Coming-of-Age Memoirs

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The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating — 1,325,637 ratings
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Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 650,955 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 568,945 ratings
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This Childhood of Mine: A Memoir of My Last Summer with My Mentally Ill Mother and Alcoholic Father
This Childhood of Mine: A Memoir of My Last Summer with My Mentally Ill Mother and Alcoholic Father 4.21 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Running with Scissors
Running with Scissors 3.77 avg rating — 400,430 ratings
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The Punk-Rock Queen of the Jews: A Memoir
The Punk-Rock Queen of the Jews: A Memoir 4.25 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Lucky
Lucky 3.77 avg rating — 101,359 ratings
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The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood 3.75 avg rating — 1,642 ratings
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A Painted House
A Painted House 3.77 avg rating — 100,381 ratings
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The Liars' Club
The Liars' Club
by: Mary Karr
3.94 avg rating — 71,039 ratings
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Life on the Mississippi
Life on the Mississippi 3.87 avg rating — 15,346 ratings
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Between Inca Walls, A Peace Corps Memoir
Between Inca Walls, A Peace Corps Memoir 3.97 avg rating — 349 ratings
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Negative Space
Negative Space 4.23 avg rating — 1,047 ratings
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Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind
Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind 3.82 avg rating — 4,687 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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A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana 3.80 avg rating — 37,392 ratings
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Coming to Astoria: An Immigrant's Tale
Coming to Astoria: An Immigrant's Tale
by: Omar Kiam
3.44 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Separate Things: A Memoir
Separate Things: A Memoir 4.16 avg rating — 86 ratings
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This Boy's Life
This Boy's Life 3.97 avg rating — 30,188 ratings
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Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard 4.22 avg rating — 21,744 ratings
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Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland
Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland 3.60 avg rating — 771 ratings
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City of Angeles
City of Angeles 3.83 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Leaving Little Havana: A Memoir of Miami's Cuban Ghetto
Leaving Little Havana: A Memoir of Miami's Cuban Ghetto 4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Hollywood Park
Hollywood Park 4.29 avg rating — 16,295 ratings
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High on Arrival
High on Arrival 3.84 avg rating — 9,288 ratings
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How Green Was My Valley
How Green Was My Valley 4.21 avg rating — 18,451 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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Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
by: Rob Lowe
3.87 avg rating — 83,932 ratings
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The Nutcracker Chronicles: A Fairytale Memoir
The Nutcracker Chronicles: A Fairytale Memoir 4.31 avg rating — 48 ratings
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One Writer's Beginnings
One Writer's Beginnings 4.07 avg rating — 4,047 ratings
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The Pale-Faced Lie
The Pale-Faced Lie 4.28 avg rating — 28,433 ratings
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Becoming
Becoming 4.44 avg rating — 1,160,564 ratings
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Just Kids
Just Kids 4.21 avg rating — 333,667 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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The Gaze of the Gazelle: The Story of a Generation
The Gaze of the Gazelle: The Story of a Generation 3.73 avg rating — 994 ratings
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The Sunset Strip Diaries
The Sunset Strip Diaries 3.79 avg rating — 649 ratings
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Boat Girl: A Memoir of Youth, Love & Fiberglass
Boat Girl: A Memoir of Youth, Love & Fiberglass 4.11 avg rating — 169 ratings
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With Love, The Argentina Family: Memories of Tango and Kugel; Mate with Knishes
With Love, The Argentina Family: Memories of Tango and Kugel; Mate with Knishes 3.93 avg rating — 90 ratings
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French Illusions: My Story as an American Au Pair in the Loire Valley (Book 1)
French Illusions: My Story as an American Au Pair in the Loire Valley (Book 1) 3.83 avg rating — 1,134 ratings
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Adventure, romance and war in the Far East: The Iris Hay-Edie Diary: A historical memoir
Adventure, romance and war in the Far East: The Iris Hay-Edie Diary: A historical memoir 4.28 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional 3.59 avg rating — 7,416 ratings
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Overlay: A Tale of One Girl's Life in 1970s Las Vegas
Overlay: A Tale of One Girl's Life in 1970s Las Vegas 4.03 avg rating — 1,463 ratings
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Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir
Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir 3.78 avg rating — 2,058 ratings
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Educated
Educated 4.47 avg rating — 1,772,925 ratings
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My Convent Life: From L'Histoire de Ma Vie, with a new chronology of her life and work
My Convent Life: From L'Histoire de Ma Vie, with a new chronology of her life and work 4.03 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Child Star: An Autobiography
Child Star: An Autobiography 3.97 avg rating — 2,333 ratings
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Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia
Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia 3.57 avg rating — 139 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,800,476 ratings
