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Biography and Memoir Books
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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,116,387 ratings — published 1947
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,804,669 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.49 — 787,855 ratings — published 2016
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,173,634 ratings — published 2018
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,344,441 ratings — published 1956
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,339,349 ratings — published 2005
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.40 — 360,187 ratings — published 2015
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,391,187 ratings — published 2022
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 91 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,046,798 ratings — published 2011
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.84 — 494,841 ratings — published 2016
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.16 — 616,157 ratings — published 2012
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.85 — 551,300 ratings — published 2014
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.30 — 573,680 ratings — published 1969
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 81 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.41 — 780,748 ratings — published 2016
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.24 — 571,497 ratings — published 2021
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.13 — 793,716 ratings — published 2010
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 857,001 ratings — published 2012
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.93 — 290,780 ratings — published 2005
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 199,167 ratings — published 2006
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.37 — 287,552 ratings — published 1965
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,828,800 ratings — published 2006
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 60 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.32 — 267,965 ratings — published 2020
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 60 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.17 — 119,711 ratings — published 2017
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 60 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,175,688 ratings — published 1996
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 57 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.86 — 511,257 ratings — published 2011
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.22 — 196,954 ratings — published 2004
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.15 — 653,750 ratings — published 1996
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.18 — 366,761 ratings — published 2000
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.13 — 132,997 ratings — published 1845
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.21 — 341,324 ratings — published 2010
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.34 — 313,151 ratings — published 2000
The Princess Diarist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.70 — 88,725 ratings — published 2016
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.74 — 79,618 ratings — published 2014
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.39 — 156,039 ratings — published 2019
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.26 — 557,218 ratings — published 1997
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.90 — 199,534 ratings — published 2012
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,342,321 ratings — published 2011
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.37 — 848,388 ratings — published 1946
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.94 — 230,214 ratings — published 1995
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.27 — 226,948 ratings — published 2003
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 45 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.69 — 248,810 ratings — published 2019
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.72 — 205,342 ratings — published 2010
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.08 — 375,021 ratings — published 2001
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.18 — 63,247 ratings — published 2015
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,171,108 ratings — published 1997
Wishful Drinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.82 — 92,045 ratings — published 2008
Running with Scissors (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.77 — 401,770 ratings — published 2002
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.17 — 63,022 ratings — published 2016
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.48 — 351,382 ratings — published 1971
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as biography-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.01 — 716,443 ratings — published 2000
