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Essay and Memoir Books
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Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,792,797 ratings — published 2018
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.93 — 288,656 ratings — published 2005
Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.95 — 35,712 ratings — published 2017
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.18 — 79,859 ratings — published 1968
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.08 — 216,023 ratings — published 2008
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.01 — 715,467 ratings — published 2000
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.51 — 161,824 ratings — published 2013
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.40 — 359,192 ratings — published 2015
The Next American Essay (A New History of the Essay)
by (shelved 2 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.15 — 866 ratings — published 2002
Notes from No Man's Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,814 ratings — published 2009
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.17 — 62,963 ratings — published 2016
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 2 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.17 — 119,416 ratings — published 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.84 — 492,601 ratings — published 2016
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.97 — 189,972 ratings — published 2013
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.19 — 850,565 ratings — published 2008
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.85 — 149,855 ratings — published 2013
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.85 — 104,239 ratings — published 2009
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.22 — 249,856 ratings — published 1929
My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.20 — 491 ratings — published 2000
Holidays on Ice (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.89 — 129,801 ratings — published 1997
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 854,658 ratings — published 2012
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.24 — 109,048 ratings — published 1994
The Story of My Life (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.08 — 150,388 ratings — published 1902
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,334,312 ratings — published 2005
Naked (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.10 — 271,571 ratings — published 1997
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.11 — 287,147 ratings — published 2004
Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.79 — 55,967 ratings — published 1994
How to Survive a Bear Attack: A Memoir (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.11 — 719 ratings — published
Finding Beauty in a Broken World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,065 ratings — published 2008
Homelands: The History of a Friendship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.22 — 181 ratings — published
In Memory of Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,173 ratings — published 2017
The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.33 — 407 ratings — published 2025
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.55 — 18,186 ratings — published 2017
Trauma Plot: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.34 — 361 ratings — published 2025
The Breaks: An Essay (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.34 — 626 ratings — published 2021
في أثر عنايات الزيات (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,254 ratings — published 2019
T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,325 ratings — published
American OZ: An Astonishing Year Inside Traveling Carnivals at State Fairs & Festivals: Hitchhiking From California to New York, Alaska to Mexico (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.91 — 517 ratings — published 2020
Calypso (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.10 — 143,968 ratings — published 2018
The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.92 — 14,163 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.49 — 784,927 ratings — published 2016
Burnt Tongues (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,437 ratings — published 2014
Whale Hunt in the Desert: Secrets of a Vegas Superhost (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.75 — 386 ratings — published 2004
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.39 — 64,753 ratings — published 2010
I'd Rather We Got Casinos: And Other Black Thoughts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.32 — 1,518 ratings — published 2009
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.46 — 355,051 ratings — published 2016
Travels with Charley: In Search of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.08 — 104,077 ratings — published 1961
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,497 ratings — published 1994
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 3.78 — 242,440 ratings — published 1974
Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as essay-and-memoir)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,572 ratings — published 2005
