Women Writing Memoir

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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 — 568,937 ratings
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Lion Song (Uncommon Partnerships I)
Lion Song (Uncommon Partnerships I)
by: Judy Burr
4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Diary of Anne Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,042 ratings
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Educated
Educated 4.47 avg rating — 1,772,868 ratings
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Becoming
Becoming 4.44 avg rating — 1,160,541 ratings
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body 4.17 avg rating — 118,951 ratings
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The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life 4.08 avg rating — 150,147 ratings
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The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating — 1,325,617 ratings
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An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)
An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3) 4.21 avg rating — 2,516 ratings
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Born with Teeth
Born with Teeth 3.93 avg rating — 10,015 ratings
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Bird by Bird
Bird by Bird 4.24 avg rating — 108,479 ratings
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Bad Feminist: Essays
Bad Feminist: Essays 3.92 avg rating — 117,715 ratings
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Just Kids
Just Kids 4.21 avg rating — 333,645 ratings
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China 4.30 avg rating — 120,278 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 — 850,469 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? 3.86 avg rating — 509,678 ratings
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Why Not Me?
Why Not Me? 3.90 avg rating — 223,804 ratings
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death 3.99 avg rating — 49,909 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 — 612,699 ratings
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Boys in the Trees
Boys in the Trees 3.67 avg rating — 11,696 ratings
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Somebody's Daughter
Somebody's Daughter 4.02 avg rating — 71,680 ratings
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Men We Reaped: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating — 27,664 ratings
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Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir
Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir 3.95 avg rating — 4,822 ratings
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The Road from Coorain
The Road from Coorain 4.02 avg rating — 13,391 ratings
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In Pieces
In Pieces 3.94 avg rating — 40,892 ratings
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The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking 3.93 avg rating — 284,952 ratings
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One Woman's Struggle in Iran A Prison Memoir
One Woman's Struggle in Iran A Prison Memoir 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma 4.50 avg rating — 67,879 ratings
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The Red Sea Bride
The Red Sea Bride 4.08 avg rating — 359 ratings
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Separate Things: A Memoir
Separate Things: A Memoir 4.16 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Make Every Move a Meditation: Mindful Movement for Mental Health, Well-Being, and Insight
Make Every Move a Meditation: Mindful Movement for Mental Health, Well-Being, and Insight 3.89 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Where are the grown-ups?
Where are the grown-ups? really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective
Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective 4.49 avg rating — 4,958 ratings
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A Daily Dose of Now: 365 Mindfulness Meditation Practices for Living in the Moment
A Daily Dose of Now: 365 Mindfulness Meditation Practices for Living in the Moment 4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America 3.87 avg rating — 2,017 ratings
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The Cooked Seed: A Memoir
The Cooked Seed: A Memoir 3.79 avg rating — 2,346 ratings
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Know My Name
Know My Name 4.69 avg rating — 243,474 ratings
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Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink
Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink 3.72 avg rating — 1,922 ratings
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Working: My Life As a Prostitute
Working: My Life As a Prostitute 3.91 avg rating — 99 ratings
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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy 4.14 avg rating — 44,123 ratings
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Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink
Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink 3.72 avg rating — 1,922 ratings
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Through My Eyes
Through My Eyes 4.47 avg rating — 5,950 ratings
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In the Middle of Nowhere
In the Middle of Nowhere 4.01 avg rating — 164 ratings
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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
by: Lisa See
3.95 avg rating — 11,026 ratings
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Don't Take Your Love to Town
Don't Take Your Love to Town 3.93 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Falling Leaves
Falling Leaves 3.91 avg rating — 28,925 ratings
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Pieces of Blue
Pieces of Blue 3.76 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Just Julia
Just Julia 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Letters of Rachel Henning
The Letters of Rachel Henning 3.92 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Lucky Girl: A Memoir
Lucky Girl: A Memoir 3.78 avg rating — 1,277 ratings
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Two Under the Indian Sun
Two Under the Indian Sun 4.02 avg rating — 490 ratings
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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions 4.19 avg rating — 5,031 ratings
