Female Autobiographies

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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,485 ratings
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With All Due Respect: Defending America With Grit and Grace
With All Due Respect: Defending America With Grit and Grace 4.24 avg rating — 4,265 ratings
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The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life 4.08 avg rating — 150,152 ratings
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ELIS: Irish call girl
ELIS: Irish call girl 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 568,987 ratings
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth 4.10 avg rating — 10,543 ratings
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Autobiography of Mother Jones
Autobiography of Mother Jones 4.15 avg rating — 391 ratings
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The Price of my Soul
The Price of my Soul 4.25 avg rating — 402 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 4.16 avg rating — 612,724 ratings
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The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt 3.93 avg rating — 3,656 ratings
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And a Voice to Sing With
And a Voice to Sing With
by: Joan Baez
3.94 avg rating — 1,180 ratings
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My Life with the Chimpanzees
My Life with the Chimpanzees 4.14 avg rating — 3,229 ratings
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Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business
Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business 4.12 avg rating — 4,724 ratings
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Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism
Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism 4.03 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Becoming
Becoming 4.44 avg rating — 1,160,683 ratings
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The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist 4.02 avg rating — 5,537 ratings
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The Hospital by the River
The Hospital by the River 4.10 avg rating — 2,573 ratings
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I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone
I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone 4.10 avg rating — 1,972 ratings
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Last Girl Standing
Last Girl Standing 4.04 avg rating — 385 ratings
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Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats: From Welfare Cheat to Conservative Messenger
Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats: From Welfare Cheat to Conservative Messenger 3.48 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle 3.99 avg rating — 4,982 ratings
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With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple (1901)
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple (1901) 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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A Desperate Passion: An Autobiography
A Desperate Passion: An Autobiography 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 3.54 avg rating — 13,204 ratings
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Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran
Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran 4.06 avg rating — 551 ratings
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The Best We Could Do
The Best We Could Do
by: Thi Bui
4.36 avg rating — 38,830 ratings
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Resilience Road: Exploring Your Authentic Life Path
Resilience Road: Exploring Your Authentic Life Path 3.98 avg rating — 367 ratings
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Speaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom, and the Fight of Our Lives Inside the Trump White House
Speaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom, and the Fight of Our Lives Inside the Trump White House 4.41 avg rating — 3,236 ratings
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If You Want Something Done: Leadership Lessons from Bold Women
If You Want Something Done: Leadership Lessons from Bold Women 3.87 avg rating — 806 ratings
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Not My First Rodeo: Lessons from the Heartland
Not My First Rodeo: Lessons from the Heartland 4.34 avg rating — 1,471 ratings
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My Life on the Road
My Life on the Road 4.07 avg rating — 36,281 ratings
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Elephant Dance: A Story of Love and War in the Kingdom of Elephants
Elephant Dance: A Story of Love and War in the Kingdom of Elephants 3.78 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Personal History: A Memoir
Personal History: A Memoir 4.09 avg rating — 24,451 ratings
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Special Exits
Special Exits 4.03 avg rating — 1,905 ratings
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The Joy of Politics: Surviving Cancer, a Campaign, a Pandemic, an Insurrection, and Life's Other Unexpected Curveballs
The Joy of Politics: Surviving Cancer, a Campaign, a Pandemic, an Insurrection, and Life's Other Unexpected Curveballs 3.96 avg rating — 314 ratings
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No Time to Grieve: An Autobiographical Journey
No Time to Grieve: An Autobiographical Journey liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Scattered Pearls
Scattered Pearls 3.76 avg rating — 153 ratings
36.
I, Tina
I, Tina 4.13 avg rating — 2,737 ratings
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Prepared for a Purpose: The Inspiring True Story of How One Woman Saved an Atlanta School Under Siege
Prepared for a Purpose: The Inspiring True Story of How One Woman Saved an Atlanta School Under Siege 4.19 avg rating — 299 ratings
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Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021
Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021 3.86 avg rating — 3,668 ratings
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
My Life, My Love, My Legacy 4.22 avg rating — 1,726 ratings
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M Train
M Train 4.02 avg rating — 48,829 ratings
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A Woman Like Me
A Woman Like Me 3.96 avg rating — 190 ratings
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The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger
The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger 3.85 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Girl in a Band
Girl in a Band 3.67 avg rating — 31,036 ratings
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This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President 3.99 avg rating — 1,962 ratings
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The Rebel Girl: An Autobiography, My First Life (1906-1926)
The Rebel Girl: An Autobiography, My First Life (1906-1926) 4.24 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life
The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life
by: Amy Tan
3.94 avg rating — 8,651 ratings
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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl 3.83 avg rating — 36,215 ratings
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Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer
Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer 3.84 avg rating — 108 ratings
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My Life As a Political Prisoner
My Life As a Political Prisoner 3.59 avg rating — 29 ratings
51.
