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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,103,275 ratings — published 1947
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,794,989 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.49 — 785,433 ratings — published 2016
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,169,690 ratings — published 2018
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,341,385 ratings — published 1956
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,335,243 ratings — published 2005
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.40 — 359,328 ratings — published 2015
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,379,476 ratings — published 2022
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 91 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,045,213 ratings — published 2011
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.84 — 493,010 ratings — published 2016
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.16 — 614,744 ratings — published 2012
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.85 — 550,466 ratings — published 2014
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.30 — 572,318 ratings — published 1969
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 81 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.41 — 776,527 ratings — published 2016
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.24 — 566,656 ratings — published 2021
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.13 — 791,768 ratings — published 2010
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 855,050 ratings — published 2012
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.93 — 288,996 ratings — published 2005
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.08 — 198,548 ratings — published 2006
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.37 — 286,815 ratings — published 1965
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,826,126 ratings — published 2006
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 60 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.32 — 266,580 ratings — published 2020
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 60 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,172,811 ratings — published 1996
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 59 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.17 — 119,461 ratings — published 2017
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 57 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.86 — 510,830 ratings — published 2011
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.22 — 196,293 ratings — published 2004
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.15 — 652,981 ratings — published 1996
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.18 — 364,751 ratings — published 2000
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.13 — 132,643 ratings — published 1845
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.21 — 339,014 ratings — published 2010
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.34 — 312,204 ratings — published 2000
The Princess Diarist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.70 — 88,538 ratings — published 2016
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.74 — 79,387 ratings — published 2014
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.40 — 155,149 ratings — published 2019
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.26 — 555,395 ratings — published 1997
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.90 — 199,254 ratings — published 2012
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,338,724 ratings — published 2011
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.37 — 843,289 ratings — published 1946
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.94 — 230,058 ratings — published 1995
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.27 — 226,349 ratings — published 2003
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.72 — 205,188 ratings — published 2010
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.08 — 374,459 ratings — published 2001
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.18 — 63,175 ratings — published 2015
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,166,325 ratings — published 1997
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 43 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.69 — 247,075 ratings — published 2019
Wishful Drinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.82 — 91,838 ratings — published 2008
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.17 — 62,967 ratings — published 2016
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.48 — 350,472 ratings — published 1971
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.01 — 715,667 ratings — published 2000
Running with Scissors (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.77 — 401,376 ratings — published 2002
