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The Diary of a Young Girl
by
Anne Frank
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 905,017 ratings
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Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
by
Elie Wiesel
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 322,043 ratings
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The Glass Castle
by
Jeannette Walls
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 306,550 ratings
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Angela's Ashes
by
Frank McCourt
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 212,268 ratings
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Eat, Pray, Love
by
Elizabeth Gilbert
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 605,491 ratings
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Running with Scissors
by
Augusten Burroughs
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 172,773 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by
Jon Krakauer
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 182,830 ratings
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Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
by
Laura Ingalls Wilder
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 78,678 ratings
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Tuesdays With Morrie
by
Mitch Albom (Goodreads Author)
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 261,971 ratings
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by
Marjane Satrapi
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 69,342 ratings
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Into the Wild
by
Jon Krakauer
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 309,979 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by
Malcolm X
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 53,748 ratings
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A Child Called "It"
by
Dave Pelzer
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 155,511 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by
Maya Angelou
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 113,485 ratings
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John Adams
by
David McCullough
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 69,225 ratings
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Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
by
John Grogan
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 170,167 ratings
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A Long Way Gone
by
Ishmael Beah
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 52,443 ratings
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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)
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 159,720 ratings
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The Hiding Place
by
Corrie ten Boom
4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 82,941 ratings
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Maus, Vol. 1: My Father Bleeds History
by
Art Spiegelman
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 81,339 ratings
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| 21 |
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
by
David Sedaris
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 346,866 ratings
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
by
Jung Chang
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 29,209 ratings
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Infidel
by
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 29,694 ratings
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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
by
James McBride
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 41,123 ratings
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
by
Azar Nafisi (Goodreads Author)
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 64,096 ratings
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Sliding On The Snow Stone
by
Andy Szpuk (Goodreads Author)
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Black Like Me
by
John Howard Griffin
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 24,616 ratings
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by
Dave Eggers
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 100,192 ratings
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| 29 |
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Escape
by
Carolyn Jessop
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 16,669 ratings
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The Last Lecture
by
Randy Pausch
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 117,946 ratings
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A Million Little Pieces
by
James Frey
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 118,424 ratings
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West with the Night
by
Beryl Markham
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 8,346 ratings
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Persepolis
by
Marjane Satrapi
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 29,322 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
by
Viktor E. Frankl
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 58,040 ratings
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Maus
by
Art Spiegelman
4.49 of 5 stars 4.49 avg rating — 29,649 ratings
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by
Barack Obama
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 53,680 ratings
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Lucky
by
Alice Sebold
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 49,296 ratings
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Dry
by
Augusten Burroughs
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 44,571 ratings
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The Story of My Life
by
Helen Keller
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 33,651 ratings
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All Creatures Great and Small
by
James Herriot
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 46,840 ratings
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The Liars' Club
by
Mary Karr
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 24,065 ratings
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On Writing
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Stephen King
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 65,504 ratings
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
by
Marya Hornbacher
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 13,808 ratings
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The Year of Magical Thinking
by
Joan Didion
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 50,626 ratings
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
by
Jean-Dominique Bauby
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 21,167 ratings
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Cheaper by the Dozen
by
Frank B. Gilbreth
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 14,857 ratings
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A Piece of Cake
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Cupcake Brown
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 9,341 ratings
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Just Kids
by
Patti Smith
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 38,826 ratings
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
by
Alexandra Fuller
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 22,492 ratings
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Truman
by
David McCullough
4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 18,611 ratings
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What Is the What
by
Dave Eggers
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 40,476 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by
Frederick Douglass
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 24,267 ratings
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Autobiography of a Face
by
Lucy Grealy
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 9,512 ratings
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
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Barack Obama
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 53,229 ratings
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The Pianist
by
Władysław Szpilman
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 14,023 ratings
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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
by
John Elder Robison (Goodreads Author)
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 24,978 ratings
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
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Tracy Kidder
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 29,052 ratings
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Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
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Jean Sasson (Goodreads Author)
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 10,679 ratings
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'Tis
by
Frank McCourt
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 28,128 ratings
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Surviving The Fourth Cycle
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Nathan Daniels (Goodreads Author)
4.79 of 5 stars 4.79 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Truth and Beauty
by
Ann Patchett
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 14,833 ratings
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Speak, Memory
by
Vladimir Nabokov
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 5,079 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by
John Berendt
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 88,775 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 32,710 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by
Loung Ung
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 7,097 ratings
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
by
Anthony Bourdain
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 77,897 ratings
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Infamous Lady
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Kimberly L. Craft (Goodreads Author)
4.39 of 5 stars 4.39 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Black Boy
by
Richard Wright
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 19,997 ratings
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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
by
Steve Martin
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 25,552 ratings
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Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
by
Flora Rheta Schreiber
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 38,873 ratings
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The Private Letters of Countess Erzsebet Bathory
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Kimberly L. Craft (Goodreads Author)
4.61 of 5 stars 4.61 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Teacher Man
by
Frank McCourt
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 16,270 ratings
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The Life of Elizabeth I
by
Alison Weir
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 9,497 ratings
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A Girl Named Zippy
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Haven Kimmel
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 18,102 ratings
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Girl, Interrupted
by
Susanna Kaysen
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 68,647 ratings
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Naked
by
David Sedaris
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 124,421 ratings
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Survival in Auschwitz
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Primo Levi
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 13,553 ratings
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Magical Thinking: True Stories
by
Augusten Burroughs
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 29,007 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
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 22,974 ratings
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The Bookseller of Kabul
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Åsne Seierstad
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 18,478 ratings
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
by
Richard P. Feynman
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 33,143 ratings
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My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
by
Gerald Durrell
4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 9,421 ratings
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Fun Home
by
Alison Bechdel
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 26,067 ratings
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by
Benjamin Franklin
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 14,905 ratings
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Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
by
Amanda Foreman
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 7,299 ratings
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Personal History
by
Katharine Graham
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 6,765 ratings
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Down and Out in Paris and London
by
George Orwell
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 17,279 ratings
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Musical Chairs
by
Jen Knox (Goodreads Author)
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
by
Anthony Swofford
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 4,658 ratings
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Me: Stories of My Life
by
Katharine Hepburn
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 5,566 ratings
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
by
Piers Paul Read
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 19,606 ratings
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My Lobotomy
by
Howard Dully
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 5,404 ratings
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The Tender Bar
by
J.R. Moehringer
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 14,053 ratings
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Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
by
Jodee Blanco
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 5,047 ratings
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Farmer Boy (Little House, #3)
by
Laura Ingalls Wilder
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 21,888 ratings
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Lucky Man: A Memoir
by
Michael J. Fox
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 9,193 ratings
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The Autobiography of Mark Twain
by
Mark Twain
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 1,113 ratings
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Zelda
by
Nancy Milford
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 2,972 ratings
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The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers
by
Harry Bernstein
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 5,800 ratings
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Cash
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Johnny Cash
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 7,420 ratings
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