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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 366 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,272,240 ratings — published 1947
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,925,809 ratings — published 2018
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,224,617 ratings — published 2018
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 150 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,066,243 ratings — published 2011
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.49 — 829,638 ratings — published 2016
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,564,042 ratings — published 2022
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,388,538 ratings — published 1956
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 139 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,210,912 ratings — published 1996
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,378,354 ratings — published 2011
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.37 — 913,599 ratings — published 1946
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 128 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.30 — 591,724 ratings — published 1969
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.13 — 819,179 ratings — published 2010
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,390,377 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 — 221,140 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 — 1,010,056 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 114 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.16 — 632,932 ratings — published 2012
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 112 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.41 — 834,229 ratings — published 2016
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.83 — 510,826 ratings — published 2016
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.37 — 296,400 ratings — published 1965
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.85 — 561,563 ratings — published 2014
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.07 — 879,783 ratings — published 2012
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.48 — 363,540 ratings — published 1971
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.12 — 451,496 ratings — published 2015
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,828 ratings — published 2015
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.19 — 391,649 ratings — published 2000
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,240,426 ratings — published 1997
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.16 — 664,025 ratings — published 1996
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.16 — 206,287 ratings — published 2007
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,859,707 ratings — published 2006
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.85 — 93,225 ratings — published 1791
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 77 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.31 — 282,741 ratings — published 2020
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.34 — 323,925 ratings — published 2000
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.41 — 211,187 ratings — published 2007
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.20 — 479,214 ratings — published 2020
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.07 — 206,269 ratings — published 2006
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.23 — 628,594 ratings — published 2021
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.21 — 369,720 ratings — published 2010
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.01 — 726,082 ratings — published 2000
The Princess Diarist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.69 — 92,422 ratings — published 2016
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 64 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.86 — 516,338 ratings — published 2011
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.09 — 381,561 ratings — published 2001
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.22 — 204,084 ratings — published 2004
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.27 — 236,326 ratings — published 2003
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.58 — 260,939 ratings — published 1980
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.36 — 95,801 ratings — published 1991
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.83 — 589,309 ratings — published 2023
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.13 — 137,488 ratings — published 1845
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 61 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.23 — 126,242 ratings — published 1853
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.26 — 581,269 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 — 10,170 ratings — published
“If only their life could continue as it was it would be enough. It had always been enough for her, but never enough to keep him from righting wrongs of far wider consequences.”
― Red Clay, Running Waters
― Red Clay, Running Waters
“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
