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Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs
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4.27 avg rating — 986 ratings
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
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3.83 avg rating — 77,344 ratings
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What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
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4.44 avg rating — 2,609 ratings
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The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,288 ratings
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The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
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4.12 avg rating — 46,543 ratings
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A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming
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3.45 avg rating — 9,770 ratings
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Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
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3.89 avg rating — 40,724 ratings
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The Daughter Of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
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4.72 avg rating — 86 ratings
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
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4.14 avg rating — 38,251 ratings
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Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
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3.97 avg rating — 7,280 ratings
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Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
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3.52 avg rating — 1,657 ratings
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Sounds Like Titanic
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3.89 avg rating — 2,824 ratings
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Ladies, Upstairs!: My Life in Politics and After
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3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Taking Cover: One Girl's Story of Growing Up During the Iranian Revolution
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3.88 avg rating — 106 ratings
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D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
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3.77 avg rating — 4,696 ratings
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The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
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4.17 avg rating — 11,881 ratings
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The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
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4.09 avg rating — 9,826 ratings
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
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4.38 avg rating — 257,121 ratings
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The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
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3.99 avg rating — 20,500 ratings
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The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
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3.89 avg rating — 1,935 ratings
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The Lady Is a Spy: Virginia Hall, World War II Hero of the French Resistance
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3.41 avg rating — 227 ratings
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All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
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3.81 avg rating — 737 ratings
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The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, Hunting Terrorists and Challenging the White House
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3.68 avg rating — 584 ratings
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Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
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4.22 avg rating — 6,677 ratings
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Year of the Monkey
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3.82 avg rating — 14,354 ratings
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The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty
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4.11 avg rating — 3,806 ratings
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Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years
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3.56 avg rating — 1,907 ratings
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Becoming Emily: The Life of Emily Dickinson
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3.71 avg rating — 73 ratings
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This Woman's Work
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4.12 avg rating — 1,384 ratings
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Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
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3.84 avg rating — 6,432 ratings
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Know My Name
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4.72 avg rating — 154,657 ratings
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This Is Really War: The Incredible True Story of a Navy Nurse POW in the Occupied Philippines
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4.44 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
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4.33 avg rating — 8,820 ratings
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Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Life and Work
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3.89 avg rating — 804 ratings
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Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine
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4.20 avg rating — 1,330 ratings
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Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
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3.92 avg rating — 15,609 ratings
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Working with Winston: The Unsung Women Behind Britain's Greatest Statesman
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3.91 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Teffi: A Life of Letters and of Laughter
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4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Shout
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4.27 avg rating — 18,838 ratings
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Formation: A Woman's Memoir of Stepping Out of Line
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4.22 avg rating — 617 ratings
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How to Die Young: A Memoir
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Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
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4.21 avg rating — 3,636 ratings
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All Ships Follow Me: A Family Memoir of War Across Three Continents
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4.26 avg rating — 151 ratings
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The Nightingale's Sonata: The Musical Odyssey of Lea Luboshutz
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America
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3.78 avg rating — 349 ratings
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Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior
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4.24 avg rating — 444 ratings
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How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship
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3.54 avg rating — 508 ratings
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Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
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4.49 avg rating — 21,776 ratings
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The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity
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3.89 avg rating — 5,464 ratings
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Rock Needs River: A Memoir About a Very Open Adoption
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3.49 avg rating — 6,727 ratings
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Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
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4.33 avg rating — 4,169 ratings
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Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds, and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep
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3.53 avg rating — 576 ratings
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First: Sandra Day O'Connor
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4.25 avg rating — 3,521 ratings
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I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
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4.32 avg rating — 3,423 ratings
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Queen of the Mountaineers: The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman
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3.86 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Stone Frigate: The Royal Military College's First Female Cadet Speaks Out
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4.35 avg rating — 124 ratings
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No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir
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3.86 avg rating — 2,430 ratings
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Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World
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4.19 avg rating — 589 ratings
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Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England
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3.66 avg rating — 133 ratings
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L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated Female Byron
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3.89 avg rating — 123 ratings
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In the Country of Women
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3.99 avg rating — 1,476 ratings
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Midnight: Three Women at the Hour of Reckoning
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3.60 avg rating — 128 ratings
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A Dream and a Chisel: Louisiana Sculptor Angela Gregory in Paris, 1925-1928
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3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Where the Lost Dogs Go: A Story of Love, Search, and the Power of Reunion
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4.24 avg rating — 306 ratings
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The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit: Victorian Iconoclast, Children’s Author, and Creator of The Railway Children
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3.65 avg rating — 113 ratings
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From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Loss, Food and Finding Home in the Sicilian Countryside
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3.95 avg rating — 32,505 ratings
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Women to the Front: Australian Women Doctors of the First World War
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3.85 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention
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3.90 avg rating — 766 ratings
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Jet Girl: My Life in War, Peace, and the Cockpit of the Navy's Most Lethal Aircraft
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4.18 avg rating — 478 ratings
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On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard
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3.92 avg rating — 3,470 ratings
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We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
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4.14 avg rating — 13,447 ratings
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Pursuing Justice: One Attorney's Fight against a Client Who Kidnapped Her and the Legal System that Betrayed Her
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3.76 avg rating — 258 ratings
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Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
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3.81 avg rating — 828 ratings
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Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
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4.24 avg rating — 1,137 ratings
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America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
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3.83 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal
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3.74 avg rating — 473 ratings
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Inside Out
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3.90 avg rating — 37,236 ratings
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Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh
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3.82 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Louisa on the Front Lines: Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War
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3.85 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
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4.05 avg rating — 4,159 ratings
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Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
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3.67 avg rating — 3,669 ratings
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I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir
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4.12 avg rating — 4,419 ratings
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This Atom Bomb in Me
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3.68 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Carolina of Orange-Nassau: Ancestress of the Royal Houses of Europe
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3.75 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life
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4.35 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
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4.26 avg rating — 8,590 ratings
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River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey
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4.30 avg rating — 1,159 ratings
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Becoming Beauvoir: A Life
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4.33 avg rating — 901 ratings
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Golden Dreams: How Hattie McDaniel Broke Barriers in Hollywood and Beyond
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Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge
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3.84 avg rating — 1,274 ratings
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The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation
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4.13 avg rating — 747 ratings
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Undaunted: The Wild Life of Biruté Mary Galdikas and Her Fearless Quest to Save Orangutans
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4.04 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Sontag: Her Life and Work
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4.20 avg rating — 1,511 ratings
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Woman of the House: The Rise of Nancy Pelosi
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3.26 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Coitus Chronicles: My Quest for Sex, Love, and Orgasms
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3.96 avg rating — 200 ratings
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Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
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3.58 avg rating — 5,459 ratings
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The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness
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3.70 avg rating — 1,897 ratings
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Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love
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4.40 avg rating — 921 ratings
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Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward
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4.12 avg rating — 1,418 ratings
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The Me, Without: A Year Exploring Habit, Healing, and Happiness
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3.47 avg rating — 155 ratings
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