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101.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
by:
Simon Gikandi
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
101.
Celine: A Biography
by:
Frédéric Vitoux
4.27 avg rating — 79 ratings
103.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
by:
Jeanette Winterson
4.01 avg rating — 45,373 ratings
104.
Diary of a H.O. (House Officer): A Collection of Short Stories from a Surgeon's First Year of Training.
by:
Brandon Green
4.12 avg rating — 342 ratings
105.
The Space in Between: An Empath's Field Guide
by:
Signe Myers Hovem
4.64 avg rating — 45 ratings
106.
Charles Schulz
by:
Gloria D. Miklowitz
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
107.
Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis
by:
George Sayer
4.10 avg rating — 2,969 ratings
108.
Life on the Mississippi
by:
Mark Twain
3.87 avg rating — 15,346 ratings
109.
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
by:
C.S. Lewis
4.06 avg rating — 67,528 ratings
110.
C.S. Lewis: A Life Inspired
by:
Christopher Gordon
3.87 avg rating — 1,213 ratings
111.
Chuck Berry : The Autobiography
by:
Chuck Berry
3.65 avg rating — 390 ratings
112.
Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King
by:
B.B. King
4.12 avg rating — 937 ratings
113.
Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
by:
Brian Jay Jones
4.20 avg rating — 1,678 ratings
114.
Running with Scissors
by:
Augusten Burroughs
3.77 avg rating — 400,429 ratings
115.
Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius
by:
Margaret Walker
3.57 avg rating — 30 ratings
116.
Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
by:
Helene Hanff
4.05 avg rating — 2,201 ratings
117.
Aké: The Years of Childhood
by:
Wole Soyinka
3.86 avg rating — 1,977 ratings
118.
Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
by:
Ted Gioia
4.30 avg rating — 753 ratings
118.
The Art of Memoir
by:
Mary Karr
4.14 avg rating — 8,175 ratings
120.
A Hungry Heart
by:
Gordon Parks
4.36 avg rating — 156 ratings
121.
Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary
by:
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
4.09 avg rating — 314 ratings
122.
Jean Toomer, Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894-1936
by:
Nellie Y. McKay
3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
123.
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron
by:
Howard Bryant
4.15 avg rating — 1,897 ratings
124.
Conversations with Derek Walcott (Literary Conversations Series)
by:
William Baer
4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
125.
The Life and Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar
by:
Lida Keck Wiggins
4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
125.
If everyone cared: Autobiography of Margaret Tucker
by:
Margaret Tucker
4.30 avg rating — 37 ratings
127.
Virginia Hamilton
by:
Nina Mikkelsen
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
128.
Churchill: A Life
by:
Martin Gilbert
4.11 avg rating — 7,014 ratings
129.
One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner
by:
Jay Parini
4.01 avg rating — 286 ratings
130.
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
by:
Roland H. Bainton
3.88 avg rating — 6,665 ratings
131.
Toni Morrison
by:
Richard Andersen
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
132.
Chinua Achebe: Novelist, Poet, Critic
by:
David Carroll
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
132.
Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
by:
Stephen B. Oates
4.44 avg rating — 1,057 ratings
134.
Chinua Achebe
by:
Nahem Yousaf
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
135.
Blood Too Bright: Floyd Dell Remembers Edna St. Vincent Millay
by:
Jerri Dell
4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings
135.
Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx
by:
Stefan Kanfer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 669 ratings
137.
Richard Wright: From Black Boy to World Citizen
by:
Jennifer Jensen Wallach
3.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
137.
Moses: A Sharecropper's Son
by:
Moses Shepherd Jr
did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating
139.
The Story Keeper
by:
Fred Feldman
4.32 avg rating — 127 ratings
140.
Zora Neale Hurston: Southern Storyteller
by:
Della A. Yannuzzi
3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
140.
Hemingway's Cats: An Illustrated Biography
by:
Carlene Fredericka Brennen
3.89 avg rating — 124 ratings
140.
Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley
by:
Timothy White
4.09 avg rating — 3,067 ratings
140.
Poems from a Runaway
by:
Ben Westwood
4.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
144.
Wind of Change: An American Journey in Post-Soviet Russia
by:
Kenneth Maher
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings
145.
John le Carré: The Biography
by:
Adam Sisman
3.95 avg rating — 987 ratings
146.
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
by:
Mark Twain
3.94 avg rating — 5,195 ratings
146.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life
by:
Marshall Frady
3.92 avg rating — 768 ratings
148.
William Shakespeare: His Life and Work
by:
Anthony Holden
3.65 avg rating — 98 ratings
148.
Charles Dickens
by:
Michael Slater
4.10 avg rating — 280 ratings
148.
An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century
by:
Jack Emerson Davis
4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings
151.
No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan
by:
Robert Shelton
4.11 avg rating — 2,245 ratings
152.
Players: The Mysterious Identity of William Shakespeare
by:
Bertram Fields
3.69 avg rating — 118 ratings
153.
Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, And Redemption Of Jelly Roll Morton
by:
Howard Reich
4.18 avg rating — 83 ratings
154.
Rhythm and Folklore: The Story of Zora Neale Hurston
by:
Kerrily Sapet
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
155.
