Unsettling Memoirs & Biographies

1.
Running with Scissors
Running with Scissors 3.77 avg rating — 400,426 ratings
2.
Into the Wild
Into the Wild 4.02 avg rating — 1,165,580 ratings
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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing 3.42 avg rating — 10,422 ratings
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Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted 3.94 avg rating — 269,389 ratings
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Prozac Nation
Prozac Nation 3.64 avg rating — 63,384 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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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,162 ratings
8.
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,072,923 ratings
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And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder
And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder 4.11 avg rating — 8,650 ratings
10.
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 455,038 ratings
11.
Life After Death
Life After Death 3.98 avg rating — 9,714 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 — 109,002 ratings
13.
Junky
Junky 3.85 avg rating — 69,882 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 — 90,417 ratings
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Orange Is the New Black
Orange Is the New Black 3.72 avg rating — 204,760 ratings
16.
Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
Corrections in Ink: A Memoir 4.26 avg rating — 4,918 ratings
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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
by: Tommy Lee
4.14 avg rating — 48,133 ratings
18.
Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
by: Nic Sheff
3.98 avg rating — 46,200 ratings
19.
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional 3.59 avg rating — 7,416 ratings
20.
It's So Easy: And Other Lies
It's So Easy: And Other Lies 4.23 avg rating — 12,205 ratings
21.
A Stolen Life
A Stolen Life 3.96 avg rating — 141,489 ratings
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The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star 4.14 avg rating — 38,556 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 — 30,092 ratings
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A Piece of Cake
A Piece of Cake 4.25 avg rating — 37,795 ratings
25.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,135 ratings
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How to... Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale
How to... Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale 3.79 avg rating — 13,921 ratings
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Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 650,944 ratings
28.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream 4.07 avg rating — 370,580 ratings
29.
Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia
Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia 4.07 avg rating — 2,398 ratings
30.
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,332 ratings
31.
Dry
Dry 4.03 avg rating — 97,572 ratings
32.
High on Arrival
High on Arrival 3.84 avg rating — 9,287 ratings
33.
Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case 3.64 avg rating — 5,096 ratings
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Always Running
Always Running 4.04 avg rating — 8,340 ratings
35.
Will There Really Be a Morning?
Will There Really Be a Morning? 4.11 avg rating — 1,115 ratings
36.
Coreyography
Coreyography 3.88 avg rating — 6,860 ratings
37.
The Tethered Unicorn (Living Dreams, #1)
The Tethered Unicorn (Living Dreams, #1) 4.63 avg rating — 35 ratings
38.
Mermaid: A Memoir of Resilience
Mermaid: A Memoir of Resilience 3.81 avg rating — 654 ratings
39.
Schindler’s List
Schindler’s List 4.34 avg rating — 164,324 ratings
40.
Mommie Dearest
Mommie Dearest 3.67 avg rating — 11,365 ratings
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Cult Girls
Cult Girls 4.32 avg rating — 793 ratings
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Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland
Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland 4.07 avg rating — 9,524 ratings
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Lucky
Lucky 3.77 avg rating — 101,355 ratings
44.
Neon Angel: The Cherie Currie Story
Neon Angel: The Cherie Currie Story 3.98 avg rating — 2,921 ratings
45.
The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes
The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes 4.02 avg rating — 2,001 ratings
46.
Perfect Victim: The True Story of "The Girl in the Box" by the D.A. Who Prosecuted Her Captor
Perfect Victim: The True Story of "The Girl in the Box" by the D.A. Who Prosecuted Her Captor really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,517 ratings
47.
The Devil in the White City
The Devil in the White City really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,765 ratings
48.
Ordeal
Ordeal 3.72 avg rating — 2,606 ratings
49.
Traci Lords: Underneath It All
Traci Lords: Underneath It All 3.54 avg rating — 2,006 ratings
50.
Separate Things: A Memoir
Separate Things: A Memoir 4.16 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson 3.94 avg rating — 10,995 ratings
52.
The Basketball Diaries
The Basketball Diaries 3.99 avg rating — 31,489 ratings
53.
The Reader
The Reader 3.78 avg rating — 226,221 ratings
54.
