Good Memoirs and Autobiographies with 1,000 to 10,000 Ratings
1. 
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 4.03 avg rating — 8,270 ratings
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Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
by:
Gary Paulsen
4.29 avg rating — 8,449 ratings 
12. 
The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
by:
Hugo Hamilton
3.75 avg rating — 1,641 ratings 14. 
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up
by:
Evanna Lynch
4.53 avg rating — 6,926 ratings 14. 
I Will Find You: Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime
by:
Joe Kenda
4.43 avg rating — 5,381 ratings 16. 
Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing up Scieszka
by:
Jon Scieszka
4.08 avg rating — 4,994 ratings 17. 
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years 4.16 avg rating — 4,935 ratings
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Spitfire Pilot: A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain
by:
David M. Crook
4.12 avg rating — 1,618 ratings 
32. 
400 Things Cops Know: Street-Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman
by:
Adam Plantinga
4.01 avg rating — 1,252 ratings 
34. 
My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Memories of Childhood
by:
Marcel Pagnol
4.27 avg rating — 1,092 ratings 
37. 
Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
by:
Cory Franklin
3.58 avg rating — 6,757 ratings 
40. 
Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living
by:
Bailey White
3.96 avg rating — 5,055 ratings 
45. 
The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop
by:
Steve Osborne
3.79 avg rating — 2,699 ratings 
52. 
The Girl: A Life in the Shadow of Roman Polanski
by:
Samantha Geimer
3.53 avg rating — 1,047 ratings 53. 
Letters from the Pit: Stories of a Physician's Odyssey in Emergency Medicine 4.53 avg rating — 1,013 ratings
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Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
by:
Rabia Chaudry
4.05 avg rating — 4,751 ratings 
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
by:
Le Ly Hayslip
4.12 avg rating — 4,293 ratings 60. 
Company Aytch; or, A Side Show of the Big Show: A Classic Memoir of the Civil War
by:
Sam R. Watkins
4.16 avg rating — 4,119 ratings 61. 
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China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II
by:
Eugene B. Sledge
4.29 avg rating — 1,445 ratings 
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Tomboy Bride: A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West 4.12 avg rating — 1,161 ratings
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23 Minutes In Hell: One Man's Story About What He Saw, Heard, and Felt in That Place of Torment
by:
Bill Wiese
3.79 avg rating — 7,853 ratings 75. 
32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line
by:
Eric Ripert
3.96 avg rating — 7,453 ratings 
77. 
Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood
by:
Gary Paulsen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,164 ratings 78. 
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran
by:
Azadeh Moaveni
3.70 avg rating — 4,726 ratings 
81. 
The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
by:
Mary Rowlandson
2.88 avg rating — 3,572 ratings 
85. 
Guts: The True Stories behind Hatchet and the Brian Books
by:
Gary Paulsen
3.92 avg rating — 3,142 ratings 
