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Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4722 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,891,909 ratings — published 2018
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4336 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,516,283 ratings — published 2022
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3790 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,375,969 ratings — published 2005
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3030 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.23 — 612,758 ratings — published 2021
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2994 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,211,104 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2655 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.49 — 817,491 ratings — published 2016
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 2252 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,060,603 ratings — published 2011
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2126 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.41 — 819,875 ratings — published 2016
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2116 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,230,622 ratings — published 1947
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 2027 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.68 — 262,710 ratings — published 2019
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1998 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.07 — 873,177 ratings — published 2012
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 1819 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,375,904 ratings — published 1956
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1785 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.83 — 582,951 ratings — published 2023
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1706 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.85 — 558,648 ratings — published 2014
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 1661 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,851,264 ratings — published 2006
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 1543 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.86 — 514,902 ratings — published 2011
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 1536 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.30 — 586,475 ratings — published 1969
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1486 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.16 — 627,987 ratings — published 2012
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1406 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.83 — 507,806 ratings — published 2016
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1396 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.38 — 164,536 ratings — published 2019
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 1378 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.93 — 306,860 ratings — published 2005
Running with Scissors (Paperback)
by (shelved 1362 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.77 — 405,151 ratings — published 2002
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 1300 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.15 — 661,153 ratings — published 1996
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1207 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.21 — 361,340 ratings — published 2010
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 1200 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.17 — 121,994 ratings — published 2017
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1166 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.93 — 515,912 ratings — published 2018
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1127 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.20 — 469,095 ratings — published 2020
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1114 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.83 — 434,153 ratings — published 2023
Untamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1074 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.97 — 519,100 ratings — published 2020
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 1044 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.09 — 239,359 ratings — published 2012
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 1040 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.01 — 723,163 ratings — published 2000
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1031 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.94 — 407,403 ratings — published 2022
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 1025 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.95 — 282,735 ratings — published 1993
Finding Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1019 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.53 — 184,498 ratings — published 2022
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 963 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,219,972 ratings — published 1997
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 948 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.31 — 279,166 ratings — published 2020
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 936 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.19 — 384,368 ratings — published 2000
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 912 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.40 — 369,886 ratings — published 2015
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 896 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.37 — 410,451 ratings — published 2019
Why Not Me? (Paperback)
by (shelved 892 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.90 — 227,159 ratings — published 2015
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 877 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.90 — 201,902 ratings — published 2012
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)
by (shelved 854 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.94 — 167,197 ratings — published 2016
What My Bones Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 848 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.49 — 78,691 ratings — published 2022
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 837 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.37 — 895,022 ratings — published 1946
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 799 times as memoirs)
avg rating 3.72 — 206,607 ratings — published 2010
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 775 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.29 — 194,875 ratings — published 2025
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 774 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.07 — 204,120 ratings — published 2006
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 768 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.34 — 320,905 ratings — published 2000
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 734 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,017 ratings — published 2007
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 700 times as memoirs)
avg rating 4.42 — 129,937 ratings — published 2021
“Sister, why do you do that?"
"Do what?"
"Cage the animals at night?"
"Well..." She looked up and out through the barred window before answering me."We don't want to, Jennings, but we have to. You see, the animals that are given to us we have to take care of. If we didn't cage them up in one place, we might lose them, they might get hurt or damaged. It's not the best thing, but it's the only way we have to take care of them."
"But if somebody loved one them," I asked, "wouldn't it be a good idea to let them have one? To keep, I mean?"
"Yes, it would be. But not everyone would love them and take care of them as you would. I wish I could give them all away tomorrow." She looked at me. There were tears in her eyes. "But I can't. My heart would break if I saw just one of those animals lying by the wayside uncared for, unloved. No, Jennings. It's better if we keep them together.”
― They Cage the Animals at Night: The True Story of an Abandoned Child's Struggle for Emotional Survival
"Do what?"
"Cage the animals at night?"
"Well..." She looked up and out through the barred window before answering me."We don't want to, Jennings, but we have to. You see, the animals that are given to us we have to take care of. If we didn't cage them up in one place, we might lose them, they might get hurt or damaged. It's not the best thing, but it's the only way we have to take care of them."
"But if somebody loved one them," I asked, "wouldn't it be a good idea to let them have one? To keep, I mean?"
"Yes, it would be. But not everyone would love them and take care of them as you would. I wish I could give them all away tomorrow." She looked at me. There were tears in her eyes. "But I can't. My heart would break if I saw just one of those animals lying by the wayside uncared for, unloved. No, Jennings. It's better if we keep them together.”
― They Cage the Animals at Night: The True Story of an Abandoned Child's Struggle for Emotional Survival
“As long as I'm between home and the clinic I do all right. But out in the real world, I feel like prey. I slink around and can feel people looking at me. I feel their eyes boring into me. I feel what they're thinking: Watch her, she could go off anytime. But within the walls of my farmhouse, I climb out of the protective shell, my arms slowly rise like a phoenix, and I dance, wail, fly around the room and then collapse, crying, in front of my mirrors. I start to see in the mirror what it is I really look like, instead of what I was trained from the womb to see. I do not write about it. I do not talk about it. I do not know what I am doing. But just like a baby bird, I am blinking once-sealed eyes and unfolding damp wings. I cannot articulate the past. A part of me knows it's there, lurking, just behind what I can acknowledge, but it is not within sight. And I am keeping it that way. ”
― Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
― Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
