Must-Read Personal Accounts

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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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Anu: The Yo-Yo Years
Anu: The Yo-Yo Years it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture 4.43 avg rating — 22,350 ratings
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The White Album
The White Album 4.03 avg rating — 47,339 ratings
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The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking 3.93 avg rating — 284,964 ratings
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Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family
Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family 4.12 avg rating — 71,081 ratings
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Nobody Knows My Name
Nobody Knows My Name 4.37 avg rating — 4,611 ratings
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Elephant Dance: A Story of Love and War in the Kingdom of Elephants
Elephant Dance: A Story of Love and War in the Kingdom of Elephants 3.78 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Anu: The Nomad Years
Anu: The Nomad Years 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays 4.18 avg rating — 52,976 ratings
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Meditations
Meditations 4.28 avg rating — 320,728 ratings
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We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. 3.89 avg rating — 47,226 ratings
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Letter to His Father
Letter to His Father 4.04 avg rating — 54,621 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating — 115,142 ratings
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Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me 4.02 avg rating — 16,571 ratings
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Planet Elephant: A Story of Family, Love and the Global Wildlife Trade
Planet Elephant: A Story of Family, Love and the Global Wildlife Trade 4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Anu: The Raj Years
Anu: The Raj Years 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays 3.81 avg rating — 46,930 ratings
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On Grief and Reason: Essays
On Grief and Reason: Essays 4.24 avg rating — 663 ratings
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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
by: Roz Chast
4.16 avg rating — 31,597 ratings
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The Ghosts Who Travel with Me: A Literary Pilgrimage Through Brautigan's America
The Ghosts Who Travel with Me: A Literary Pilgrimage Through Brautigan's America 3.94 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Hospital by the River
The Hospital by the River 4.10 avg rating — 2,573 ratings
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Reflections on Exile and Other Essays
Reflections on Exile and Other Essays 4.31 avg rating — 487 ratings
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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany 3.90 avg rating — 25,084 ratings
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Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
by: Zoya Phan
4.03 avg rating — 662 ratings
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Take What You Got And Fly With It
Take What You Got And Fly With It 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism 4.18 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Land of a Thousand Eyes: The Subtle Pleasures of Everyday Life in Myanmar
Land of a Thousand Eyes: The Subtle Pleasures of Everyday Life in Myanmar 3.63 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Drinking Games
Drinking Games 3.76 avg rating — 6,701 ratings
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Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism
Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism 4.09 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef 3.77 avg rating — 36,936 ratings
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Two Wings of a Nightingale: Persian Soul, Islamic Heart
Two Wings of a Nightingale: Persian Soul, Islamic Heart 3.30 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Kind of Hindu
Kind of Hindu 4.18 avg rating — 13,893 ratings
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More Matter: Essays and Criticism
More Matter: Essays and Criticism 4.06 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Neon Pilgrim
Neon Pilgrim 4.05 avg rating — 317 ratings
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Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually
Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually
by: Meichi Ng
4.16 avg rating — 2,930 ratings
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,140 ratings
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Stay Alive, My Son
Stay Alive, My Son 4.37 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
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The View From Down Here: Life as a Young Disabled Woman
The View From Down Here: Life as a Young Disabled Woman 4.30 avg rating — 295 ratings
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When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge 4.18 avg rating — 4,944 ratings
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Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama 3.71 avg rating — 35,013 ratings
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The Happiest Refugee
The Happiest Refugee
by: Anh Do
4.24 avg rating — 17,440 ratings
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Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador 3.97 avg rating — 1,785 ratings
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Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation 4.09 avg rating — 2,973 ratings
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Small Bamboo: Growing Up and Growing Old With My Vietnamese Australian Family
Small Bamboo: Growing Up and Growing Old With My Vietnamese Australian Family
by: Tracy Vo
3.76 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Gender Failure
Gender Failure 4.31 avg rating — 2,443 ratings
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Todo in Tuscany: The Dog at the Villa
Todo in Tuscany: The Dog at the Villa 4.13 avg rating — 62 ratings
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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
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A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher
A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher 3.70 avg rating — 1,649 ratings
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Finding George Orwell in Burma
Finding George Orwell in Burma 3.96 avg rating — 3,664 ratings
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The Year of Eating Dangerously: A Global Adventure in Search of Culinary Extremes
The Year of Eating Dangerously: A Global Adventure in Search of Culinary Extremes 3.11 avg rating — 450 ratings
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Tales from the Queen of the Desert
Tales from the Queen of the Desert 3.86 avg rating — 65 ratings
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We Are Here
We Are Here 3.93 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Vietnam My Great Escape
Vietnam My Great Escape
by: Tina Bui
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace 4.12 avg rating — 4,293 ratings
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Write Home for Me : A Red Cross Woman in Vietnam
Write Home for Me : A Red Cross Woman in Vietnam 3.65 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Moon Princess, The: Memories of the Shan States
Moon Princess, The: Memories of the Shan States
by: Sao Sanda
3.85 avg rating — 27 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 — 44,125 ratings
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The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance 3.95 avg rating — 61,684 ratings
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Reeva: A Mother's Story
Reeva: A Mother's Story 3.95 avg rating — 269 ratings
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Fragrant Heart
Fragrant Heart 3.57 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran
Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran 4.06 avg rating — 551 ratings
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Farangi Girl Growing Up in Iran: A Daughter's Story
Farangi Girl Growing Up in Iran: A Daughter's Story 4.14 avg rating — 192 ratings
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The Last Executioner: Memoirs of Thailand's Last Prison Executioner
The Last Executioner: Memoirs of Thailand's Last Prison Executioner 3.78 avg rating — 281 ratings
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The Dead Do Talk
The Dead Do Talk 3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Scattered Pearls
Scattered Pearls 3.76 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields
Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields 4.36 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 4.22 avg rating — 104,623 ratings
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Going Home: Finding Peace When Pets Die
Going Home: Finding Peace When Pets Die
by: Jon Katz
3.97 avg rating — 1,132 ratings
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Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens 3.86 avg rating — 10,157 ratings
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Couchsurfing in Iran: Revealing a Hidden World
Couchsurfing in Iran: Revealing a Hidden World 3.88 avg rating — 2,007 ratings
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White Butterflies
White Butterflies 4.44 avg rating — 150 ratings
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White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two 4.34 avg rating — 189 ratings
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