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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 368 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,299,142 ratings — published 1947
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,947,618 ratings — published 2018
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,232,859 ratings — published 2018
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 150 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,069,533 ratings — published 2011
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.49 — 837,471 ratings — published 2016
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,591,069 ratings — published 2022
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,395,310 ratings — published 1956
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 138 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,217,303 ratings — published 1996
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,384,464 ratings — published 2011
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.37 — 924,579 ratings — published 1946
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 129 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.30 — 594,677 ratings — published 1969
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.13 — 823,446 ratings — published 2010
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,399,785 ratings — published 2005
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.26 — 222,108 ratings — published 1985
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,013,844 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 115 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.16 — 635,858 ratings — published 2012
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 112 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.41 — 842,770 ratings — published 2016
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.83 — 512,769 ratings — published 2016
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.07 — 883,926 ratings — published 2012
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.37 — 297,913 ratings — published 1965
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.85 — 563,163 ratings — published 2014
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.48 — 365,494 ratings — published 1971
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.19 — 397,143 ratings — published 2000
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.12 — 453,640 ratings — published 2015
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.40 — 374,404 ratings — published 2015
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,254,869 ratings — published 1997
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.16 — 666,307 ratings — published 1996
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.16 — 207,541 ratings — published 2007
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 79 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.31 — 284,793 ratings — published 2020
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.85 — 93,675 ratings — published 1791
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,864,578 ratings — published 2006
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.34 — 325,686 ratings — published 2002
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.41 — 214,031 ratings — published 2007
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.20 — 484,772 ratings — published 2020
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.07 — 207,488 ratings — published 2006
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.22 — 637,495 ratings — published 2021
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.21 — 374,821 ratings — published 2010
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.01 — 728,038 ratings — published 2000
The Princess Diarist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.69 — 92,756 ratings — published 2016
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 64 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.86 — 517,216 ratings — published 2011
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.22 — 205,335 ratings — published 2004
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.09 — 382,783 ratings — published 2001
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.26 — 585,405 ratings — published 1997
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.27 — 238,754 ratings — published 2003
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,076 ratings — published 1845
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.58 — 262,835 ratings — published 1980
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.36 — 96,327 ratings — published 1991
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.83 — 592,898 ratings — published 2023
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 61 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.23 — 126,682 ratings — published 1853
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.21 — 84,793 ratings — published 2010
“I understood that from now on I belong to those who have ‘troubled the sleep of the world,' as Habbel says, and that I could not count upon objectivity and tolerance.”
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“Now you might remember the professor on the television show Gilligan’s Island. A really smart guy. He powered the island, developed a coconut clock, installed a plumbing and water system. He just never got around to fixing the boat. Brian was effective in just the same way.”
― Magic Alex and the Secret History of Rock and Roll
― Magic Alex and the Secret History of Rock and Roll