One Writer's Beginnings
by:
Eudora Welty
4.07 avg rating — 4,047 ratings
156.
Zane Grey: Romancing The West
by:
Stephen J. May
3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings
156.
The Burning Cedars
by:
Ramzy Baroody
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
156.
Ken Saunders Retiree The Older I Get The Faster I Was
by:
Ken Saunders
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
156.
Dying in Indian Country: A Family Journey from Self-destruction to Opposing Tribal Sovereignty
by:
Beth Ward
3.79 avg rating — 48 ratings
156.
Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr.
by:
Larry Lockridge
4.23 avg rating — 48 ratings
156.
Come, Tell Me How You Live
by:
Agatha Christie Mallowan
4.09 avg rating — 5,048 ratings
156.
Seven in a Jeep
by:
Ed Gaydos
4.16 avg rating — 45 ratings
156.
Put Them Through the Maze: The Secrets of How to Write the Ultimate Novel
by:
T.D. McMichael
3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
156.
Diaries of a College Girl
by:
Ava Kensington
3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
156.
走得越远,离自己越近 The Farther I Walk, The Closer I Get To Me
by:
Hong Mei
3.65 avg rating — 1,163 ratings
156.
Time Without Clocks
by:
Joan Lindsay
3.72 avg rating — 61 ratings
156.
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
by:
Marion Meade
3.81 avg rating — 1,442 ratings
156.
A Sort of Life
by:
Graham Greene
3.68 avg rating — 862 ratings
156.
Tenacity: A Memoir
by:
Jonathan Lessin
4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
156.
My Journey Through War and Peace: Explorations of a Young Filmmaker, Feminist and Spiritual Seeker
by:
Melissa Burch
3.90 avg rating — 79 ratings
156.
Virginia Woolf: A Biography
by:
Quentin Bell
4.18 avg rating — 3,041 ratings
156.
The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's Memoirs
by:
Urmila Pawar
4.36 avg rating — 107 ratings
156.
Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée
by:
Simone de Beauvoir
4.13 avg rating — 17,744 ratings
156.
Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews
by:
Ted Geltner
4.29 avg rating — 223 ratings
156.
Your Presence Is Enough: Based On A True Story
by:
Kseniya Wolkowicz
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
156.
Growing Up Greenpoint: A Kid's Life in 1970s Brooklyn
by:
Tommy Carbone
4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
156.
Dagen des doods
by:
Mwafaq A.
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
156.
Path of the Devil - Camino del Diablo: Based on True Events of A DEA Agent and Two Private Investigators
by:
Dianne DeMille
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
156.
I Don't Want to Lose Hope: One life's journey, fight and triumph!
by:
Nemat Kelimbetov
3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
156.
Don't Be Weird: A Memoir of Food and Feelings
by:
Bronwen Clark
4.68 avg rating — 28 ratings
156.
Our Time To Dance, A Mother's Journey To Joy
by:
Eva Doherty Gremmert
4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
156.
The Phoenix Rising: A True Story of Survival
by:
Helen Ross Lee
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
156.
Cider with Rosie
by:
Laurie Lee
3.91 avg rating — 14,856 ratings
156.
Cruel: One Child's Story To Survive
by:
Denise Richardson
4.31 avg rating — 554 ratings
156.
Stephen Hawking On Trial: Confronting the Big Bang
by:
Pierre St. Clair
3.46 avg rating — 41 ratings
156.
Anxiety Rx: A New Prescription for Anxiety Relief from the Doctor Who Created It
by:
Russell Kennedy
4.03 avg rating — 1,146 ratings
156.
Left by the Indians
by:
Ethan E. Harris
3.76 avg rating — 896 ratings
156.
Too Happy To Be Sad Girl
by:
Angel Aviles
4.45 avg rating — 56 ratings
156.
The Girl in Kyoto: Bittersweet Memories of One Traditional Family in Japan
by:
Hidemi Woods
3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
156.
The Point After
by:
Sean Conley
4.39 avg rating — 119 ratings
156.
Rideshare Revelations From An LA Uber Driver: The Highlights, The Lowlights and The Darkness
by:
Mark Alan Nisall
3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings
156.
Episodes in the Life of a NBA Mother
by:
Freida Wesson Bosh
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
156.
Hiding From Myself: My Complicated Rebirth into Womanhood and My Own Skin
by:
Amber Rose Washington
4.01 avg rating — 334 ratings
156.
Trained to Please: & Other Childhood Baggage
by:
Stevie Weber
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
156.
Papa and His Pigeon: Memoirs of A Black Seminole
by:
Clara E. Williams
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
156.
Hushabye: The Mystics, the Music, and the Mob
by:
Al Contrera
4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
156.
You May Not Be Who You Think You Are!
by:
John I. Payne
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
156.
Scorched Earth: Peacekeeping in Timor during a campaign of death and destruction
by:
Tammy Pemper
4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings
156.
Red Earth Diaries: A Migrant Couple's Backpacking Adventure in Australia
by:
Jason Rebello
3.80 avg rating — 87 ratings
156.
Hyphened-Nation: Don’t Check the Box
by:
Nicole Draffen
4.68 avg rating — 31 ratings
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