you know who the Goodreads employees are, you can do that yourself. I am a volunteer, and my contributions are my reviews and assisting with lists such as this one.
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