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The Glass Castle: A Memoir (Paperback)
by Jeannette Walls (shelved 375 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.13 — 78,104 ratings — published 2005
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir (Paperback)
by Augusten Burroughs (shelved 359 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.47 — 51,388 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 268 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.61 — 153,693 ratings — published 2006
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Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 240 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.96 — 139,802 ratings — published 2000
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Angela's Ashes (Paperback)
by Frank McCourt (shelved 218 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.96 — 35,340 ratings — published 1996
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Night
by Elie Wiesel (shelved 192 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.26 — 60,288 ratings — published 1958
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Paperback)
by Anne Frank (shelved 182 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.05 — 156,930 ratings — published 1947
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Dry: A Memoir (Paperback)
by Augusten Burroughs (shelved 169 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,187 ratings — published 2002
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Naked (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 161 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.02 — 59,560 ratings — published 1997
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 154 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.96 — 37,061 ratings — published 2004
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A Million Little Pieces (Paperback)
by James Frey (shelved 132 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.48 — 36,336 ratings — published 2003
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Paperback)
by Dave Eggers (shelved 130 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.58 — 55,547 ratings — published 2000
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by Azar Nafisi (Goodreads author) (shelved 127 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.40 — 27,724 ratings — published 2003
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Marley & Me: Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog (Hardcover)
by John Grogan (shelved 106 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.10 — 36,392 ratings — published 2005
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
by David Sedaris (shelved 105 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.87 — 33,863 ratings — published 2008
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Lucky (Paperback)
by Alice Sebold (shelved 102 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.68 — 15,659 ratings — published 1999
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Magical Thinking: True Stories (Paperback)
by Augusten Burroughs (shelved 94 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.87 — 10,721 ratings — published 2004
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'Tis (Paperback)
by Frank McCourt (shelved 87 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.46 — 8,215 ratings — published 1999
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Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by Susanna Kaysen (shelved 85 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.57 — 10,536 ratings — published 1993
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The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by Joan Didion (shelved 85 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.74 — 20,242 ratings — published 2005
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by Ishmael Beah (shelved 84 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,612 ratings — published 2007
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Dreams from My Father (Paperback)
by Barack Obama (shelved 83 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.93 — 20,203 ratings — published 1995
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Holidays on Ice (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 82 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,580 ratings — published 1997
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (updated edition)
by Anthony Bourdain (shelved 80 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.94 — 15,783 ratings — published 2000
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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's (Hardcover)
by John Elder Robison (Goodreads author) (shelved 79 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.67 — 6,954 ratings — published 2007
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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 77 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.98 — 63,216 ratings — published 2006
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Possible Side Effects (Paperback)
by Augusten Burroughs (shelved 75 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.84 — 8,587 ratings — published 2006
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A Girl Named Zippy (Paperback)
by Haven Kimmel (shelved 74 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,865 ratings — published 2001
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A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive (Paperback)
by Dave Pelzer (shelved 73 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.97 — 21,486 ratings — published 1992
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The Liars' Club: A Memoir (Paperback)
by Mary Karr (shelved 72 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,557 ratings — published 1995
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (Hardcover)
by Julie Powell (shelved 71 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.36 — 13,655 ratings — published 2005
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Mass Market Paperback)
by Maya Angelou (shelved 69 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.96 — 20,090 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 67 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.89 — 52,128 ratings — published 1997
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction (Hardcover)
by David Sheff (shelved 67 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,687 ratings — published 2007
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Persepolis 1: The Story of a Childhood (Paperback)
by Marjane Satrapi (shelved 65 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.27 — 16,997 ratings — published 2000
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A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by Augusten Burroughs (shelved 65 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.49 — 6,672 ratings — published 2008
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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (Paperback)
by James McBride (shelved 64 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,753 ratings — published 1996
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Jesus Land: A Memoir (Paperback)
by Julia Scheeres (shelved 62 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,479 ratings — published 2005
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Paperback)
by Kay Redfield Jamison (shelved 61 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,889 ratings — published 1995
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Teacher Man: A Memoir (Paperback)
by Frank McCourt (shelved 61 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.57 — 6,802 ratings — published 2005
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Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood (Paperback)
by Koren Zailckas (shelved 61 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.30 — 4,698 ratings — published 2005
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The Last Lecture (Hardcover)
by Randy Pausch (shelved 59 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.11 — 33,397 ratings — published 2008
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Prozac Nation (Paperback)
by Elizabeth Wurtzel (shelved 58 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.17 — 6,839 ratings — published 1994
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (Hardcover)
by Chelsea Handler (shelved 55 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.77 — 11,004 ratings — published 2007
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Hardcover)
by Barbara Kingsolver (shelved 53 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.11 — 29,477 ratings — published 2007
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 52 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.98 — 55,333 ratings — published 1997
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time (Hardcover)
by Rob Sheffield (shelved 52 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.74 — 6,083 ratings — published 2007
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Memoirs of a Geisha (Hardcover)
by Arthur Golden (shelved 51 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.94 — 202,866 ratings — published 1997
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Infidel (Hardcover)
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (shelved 51 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,307 ratings — published 2006
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (Paperback)
by Alexandra Fuller (shelved 50 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,225 ratings — published 2002
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"If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was."
— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)
— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)
"Memoir today is like one big game of misery poker: The more outlandish, outrageous, or just plain out-there the recounted life, the more likely the book is to attract the attention of reviewers, talk-show bookers, and, ultimately, the public.
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— Ben Yagoda writing for Slate
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— Ben Yagoda writing for Slate
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