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This is a list of the best memoirs published during the decade of 2000 to 2009. Add books that you enjoyed and though highly of, but don't add books to this list that you haven't personally read.
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Running with Scissors
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Augusten Burroughs (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 401,635 ratings
score: 199,
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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4.18 avg rating — 365,944 ratings
score: 199,
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
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3.87 avg rating — 41,751 ratings
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Christmas Remembered
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4.03 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm
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4.01 avg rating — 1,744 ratings
score: 98,
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Open An Autobiography
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4.32 avg rating — 142,331 ratings
score: 98,
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Scar Tissue
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4.11 avg rating — 100,075 ratings
score: 97,
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How I Learned to Cook: Culinary Educations from the World's Greatest Chefs
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3.72 avg rating — 613 ratings
score: 97,
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Dry
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Augusten Burroughs (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 97,903 ratings
score: 96,
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Paris to the Moon
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3.75 avg rating — 15,379 ratings
score: 96,
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A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
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4.28 avg rating — 61,400 ratings
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Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
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3.94 avg rating — 47,731 ratings
score: 94,
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Escape
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3.98 avg rating — 46,147 ratings
score: 93,
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Mao's Last Dancer
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4.14 avg rating — 32,304 ratings
score: 92,
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Embroideries
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3.94 avg rating — 30,212 ratings
score: 91,
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Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
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3.88 avg rating — 28,497 ratings
score: 90,
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Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
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4.36 avg rating — 26,004 ratings
score: 89,
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Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
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4.05 avg rating — 22,234 ratings
score: 88,
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Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China
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3.73 avg rating — 9,331 ratings
score: 87,
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23 Minutes In Hell: One Man's Story About What He Saw, Heard, and Felt in That Place of Torment
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3.79 avg rating — 7,877 ratings
score: 86,
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Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles
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4.29 avg rating — 6,459 ratings
score: 85,
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Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing up Scieszka
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4.08 avg rating — 4,998 ratings
score: 84,
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Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
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Michael J. Collins (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 4,970 ratings
score: 83,
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Things I've Been Silent About
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3.73 avg rating — 4,933 ratings
score: 82,
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Guts: The True Stories behind Hatchet and the Brian Books
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3.92 avg rating — 3,156 ratings
score: 81,
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Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library
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3.53 avg rating — 2,806 ratings
score: 80,
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House Rules: A Memoir
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3.69 avg rating — 2,588 ratings
score: 79,
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The Impostor's Daughter: A True Memoir
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Laurie Sandell (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 2,407 ratings
score: 78,
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Blue Blood by Conlon, Edward (2004) Paperback
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3.68 avg rating — 1,819 ratings
score: 77,
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Paramedic to the Prince
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3.98 avg rating — 1,735 ratings
score: 76,
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Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir
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Mary-Ann Tirone Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 1,445 ratings
score: 75,
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Alan's War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope
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4.03 avg rating — 1,386 ratings
score: 74,
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Sophie Calle: True Stories
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Sophie Calle (Artist)
4.43 avg rating — 1,090 ratings
score: 73,
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Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto
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3.70 avg rating — 881 ratings
score: 72,
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A Distant Prayer: Miracles of the 49th Combat Mission
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4.32 avg rating — 868 ratings
score: 71,
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Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir
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score: 70,
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Iron Heart: The True Story of How I Came Back from the Dead
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4.08 avg rating — 741 ratings
score: 69,
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Closing Time
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3.57 avg rating — 715 ratings
score: 68,
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Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder
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3.22 avg rating — 396 ratings
score: 67,
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God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia
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4.32 avg rating — 363 ratings
score: 66,
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When All the World Was Young: A Memoir
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3.90 avg rating — 280 ratings
score: 65,
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Further Adventures of a Grumpy Old Rock Star
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4.19 avg rating — 244 ratings
score: 64,
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Invisible: A Memoir
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3.69 avg rating — 241 ratings
score: 63,
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Bannock, Beans and Black Tea: Memories of a Prince Edward Island Childhood in the Great Depression
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3.98 avg rating — 163 ratings
score: 62,
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Lost Voices of the Edwardians
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score: 61,
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Notes from Nethers: Growing Up in a Sixties Commune
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3.75 avg rating — 115 ratings
score: 60,
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The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
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3.95 avg rating — 94 ratings
score: 59,
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A Garden in Lucca: Finding Paradise in Tuscany
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3.31 avg rating — 65 ratings
score: 58,
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Mirror Mind
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Tory Woollcott (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 59 ratings
score: 57,
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Pickin' Up the Pieces: The Heart and Soul of Country Rock Pioneer Richie Furay
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3.75 avg rating — 60 ratings
score: 56,
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Miriam Daughter of Finnish Immigrants
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Diane Dettmann (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings
score: 55,
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Good Manners and Bad Behaviour
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3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 54,
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Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher: Scenes from a Scottish Childhood
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4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 53,
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Children of Bethnal Green
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score: 52,
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Land Girls at the Old Rectory (Old Pond Books)
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3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 51,
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Bugle Boy
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Letters From Tully: A Woman's Life on the Dakota Frontier
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3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Living on Tick: Tales from a Huddersfiel
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3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Hops doodlebugs and floods A memoir of growing up in Essex
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3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Journal Of A Georgia Woman, 1870-1872
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4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Beloved Land: An Oral History of Mexican Americans in Southern Arizona
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Patricia Preciado Martin (Editor)
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 45,
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A Pocket with a Hole: A Birmingham Childhood of the 1940s and 1950s
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Jellied Eels and Zeppelins: Witness to a Vanished Age
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A Door To All My Rooms
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Bob Artley's Book of Farm Chores: As Remembered by a Former Kid
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Down Yonder At The Back End
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Yankee Summer: The Way We Were: Growing Up in Rural Vermont in the 1930s
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Great Aunt Lizzie
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Aintree Days
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When the Lights Go On Again: Memories of V.E. Day and After
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Pam Schweitzer (Editor)
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Mervyn's Lot
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