Biography and Memoirs that are BETTER than Fiction

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life 3.93 avg rating — 16,522 ratings
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Jimi Hendrix: Black Legacy
Jimi Hendrix: Black Legacy 4.58 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper
Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper 3.57 avg rating — 13,657 ratings
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When Breath Becomes Air
When Breath Becomes Air 4.41 avg rating — 767,252 ratings
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Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated 4.09 avg rating — 18,171 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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Me: Stories of My Life
Me: Stories of My Life 3.81 avg rating — 15,989 ratings
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Go Ask Alice
Go Ask Alice 3.74 avg rating — 288,663 ratings
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly 4.18 avg rating — 359,851 ratings
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Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2)
Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2) 4.74 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Survivor: One Man's Battle with HIV, Hemophilia, and Hepatitis C
Survivor: One Man's Battle with HIV, Hemophilia, and Hepatitis C 4.39 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Encounters and Dialogues with Martin Heidegger, 1929-1976
Encounters and Dialogues with Martin Heidegger, 1929-1976 3.68 avg rating — 917 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,441 ratings
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I’m Glad My Mom Died
I’m Glad My Mom Died 4.44 avg rating — 1,350,350 ratings
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 3.69 avg rating — 182,715 ratings
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The Lullaby Illusion: A Journey of Awakening
The Lullaby Illusion: A Journey of Awakening 3.76 avg rating — 972 ratings
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Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife 3.73 avg rating — 63,601 ratings
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Hamburg 1947: A Place for the Heart to Kip
Hamburg 1947: A Place for the Heart to Kip 4.41 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3.85 avg rating — 89,879 ratings
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The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life 4.08 avg rating — 150,148 ratings
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts 3.73 avg rating — 33,276 ratings
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Cheaper by the Dozen
Cheaper by the Dozen really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 44,228 ratings
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The Happiness Project
The Happiness Project 3.65 avg rating — 179,141 ratings
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The Elephant Whisperer
The Elephant Whisperer 4.50 avg rating — 31,514 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by: Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating — 52,424 ratings
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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness 4.28 avg rating — 1,666 ratings
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My Autobiography
My Autobiography 4.03 avg rating — 8,116 ratings
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In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,359 ratings
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As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride 4.18 avg rating — 73,024 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History 4.05 avg rating — 70,018 ratings
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Detour from Normal
Detour from Normal 3.77 avg rating — 1,535 ratings
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Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities 3.99 avg rating — 90,418 ratings
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El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency 4.07 avg rating — 4,977 ratings
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Roots of To-Be Templars (The Viking's Kurdish Love #3)
Roots of To-Be Templars (The Viking's Kurdish Love #3) 4.71 avg rating — 55 ratings
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This Is Your Captain Speaking: My Fantastic Voyage Through Hollywood, Faith and Life
This Is Your Captain Speaking: My Fantastic Voyage Through Hollywood, Faith and Life 3.59 avg rating — 1,393 ratings
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The Burn Journals: A Memoir
The Burn Journals: A Memoir 3.84 avg rating — 8,102 ratings
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Paula
Paula 4.22 avg rating — 54,322 ratings
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My Beloved World
My Beloved World 4.09 avg rating — 33,500 ratings
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid 3.94 avg rating — 67,459 ratings
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia 4.03 avg rating — 33,834 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
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A Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind 4.13 avg rating — 134,374 ratings
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Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned about Love and Life with a Blind WonderCat
Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned about Love and Life with a Blind WonderCat 4.20 avg rating — 15,861 ratings
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Hons and Rebels
Hons and Rebels 4.11 avg rating — 5,316 ratings
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South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 4.20 avg rating — 11,072 ratings
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The Color of Water
The Color of Water 4.15 avg rating — 131,556 ratings
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Leadership: In Turbulent Times
Leadership: In Turbulent Times 4.40 avg rating — 15,455 ratings
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Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape 3.77 avg rating — 40,863 ratings
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The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried 4.14 avg rating — 337,467 ratings
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The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood 4.10 avg rating — 6,047 ratings
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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
by: D.T. Max
3.76 avg rating — 9,598 ratings
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter 4.13 avg rating — 17,743 ratings
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Jim Henson: The Biography
Jim Henson: The Biography 4.02 avg rating — 15,278 ratings
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Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley 4.17 avg rating — 9,895 ratings
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The Triumph of Rosemary
The Triumph of Rosemary 3.98 avg rating — 322 ratings
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Ferry Pilot: Nine Lives Over the North Atlantic.
