Memoirs, Narrative Nonfiction and Other (Mostly) True Things

1.
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,594 ratings
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The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating — 1,325,755 ratings
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In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,422 ratings
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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 — 551,034 ratings
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War 3.81 avg rating — 4,036 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail 4.07 avg rating — 436,146 ratings
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Into the Wild
Into the Wild 4.02 avg rating — 1,165,743 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
The Devil in the White City really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,867 ratings
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Orange Is the New Black
Orange Is the New Black 3.72 avg rating — 204,771 ratings
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith 4.01 avg rating — 220,456 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 — 778,862 ratings
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Moneyball
Moneyball 4.27 avg rating — 141,362 ratings
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Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog 4.14 avg rating — 475,406 ratings
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Eat, Pray, Love
Eat, Pray, Love 3.64 avg rating — 1,819,889 ratings
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Beautiful Affliction
Beautiful Affliction 3.86 avg rating — 1,939 ratings
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Half Broke Horses
Half Broke Horses 4.09 avg rating — 171,103 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,120 ratings
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Detour from Normal
Detour from Normal 3.77 avg rating — 1,535 ratings
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Come to the Edge
Come to the Edge 3.93 avg rating — 3,319 ratings
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus 4.16 avg rating — 119,587 ratings
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What Happened - Where Did I Go?
What Happened - Where Did I Go? 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life 4.08 avg rating — 150,154 ratings
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen 3.71 avg rating — 160,371 ratings
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Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection 3.75 avg rating — 14,917 ratings
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The Art of War
The Art of War
by: Sun Tzu
3.95 avg rating — 550,661 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? 3.86 avg rating — 509,706 ratings
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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 — 612,732 ratings
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Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir 3.90 avg rating — 198,664 ratings
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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing 3.42 avg rating — 10,424 ratings
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Passing Clouds
Passing Clouds it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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What has He Done Now?: Tales from A North West Childhood in the 60s and Early 70s
What has He Done Now?: Tales from A North West Childhood in the 60s and Early 70s 3.56 avg rating — 889 ratings
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Bird by Bird
Bird by Bird 4.24 avg rating — 108,487 ratings
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Echoes From a Cobbled Street: Stories and Poems from the North West
Echoes From a Cobbled Street: Stories and Poems from the North West 4.79 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner 4.06 avg rating — 60,128 ratings
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin 3.89 avg rating — 215,192 ratings
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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,311 ratings
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Corners: Voices on Change
Corners: Voices on Change 3.67 avg rating — 860 ratings
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
by: C.G. Jung
4.17 avg rating — 37,274 ratings
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The Know-It-All
The Know-It-All 3.76 avg rating — 29,486 ratings
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Columbine
Columbine 4.29 avg rating — 99,749 ratings
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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible 3.76 avg rating — 68,669 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania 4.13 avg rating — 157,322 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 4.06 avg rating — 234,477 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by: Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,687 ratings
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The Happiness Project
The Happiness Project 3.65 avg rating — 179,152 ratings
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail 4.07 avg rating — 850,544 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
84, Charing Cross Road 4.16 avg rating — 93,113 ratings
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The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time
The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time 4.03 avg rating — 1,101 ratings
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Out of the Shoebox: An Autobiographic Mystery
Out of the Shoebox: An Autobiographic Mystery 3.87 avg rating — 1,321 ratings
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Home with Henry
Home with Henry 4.57 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Separate Things: A Memoir
Separate Things: A Memoir 4.16 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The Two Week Traveller
The Two Week Traveller 4.03 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The Evolution of Gods: The Scientific Origin of Divinity And Religions
The Evolution of Gods: The Scientific Origin of Divinity And Religions 3.70 avg rating — 294 ratings
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City of Angeles
City of Angeles 3.83 avg rating — 196 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by: Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating — 52,428 ratings
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Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
Corrections in Ink: A Memoir 4.26 avg rating — 4,918 ratings
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100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again
100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again 4.55 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Nobody Asked Me, But ....
Nobody Asked Me, But .... 4.13 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe 4.14 avg rating — 58 ratings
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TWAS The Year 2020
TWAS The Year 2020 3.85 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Music and the Wood (Passing Clouds #2)
The Music and the Wood (Passing Clouds #2) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love
Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love 4.06 avg rating — 13,086 ratings
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The Blood Red Sea
The Blood Red Sea 4.57 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Interpretation of Dreams
The Interpretation of Dreams 3.84 avg rating — 79,570 ratings
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Zeitoun
Zeitoun 4.05 avg rating — 79,607 ratings
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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity 3.95 avg rating — 116,883 ratings
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Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir
Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir 4.08 avg rating — 509 ratings
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Man and His Symbols
Man and His Symbols
by: C.G. Jung
4.19 avg rating — 32,162 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong 3.97 avg rating — 72,727 ratings
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The I Hate to Cook Book
The I Hate to Cook Book 3.91 avg rating — 767 ratings
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The Art of Happiness
The Art of Happiness 4.17 avg rating — 123,040 ratings
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Bossypants
Bossypants
by: Tina Fey
3.96 avg rating — 1,042,005 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women 4.16 avg rating — 176,412 ratings
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History 3.80 avg rating — 51,857 ratings
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Becoming
Becoming 4.44 avg rating — 1,160,709 ratings
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In a Sunburned Country
In a Sunburned Country 4.07 avg rating — 119,166 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 — 213,870 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 3.92 avg rating — 289,233 ratings
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If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits?
If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits? 4.03 avg rating — 14,676 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,443 ratings
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The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss 3.91 avg rating — 25,539 ratings
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The Little House Collection (Little House, #1-9)
The Little House Collection (Little House, #1-9) 4.36 avg rating — 156,360 ratings
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As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride 4.18 avg rating — 73,028 ratings
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Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice 4.44 avg rating — 104,288 ratings
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Licking the Spoon: A Memoir of Food, Family and Identity
Licking the Spoon: A Memoir of Food, Family and Identity 3.86 avg rating — 294 ratings
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Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional 3.59 avg rating — 7,417 ratings
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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime 4.13 avg rating — 22,715 ratings
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Snapshots (Matthew Lightfoot Travel Books)
Snapshots (Matthew Lightfoot Travel Books) 4.56 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Out of the Cage (Matthew Lightfoot Travel Books)
Out of the Cage (Matthew Lightfoot Travel Books) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Dogshit Saved My Life
Dogshit Saved My Life 4.21 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall 4.37 avg rating — 12,281 ratings
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Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine
Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine 3.75 avg rating — 2,061 ratings
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Jesus Land: A Memoir
Jesus Land: A Memoir 3.97 avg rating — 19,432 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code 4.01 avg rating — 3,646 ratings
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Mythology
Mythology 4.03 avg rating — 58,940 ratings
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Ghost of a Smile. Memories from a Medium's Life
Ghost of a Smile. Memories from a Medium's Life 3.51 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly 4.18 avg rating — 359,923 ratings
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Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 117,719 ratings
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 4.14 avg rating — 426,061 ratings
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Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide
Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide 4.07 avg rating — 75,194 ratings
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