Women's biographies 2018
101. 
Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology
by:
Sands Hall
3.54 avg rating — 613 ratings 102. 
First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role
by:
Jeanne E. Abrams
3.48 avg rating — 197 ratings 103. 
104. 
Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir
by:
Natalie Goldberg
4.15 avg rating — 523 ratings 105. 
Given Up for You: A Memoir of Love, Belonging, and Belief
by:
Erin White
4.21 avg rating — 48 ratings 
108. 
You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession
by:
Piper Weiss
3.27 avg rating — 2,725 ratings 
111. 
Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory
by:
Deena Kastor
4.36 avg rating — 11,846 ratings 
111. 
The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb: Founder of Save the Children
by:
Clare Mulley
3.66 avg rating — 130 ratings 
117. 
The Bridesmaid's Daughter: From Grace Kelly's Wedding to a Women's Shelter - Searching for the Truth About My Mother
by:
Nyna Giles
3.89 avg rating — 671 ratings 117. 
117. 
A Certain Light: A Memoir of Family, Loss, and Hope
by:
Cynthia Banham
3.96 avg rating — 109 ratings 
121. 
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
by:
Linda Kay Klein
4.17 avg rating — 6,082 ratings 
121. 
The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process 3.95 avg rating — 322 ratings
127. 
Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions
by:
Kari Byron
3.92 avg rating — 1,046 ratings 127. 
The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee
by:
Sam Kashner
3.69 avg rating — 3,070 ratings 
130. 
132. 
Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women
by:
Tania Romanov
4.13 avg rating — 169 ratings 132. 
Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds
by:
Nancy A. Hewitt
4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings 132. 
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
by:
Curtis Chin
3.82 avg rating — 4,190 ratings 135. 
The Audacity of Inez Burns: Dreams, Desire, Treachery & Ruin in the City of Gold
by:
Stephen G. Bloom
4.02 avg rating — 454 ratings 135. 
The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table
by:
Rick Bragg
4.20 avg rating — 3,449 ratings 135. 
Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits 3.61 avg rating — 35,494 ratings
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139. 
In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
by:
Lindsey Hilsum
4.42 avg rating — 4,898 ratings 139. 
A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L'Engle, Author of A Wrinkle in Time
by:
Sarah Arthur
4.10 avg rating — 883 ratings 139. 
144. 
I Am a Girl from Africa: A Memoir of Empowerment, Community, and Hope 4.31 avg rating — 1,978 ratings
147. 
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
by:
Imani Perry
4.27 avg rating — 1,502 ratings 147. 
Life After Darkness: Finding Healing and Happiness After the Cleveland Kidnappings
by:
Michelle Knight
4.02 avg rating — 1,737 ratings 
147. 
Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls 3.45 avg rating — 3,131 ratings
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154. 
Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love 3.81 avg rating — 1,408 ratings
157. 
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World
by:
Sarah Weinman
3.41 avg rating — 7,422 ratings 
160. 
She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy
by:
Jill Soloway
3.43 avg rating — 1,718 ratings 160. 
The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers 3.91 avg rating — 2,229 ratings
164. 
An Excellent Choice: Panic and Joy on My Solo Path to Motherhood
by:
Emma Brockes
3.93 avg rating — 476 ratings 
164. 
A Star Is Born: Judy Garland and the Film that Got Away
by:
Lorna Luft
4.04 avg rating — 257 ratings 
168. 
I Will Not Fear: My Story of a Lifetime of Building Faith under Fire 3.90 avg rating — 621 ratings
170. 
Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist 3.79 avg rating — 2,605 ratings
170. 
North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both 4.25 avg rating — 17,610 ratings
172. 
With One Shot: Family Murder and a Search for Justice
by:
Dorothy Marcic
3.06 avg rating — 353 ratings 
175. 
Remembering Lucile: A Virginia Family’s Rise from Slavery and a Legacy Forged a Mile High 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
178. 
Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy
by:
Andrew Morton
3.56 avg rating — 2,560 ratings 
181. 
Before the Age of Prejudice: A Muslim Woman’s National Security Work with Three American Presidents - A Memoir 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
183. 
"We Met in Paris": Grace Frick and Her Life with Marguerite Yourcenar
by:
Joan E Howard
3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings 183. 
I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering
by:
Janelle Hanchett
4.12 avg rating — 2,273 ratings 
187. 
Shores Beyond Shores: From Holocaust to Hope, My True Story
by:
Irene Butter
4.61 avg rating — 434 ratings 
187. 
Slutever: Dispatches from a Sexually Autonomous Woman in a Post-Shame World
by:
Karley Sciortino
3.98 avg rating — 1,264 ratings 
191. 
Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle
by:
Rachel Dratch
3.62 avg rating — 26,629 ratings 193. 
193. 
196. 
Getting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction
by:
Erica Garza
3.67 avg rating — 1,309 ratings 
196. 
Can't Help Myself: Lessons Confessions from a Modern Advice Columnist really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 736 ratings
