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Memoir Books
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Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12392 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,759,475 ratings — published 2018
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9509 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,331,993 ratings — published 2022
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 8422 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,319,810 ratings — published 2005
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7343 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.24 — 548,283 ratings — published 2021
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7137 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,155,275 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6995 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.49 — 774,255 ratings — published 2016
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6098 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 847,715 ratings — published 2012
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5745 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.41 — 761,649 ratings — published 2016
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 5646 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,039,866 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5318 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,054,152 ratings — published 1947
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 5036 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,329,630 ratings — published 1956
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4585 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.85 — 485,985 ratings — published 2016
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4428 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,815,922 ratings — published 2006
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4269 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.85 — 547,312 ratings — published 2014
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 4242 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.93 — 283,532 ratings — published 2005
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 4162 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.69 — 241,319 ratings — published 2019
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3963 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.40 — 151,775 ratings — published 2019
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 3738 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.30 — 566,863 ratings — published 1969
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 3681 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.86 — 508,973 ratings — published 2011
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3656 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.84 — 543,503 ratings — published 2023
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3426 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.40 — 356,056 ratings — published 2015
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 3426 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.15 — 649,813 ratings — published 1996
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 3394 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.17 — 118,628 ratings — published 2017
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3128 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.08 — 196,194 ratings — published 2006
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3102 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.21 — 330,480 ratings — published 2010
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 3098 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.01 — 713,240 ratings — published 2000
Running with Scissors (Paperback)
by (shelved 2915 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.77 — 399,844 ratings — published 2002
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2832 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.84 — 413,365 ratings — published 2023
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 2693 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.18 — 357,023 ratings — published 2000
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2674 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.90 — 198,332 ratings — published 2012
Untamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2673 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.98 — 496,147 ratings — published 2020
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 2669 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.09 — 232,523 ratings — published 2012
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2563 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.34 — 308,867 ratings — published 2000
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 2501 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,146,040 ratings — published 1997
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2464 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.37 — 825,829 ratings — published 1946
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2434 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.37 — 382,366 ratings — published 2019
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2347 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.32 — 261,470 ratings — published 2020
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 2252 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.94 — 268,046 ratings — published 1993
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 2208 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.27 — 223,958 ratings — published 2003
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2195 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.72 — 204,546 ratings — published 2010
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2153 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.89 — 171,048 ratings — published 2015
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2095 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.20 — 420,801 ratings — published 2020
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2054 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.93 — 365,183 ratings — published 2022
Why Not Me? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2042 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.90 — 223,477 ratings — published 2015
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2007 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.96 — 451,891 ratings — published 2018
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1942 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 434,420 ratings — published 1998
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1862 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.74 — 78,662 ratings — published 2014
Finding Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1860 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.54 — 163,871 ratings — published 2022
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1859 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.50 — 66,724 ratings — published 2022
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 1832 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.25 — 548,300 ratings — published 1997
“Everyone knows that Africa is not reasonable place but if we can get
across that neither are we, we strengthen the bond with the continent.
People are not conscious beings, just ask any marketer. Irrationality
of the early explorers, irrationality of the new ones, irrationality
of the place we go into. What a great canvas we have to paint on...”
― Living the Best Day Ever
― Living the Best Day Ever
“One other thing—she was always armed. Ossie May talked about her gun even more than she bragged about her cooking. Out of nowhere, she took me to the gun range. She finished one clip with her right hand then unloaded the other clip with her left hand. I certainly got the message. She was not to be messed with or messed over. I was scared straight by this woman.”
― Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar
― Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar
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memoir-autobiography and memoirs
