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The Diary of a Young Girl
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Anne Frank
    4.03 avg rating — 591,669 ratings
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Night
by
Elie Wiesel
    4.23 avg rating — 186,373 ratings
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The Glass Castle
by
Jeannette Walls
    4.15 avg rating — 188,507 ratings
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Angela's Ashes
by
Frank McCourt
    3.97 avg rating — 130,670 ratings
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Eat, Pray, Love
by
Elizabeth Gilbert
    3.38 avg rating — 400,076 ratings
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Into Thin Air
by
Jon Krakauer
    3.91 avg rating — 136,375 ratings
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Running With Scissors
by
Augusten Burroughs
    3.53 avg rating — 111,027 ratings
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Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
by
Laura Ingalls Wilder
    4.12 avg rating — 49,344 ratings
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| 9 |
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Tuesdays with Morrie
by
Mitch Albom
    3.90 avg rating — 171,887 ratings
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| 10 |
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by
Marjane Satrapi
    4.19 avg rating — 39,793 ratings
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| 11 |
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by
Malcolm X
    4.26 avg rating — 29,760 ratings
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| 12 |
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A Long Way Gone
by
Ishmael Beah
    4.09 avg rating — 33,754 ratings
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Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
by
John Grogan
    4.06 avg rating — 97,641 ratings
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| 14 |
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
by
Greg Mortenson (Goodreads Author)
    3.73 avg rating — 105,782 ratings
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| 15 |
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Into the Wild
by
Jon Krakauer
    3.80 avg rating — 221,577 ratings
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| 16 |
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John Adams
by
David McCullough
    4.24 avg rating — 34,061 ratings
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| 17 |
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Maus I: My Father Bleeds History
by
Art Spiegelman
    4.35 avg rating — 42,069 ratings
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| 18 |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by
Maya Angelou
    4.00 avg rating — 61,473 ratings
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A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by
Dave Pelzer
    3.98 avg rating — 83,534 ratings
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| 20 |
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Infidel
by
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    4.18 avg rating — 18,561 ratings
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| 21 |
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
by
Jung Chang
    4.17 avg rating — 17,667 ratings
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| 22 |
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The Hiding Place
by
Corrie Ten Boom
    4.41 avg rating — 46,798 ratings
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| 23 |
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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
by
James McBride
    3.98 avg rating — 26,206 ratings
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| 24 |
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
by
Azar Nafisi (Goodreads Author)
    3.44 avg rating — 42,906 ratings
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| 25 |
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
by
David Sedaris
    3.86 avg rating — 274,557 ratings
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| 26 |
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Escape
by
Carolyn Jessop
    3.89 avg rating — 11,457 ratings
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| 27 |
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Black like Me
by
John Howard Griffin
    4.00 avg rating — 14,011 ratings
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| 28 |
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West with the Night
by
Beryl Markham
    4.14 avg rating — 5,294 ratings
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| 29 |
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The Complete Persepolis
by
Marjane Satrapi
    4.27 avg rating — 20,018 ratings
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| 30 |
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The Last Lecture
by
Randy Pausch
    4.17 avg rating — 72,136 ratings
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| 31 |
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
by
Jean-Dominique Bauby
    3.97 avg rating — 14,418 ratings
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| 32 |
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The Complete Maus
by
Art Spiegelman
    4.48 avg rating — 19,046 ratings
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| 33 |
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by
Dave Eggers
    3.60 avg rating — 76,805 ratings
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| 34 |
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A Million Little Pieces
by
James Frey
    3.51 avg rating — 78,768 ratings
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
by
Marya Hornbacher
    3.93 avg rating — 7,945 ratings
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| 36 |
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Dry
by
Augusten Burroughs
    3.94 avg rating — 30,835 ratings
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The Story of My Life
by
Helen Keller
    4.00 avg rating — 13,019 ratings
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| 38 |
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A Piece of Cake
by
Cupcake Brown
    4.03 avg rating — 5,537 ratings
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| 39 |
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by
Barack Obama
    3.82 avg rating — 32,301 ratings
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Lucky
by
Alice Sebold
    3.67 avg rating — 32,200 ratings
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| 41 |
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Man's Search For Meaning
by
Viktor E. Frankl
    4.32 avg rating — 31,143 ratings
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| 42 |
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by
Frederick Douglass
    3.83 avg rating — 13,758 ratings
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Speak, Memory
by
Vladimir Nabokov
    4.20 avg rating — 3,492 ratings
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| 44 |
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by
Barack Obama
    3.68 avg rating — 31,164 ratings
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| 45 |
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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
by
John Elder Robison (Goodreads Author)
    3.79 avg rating — 14,910 ratings
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| 46 |
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The Pianist
by
Władysław Szpilman
    4.24 avg rating — 6,570 ratings
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| 47 |
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Autobiography of a Face
by
Lucy Grealy
    3.86 avg rating — 6,294 ratings
