Must Read Memoirs

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Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond 4.30 avg rating — 4,842 ratings
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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman 4.09 avg rating — 42,517 ratings
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The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson 4.18 avg rating — 3,465 ratings
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Through My Eyes
Through My Eyes
by: Tim Tebow
3.94 avg rating — 12,859 ratings
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Belichick: The Making of the Greatest Football Coach of All Time
Belichick: The Making of the Greatest Football Coach of All Time 4.11 avg rating — 2,051 ratings
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Montana: The Biography of Football's Joe Cool
Montana: The Biography of Football's Joe Cool 4.07 avg rating — 638 ratings
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The Truth About Aaron: My Journey to Understand My Brother
The Truth About Aaron: My Journey to Understand My Brother really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,708 ratings
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You Can't Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television
You Can't Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television 3.97 avg rating — 3,623 ratings
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Browns Town 1964: The Cleveland Browns and the 1964 Championship
Browns Town 1964: The Cleveland Browns and the 1964 Championship 4.20 avg rating — 450 ratings
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The Yankee Way: The Untold Inside Story of the Brian Cashman Era
The Yankee Way: The Untold Inside Story of the Brian Cashman Era 4.27 avg rating — 865 ratings
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QB: My Life Behind the Spiral
QB: My Life Behind the Spiral 4.26 avg rating — 3,458 ratings
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SUGAR BEAR: Life Lessons, Leadership, and the Legacy of a High School Coach
SUGAR BEAR: Life Lessons, Leadership, and the Legacy of a High School Coach 4.24 avg rating — 382 ratings
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The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership 4.21 avg rating — 6,097 ratings
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America's Game: The NFL at 100
America's Game: The NFL at 100 4.02 avg rating — 508 ratings
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The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire
The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire 4.16 avg rating — 1,896 ratings
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Talking to GOATs: The Moments You Remember and the Stories You Never Heard
Talking to GOATs: The Moments You Remember and the Stories You Never Heard
by: Jim Gray
3.98 avg rating — 1,847 ratings
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Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives 4.29 avg rating — 12,515 ratings
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Becoming
Becoming 4.44 avg rating — 1,160,644 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,394 ratings
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The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times 4.27 avg rating — 94,823 ratings
21.
What Happened
What Happened 3.92 avg rating — 60,670 ratings
22.
The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating — 1,325,696 ratings
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God Is the Cure, Love Is the Answer: A Memoir
God Is the Cure, Love Is the Answer: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating — 17,180 ratings
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Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote 3.90 avg rating — 934 ratings
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Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power
Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power 4.14 avg rating — 1,825 ratings
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The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America
The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America 4.29 avg rating — 2,644 ratings
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The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World 4.27 avg rating — 63,642 ratings
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While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America
While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America 3.99 avg rating — 4,750 ratings
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Speaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom, and the Fight of Our Lives Inside the Trump White House
Speaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom, and the Fight of Our Lives Inside the Trump White House 4.41 avg rating — 3,236 ratings
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Breaking Free
Breaking Free 4.11 avg rating — 14,847 ratings
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A Stolen Life
A Stolen Life 3.96 avg rating — 141,504 ratings
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Pelosi
Pelosi 4.15 avg rating — 2,950 ratings
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Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships 4.12 avg rating — 18,188 ratings
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II 4.15 avg rating — 58,209 ratings
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Surviving the Fourth Cycle
Surviving the Fourth Cycle 3.64 avg rating — 988 ratings
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Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel 4.27 avg rating — 5,860 ratings
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My Story
My Story 3.88 avg rating — 46,711 ratings
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Life After Darkness: Finding Healing and Happiness After the Cleveland Kidnappings
Life After Darkness: Finding Healing and Happiness After the Cleveland Kidnappings 4.02 avg rating — 1,737 ratings
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Melania and Me
Melania and Me 3.23 avg rating — 8,032 ratings
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The Blood Red Sea
The Blood Red Sea 4.57 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Finding the Rainbow
Finding the Rainbow 4.46 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Escape
Escape 3.98 avg rating — 45,886 ratings
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Freedom: My Book of Firsts
Freedom: My Book of Firsts 3.55 avg rating — 5,547 ratings
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Under Water: A Natural Disaster Memoir
Under Water: A Natural Disaster Memoir 3.97 avg rating — 792 ratings