The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating — 1,325,731 ratings
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Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing 4.21 avg rating — 3,250 ratings
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace 4.12 avg rating — 4,293 ratings
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Educated
Educated 4.47 avg rating — 1,773,174 ratings
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Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography
Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 816 ratings
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Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter
Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter 3.99 avg rating — 6,039 ratings
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Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story
Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story 3.59 avg rating — 1,605 ratings
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I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala 3.85 avg rating — 6,324 ratings
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Composed
Composed 3.81 avg rating — 2,494 ratings
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Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing from America's Favorite Humorist
Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing from America's Favorite Humorist 4.30 avg rating — 2,281 ratings
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Child Star: An Autobiography
Child Star: An Autobiography 3.97 avg rating — 2,333 ratings
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One Writer's Beginnings
One Writer's Beginnings 4.07 avg rating — 4,047 ratings
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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina 3.89 avg rating — 8,388 ratings
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter 4.13 avg rating — 17,747 ratings
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Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, and Memoirs
Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, and Memoirs 4.37 avg rating — 354 ratings
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Sleeping with Cats
Sleeping with Cats 3.94 avg rating — 549 ratings
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Barbara Bush: A Memoir
Barbara Bush: A Memoir 4.01 avg rating — 2,575 ratings
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Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs 4.07 avg rating — 8,086 ratings
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 3.66 avg rating — 138,472 ratings
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Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family
Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family 4.06 avg rating — 4,309 ratings
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It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War 4.34 avg rating — 13,218 ratings
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Writing In An Age Of Silence
Writing In An Age Of Silence 3.91 avg rating — 345 ratings
73.
It's Always Something
It's Always Something 4.10 avg rating — 10,543 ratings
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,151 ratings
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Run, Don't Walk: The Curious and Chaotic Life of a Physical Therapist Inside Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Run, Don't Walk: The Curious and Chaotic Life of a Physical Therapist Inside Walter Reed Army Medical Center 4.14 avg rating — 1,316 ratings
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Out of Africa
Out of Africa 3.91 avg rating — 46,908 ratings
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Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir 3.70 avg rating — 3,156 ratings
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Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness
Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness 3.90 avg rating — 1,651 ratings
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Me: Stories of My Life
Me: Stories of My Life 3.81 avg rating — 15,989 ratings
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And So It Goes: Adventures in Television
And So It Goes: Adventures in Television 3.74 avg rating — 1,520 ratings
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My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile 3.89 avg rating — 11,986 ratings
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The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey 3.85 avg rating — 5,813 ratings
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Bonnet Strings: An Amish Woman's Ties to Two Worlds
Bonnet Strings: An Amish Woman's Ties to Two Worlds really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 173 ratings
84.
Bossypants
Bossypants
by: Tina Fey
3.96 avg rating — 1,041,997 ratings
84.
Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change
Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change 4.24 avg rating — 6,927 ratings
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Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things 3.89 avg rating — 171,420 ratings
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Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond
Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond 3.94 avg rating — 1,176 ratings
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My Beloved World
My Beloved World 4.09 avg rating — 33,501 ratings
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Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood 3.78 avg rating — 459 ratings
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Reckless: My Life as a Pretender
Reckless: My Life as a Pretender 3.49 avg rating — 4,818 ratings
92.
Lady Sings the Blues
Lady Sings the Blues 4.05 avg rating — 7,373 ratings
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Sing It Pretty: A Memoir
Sing It Pretty: A Memoir 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Poverty, Politics, and Race: The View From Down Here
Poverty, Politics, and Race: The View From Down Here it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Art of Tough: Fearless Facing Politics and Life
The Art of Tough: Fearless Facing Politics and Life 3.78 avg rating — 199 ratings
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By Myself and Then Some
By Myself and Then Some 3.98 avg rating — 4,422 ratings
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The Making of The African Queen Or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind
The Making of The African Queen Or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind 3.95 avg rating — 2,472 ratings
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By Myself
By Myself really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,870 ratings
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Watch Me
Watch Me 3.48 avg rating — 2,508 ratings
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Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings
Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings 4.34 avg rating — 257 ratings
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