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| 48 |
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Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arab
by
Jean Sasson (Goodreads Author)
    3.96 avg rating — 6,891 ratings
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| 49 |
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The Liars' Club
by
Mary Karr
    3.82 avg rating — 13,749 ratings
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| 50 |
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Mountains beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by
Tracy Kidder
    4.20 avg rating — 19,714 ratings
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| 51 |
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
by
Alexandra Fuller
    3.91 avg rating — 13,577 ratings
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| 52 |
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Cheaper by the Dozen
by
Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
    3.94 avg rating — 10,524 ratings
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Truth and Beauty
by
Ann Patchett
    3.86 avg rating — 10,164 ratings
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| 54 |
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What is the What
by
Dave Eggers
    4.15 avg rating — 31,037 ratings
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| 55 |
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On Writing
by
Stephen King
    4.19 avg rating — 39,535 ratings
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| 56 |
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The Private Letters of Countess Erzs Bet B Thory
by
Kimberly L. Craft (Goodreads Author)
    4.70 avg rating — 30 ratings
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'Tis
by
Frank McCourt
    3.51 avg rating — 19,927 ratings
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Infamous Lady
by
Kimberly L. Craft (Goodreads Author)
    4.50 avg rating — 52 ratings
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| 59 |
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The Year of Magical Thinking
by
Joan Didion
    3.75 avg rating — 33,983 ratings
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| 60 |
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Black Boy
by
Richard Wright
    3.86 avg rating — 12,806 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by
Loung Ung
    4.21 avg rating — 4,403 ratings
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| 62 |
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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
by
Steve Martin
    3.81 avg rating — 14,897 ratings
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| 63 |
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
by
Anthony Bourdain
    3.94 avg rating — 44,657 ratings
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| 64 |
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Truman
by
David McCullough
    4.29 avg rating — 8,766 ratings
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| 65 |
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The Life of Elizabeth I
by
Alison Weir
    4.06 avg rating — 4,810 ratings
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Musical Chairs
by
Jen Knox (Goodreads Author)
    4.22 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by
Doris Kearns Goodwin
    4.39 avg rating — 15,397 ratings
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The Bookseller of Kabul
by
Ã…sne Seierstad
    3.66 avg rating — 12,002 ratings
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All Creatures Great and Small
by
James Herriot
    4.23 avg rating — 25,152 ratings
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My Lobotomy
by
Howard Dully
    3.56 avg rating — 3,918 ratings
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Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
by
Jodee Blanco
    3.67 avg rating — 2,922 ratings
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| 72 |
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Teacher Man
by
Frank McCourt
    3.62 avg rating — 11,924 ratings
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Me: Stories of My Life
by
Katharine Hepburn
    3.80 avg rating — 2,958 ratings
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Survival in Auschwitz
by
Primo Levi
    4.23 avg rating — 7,088 ratings
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The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers
by
Harry Bernstein
    4.00 avg rating — 4,028 ratings
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The Tender Bar
by
J.R. Moehringer
    3.81 avg rating — 9,371 ratings
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Just Kids
by
Patti Smith
    4.13 avg rating — 21,442 ratings
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Sybil: The True & Extraordinary Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities
by
Flora Rheta Schreiber
    3.90 avg rating — 19,160 ratings
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Personal History
by
Katharine Graham
    4.07 avg rating — 3,672 ratings
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Jarhead
by
Anthony Swofford
    3.49 avg rating — 3,321 ratings
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Farmer Boy
by
Laura Ingalls Wilder
    3.97 avg rating — 16,082 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by
Anne Fadiman
    4.10 avg rating — 16,134 ratings
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Naked
by
David Sedaris
    4.04 avg rating — 87,158 ratings
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by
Alison Bechdel
    4.15 avg rating — 15,681 ratings
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
by
Piers Paul Read
    3.98 avg rating — 8,952 ratings
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Three Weeks With My Brother
by
Nicholas Sparks (Goodreads Author)
    3.95 avg rating — 13,624 ratings
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Magical Thinking: True Stories
by
Augusten Burroughs
    3.90 avg rating — 19,441 ratings
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by
Benjamin Franklin
    3.71 avg rating — 8,638 ratings
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The Autobiography of Mark Twain
by
Mark Twain
    4.00 avg rating — 714 ratings
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Cash
by
Johnny Cash
    4.05 avg rating — 4,161 ratings
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If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
by
Bruce Campbell
    4.05 avg rating — 3,988 ratings
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I, Asimov: A Memoir
by
Isaac Asimov
    4.04 avg rating — 556 ratings
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Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
by
Amanda Foreman
    3.67 avg rating — 4,299 ratings
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1776
by
David McCullough
    4.03 avg rating — 28,746 ratings
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My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
by
Chelsea Handler
    3.78 avg rating — 35,669 ratings
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The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
by
Maya Angelou
    4.54 avg rating — 227 ratings
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This Boy's Life
by
Tobias Wolff
    3.93 avg rating — 7,136 ratings
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Red Azalea
by
Anchee Min
    3.78 avg rating — 2,503 ratings
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Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
by
Julie Gregory
    3.60 avg rating — 3,963 ratings
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Manchild in the Promised Land
by
Claude Brown
    4.24 avg rating — 1,536 ratings
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