Family history and genealogy memoirs
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Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
by:
Dani Shapiro
3.89 avg rating — 45,334 ratings 
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When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
by:
Ariana Neumann
4.33 avg rating — 7,251 ratings 
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The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth
by:
Minu Cash
4.45 avg rating — 2,147 ratings 8. 
Cherokee DNA Studies: Real People Who Proved the Geneticists Wrong (DNA Consultants Series on Consumer Genetics)
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Donald N. Yates
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings 9. 
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South 3.87 avg rating — 8,046 ratings
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The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are
by:
Libby Copeland
4.01 avg rating — 3,112 ratings 
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The Milkman's Son: A Memoir of Family History, a DNA Mystery, and a Story of Paternal Love
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Randy Lindsay
3.59 avg rating — 559 ratings 
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The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me 3.99 avg rating — 4,506 ratings
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It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree
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A.J. Jacobs
3.62 avg rating — 4,581 ratings 17. 
A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations
by:
Juliet Nicolson
3.71 avg rating — 1,053 ratings 
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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
by:
Lisa See
3.95 avg rating — 11,026 ratings 22. 
The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life
by:
Jasmin Darznik
3.95 avg rating — 3,718 ratings 
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Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
by:
Morgan Jerkins
3.99 avg rating — 2,086 ratings 27. 
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Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
by:
Leah Myers
3.78 avg rating — 1,450 ratings 
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Love’s Legacy Viscount Chateaubriand and the Irish Girl
by:
Daniel Fallon
4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings 
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Finding My Way: A Memoir of Family, Identity, and Political Ambition 4.30 avg rating — 92 ratings
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One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life - A Story of Race and Family Secrets
by:
Bliss Broyard
3.68 avg rating — 1,751 ratings 
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Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes
by:
Emily Urquhart
3.88 avg rating — 347 ratings 40. 
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The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing
by:
Adam P. Frankel
4.16 avg rating — 1,134 ratings 43. 
Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA
by:
Richard Hill
4.24 avg rating — 920 ratings 
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The Stranger in My Genes: A Memoir
by:
Bill Griffeth
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,229 ratings 46. 
Murder in Matera: A True Story of Passion, Family, and Forgiveness in Southern Italy
by:
Helene Stapinski
3.57 avg rating — 1,539 ratings 47. 
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The Fastest Growing Religion on Earth: How Genealogy Captured the Brains and Imaginations of Americans
by:
Doug Bremner
3.19 avg rating — 21 ratings 
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A Village with My Name: A Family History of China's Opening to the World
by:
Scott Tong
4.22 avg rating — 204 ratings 52. 
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Running Away to Home: Our Family's Journey to Croatia in Search of Who We Are, Where We Came From, and What Really Matters
by:
Jennifer Wilson
3.91 avg rating — 933 ratings 
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In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past 4.26 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Faces of America: How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered their Pasts 3.99 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind
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Sarah Wildman
3.85 avg rating — 1,584 ratings 60. 
The Perfect Nazi: Uncovering My Grandfather's Secret Past and How Hitler Seduced a Generation 3.75 avg rating — 878 ratings
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Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree - The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors
by:
Lisa Alther
3.53 avg rating — 426 ratings 64. 
The Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family
by:
Roger Cohen
3.64 avg rating — 338 ratings 
66. 
Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
by:
Cassie Chambers
3.95 avg rating — 8,461 ratings 67. 
Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film
by:
Glenn Kurtz
4.21 avg rating — 503 ratings 68. 
Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist
by:
Buzzy Jackson
3.84 avg rating — 349 ratings 
70. 
American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest
by:
Hannah Nordhaus
3.44 avg rating — 3,000 ratings 71. 
White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing
by:
Gail Lukasik
3.70 avg rating — 2,378 ratings 72. 
Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
by:
Edward Ball
3.76 avg rating — 986 ratings 73. 
Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler
by:
Svenja O’Donnell
4.25 avg rating — 987 ratings 
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Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
by:
Jessica J. Lee
3.42 avg rating — 3,696 ratings 76. 
True Names: Four Generations of My Afro Appalachian Family
by:
Malaika Adero
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
78. 
House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
by:
Hadley Freeman
4.40 avg rating — 4,843 ratings 78. 
Trail of the Viking Finger: A Northern Family Saga
by:
John Bean
did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 80. 
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
by:
Saidiya Hartman
4.29 avg rating — 2,519 ratings 
82. 
Reunited: An Investigative Genealogist Unlocks Some of Life's Greatest Family Mysteries
by:
Pamela Slaton
3.96 avg rating — 210 ratings 83. 
His Other Life: Searching For My Father, His First Wife, and Tennessee Williams
by:
Melanie McCabe
3.84 avg rating — 69 ratings 84. 
Go Ask Your Father: One Man's Obsession with Finding His Origins Through DNA Testing
by:
Lennard J. Davis
3.42 avg rating — 64 ratings 
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Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind
by:
Julie Metz
3.65 avg rating — 333 ratings 87. 
Finding My Father: His Century-Long Journey from World War I Warsaw and My Quest to Follow
by:
Deborah Tannen
3.63 avg rating — 114 ratings 88. 
Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil 3.76 avg rating — 1,283 ratings
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My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
by:
Ariel Sabar
4.24 avg rating — 2,792 ratings 
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Tears Over Russia: A Search for Family and the Legacy of Ukraine's Pogroms
by:
Lisa Brahin
4.18 avg rating — 82 ratings 94. 
Belonging: A Daughter's Search for Identity Through Loss and Love
by:
Michelle Miller
4.25 avg rating — 1,363 ratings 95. 
Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her
by:
Erika Bolstad
3.35 avg rating — 756 ratings 96. 
More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew
by:
John K. Blake
4.35 avg rating — 574 ratings 97. 
The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President's Black Family
by:
Bettye Kearse
4.20 avg rating — 1,101 ratings