Must Read Memoirs

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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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Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir
Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir 4.08 avg rating — 508 ratings
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Lucky
Lucky 3.77 avg rating — 101,358 ratings
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Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year 4.18 avg rating — 25,918 ratings
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Naked
Naked 4.10 avg rating — 271,050 ratings
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Total Recall
Total Recall 4.17 avg rating — 23,083 ratings
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Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
by: Miep Gies
4.30 avg rating — 66,127 ratings
108.
My Sergei: A Love Story
My Sergei: A Love Story 4.14 avg rating — 5,338 ratings
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Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted 3.94 avg rating — 269,396 ratings
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Veronica's Grave: A Daughter's Memoir
Veronica's Grave: A Daughter's Memoir 4.01 avg rating — 462 ratings
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Scorpion 12.3: A Memoir of Sex and Transformation
Scorpion 12.3: A Memoir of Sex and Transformation 3.96 avg rating — 306 ratings
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Beautiful Affliction
Beautiful Affliction 3.86 avg rating — 1,939 ratings
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The Two Week Traveller
The Two Week Traveller 4.03 avg rating — 97 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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Farewell to the East End: The Last Days of the East End Midwives (Midwife Trilogy #3)
Farewell to the East End: The Last Days of the East End Midwives (Midwife Trilogy #3) 4.30 avg rating — 18,937 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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Dry
Dry 4.03 avg rating — 97,573 ratings
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The Triumph of Rosemary
The Triumph of Rosemary 3.98 avg rating — 322 ratings
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Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table 4.08 avg rating — 38,839 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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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 — 213,864 ratings
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You Can't Drive Your Car to Your Own Funeral
You Can't Drive Your Car to Your Own Funeral 4.01 avg rating — 327 ratings
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Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity
Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity 4.59 avg rating — 38,455 ratings
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Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and China Before and After
Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and China Before and After 3.96 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3.85 avg rating — 89,878 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating — 131,992 ratings
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Long Walk to Freedom
Long Walk to Freedom 4.36 avg rating — 92,321 ratings
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness 3.99 avg rating — 30,921 ratings
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Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times 3.94 avg rating — 16,452 ratings
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Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography 4.11 avg rating — 35,601 ratings
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" 4.05 avg rating — 32,082 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
Me Talk Pretty One Day 4.01 avg rating — 714,084 ratings
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Dewey: There's a Cat in the Library!
Dewey: There's a Cat in the Library! 3.99 avg rating — 7,809 ratings
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The Lord God Made Them All
The Lord God Made Them All 4.45 avg rating — 29,429 ratings
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The Freedom Writers Diary
The Freedom Writers Diary 4.15 avg rating — 18,484 ratings
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Educated
Educated 4.47 avg rating — 1,772,860 ratings
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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust 4.43 avg rating — 46,753 ratings
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Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir 3.70 avg rating — 3,156 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating — 989,184 ratings
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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the aftermath of the Columbine tragedy
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the aftermath of the Columbine tragedy 4.14 avg rating — 44,123 ratings
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Motherless Child: Stories from a Life
Motherless Child: Stories from a Life 4.45 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Corners: Voices on Change
Corners: Voices on Change 3.67 avg rating — 860 ratings
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The Pale-Faced Lie
The Pale-Faced Lie 4.28 avg rating — 28,433 ratings
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Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil
Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil 3.87 avg rating — 1,755 ratings
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Confessions
Confessions 3.59 avg rating — 9,159 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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Shadows of the Workhouse
Shadows of the Workhouse 4.17 avg rating — 26,833 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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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 4.16 avg rating — 192,413 ratings
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Passing Clouds
Passing Clouds it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Bird by Bird
Bird by Bird 4.24 avg rating — 108,479 ratings
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Dying in Indian Country: A Family Journey from Self-destruction to Opposing Tribal Sovereignty
Dying in Indian Country: A Family Journey from Self-destruction to Opposing Tribal Sovereignty
by: Beth Ward
3.79 avg rating — 48 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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Fat Girl: A True Story
Fat Girl: A True Story 3.32 avg rating — 4,023 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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When I Fell From the Sky
When I Fell From the Sky 3.74 avg rating — 3,663 ratings
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Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line
Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line 4.31 avg rating — 8,856 ratings
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March: Book One (March, #1)
March: Book One (March, #1) 4.35 avg rating — 56,871 ratings
158.
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 — 104,274 ratings
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 4.34 avg rating — 99,165 ratings
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Art of War
Art of War
by: Sun Tzu
3.95 avg rating — 550,578 ratings
162.
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 — 12,280 ratings
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 4.44 avg rating — 7,333 ratings
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
by: Tom Reiss
4.02 avg rating — 21,030 ratings
165.
All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)
All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4) 4.35 avg rating — 82,192 ratings
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The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times 4.19 avg rating — 77,378 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
168.
My Losing Season: A Memoir
My Losing Season: A Memoir 3.91 avg rating — 10,730 ratings
168.
Lucky For Me
Lucky For Me 3.74 avg rating — 121 ratings
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The Complete Persepolis
The Complete Persepolis 4.40 avg rating — 199,563 ratings
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,138 ratings
172.
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage 3.45 avg rating — 55,705 ratings
172.
Saving Simon: How a Rescue Donkey Taught Me the Meaning of Compassion
Saving Simon: How a Rescue Donkey Taught Me the Meaning of Compassion
by: Jon Katz
4.13 avg rating — 1,897 ratings
174.
Lab Girl
Lab Girl 3.98 avg rating — 70,894 ratings
175.
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis 3.85 avg rating — 488,805 ratings
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The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra 3.88 avg rating — 24,078 ratings
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The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan 4.03 avg rating — 8,788 ratings
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Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things 3.89 avg rating — 171,417 ratings
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Coolidge
Coolidge 3.80 avg rating — 7,299 ratings
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'Tis
'Tis 3.74 avg rating — 65,409 ratings
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Black Like Me
Black Like Me 4.11 avg rating — 69,182 ratings
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Composed
Composed 3.81 avg rating — 2,494 ratings
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Wish In One Hand: The True Story of a Young Life With Multiple Sclerosis
Wish In One Hand: The True Story of a Young Life With Multiple Sclerosis 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness 3.94 avg rating — 8,800 ratings
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They Called Us Enemy
They Called Us Enemy 4.42 avg rating — 50,172 ratings
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Cash
Cash 4.02 avg rating — 24,975 ratings
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Fear: Trump in the White House
Fear: Trump in the White House 3.87 avg rating — 64,798 ratings
188.
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years 3.97 avg rating — 21,120 ratings
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Zeitoun
Zeitoun 4.05 avg rating — 79,607 ratings
190.
Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,191 ratings
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim 4.11 avg rating — 286,481 ratings
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The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
by: Ann Rule
4.14 avg rating — 109,003 ratings
193.
Survival in Auschwitz
Survival in Auschwitz 4.34 avg rating — 83,590 ratings
194.
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Seabiscuit: An American Legend 4.23 avg rating — 167,140 ratings
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A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties 3.85 avg rating — 4,069 ratings
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Eleni
Eleni 4.42 avg rating — 2,723 ratings
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The Time of My Life
The Time of My Life 4.10 avg rating — 8,635 ratings
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My Name Was Five: A Novel of the Second World War
My Name Was Five: A Novel of the Second World War 4.11 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Levant Fever: True Stories from Syria's Underground
Levant Fever: True Stories from Syria's Underground 3.89 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Poems from a Runaway
Poems from a Runaway 4.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
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