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Personal Narrative Books
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Owl Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.23 — 44,522 ratings — published 1987
Fireflies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,181 ratings — published 1985
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,347,864 ratings — published 1956
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.51 — 38,258 ratings — published 1983
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.26 — 559,592 ratings — published 1997
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.93 — 292,818 ratings — published 2005
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,130,808 ratings — published 1947
Shortcut (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.03 — 553 ratings — published 1992
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,762 ratings — published 1994
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,343,864 ratings — published 2005
Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a Kid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.24 — 837 ratings — published 2005
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.77 — 202,685 ratings — published 1854
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.37 — 854,432 ratings — published 1946
When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading Rainbow Books)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,480 ratings — published 1982
The Night Walk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.28 — 741 ratings — published 2018
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.72 — 43,404 ratings — published 2019
Kitchen Dance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.16 — 393 ratings — published 2008
Jabari Jumps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.38 — 5,450 ratings — published 2017
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,816,365 ratings — published 2018
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.40 — 361,619 ratings — published 2015
The Bicycle Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.93 — 764 ratings — published 1982
A Chair for My Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.21 — 26,256 ratings — published 1982
Crow Call (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,309 ratings — published 2009
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.07 — 441,152 ratings — published 1998
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.72 — 205,522 ratings — published 2010
Saturdays and Teacakes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.42 — 498 ratings — published 2004
Thank You, Mr. Falker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.54 — 17,629 ratings — published 1998
The Relatives Came (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.22 — 16,368 ratings — published 1985
Thunder Cake (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.38 — 7,024 ratings — published 1990
The Leaving Morning (Orchard Paperbacks)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.81 — 127 ratings — published 1992
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.25 — 80,152 ratings — published 1946
Hijab Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.46 — 18,007 ratings — published 2023
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,405,773 ratings — published 2022
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,038 ratings — published 2022
Beautiful Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.17 — 38,034 ratings — published 2021
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.20 — 442,831 ratings — published 2020
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.29 — 17,371 ratings — published 1953
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.17 — 62,311 ratings — published 2013
Hello Ocean (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.89 — 648 ratings — published 2001
Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,570 ratings — published 1985
All the Places to Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,270 ratings — published 1994
Blackout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,089 ratings — published 2011
Smoky Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,427 ratings — published 1994
Juana and Lucas: Big Problemas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.15 — 313 ratings — published 2019
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.07 — 859,237 ratings — published 2012
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 3.86 — 111,473 ratings — published 2019
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.37 — 288,353 ratings — published 1965
A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,750 ratings — published 2017
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.17 — 120,155 ratings — published 2017
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-narrative)
avg rating 4.14 — 18,291 ratings — published 2017
“The story of the self is simply the insight into the emotions of the protagonist and how he interacts with the outside world.”
― Learn Creative Writing: A guide to writing perfect drafts
― Learn Creative Writing: A guide to writing perfect drafts
“The essay becomes an exercise in the meaning and value of watching a writer conquer their own sense of threat to deliver themself of their wisdom.”
― The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
― The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
