Biography and Memoirs that are BETTER than Fiction
414. 
In My Father's Country: An Afghan Woman Defies Her Fate
by:
Saima Wahab
3.69 avg rating β 1,134 ratings 
414. 
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
by:
Kevin D. Mitnick
3.96 avg rating β 26,864 ratings 417. 
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
by:
Adam Makos
4.38 avg rating β 27,206 ratings 
419. 
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.
by:
David Sedaris
3.85 avg rating β 149,441 ratings 
421. 
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
by:
Erik Larson
4.30 avg rating β 132,028 ratings 423. 
Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop Who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters
by:
Violet Jessop
3.87 avg rating β 1,616 ratings 
429. 
Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
by:
Bryan Burrough
3.98 avg rating β 6,026 ratings 
432. 
Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman 4.04 avg rating β 2,035 ratings
442. 
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
by:
Bruce Campbell
3.95 avg rating β 18,644 ratings 
444. 
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligenceβand Formed a Deep Bond in the Process 4.10 avg rating β 10,017 ratings
445. 
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
by:
John Matteson
4.02 avg rating β 1,831 ratings 
448. 
The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
by:
Nikki Sixx
4.14 avg rating β 38,562 ratings 
450. 
Special Agent: My Life On the Front Lines as a Woman in the FBI
by:
Candice Delong
3.95 avg rating β 748 ratings 
454. 
454. 
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World
by:
Malala Yousafzai
4.33 avg rating β 34,053 ratings 
456. 
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by:
Scott Anderson
4.08 avg rating β 16,527 ratings 456. 
Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais 3.89 avg rating β 839 ratings
460. 
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
by:
Leonie Frieda
3.96 avg rating β 8,376 ratings 
468. 
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II 4.20 avg rating β 46,353 ratings
468. 
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
by:
Greg Sestero
4.29 avg rating β 34,390 ratings 
472. 
Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto
by:
Tilar J. Mazzeo
4.27 avg rating β 9,780 ratings 
476. 
Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek
by:
Maya Van Wagenen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 11,889 ratings 
479. 
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by:
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating β 113,300 ratings 
483. 
Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde
by:
Jeff Guinn
4.20 avg rating β 5,169 ratings 486. 
And Still We Rise:: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students
by:
Miles Corwin
4.13 avg rating β 1,473 ratings 486. 
Company Aytch; or A Side Show of the Big Show: A Memoir of the Civil War
by:
Sam R. Watkins
4.16 avg rating β 4,120 ratings 486. 
The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
by:
Amanda Palmer
3.92 avg rating β 36,425 ratings 489. 
Nameless Indignities: Unraveling the Mystery of One of Illinois's Most Infamous Crimes
by:
Susan Elmore
3.88 avg rating β 94 ratings 489. 
491. 
African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
by:
Thomas Lockley
3.77 avg rating β 1,702 ratings 
492. 
Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
by:
Elisabeth Elliot
4.22 avg rating β 11,131 ratings 
498. 
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
by:
Sarah Silverman
3.53 avg rating β 40,213 ratings 
