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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 365 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,247,560 ratings — published 1947
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 189 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,906,083 ratings — published 2018
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,216,748 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.49 — 822,366 ratings — published 2016
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 148 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,062,960 ratings — published 2011
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,537,484 ratings — published 2022
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,381,117 ratings — published 1956
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 138 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,205,154 ratings — published 1996
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,372,170 ratings — published 2011
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.37 — 902,757 ratings — published 1946
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 127 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.30 — 588,639 ratings — published 1969
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.13 — 814,810 ratings — published 2010
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,381,810 ratings — published 2005
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.26 — 219,984 ratings — published 1985
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,006,168 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 113 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.16 — 630,087 ratings — published 2012
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 111 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.41 — 825,741 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 — 509,220 ratings — published 2016
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.37 — 294,811 ratings — published 1965
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.85 — 559,913 ratings — published 2014
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.07 — 875,540 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 — 361,440 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 — 449,438 ratings — published 2015
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.40 — 371,060 ratings — published 2015
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.19 — 387,148 ratings — published 2000
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.17 — 205,001 ratings — published 2007
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.15 — 662,322 ratings — published 1996
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 — 1,228,611 ratings — published 1997
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,854,645 ratings — published 2006
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.85 — 92,743 ratings — published 1791
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 76 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.31 — 280,690 ratings — published 2020
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.34 — 322,095 ratings — published 2000
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.20 — 473,531 ratings — published 2020
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.40 — 209,386 ratings — published 2007
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.07 — 205,037 ratings — published 2006
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.01 — 724,307 ratings — published 2000
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.23 — 619,216 ratings — published 2021
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.21 — 364,835 ratings — published 2010
The Princess Diarist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.69 — 92,016 ratings — published 2016
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 64 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.86 — 515,459 ratings — published 2011
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.09 — 380,362 ratings — published 2001
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.58 — 258,950 ratings — published 1980
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.22 — 202,755 ratings — published 2004
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.27 — 234,528 ratings — published 2003
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.36 — 95,329 ratings — published 1994
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.83 — 585,699 ratings — published 2023
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.13 — 136,878 ratings — published 1845
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 61 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.23 — 125,758 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 — 577,250 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 — 10,146 ratings — published
“We had come from lecture halls, school desks and factory workbenches, and over the brief weeks of training, we had bonded together into one large and enthusiastic group. Grown up in an age of security, we shared a yearning for danger, for the experience of the extraordinary. We were enraptured by war.”
― Storm of Steel
― Storm of Steel
“At last, he fully understood that change comes from within. It was up to him to get up and fight for a better life.”
― Growing Up American
― Growing Up American
