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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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Running with Scissors
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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High in School
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How Not to Murder Your Grumpy
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
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44 Chapters About 4 Men
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Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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In a Sunburned Country
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I Talk Slower Than I Think: An Antidote to Helicopter Parenting
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Notes from a Small Island
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
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Cheaper by the Dozen
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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Dry
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
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Yes Please
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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Eat, Pray, Love
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Elizabeth Gilbert (Goodreads Author)
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The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life
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Laurie Notaro (Goodreads Author)
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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
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Steve Martin (Goodreads Author)
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High Heels and Dirty Deals - Globetrotting Tales of Debauchery from a binge-drinking Nymphomaniac
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I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
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Wishful Drinking
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Go West, Young Woman!: From Military Wife to Country Life
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My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
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A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
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America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own
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Doreen Orion (Goodreads Author)
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Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
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Allie Brosh (Goodreads Author)
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A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
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The Funny Thing Is...
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I Guess We Missed The Boat
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Barry Finlay (Goodreads Author)
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The Egg and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #1)
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Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin
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Adventures in Emotional Alchemy: You Can't Even Make This $#!T Up (The Alchemy Series)
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Moxie D'Vine (Goodreads Author)
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'Tis
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My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
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My Point... And I Do Have One
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living
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How to Be a Woman
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I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies): True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl
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Laurie Notaro (Goodreads Author)
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Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys
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My Life and Hard Times
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Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
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Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
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Boy: Tales of Childhood (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #1)
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Last Words
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It's Always Something
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Getting Over Your Ovaries: How to Make 'The Change of Life' Your Bitch
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Lisa Jey Davis (Goodreads Author)
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Round Ireland with a Fridge
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Moab Is My Washpot (Memoir, #1)
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The Know-It-All
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A.J. Jacobs (Goodreads Author)
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Positive Vision: Enjoying the Adventures and Advantages of Poor Eyesight
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Trucking in English
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
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Eric Weiner (Goodreads Author)
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All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small #1-2)
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Look Me in the Eye
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We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle
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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
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Foreigner On My Own Front Porch: A Satirical Memoir
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Foreigner in My Own Backyard
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Actor. Writer. Whatever.
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Bunny on a Bike
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In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks . . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy
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Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
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Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog
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If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
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If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits?
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Comedian Gone Wrong
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Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
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Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing up Groovy and Clueless
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A Very Punchable Face
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal
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Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot
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The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress
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This Is Your Captain Speaking: My Fantastic Voyage Through Hollywood, Faith and Life
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Everything I Never Wanted to Be: A Memoir of Alcoholism and Addiction, Faith and Family, Hope and Humor
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What Has He Done Now?: Tales from a North West Childhood in the 60s and Early 70s
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You Got to Dance With Them What Brung You
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Wait Till Next Year
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Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway
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Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
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My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Discover If Not Being A Dumb Ass Is the New Black, or, a Culture-Up Manifesto
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Belle Weather: Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Scattered Hissy Fits
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Separate Things: A Memoir
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Not a Perfect Fit: Stories from Jane's World
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I agree, Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible is neither a memoir nor non-fiction (and has been removed).

Is there a memoir out there that doesn't have cursing in it or is that mandatory when writing your life story? #feelingfrustrated
Can anyone recommend a clean memoir read please?



#134 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
#558 Killing Floor
#570 The Rule of Four
#654 Explosive Eighteen
#660 A Man Called Ove
#666 Dog on It
#668 Thereby Hangs a Tail
#708 Takedown Twenty
#729 Notorious Nineteen
#735 Smokin' Seventeen
#736 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
#740 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

#134 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
#558 Killing Floor
#570 The Rule of Four
#654 Explosive Eighteen
#660 A Man Called Ove
#666 Dog on It
#668 Thereby Hangs a Tail
#708 Takedown Twenty
#729 Notorious Nineteen
#735 Smokin' Seventeen
#736 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
#740 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer..."
Removed.

Is there a memoir out there that doesn't have cursing in it or is that mandatory when writing your life story? #feelingfrustrated
Can anyone recommend a clean memoir re..."
Yes. "Tea, Scones, and Malaria," by Katlynn Brooke.

Is there a memoir out there that doesn't have cursing in it or is that mandatory when writing your life story? #feelingfrustrated
Can anyone recommend..."
Farley Mowat's books, James Herriot's books, Betty MacDonald's books, Shirley Jackson's. All WONDERFUL, and all without cursing!

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