Memoirs With a Distinctive Voice

1.
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 650,924 ratings
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood 4.49 avg rating — 778,648 ratings
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This Childhood of Mine: A Memoir of My Last Summer with My Mentally Ill Mother and Alcoholic Father
This Childhood of Mine: A Memoir of My Last Summer with My Mentally Ill Mother and Alcoholic Father 4.21 avg rating — 34 ratings
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A Christmas Memory
A Christmas Memory 4.24 avg rating — 17,526 ratings
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis 3.85 avg rating — 488,744 ratings
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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,070 ratings
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The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating — 1,325,468 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Travels with Charley: In Search of America 4.08 avg rating — 103,285 ratings
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My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 61,489 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 — 568,889 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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A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast 4.02 avg rating — 162,829 ratings
13.
My First Summer in the Sierra
My First Summer in the Sierra
by: John Muir
4.05 avg rating — 7,227 ratings
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Dispatches
Dispatches 4.22 avg rating — 21,210 ratings
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood 3.97 avg rating — 56,649 ratings
16.
Swimming to Cambodia
Swimming to Cambodia 4.10 avg rating — 1,338 ratings
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It's a Long Story: My Life
It's a Long Story: My Life 4.13 avg rating — 9,724 ratings
18.
Red Azalea: A Memoir
Red Azalea: A Memoir 3.84 avg rating — 10,638 ratings
19.
Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir
Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir 3.88 avg rating — 3,287 ratings
20.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,119 ratings
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness 4.09 avg rating — 233,249 ratings
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Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Native Son 4.37 avg rating — 23,276 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave 4.12 avg rating — 131,984 ratings
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The Complete Persepolis
The Complete Persepolis 4.40 avg rating — 199,550 ratings
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In Pieces
In Pieces 3.94 avg rating — 40,884 ratings
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Desert Solitaire
Desert Solitaire 4.18 avg rating — 53,104 ratings
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On the Road
On the Road 3.61 avg rating — 438,459 ratings
28.
Not My Father's Son
Not My Father's Son 4.05 avg rating — 46,601 ratings
29.
The Chronology of Water
The Chronology of Water 4.20 avg rating — 15,678 ratings
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Jackson's Track : Memoir of a Dreamtime Place
Jackson's Track : Memoir of a Dreamtime Place 4.10 avg rating — 191 ratings
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Cider with Rosie
Cider with Rosie 3.91 avg rating — 14,856 ratings
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Stillways: A Memoir
Stillways: A Memoir 3.88 avg rating — 128 ratings
33.
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning 4.22 avg rating — 8,553 ratings
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Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens 3.86 avg rating — 10,156 ratings
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I Said Yes to Everything: A Memoir
I Said Yes to Everything: A Memoir
by: Lee Grant
3.52 avg rating — 567 ratings
36.
Family Romance: a Memoir
Family Romance: a Memoir 3.86 avg rating — 398 ratings
36.
I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist
I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist 4.20 avg rating — 1,053 ratings
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The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood 3.75 avg rating — 1,641 ratings
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Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
by: Zoya Phan
4.03 avg rating — 662 ratings
40.
The Liars' Club
The Liars' Club
by: Mary Karr
3.94 avg rating — 71,037 ratings
40.
The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District 4.14 avg rating — 15,148 ratings
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Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin
Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin 4.12 avg rating — 291 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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Greetings from Bury Park: A Memoir
Greetings from Bury Park: A Memoir 3.83 avg rating — 2,114 ratings
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Farangi Girl Growing Up in Iran: A Daughter's Story
Farangi Girl Growing Up in Iran: A Daughter's Story 4.14 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Eleni
Eleni 4.42 avg rating — 2,723 ratings
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Out of the Silence: After the Crash
Out of the Silence: After the Crash 3.88 avg rating — 7,107 ratings
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All the Burning Bridges
All the Burning Bridges 3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings
49.
Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories 4.08 avg rating — 7,249 ratings
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The Size of Everything
The Size of Everything
by: Erin Cole
4.28 avg rating — 3,112 ratings
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Brat: An '80s Story
Brat: An '80s Story 3.61 avg rating — 15,318 ratings
52.
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds 4.28 avg rating — 7,014 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft 4.34 avg rating — 310,087 ratings
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The Bastard from the Bush
The Bastard from the Bush 3.45 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Chasing The Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood
Chasing The Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood 4.10 avg rating — 2,024 ratings
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Tracks
Tracks 3.93 avg rating — 17,208 ratings
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Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television
Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television 3.84 avg rating — 17,342 ratings
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H is for Hawk
H is for Hawk 3.74 avg rating — 78,915 ratings
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No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality 4.12 avg rating — 23,834 ratings
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Speak, Memory
Speak, Memory 4.08 avg rating — 17,393 ratings
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Lisa
Lisa 4.24 avg rating — 757 ratings
62.
Open An Autobiography
Open An Autobiography 4.32 avg rating — 139,771 ratings
63.
This Boy's Life
This Boy's Life 3.97 avg rating — 30,188 ratings
63.
So That Happened: A Memoir
So That Happened: A Memoir
by: Jon Cryer
3.76 avg rating — 3,387 ratings
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Just Kids
Just Kids 4.21 avg rating — 333,589 ratings
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I Just Kept Hoping
I Just Kept Hoping 3.62 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History
Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History 4.21 avg rating — 495 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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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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Out of the Corner: A Memoir
Out of the Corner: A Memoir 3.85 avg rating — 532 ratings
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost
A Field Guide to Getting Lost 3.91 avg rating — 20,199 ratings
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Ticket to the World: My 80s Story
Ticket to the World: My 80s Story 3.74 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Did I Ever Tell You This?
Did I Ever Tell You This?
by: Sam Neill
4.04 avg rating — 5,648 ratings
74.
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster 4.26 avg rating — 550,894 ratings
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The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir 4.06 avg rating — 19,954 ratings
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Rebel Rising
Rebel Rising 3.90 avg rating — 15,057 ratings
77.
Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond 4.13 avg rating — 25,685 ratings
78.
Heart Berries
Heart Berries 3.82 avg rating — 29,271 ratings
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You Never Know: A Memoir
You Never Know: A Memoir 3.93 avg rating — 7,532 ratings
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M Train
M Train 4.02 avg rating — 48,819 ratings
81.
Road Scholar: Coast To Coast Late in the Century
Road Scholar: Coast To Coast Late in the Century 3.78 avg rating — 123 ratings
82.
The Atomic Times: My H-Bomb Year at the Pacific Proving Ground
The Atomic Times: My H-Bomb Year at the Pacific Proving Ground 3.79 avg rating — 1,018 ratings