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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 365 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,222,663 ratings — published 1947
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 188 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,885,515 ratings — published 2018
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,208,246 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.49 — 815,274 ratings — published 2016
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 149 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,059,638 ratings — published 2011
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,373,397 ratings — published 1956
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,505,671 ratings — published 2022
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 138 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,199,523 ratings — published 1996
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,366,532 ratings — published 2011
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.37 — 891,509 ratings — published 1946
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 126 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.30 — 585,486 ratings — published 1969
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.13 — 809,984 ratings — published 2010
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,002,413 ratings — published 2010
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,373,146 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 — 218,927 ratings — published 1985
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 — 627,070 ratings — published 2012
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 111 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.41 — 817,154 ratings — published 2016
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.84 — 507,143 ratings — published 2016
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.85 — 558,112 ratings — published 2014
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.37 — 293,250 ratings — published 1965
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.07 — 872,088 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 — 359,428 ratings — published 1971
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.40 — 369,289 ratings — published 2015
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.12 — 447,540 ratings — published 2015
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.19 — 383,142 ratings — published 2000
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.17 — 203,723 ratings — published 2007
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.15 — 660,603 ratings — published 1996
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,849,763 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 — 1,216,049 ratings — published 1997
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.85 — 92,305 ratings — published 1791
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.34 — 320,310 ratings — published 2000
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.31 — 278,482 ratings — published 2020
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.20 — 466,815 ratings — published 2020
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.40 — 207,342 ratings — published 2007
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.07 — 203,710 ratings — published 2006
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.21 — 359,667 ratings — published 2010
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.01 — 722,599 ratings — published 2000
The Princess Diarist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.70 — 91,680 ratings — published 2016
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.23 — 609,820 ratings — published 2021
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.09 — 379,145 ratings — published 2001
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 64 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.86 — 514,692 ratings — published 2011
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.22 — 201,574 ratings — published 2004
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.27 — 232,512 ratings — published 2003
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.36 — 94,815 ratings — published 1994
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.58 — 256,869 ratings — published 1980
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 61 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.23 — 125,635 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 — 573,402 ratings — published 1997
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as biographical)
avg rating 3.83 — 581,453 ratings — published 2023
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.13 — 136,114 ratings — published 1845
Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as biographical)
avg rating 4.28 — 10,119 ratings — published
“You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas”
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“The story of how I threw up over John Lennon’s Beatle boots is worth telling.”
― Magic Alex and the Secret History of Rock and Roll
― Magic Alex and the Secret History of Rock and Roll