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance 3.94 avg rating — 229,616 ratings
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Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs 3.95 avg rating — 31,195 ratings
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Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America 4.38 avg rating — 3,012 ratings
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Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings 4.18 avg rating — 30,093 ratings
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Obama: From Promise to Power
Obama: From Promise to Power 4.18 avg rating — 2,677 ratings
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The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life 4.08 avg rating — 150,151 ratings
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom 4.47 avg rating — 348,520 ratings
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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 — 568,976 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft 4.34 avg rating — 310,136 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 — 22,714 ratings
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Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland
Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland 4.36 avg rating — 18,873 ratings
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The Lost Girls
The Lost Girls 4.08 avg rating — 7,275 ratings
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All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2) 4.35 avg rating — 155,368 ratings
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In Plain Sight: A True Story of Kidnapping and Rape
In Plain Sight: A True Story of Kidnapping and Rape 4.26 avg rating — 2,420 ratings
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A Promised Land
A Promised Land 4.32 avg rating — 263,472 ratings
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A House in the Sky
A House in the Sky 4.28 avg rating — 70,669 ratings
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Living History
Living History 3.76 avg rating — 34,061 ratings
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Bossypants
Bossypants
by: Tina Fey
3.96 avg rating — 1,041,988 ratings
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Five People You Meet in Heaven 4.01 avg rating — 781,647 ratings
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson 4.20 avg rating — 1,154,147 ratings
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Broken
Broken 4.27 avg rating — 4,151 ratings
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This Childhood of Mine: A Memoir of My Last Summer with My Mentally Ill Mother and Alcoholic Father
This Childhood of Mine: A Memoir of My Last Summer with My Mentally Ill Mother and Alcoholic Father 4.21 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel 4.32 avg rating — 7,373 ratings
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Diary of a Freedom Writer: The Experience
Diary of a Freedom Writer: The Experience 4.25 avg rating — 173 ratings
69.
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 455,057 ratings
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Running with Scissors
Running with Scissors 3.77 avg rating — 400,435 ratings
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Waiter to the Rich and Shameless: Confessions of a Five-Star Beverly Hills Server
Waiter to the Rich and Shameless: Confessions of a Five-Star Beverly Hills Server 3.51 avg rating — 2,713 ratings
72.
Come to the Edge
Come to the Edge 3.93 avg rating — 3,319 ratings
73.
Obama's Wars
Obama's Wars 3.82 avg rating — 9,073 ratings
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For One More Day
For One More Day 4.13 avg rating — 157,486 ratings
75.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs 4.15 avg rating — 1,331,273 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,097 ratings
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Confessions
Confessions 3.99 avg rating — 71,268 ratings
78.
Eat, Pray, Love
Eat, Pray, Love 3.64 avg rating — 1,819,861 ratings
79.
My Life
My Life 3.74 avg rating — 49,706 ratings
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream 3.83 avg rating — 168,482 ratings
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All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6)
All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6) 4.45 avg rating — 37,078 ratings
82.
The Liars' Club
The Liars' Club
by: Mary Karr
3.94 avg rating — 71,042 ratings
83.
The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind 4.20 avg rating — 409 ratings
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Justin Time: Autobiographical Stories from an American Spiritual Master
Justin Time: Autobiographical Stories from an American Spiritual Master 4.77 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Cancer Crossings: A Brother, His Doctors, and the Quest for a Cure to Childhood Leukemia
Cancer Crossings: A Brother, His Doctors, and the Quest for a Cure to Childhood Leukemia 4.43 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Light in Bandaged Places: Healing in the Wake of Young Betrayal
Light in Bandaged Places: Healing in the Wake of Young Betrayal 4.75 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Waiting to Be Heard
Waiting to Be Heard 3.88 avg rating — 18,852 ratings
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Living the Best Day Ever
Living the Best Day Ever 4.40 avg rating — 1,233 ratings
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Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 650,973 ratings
90.
Orange Is the New Black
Orange Is the New Black 3.72 avg rating — 204,771 ratings
91.
FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History 4.33 avg rating — 1,083 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 — 778,826 ratings
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Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
by: Rob Lowe
3.87 avg rating — 83,937 ratings
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Half Broke Horses
Half Broke Horses 4.09 avg rating — 171,099 ratings
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Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake 4.04 avg rating — 61,420 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 — 198,662 ratings
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Lucky Man
Lucky Man 4.07 avg rating — 28,636 ratings
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Separate Things: A Memoir
Separate Things: A Memoir 4.16 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Kept in the Dark
Kept in the Dark 3.93 avg rating — 27 ratings
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa 4.49 avg rating — 45,841 ratings
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