The Best American Memoirs
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Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture 3.66 avg rating — 526 ratings
101. 
Foley Is Good: And The Real World Is Faker Than Wrestling
by:
Mick Foley
3.96 avg rating — 4,312 ratings 101. 
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years 4.16 avg rating — 4,935 ratings
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Streetwise: Autobiographical Stories by Comic Book Professionals
by:
Jon B. Cooke
4.12 avg rating — 24 ratings 109. 
The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop
by:
Steve Osborne
3.79 avg rating — 2,699 ratings 
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A Man Called White: The Autobiography of Walter White (Brown Thrasher Books) 4.21 avg rating — 47 ratings
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400 Things Cops Know: Street-Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman
by:
Adam Plantinga
4.01 avg rating — 1,252 ratings 
124. 
The Girl: A Life in the Shadow of Roman Polanski
by:
Samantha Geimer
3.53 avg rating — 1,047 ratings 126. 
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A Distant Prayer: Miracles of the 49th Combat Mission
by:
Joseph C. Banks
4.32 avg rating — 866 ratings 
130. 
Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family
by:
Yoshiko Uchida
3.88 avg rating — 827 ratings 
133. 
Man of Two Worlds: My Life in Science Fiction and Comics
by:
Julius Schwartz
3.65 avg rating — 55 ratings 
137. 
A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl
by:
Mariane Pearl
4.08 avg rating — 2,786 ratings 
140. 
"If You Don't Buy This Book, We'll Kill This Dog!": Life, Laughs, Love, and Death at the National Lampoon
by:
Matty Simmons
3.66 avg rating — 47 ratings 142. 
God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia 4.32 avg rating — 358 ratings
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Back in the Game: One Gunman, Countless Heroes, and the Fight for My Life
by:
Steve Scalise
4.53 avg rating — 212 ratings 148. 
Eastern Sun, Winter Moon: An Autobiographical Odyssey
by:
Gary Paulsen
4.17 avg rating — 198 ratings 
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River of Lakes: A Journey on Florida's St. Johns River
by:
Bill Belleville
4.23 avg rating — 84 ratings 
155. 
Newspaper Days, 1899-1906 : Volume 2 of Mencken's Autobiography
by:
H.L. Mencken
4.20 avg rating — 129 ratings 156. 
Taming the Nueces Strip: The Story of McNelly's Rangers
by:
George Durham
4.30 avg rating — 126 ratings 157. 
A Nickel's Worth of Skim Milk: A Boy's View of the Great Depression 4.10 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Pickin' Up the Pieces: The Heart and Soul of Country Rock Pioneer Richie Furay
by:
Richie Furay
3.79 avg rating — 57 ratings 162. 
Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
by:
Janisse Ray
4.11 avg rating — 198 ratings 
168. 
Bad Smoke, Good Smoke: A Texas Rancher's View of Wildfire
by:
John R. Erickson
4.48 avg rating — 31 ratings 168. 
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A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
by:
Suze Rotolo
3.85 avg rating — 4,069 ratings 
180. 
The Story of My Capture and Escape During the Minnesota Indian Massacre of 1862 (1904)
by:
Helen M. Tarble
4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings 
182. 
When God Was an Atheist Sailor: Memories of a Childhood at Sea 1902-1910
by:
Burgess Cogill
4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings 183. 
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Daughter of the Gold Rush Klondy Nelson with Corey Ford
by:
Klondy Nelson
4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings 
189. 
A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Horn and her two children, with Mrs. Harris, by the Comanche Indians (1839)
by:
Sarah Ann Horn
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings 
192. 
Hawaiian Yesterdays: Chapters From A Boy's Life In The Islands In The Early Days 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
194. 
Reminiscences of Francis J. Lippitt: Written for His Family, His Near Relatives and Intimate Friends 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
195. 
Daughter of the Regiment: Memoirs of a Childhood in the Frontier Army, 1878-1898 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Illinois in the Fifties (Classic Reprint): Or a Decade of Development, 1851-1860 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