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True North - A Memoir
True North - A Memoir 3.91 avg rating — 1,574 ratings
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My Life on the Road
My Life on the Road 4.07 avg rating — 36,280 ratings
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M Train
M Train 4.02 avg rating — 48,824 ratings
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If everyone cared: Autobiography of Margaret Tucker
If everyone cared: Autobiography of Margaret Tucker 4.30 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Doing Sixty and Seventy
Doing Sixty and Seventy 3.99 avg rating — 283 ratings
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Balanda: My Year in Arnhem Land
Balanda: My Year in Arnhem Land 3.44 avg rating — 45 ratings
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All But My Life
All But My Life 4.33 avg rating — 21,984 ratings
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Landscape for a Good Woman
Landscape for a Good Woman 3.75 avg rating — 455 ratings
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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer 4.26 avg rating — 15,186 ratings
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Life and Death in Shanghai
Life and Death in Shanghai 4.33 avg rating — 13,873 ratings
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Once in a House on Fire
Once in a House on Fire 3.95 avg rating — 2,426 ratings
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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 4.18 avg rating — 16,209 ratings
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Aftershocks
Aftershocks 3.90 avg rating — 6,318 ratings
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A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School 4.12 avg rating — 1,905 ratings
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Red Scarf Girl
Red Scarf Girl 3.79 avg rating — 16,932 ratings
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Small Bodies of Water
Small Bodies of Water 4.10 avg rating — 1,701 ratings
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Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir
Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir 3.76 avg rating — 1,667 ratings
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Lessico famigliare
Lessico famigliare 3.90 avg rating — 22,756 ratings
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Ronnie Gilbert: A Radical Life in Song
Ronnie Gilbert: A Radical Life in Song 4.02 avg rating — 42 ratings
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A Life of My Own
A Life of My Own 3.97 avg rating — 1,626 ratings
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Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life
Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life 3.82 avg rating — 992 ratings
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Faithfull
Faithfull 4.01 avg rating — 3,340 ratings
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Notes To Self
Notes To Self 4.10 avg rating — 19,937 ratings
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Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir
Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir 4.18 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? 4.01 avg rating — 45,372 ratings
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The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story 4.43 avg rating — 98,743 ratings
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I Found My Tribe
I Found My Tribe 3.97 avg rating — 2,570 ratings
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To Throw Away Unopened
To Throw Away Unopened 4.23 avg rating — 2,405 ratings
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You Won't Remember This: Travel with Babies
You Won't Remember This: Travel with Babies 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman
Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman 3.64 avg rating — 5,103 ratings
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Poppy
Poppy 3.74 avg rating — 172 ratings
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The Morville Hours: The Story of a Garden
The Morville Hours: The Story of a Garden 4.13 avg rating — 527 ratings
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Deceived with Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood
Deceived with Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood 3.65 avg rating — 479 ratings
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Above Water: A Stolen Childhood, An Enduring Scandal, A Survivor's Story
Above Water: A Stolen Childhood, An Enduring Scandal, A Survivor's Story 4.48 avg rating — 184 ratings
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The Rules Do Not Apply
The Rules Do Not Apply 3.70 avg rating — 35,111 ratings
88.
The Art of Memoir
The Art of Memoir
by: Mary Karr
4.14 avg rating — 8,175 ratings
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The Liars' Club
The Liars' Club
by: Mary Karr
3.94 avg rating — 71,039 ratings
90.
Lit
Lit
by: Mary Karr
3.94 avg rating — 27,991 ratings
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Cherry
Cherry
by: Mary Karr
3.80 avg rating — 10,496 ratings
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Fierce Attachments
Fierce Attachments 4.04 avg rating — 18,555 ratings
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The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir
The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir 3.86 avg rating — 7,578 ratings
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What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness
What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness 3.43 avg rating — 187 ratings
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How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir
How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir 3.99 avg rating — 2,908 ratings
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The Outrun
The Outrun 3.97 avg rating — 16,587 ratings
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The Instant
The Instant 3.66 avg rating — 2,805 ratings
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Twelve Thousand Days: A memoir of love and loss
Twelve Thousand Days: A memoir of love and loss 4.22 avg rating — 46 ratings
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On Sunset: A Memoir
On Sunset: A Memoir 3.70 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns 4.14 avg rating — 3,546 ratings
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