Ferry Pilot: Nine Lives Over the North Atlantic. 4.53 avg rating — 1,192 ratings
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Separate Things: A Memoir
Separate Things: A Memoir 4.16 avg rating — 86 ratings
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A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community 4.15 avg rating — 422 ratings
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I've Got Some Lovin' to Do: The Diaries of a Roaring Twenties Teen, 1925-1926
I've Got Some Lovin' to Do: The Diaries of a Roaring Twenties Teen, 1925-1926 3.91 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Moab Is My Washpot
Moab Is My Washpot 3.93 avg rating — 24,905 ratings
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The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War
The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War 4.31 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea 4.45 avg rating — 96,061 ratings
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Songbook for Haunted Boys and Girls
Songbook for Haunted Boys and Girls 4.14 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott
Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott 4.14 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Shadows of the Workhouse
Shadows of the Workhouse 4.17 avg rating — 26,833 ratings
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Autobiography of a Face
Autobiography of a Face 3.97 avg rating — 29,612 ratings
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Infidel
Infidel 4.20 avg rating — 91,944 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer 4.34 avg rating — 111,145 ratings
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That Quail, Robert
That Quail, Robert 4.33 avg rating — 2,221 ratings
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Dark Ramblings of the Phoenix
Dark Ramblings of the Phoenix 3.70 avg rating — 916 ratings
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Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton 4.22 avg rating — 194,775 ratings
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The Life of Marie Antionette, Queen of France
The Life of Marie Antionette, Queen of France 3.59 avg rating — 174 ratings
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AfterTastes and Tales from Russia
AfterTastes and Tales from Russia 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey 4.21 avg rating — 74,673 ratings
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The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
The Long Hard Road Out of Hell 3.81 avg rating — 31,709 ratings
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Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia 4.03 avg rating — 38,920 ratings
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Mornings on Horseback
Mornings on Horseback 4.10 avg rating — 34,705 ratings
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A Stone for Benjamin
A Stone for Benjamin 3.92 avg rating — 337 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 — 66,126 ratings
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Persepolis 1
Persepolis 1 4.30 avg rating — 95,581 ratings
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Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir
Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir 4.25 avg rating — 18,486 ratings
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Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources 4.57 avg rating — 13,298 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 4.33 avg rating — 33,404 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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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory 4.22 avg rating — 104,623 ratings
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity 3.98 avg rating — 114,818 ratings
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Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558
Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558 4.01 avg rating — 15,352 ratings
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Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time
Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time 4.09 avg rating — 3,399 ratings
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Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology 4.07 avg rating — 74,935 ratings
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The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family 3.91 avg rating — 13,809 ratings
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal 4.19 avg rating — 28,142 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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I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1) 4.24 avg rating — 71,602 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 — 46,754 ratings
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Bring on the Empty Horses
Bring on the Empty Horses 4.13 avg rating — 3,336 ratings
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So Many Africas: Six Years in a Zambian Village
So Many Africas: Six Years in a Zambian Village really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 445 ratings
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Flash of Silver: ...the leap that changed my world
Flash of Silver: ...the leap that changed my world 3.58 avg rating — 876 ratings
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Corners: Voices on Change
Corners: Voices on Change 3.67 avg rating — 860 ratings
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Who Said It Couldn't Be Done?
Who Said It Couldn't Be Done? 4.65 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
Tesla: Inventor of the Modern 3.79 avg rating — 2,124 ratings
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