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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Paperback)
by Anne Frank (shelved 80 times as biographies)
avg rating 4.05 — 168,009 ratings — published 1947

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John Adams (Paperback)
by David McCullough (shelved 41 times as biographies)
avg rating 4.32 — 13,755 ratings — published 2001

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Night
by Elie Wiesel (shelved 30 times as biographies)
avg rating 4.26 — 63,036 ratings — published 1958

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The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by Jeannette Walls (shelved 30 times as biographies)
avg rating 4.13 — 80,696 ratings — published 2005

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Angela's Ashes (Paperback)
by Frank McCourt (shelved 29 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.96 — 37,042 ratings — published 1996

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Dreams from My Father (Paperback)
by Barack Obama (shelved 28 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.92 — 20,727 ratings — published 1995

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The Hiding Place (Mass Market Paperback)
by Corrie Ten Boom (shelved 25 times as biographies)
avg rating 4.50 — 14,683 ratings — published 1971

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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (Hardcover)
by Steve Martin (shelved 23 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,750 ratings — published 2007

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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by Doris Kearns Goodwin (shelved 23 times as biographies)
avg rating 4.43 — 10,030 ratings — published 2005

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Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Paperback)
by Antonia Fraser (shelved 23 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,819 ratings — published 2001

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Into the Wild (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 22 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.80 — 93,621 ratings — published 1996

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by Benjamin Franklin (shelved 21 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,954 ratings — published 197

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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Hardcover)
by Barack Obama (shelved 21 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.81 — 22,967 ratings — published 2006

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Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 20 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.96 — 145,812 ratings — published 2000

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A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive (Paperback)
by Dave Pelzer (shelved 19 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.97 — 22,395 ratings — published 1992

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Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by Walter Isaacson (shelved 19 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,886 ratings — published 2007

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Running with Scissors: A Memoir (Paperback)
by Augusten Burroughs (shelved 19 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.47 — 52,928 ratings — published 2002

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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Paperback)
by Elizabeth Gilbert (shelved 19 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.61 — 159,889 ratings — published 2006

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Scar Tissue (Paperback)
by Anthony Kiedis (shelved 19 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,715 ratings — published 2004

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Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Modern Library Paperbacks)
by Amanda Foreman (shelved 18 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.53 — 2,313 ratings — published 1998

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His Excellency: George Washington (Paperback)
by Joseph J. Ellis (shelved 18 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,625 ratings — published 2004

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A Beautiful Mind (Paperback)
by Sylvia Nasar (shelved 18 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,511 ratings — published 1998

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Living History (Paperback)
by Hillary Rodham Clinton (shelved 18 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.44 — 2,901 ratings — published 2003

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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time (Paperback)
by Greg Mortenson (shelved 17 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.98 — 65,950 ratings — published 2006

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My Life in France (Hardcover)
by Julia Child (shelved 17 times as biographies)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,106 ratings — published 2006

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My Life (Paperback)
by Bill Clinton (shelved 17 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.40 — 3,219 ratings — published 2004

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No One Here Gets Out Alive (Paperback)
by Daniel Sugerman (shelved 17 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.65 — 2,138 ratings — published 1980

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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by Walter Isaacson (shelved 16 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,658 ratings — published 2003

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Mass Market Paperback)
by Maya Angelou (shelved 16 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.96 — 20,910 ratings — published 1970

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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by Mitch Albom (shelved 16 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.89 — 54,066 ratings — published 1997

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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (updated edition)
by Anthony Bourdain (shelved 15 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,331 ratings — published 2000

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The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by Alison Weir (shelved 14 times as biographies)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,981 ratings — published 1991

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley (Mass Market Paperback)
by Malcolm X (shelved 14 times as biographies)
avg rating 4.32 — 11,376 ratings — published 1965

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The Story of My Life (Bantam Classic)
by Helen Keller (shelved 14 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,274 ratings — published 1903

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Lucky Man: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by Michael J. Fox (shelved 14 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,909 ratings — published 2002

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Theodore Rex (Modern Library Paperbacks)
by Edmund Morris (shelved 14 times as biographies)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,778 ratings — published 2001

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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by Azar Nafisi (Goodreads author) (shelved 13 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.40 — 28,539 ratings — published 2003

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Truman (Paperback)
by David McCullough (shelved 13 times as biographies)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,649 ratings — published 1992

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Escape (Hardcover)
by Carolyn Jessop (shelved 13 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,879 ratings — published 2007

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The Last Lecture (Hardcover)
by Randy Pausch (shelved 13 times as biographies)
avg rating 4.11 — 34,598 ratings — published 2008

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Naked (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 13 times as biographies)
avg rating 4.02 — 60,597 ratings — published 1997

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Go Forward With Faith: The Biography of Gordon B. Hinckley (Hardcover)
by Sheri L. Dew (shelved 13 times as biographies)
avg rating 4.68 — 2,540 ratings — published 1996

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Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life (Paperback)
by Noor Al-Hussein (shelved 13 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,634 ratings — published 2003

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GANDHI: An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Paperback)
by Mahatma Gandhi (shelved 13 times as biographies)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,944 ratings — published 1927

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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (Paperback)
by Nelson Mandela (shelved 13 times as biographies)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,863 ratings — published 1996

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Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by Susanna Kaysen (shelved 12 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.57 — 11,010 ratings — published 1993

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Persepolis 1: The Story of a Childhood (Paperback)
by Marjane Satrapi (shelved 12 times as biographies)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,567 ratings — published 2000

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'Tis (Paperback)
by Frank McCourt (shelved 12 times as biographies)
avg rating 3.46 — 8,519 ratings — published 1999

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Marley & Me: Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog (Hardcover)
by John Grogan (shelved 12 times as biographies)
avg rating 4.10 — 37,465 ratings — published 2005

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