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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 364 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,195,782 ratings — published 1947
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 186 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,862,374 ratings — published 2018
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 169 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,198,615 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.49 — 807,607 ratings — published 2016
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 148 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,056,395 ratings — published 2011
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,364,840 ratings — published 1956
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,360,409 ratings — published 2011
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 137 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,193,252 ratings — published 1996
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,468,102 ratings — published 2022
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.37 — 878,832 ratings — published 1946
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 125 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.30 — 581,253 ratings — published 1969
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.13 — 805,310 ratings — published 2010
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,363,423 ratings — published 2005
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.26 — 217,927 ratings — published 1985
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.39 — 998,330 ratings — published 2010
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.16 — 623,857 ratings — published 2012
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 110 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.41 — 807,542 ratings — published 2016
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.84 — 504,632 ratings — published 2016
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.85 — 556,284 ratings — published 2014
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.37 — 291,519 ratings — published 1965
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.07 — 868,054 ratings — published 2012
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.48 — 356,945 ratings — published 1971
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.40 — 366,681 ratings — published 2015
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.19 — 378,291 ratings — published 2000
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.12 — 445,696 ratings — published 2015
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.15 — 658,727 ratings — published 1996
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.17 — 202,502 ratings — published 2007
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,844,465 ratings — published 2006
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,202,301 ratings — published 1997
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.85 — 91,869 ratings — published 1791
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.34 — 318,274 ratings — published 2000
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.31 — 276,089 ratings — published 2020
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.40 — 205,502 ratings — published 2007
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.07 — 202,467 ratings — published 2006
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.01 — 720,983 ratings — published 2000
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.20 — 459,195 ratings — published 2020
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.21 — 354,026 ratings — published 2010
The Princess Diarist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.70 — 91,282 ratings — published 2016
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 65 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.86 — 513,820 ratings — published 2011
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.08 — 377,962 ratings — published 2001
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.23 — 599,261 ratings — published 2021
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.22 — 200,375 ratings — published 2004
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.58 — 254,540 ratings — published 1980
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.27 — 230,690 ratings — published 2003
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.36 — 94,327 ratings — published 1994
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 61 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.23 — 125,006 ratings — published 1853
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.83 — 575,860 ratings — published 2023
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.13 — 134,970 ratings — published 1845
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.26 — 568,795 ratings — published 1997
Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.28 — 10,106 ratings — published
“I wanted Ole Miss to feel special, but mostly I felt that the Ole Miss crowd looked at me like I was just white trash from a town full of trailers.… All was not lost. I saw the movie All The President’s Men, mostly because Robert Redford was the star. The fast-paced world of the Washington Post…captivated me. Sitting in a dark theater that afternoon, I fell in love with the idea of becoming a reporter. That was the movie that clinched my plan to major in journalism and political science…. I'd started Ole Miss as a Lady Rebel but left more rebellious than ladylike.”
― Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power
― Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power
“If the author of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea and the Nick Adams stories had been an undersized weed, asthmatic or phthisic, living out strong-man fantasies in the literature he produced, he would still be one of the great American writers.”
― Ernest Hemingway
― Ernest Hemingway
