Best Memoirs Published Between 2000 to 2009

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Running with Scissors
Running with Scissors 3.77 avg rating — 400,436 ratings
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly 4.18 avg rating — 359,915 ratings
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time 3.87 avg rating — 41,527 ratings
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Christmas Remembered
Christmas Remembered 4.04 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm
Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,741 ratings
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Open An Autobiography
Open An Autobiography 4.32 avg rating — 139,825 ratings
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Scar Tissue
Scar Tissue 4.11 avg rating — 99,111 ratings
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How I Learned to Cook: Culinary Educations from the World's Greatest Chefs
How I Learned to Cook: Culinary Educations from the World's Greatest Chefs 3.73 avg rating — 612 ratings
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Dry
Dry 4.03 avg rating — 97,576 ratings
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Paris to the Moon
Paris to the Moon 3.75 avg rating — 15,348 ratings
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A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea 4.28 avg rating — 60,942 ratings
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Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise 3.94 avg rating — 47,448 ratings
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Escape
Escape 3.98 avg rating — 45,887 ratings
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Mao's Last Dancer
Mao's Last Dancer
by: Li Cunxin
4.14 avg rating — 32,151 ratings
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Embroideries
Embroideries 3.94 avg rating — 29,940 ratings
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Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea 3.88 avg rating — 28,308 ratings
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Miracle in the Andes
Miracle in the Andes 4.36 avg rating — 25,687 ratings
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Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table 4.05 avg rating — 22,172 ratings
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Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China
Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China 3.73 avg rating — 9,280 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
23 Minutes In Hell: One Man's Story About What He Saw, Heard, and Felt in That Place of Torment 3.79 avg rating — 7,853 ratings
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Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing up Scieszka
Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing up Scieszka 4.08 avg rating — 4,994 ratings
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Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
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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Things I've Been Silent About
Things I've Been Silent About 3.73 avg rating — 4,905 ratings
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Guts: The True Stories behind Hatchet and the Brian Books
Guts: The True Stories behind Hatchet and the Brian Books 3.92 avg rating — 3,142 ratings
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Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library
Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library 3.53 avg rating — 2,805 ratings
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House Rules: A Memoir
House Rules: A Memoir 3.69 avg rating — 2,581 ratings
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The Impostor's Daughter: A True Memoir
The Impostor's Daughter: A True Memoir 3.57 avg rating — 2,407 ratings
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Blue Blood by Conlon, Edward (2004) Paperback
Blue Blood by Conlon, Edward (2004) Paperback 3.68 avg rating — 1,816 ratings
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Paramedic to the Prince
Paramedic to the Prince 3.98 avg rating — 1,722 ratings
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Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir
Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir 3.95 avg rating — 1,439 ratings
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Alan's War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope
Alan's War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope 4.03 avg rating — 1,378 ratings
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Sophie Calle: True Stories
Sophie Calle: True Stories 4.43 avg rating — 1,081 ratings
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Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto
Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto 3.70 avg rating — 881 ratings
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A Distant Prayer: Miracles of the 49th Combat Mission
A Distant Prayer: Miracles of the 49th Combat Mission 4.32 avg rating — 866 ratings
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Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir
Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir 4.01 avg rating — 775 ratings
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Iron Heart: The True Story of How I Came Back from the Dead
Iron Heart: The True Story of How I Came Back from the Dead 4.08 avg rating — 736 ratings
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Closing Time
Closing Time 3.57 avg rating — 714 ratings
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Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder
Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder 3.22 avg rating — 396 ratings
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God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia
God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia 4.32 avg rating — 358 ratings
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When All the World Was Young: A Memoir
When All the World Was Young: A Memoir 3.91 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Further Adventures of a Grumpy Old Rock Star
Further Adventures of a Grumpy Old Rock Star 4.19 avg rating — 243 ratings
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Invisible: A Memoir
Invisible: A Memoir 3.70 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Bannock, Beans and Black Tea: Memories of a Prince Edward Island Childhood in the Great Depression
Bannock, Beans and Black Tea: Memories of a Prince Edward Island Childhood in the Great Depression 3.98 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Lost Voices of the Edwardians
Lost Voices of the Edwardians really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Notes from Nethers: Growing Up in a Sixties Commune
Notes from Nethers: Growing Up in a Sixties Commune 3.75 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham 3.95 avg rating — 94 ratings
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A Garden in Lucca: Finding Paradise in Tuscany
A Garden in Lucca: Finding Paradise in Tuscany 3.28 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Mirror Mind
Mirror Mind 3.88 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Pickin' Up the Pieces: The Heart and Soul of Country Rock Pioneer Richie Furay
Pickin' Up the Pieces: The Heart and Soul of Country Rock Pioneer Richie Furay 3.79 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Miriam Daughter of Finnish Immigrants
Miriam Daughter of Finnish Immigrants 4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Good Manners and Bad Behaviour
Good Manners and Bad Behaviour 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher: Scenes from a Scottish Childhood
Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher: Scenes from a Scottish Childhood 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Children of Bethnal Green
Children of Bethnal Green really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Land Girls at the Old Rectory (Old Pond Books)
Land Girls at the Old Rectory (Old Pond Books) 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Bugle Boy
Bugle Boy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Letters From Tully: A Woman's Life on the Dakota Frontier
Letters From Tully: A Woman's Life on the Dakota Frontier 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Living on Tick: Tales from a Huddersfiel
Living on Tick: Tales from a Huddersfiel 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Hops doodlebugs and floods A memoir of growing up in Essex
Hops doodlebugs and floods A memoir of growing up in Essex 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Journal of a Georgia Woman, 1870-1872
Journal of a Georgia Woman, 1870-1872 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Beloved Land: An Oral History of Mexican Americans in Southern Arizona
Beloved Land: An Oral History of Mexican Americans in Southern Arizona 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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A Pocket with a Hole: A Birmingham Childhood of the 1940s and 1950s
A Pocket with a Hole: A Birmingham Childhood of the 1940s and 1950s 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Jellied Eels and Zeppelins: Witness to a Vanished Age
Jellied Eels and Zeppelins: Witness to a Vanished Age really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A Door To All My Rooms
A Door To All My Rooms really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Bob Artley's Book of Farm Chores: As Remembered by a Former Kid
Bob Artley's Book of Farm Chores: As Remembered by a Former Kid 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Down Yonder At The Back End
Down Yonder At The Back End really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Yankee Summer: The Way We Were: Growing Up in Rural Vermont in the 1930s
Yankee Summer: The Way We Were: Growing Up in Rural Vermont in the 1930s 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Great Aunt Lizzie
Great Aunt Lizzie really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Aintree Days
Aintree Days really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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When the Lights Go On Again: Memories of V.E. Day and After
When the Lights Go On Again: Memories of V.E. Day and After liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Mervyn's Lot
Mervyn's Lot liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating