Women Writing About Themselves

1.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants 4.52 avg rating — 158,444 ratings
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Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened 4.17 avg rating — 213,867 ratings
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Little Women (Little Women, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 2,393,072 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,056 ratings
5.
My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy
My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy 3.33 avg rating — 520 ratings
6.
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body 4.17 avg rating — 118,955 ratings
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Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion
Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion 3.49 avg rating — 3,211 ratings
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Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns 4.14 avg rating — 3,546 ratings
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Motherwell: A Girlhood
Motherwell: A Girlhood 3.85 avg rating — 4,781 ratings
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Becoming
Becoming 4.44 avg rating — 1,160,561 ratings
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Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually
Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually
by: Meichi Ng
4.16 avg rating — 2,930 ratings
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Dead Babies and Seaside Towns
Dead Babies and Seaside Towns 4.26 avg rating — 114 ratings
13.
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife 4.08 avg rating — 6,478 ratings
14.
Common People: An Anthology of Working Class Writers
Common People: An Anthology of Working Class Writers 4.16 avg rating — 477 ratings
15.
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,153,806 ratings
16.
The Trick is to Keep Breathing
The Trick is to Keep Breathing 3.83 avg rating — 3,378 ratings
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Breaking & Mending: A Doctor’s Story of Burnout and Recovery
Breaking & Mending: A Doctor’s Story of Burnout and Recovery 4.24 avg rating — 2,277 ratings
18.
The Consequences of Love
The Consequences of Love 4.31 avg rating — 1,002 ratings
19.
Giving Up the Ghost
Giving Up the Ghost 3.95 avg rating — 4,822 ratings
20.
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death 3.99 avg rating — 49,909 ratings
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Corregidora
Corregidora 3.91 avg rating — 5,074 ratings
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Sightlines
Sightlines 4.26 avg rating — 1,740 ratings
23.
Findings
Findings 4.17 avg rating — 1,731 ratings
24.
A Book of Untruths
A Book of Untruths 3.62 avg rating — 128 ratings
25.
The Art of Memoir
The Art of Memoir
by: Mary Karr
4.14 avg rating — 8,175 ratings
26.
Bird by Bird
Bird by Bird 4.24 avg rating — 108,480 ratings
27.
A Writer's Diary
A Writer's Diary 4.16 avg rating — 6,458 ratings
28.
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 — 612,703 ratings
29.
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Men We Reaped: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating — 27,666 ratings
30.
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept 3.48 avg rating — 7,536 ratings
31.
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking 3.93 avg rating — 284,963 ratings
32.
Educated
Educated 4.47 avg rating — 1,772,925 ratings
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Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
by: Yiyun Li
3.71 avg rating — 2,500 ratings
34.
One Woman's Struggle in Iran A Prison Memoir
One Woman's Struggle in Iran A Prison Memoir 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
35.
Only a Lodger . . . And Hardly That: A Fictional Autobiography
Only a Lodger . . . And Hardly That: A Fictional Autobiography 4.38 avg rating — 26 ratings
36.
Custard 'n' Service
Custard 'n' Service 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
37.
Where are the grown-ups?
Where are the grown-ups? really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 101 ratings
38.
The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir 4.17 avg rating — 4,080 ratings
39.
Just Kids
Just Kids 4.21 avg rating — 333,667 ratings
40.
M Train
M Train 4.02 avg rating — 48,825 ratings
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Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys 4.28 avg rating — 13,075 ratings