Shock Value: A Tasteful Book about Bad Taste
Shock Value: A Tasteful Book about Bad Taste 4.39 avg rating — 2,338 ratings
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Little Women
Little Women 4.17 avg rating — 2,392,969 ratings
56.
My Dark Places
My Dark Places 3.84 avg rating — 7,444 ratings
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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced 3.83 avg rating — 23,919 ratings
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Coming Clean
Coming Clean 3.96 avg rating — 34,886 ratings
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Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison
Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison 3.96 avg rating — 1,973 ratings
60.
Shot in the Heart
Shot in the Heart 4.18 avg rating — 3,796 ratings
61.
The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison
The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison 4.13 avg rating — 1,942 ratings
62.
People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman
People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman 3.79 avg rating — 22,903 ratings
63.
White Line Fever: The Autobiography
White Line Fever: The Autobiography 3.96 avg rating — 9,990 ratings
64.
Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf 3.17 avg rating — 43,176 ratings
65.
Stone Butch Blues
Stone Butch Blues 4.53 avg rating — 34,580 ratings
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Confessions of a Video Vixen: An Eye-Opening Memoir of Survival, Abuse, and Redemption in the Music Industry
Confessions of a Video Vixen: An Eye-Opening Memoir of Survival, Abuse, and Redemption in the Music Industry 3.41 avg rating — 6,341 ratings
67.
Educated
Educated 4.47 avg rating — 1,772,793 ratings
68.
Diary of a Freedom Writer: The Experience
Diary of a Freedom Writer: The Experience 4.25 avg rating — 173 ratings
69.
Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf 4.13 avg rating — 206,726 ratings
70.
Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary
Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary 3.62 avg rating — 895 ratings
71.
The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy
The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy 4.18 avg rating — 14,089 ratings
72.
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple 4.12 avg rating — 3,917 ratings
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Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood 3.74 avg rating — 20,071 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 — 989,172 ratings
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Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat 4.44 avg rating — 15,389 ratings
76.
Don't Cry, Pappa
Don't Cry, Pappa 4.24 avg rating — 33 ratings
76.
Beaten Down: Silently Suffering Trauma
Beaten Down: Silently Suffering Trauma 4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings
78.
Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess
Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess 4.25 avg rating — 2,762 ratings
79.
The Day My Mother Never Came Home
The Day My Mother Never Came Home 3.98 avg rating — 62 ratings
80.
Mortality
Mortality 4.12 avg rating — 29,012 ratings
81.
March of the Hooligans
March of the Hooligans 3.51 avg rating — 90 ratings
82.
Girlvert: A Porno Memoir
Girlvert: A Porno Memoir 3.63 avg rating — 1,451 ratings
82.
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure 4.13 avg rating — 5,973 ratings
84.
Catch Me If You Can: The Film and the Filmmakers (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook)
Catch Me If You Can: The Film and the Filmmakers (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook) 4.05 avg rating — 1,220 ratings
85.
I Am Not Myself These Days
I Am Not Myself These Days 3.97 avg rating — 14,676 ratings
86.
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,153,711 ratings
87.
Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz
Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz 3.49 avg rating — 4,086 ratings
88.
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive 3.86 avg rating — 109,533 ratings
89.
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America 4.30 avg rating — 15,925 ratings
90.
Inside: Life Behind Bars in America
Inside: Life Behind Bars in America 3.84 avg rating — 713 ratings
91.
My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N' Roses
My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N' Roses 3.59 avg rating — 5,603 ratings
92.
Trafficked
Trafficked 3.94 avg rating — 10,755 ratings
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper 4.09 avg rating — 64,219 ratings
94.
Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi
Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi 3.74 avg rating — 2,695 ratings
95.
Donnie Brasco
Donnie Brasco 4.08 avg rating — 8,059 ratings
96.
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
97.
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist 3.88 avg rating — 419,623 ratings
98.
A Drinking Life
A Drinking Life 3.96 avg rating — 4,331 ratings
99.
The Art of Loving
The Art of Loving really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 91,455 ratings
100.
A Low Life in High Heels: The Holly Woodlawn Story
A Low Life in High Heels: The Holly Woodlawn Story 4.24 avg rating — 192 ratings
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