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Memoir Books
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Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12972 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,867,051 ratings — published 2018
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10239 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,475,662 ratings — published 2022
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 8701 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,365,494 ratings — published 2005
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7814 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.23 — 601,336 ratings — published 2021
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7287 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,200,382 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7253 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.49 — 809,074 ratings — published 2016
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6163 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 868,916 ratings — published 2012
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6039 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.41 — 809,639 ratings — published 2016
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 5715 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,057,194 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5504 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,200,116 ratings — published 1947
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 5156 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,366,636 ratings — published 1956
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4690 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.84 — 505,215 ratings — published 2016
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4492 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,845,626 ratings — published 2006
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 4465 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.93 — 302,018 ratings — published 2005
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 4360 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.68 — 258,816 ratings — published 2019
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4333 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.85 — 556,669 ratings — published 2014
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4106 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.38 — 162,310 ratings — published 2019
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3885 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.83 — 577,043 ratings — published 2023
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 3876 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.30 — 582,536 ratings — published 1969
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 3715 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.86 — 514,007 ratings — published 2011
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3503 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.40 — 367,109 ratings — published 2015
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 3498 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.15 — 659,085 ratings — published 1996
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 3477 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.17 — 121,417 ratings — published 2017
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3280 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.21 — 355,185 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 3231 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.16 — 624,554 ratings — published 2012
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3208 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 202,721 ratings — published 2006
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 3116 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.01 — 721,305 ratings — published 2000
Running with Scissors (Paperback)
by (shelved 2989 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.77 — 404,233 ratings — published 2002
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2914 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.83 — 430,351 ratings — published 2023
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 2838 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.19 — 379,264 ratings — published 2000
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 2729 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.09 — 238,078 ratings — published 2012
Untamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2729 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.98 — 515,979 ratings — published 2020
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2700 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.90 — 201,245 ratings — published 2012
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 2655 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,205,041 ratings — published 1997
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2649 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.34 — 318,689 ratings — published 2000
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2618 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.37 — 881,314 ratings — published 1946
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2521 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.37 — 405,685 ratings — published 2019
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2431 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.31 — 276,538 ratings — published 2020
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 2338 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.94 — 279,226 ratings — published 1993
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2255 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.20 — 460,698 ratings — published 2020
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 2250 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.27 — 231,011 ratings — published 2003
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2214 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.94 — 504,976 ratings — published 2018
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2207 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.94 — 400,797 ratings — published 2022
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2205 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.72 — 206,131 ratings — published 2010
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2201 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.89 — 175,647 ratings — published 2015
Why Not Me? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2067 times as memoir)
avg rating 3.90 — 226,770 ratings — published 2015
What My Bones Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2017 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.49 — 76,444 ratings — published 2022
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1996 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.07 — 446,458 ratings — published 1998
Finding Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1978 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.53 — 180,121 ratings — published 2022
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 1950 times as memoir)
avg rating 4.26 — 569,676 ratings — published 1997
“Yesterday was surreal. At times K was almost back to herself…funny…interested and relatively mobile. She was tactile and we kissed…she whispered naughty comments into my ear…achingly beautiful…I love her so much”
― More Than Love, A Husband's Tale
― More Than Love, A Husband's Tale
“I have had the best day ever more times that I can remember. So yes,
I believe I am ready to die if that is what is needed to live as I want to.”
― Living the Best Day Ever
I believe I am ready to die if that is what is needed to live as I want to.”
― Living the Best Day Ever
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