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Farewell to the East End: The Last Days of the East End Midwives (Midwife Trilogy #3)
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Letters to a Young Madman: A Memoir
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business
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Billy Connolly
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Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary
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Notes from No Man's Land
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| 608 |
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Man in Black
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| 608 |
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Time Flies
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| 608 |
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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| 611 |
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One More Time
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| 611 |
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Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
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4.05 avg rating — 4,117 ratings
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| 611 |
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The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
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| 611 |
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 198,893 ratings
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| 615 |
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Telling Tales
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| 615 |
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Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir
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| 615 |
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
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Blaine Harden (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 71,209 ratings
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| 618 |
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Broken Music: A Memoir
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The End of Your Life Book Club
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Will Schwalbe (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 55,666 ratings
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| 620 |
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The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
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Bring on the Empty Horses
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Wildflower
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3.60 avg rating — 41,133 ratings
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Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
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4.21 avg rating — 282,917 ratings
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Memos From Purgatory
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3.98 avg rating — 467 ratings
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| 624 |
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The Wolf of Wall Street (The Wolf of Wall Street, #1)
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Jordan Belfort (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 38,578 ratings
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| 626 |
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Epileptic
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3.89 avg rating — 13,758 ratings
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The Lonely Life
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4.13 avg rating — 1,644 ratings
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Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
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3.83 avg rating — 41,599 ratings
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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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4.18 avg rating — 63,174 ratings
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In Pieces
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3.95 avg rating — 41,490 ratings
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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
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4.08 avg rating — 16,650 ratings
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The Accidental Farmers: A story of homesteading, prepping and an urban couple with a dream of farming in harmony with nature
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Tim Young (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 416 ratings
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The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
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4.14 avg rating — 4,496 ratings
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Travels
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3.95 avg rating — 9,859 ratings
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The Seven Storey Mountain
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4.08 avg rating — 20,601 ratings
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| 636 |
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Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
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3.77 avg rating — 41,138 ratings
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| 636 |
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Glengarry Glen Ross
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3.88 avg rating — 18,363 ratings
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| 636 |
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
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4.38 avg rating — 10,938 ratings
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| 639 |
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A Rumor of War
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Philip Caputo (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 15,787 ratings
score: 164,
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| 639 |
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A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller
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Frances Mayes (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 6,925 ratings
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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4.54 avg rating — 129,401 ratings
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Washington: A Life
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4.16 avg rating — 80,705 ratings
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Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
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4.57 avg rating — 27,763 ratings
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| 639 |
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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
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| 645 |
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Days of Grace: A Memoir
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The Conquest of New Spain
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Journey Interrupted: A Family Without a Country in a World at War
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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
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| 649 |
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Dean and Me: A Love Story
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4.07 avg rating — 3,833 ratings
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The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
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4.09 avg rating — 9,191 ratings
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Doubt, a Parable
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4.10 avg rating — 21,006 ratings
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Secrets of Saffron: The Vagabond Life of the World's Most Seductive Spice
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3.07 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
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4.01 avg rating — 7,429 ratings
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Into the Wild
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 1,172,811 ratings
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| 655 |
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
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Stephanie Land (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 110,398 ratings
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| 655 |
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How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
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4.02 avg rating — 10,735 ratings
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| 655 |
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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 — 391,123 ratings
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| 658 |
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The Only Way I Know: With Highlights from the 1997 Season
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3.76 avg rating — 438 ratings
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Dirty Jokes and Beer: Stories of the Unrefined
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3.51 avg rating — 2,357 ratings
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Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography
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4.07 avg rating — 8,550 ratings
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
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4.22 avg rating — 105,711 ratings
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The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
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Amy Schumer (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 129,519 ratings
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| 663 |
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BUTTERFLIES & LATE LOVES: The Further Travels and Adventures of a Victorian Lady
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3.81 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Let Me Go: My Mother and the SS
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3.90 avg rating — 4,103 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 287,938 ratings
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The Big Five-Oh!: Facing, Fearing, And Fighting Fifty
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3.48 avg rating — 52 ratings
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| 667 |
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Mother Ireland: A Memoir
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3.60 avg rating — 336 ratings
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| 667 |
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
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4.23 avg rating — 12,631 ratings
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| 667 |
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Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-Catcher After 25 Years' Experience
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3.93 avg rating — 71 ratings
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| 667 |
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
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3.90 avg rating — 35,073 ratings
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| 667 |
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On the Move: A Life
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4.03 avg rating — 21,341 ratings
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| 672 |
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Music is My Mistress
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3.99 avg rating — 444 ratings
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| 672 |
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Douglass: Autobiographies
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A Beautiful Mind
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4.13 avg rating — 134,601 ratings
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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Becoming a Man
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4.17 avg rating — 3,729 ratings
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My Life with the Chimpanzees
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Jane Goodall (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 3,266 ratings
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Stay Alive, My Son
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Ten Days that Shook the World
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 3,425,660 ratings
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The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
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3.88 avg rating — 61,480 ratings
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Interior Castle
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Raising Demons
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Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
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Hospital Sketches
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3.71 avg rating — 2,437 ratings
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A Thousand Naked Strangers: a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
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My Lobotomy: A Memoir
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3.77 avg rating — 14,629 ratings
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My Disillusionment In Russia
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Dragons, donkeys, and dust: Memoirs from a decade in China
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Rudy Kong (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: An American Journalist In Yemen
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Jennifer Steil (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 1,442 ratings
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| 691 |
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Poison: A History and a Family Memoir
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3.36 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Scrappy Little Nobody
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Daddy, Come & Get Me: a dad's adventure through a Guatemalan adoption
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Gil Michelini (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Fear: Trump in the White House
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Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home
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String Too Short to Be Saved: Recollections of Summers on a New England Farm
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Just One More Thing: Stories from My Life
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I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are
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Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
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Inside Out: A Memoir
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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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