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Food: A Love Story
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The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose
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How to Build a Girl (How to Build a Girl, #1)
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
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Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living
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Karen Auvinen (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 916 ratings
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Touchy, Feely, Squeezy: Musings of a Masseuse
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Mandy Urena (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Seized: A Sea Captain's Adventures Battling Scoundrels and Pirates While Recovering Stolen Ships in the World's Most Troubled Waters
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3.97 avg rating — 458 ratings
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In the Midst of Life
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My Orange Duffel Bag: A Journey to Radical Change
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3.86 avg rating — 430 ratings
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Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets
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I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond
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Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
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3.70 avg rating — 11,835 ratings
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We the Animals
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Justin Torres (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 26,202 ratings
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Chickenhawk
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Robert Mason (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 14,884 ratings
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Heretic: One Scientist's Journey from Darwin to Design
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4.36 avg rating — 191 ratings
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I Will Be Complete: A Memoir
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Glen David Gold (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir
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Domingo Martinez (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 3,517 ratings
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Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story
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3.77 avg rating — 1,180 ratings
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Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American
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3.76 avg rating — 374 ratings
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Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter
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Twopence to Cross the Mersey
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Mom & Me & Mom
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Positive
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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 — 38,582 ratings
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Son of a Gun: A Memoir
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3.58 avg rating — 1,929 ratings
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Poisoned: How a Crime-Busting Prosecutor Turned His Medical Mystery into a Crusade for Environmental Victims
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Alan Bell (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 197 ratings
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You Can't Win
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4.33 avg rating — 4,746 ratings
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Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
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3.91 avg rating — 12,795 ratings
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Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America
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Jack Barsky (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 2,694 ratings
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13 Years in America
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Melanie Steele (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos
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4.13 avg rating — 543 ratings
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The Mormon Mirage: A Former Member Looks at the Mormon Church Today
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Latayne C. Scott (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 280 ratings
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Riding in Cars with Boys
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Looking Down Into the Madness: A Midlife Memoir
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Andrew Hudgins (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Townie
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Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness
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3.98 avg rating — 943 ratings
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Slave: My True Story
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Hillbilly Gothic: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood
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Adrienne Martini (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 319 ratings
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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
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Cheryl Strayed (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 138,800 ratings
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The Man Who Quit Money
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Mind on Fire
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4.18 avg rating — 531 ratings
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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
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Descent: A Memoir of Madness
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3.24 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Primates of Park Avenue
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Wednesday Martin (Goodreads Author)
3.16 avg rating — 16,878 ratings
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Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
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Catherine Cho (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 4,684 ratings
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Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath
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3.60 avg rating — 11,615 ratings
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Me and Her: a Memoir Of Madness
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Karen Tyrrell (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Nightingale: A Memoir of Murder, Madness, and the Messenger of Spring
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More Fool Me (Memoir, #3)
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The Body of Chris: A Memoir of Obsession, Addiction, and Madness
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4.32 avg rating — 57 ratings
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My Mother's Secret
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J.L. Witterick (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 19,290 ratings
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History Lessons: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, and the Brain
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Sarah Vaughan Is Not My Mother: A Memoir of Madness
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Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories
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Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness
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Insanity: A Love Story: A Memoir of Madness and Mania
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Melissa Miles McCarter (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Hearing Voices: A Memoir of Madness
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Eric Coates (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Love Is Not Enough: A Mother's Memoir of Autism, Madness, and Hope
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3.86 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Dad Is Fat
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3.78 avg rating — 79,985 ratings
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I'm Sorry You Feel That Way: The Astonishing But True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut, Wife, Mother, and Friend to Man and Dog
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Diana Joseph (Goodreads Author)
3.30 avg rating — 1,045 ratings
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After the Madness:: A Judge's Own Prison Memoir
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You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story
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Annabelle Gurwitch (Goodreads Author)
3.22 avg rating — 1,527 ratings
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A Mind That Found Itself: A Memoir of Madness and Recovery
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Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
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The Sunlight on the Garden: A Memoir of a Family in Love, War and Madness
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Elizabeth Speller (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Muscogee Daughter: My Sojourn to the Miss America Pageant
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In Pursuit of Love: One Woman’s Journey from Trafficked to Triumphant
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Rebecca Bender (Goodreads Author)
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The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son
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Invisible Innocence: My Story As a Homeless Youth
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Dead, Insane, or in Jail: A CEDU Memoir
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Zack Bonnie (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Jan 23, 2013 10:35AM
Removed "Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter" by Tom Franklin because it is fiction.
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Removing a few fiction books from this list:Reverb by J. Cafesin
Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas
Heavy Duty People by Iain Parke
Heavy Duty Trouble by Iain Parke
Val wrote: "At Your Own Risk"Val, you can add these books yourself by voting for them. At the top of the page under the list title you will see a tab "add books to this list" and you can add your votes there.
A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard are both fiction, although the first is an excellent book
I'm amazed by the number of these books that I have read. I went through a memoir phase, and clearly leaded toward strange and twisted ones.
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb are both fiction
So like. Thank you list maker. I love what I call "extreme memoir," which seems two be what you call "strange and twisted." This gives me so reasons to push the "to read" button.
White Oleander by Janet Fitch is a novel, not a memoir.
Removed "Into the Wild" #38. It is a biography - not a memoir. Also removed White Oleander #89 because it's fiction.
Someone changed the title of the list, so I reverted it back to the original.
Does anyone know best and strangest nonfiction books in general? Not just memoirsHow would I search for that?
I'm new to this whole searching function (after all these years! lol)
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