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My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 61,495 ratings
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My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Memories of Childhood
My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Memories of Childhood 4.27 avg rating — 1,092 ratings
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood 4.02 avg rating — 3,511 ratings
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood 4.49 avg rating — 778,768 ratings
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Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir 3.90 avg rating — 198,657 ratings
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 224,934 ratings
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Freckled: A Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii
Freckled: A Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii
by: T.W. Neal
4.36 avg rating — 5,265 ratings
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Look Me in the Eye
Look Me in the Eye 3.92 avg rating — 69,100 ratings
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My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 4.31 avg rating — 2,038 ratings
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope 4.07 avg rating — 31,874 ratings
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When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading Rainbow Books)
When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading Rainbow Books) 4.25 avg rating — 7,458 ratings
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To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography 4.42 avg rating — 2,810 ratings
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While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement
While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 4.10 avg rating — 2,427 ratings
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Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age
Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age 3.88 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass 4.44 avg rating — 853 ratings
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Tales of the Titmouse
Tales of the Titmouse 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Precious: A True Story
Precious: A True Story 3.95 avg rating — 683 ratings
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Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany
Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany 3.92 avg rating — 299 ratings
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Far Away and Long Ago
Far Away and Long Ago 3.92 avg rating — 467 ratings
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Boy's Life
Boy's Life 4.40 avg rating — 39,731 ratings
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This Shadow Follows Me
This Shadow Follows Me 4.12 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Goodbye Crackernight
Goodbye Crackernight 3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Upstairs Room
The Upstairs Room 3.84 avg rating — 12,069 ratings
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Rainbow Colored Eyes (Playland of the Kings #1)
Rainbow Colored Eyes (Playland of the Kings #1) 4.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Torn by God: A Family's Struggle with Polygamy: A Novel
Torn by God: A Family's Struggle with Polygamy: A Novel 3.58 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen
Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen 3.49 avg rating — 296 ratings
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Torn From The Inside Out
Torn From The Inside Out 4.31 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Four Eyes Were Never Better Than Two
Four Eyes Were Never Better Than Two 3.35 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Night People (Things We Lost in the Night, #1)
Night People (Things We Lost in the Night, #1) 4.49 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Slow Farm
The Slow Farm 4.20 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Just Another Number
Just Another Number 3.69 avg rating — 87 ratings
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My Ship has Sails (Through The Book 1 2)
My Ship has Sails (Through The Book 1 2) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Reflections of El: In Search of Self
Reflections of El: In Search of Self 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Through Innocent Eyes: The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth
Through Innocent Eyes: The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth 4.38 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Wishmaster: Peace for all your wishes
The Wishmaster: Peace for all your wishes 4.03 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Little Bastards
The Little Bastards 3.93 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Small Fry: A Memoir
Small Fry: A Memoir 3.81 avg rating — 27,596 ratings
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Growing Up Greenpoint: A Kid's Life in 1970s Brooklyn
Growing Up Greenpoint: A Kid's Life in 1970s Brooklyn 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Mama Didn't Raise This Woman
Mama Didn't Raise This Woman 4.47 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Finding Myself in Borneo: Sojourns in Sabah
Finding Myself in Borneo: Sojourns in Sabah 4.56 avg rating — 25 ratings
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GenderQueer: A Story from a Different Closet
GenderQueer: A Story from a Different Closet 4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings
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In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy
In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy
by: Ken Wiwa
4.08 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi
Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi 3.80 avg rating — 503 ratings
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Being Lolita
Being Lolita 4.19 avg rating — 8,940 ratings
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The Mason House
The Mason House 4.13 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Mamaji
Mamaji 4.26 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Hiding From Myself: My Complicated Rebirth into Womanhood and My Own Skin
Hiding From Myself: My Complicated Rebirth into Womanhood and My Own Skin 4.01 avg rating — 334 ratings
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Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence
Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence
by: Paul Feig
3.80 avg rating — 4,163 ratings
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Not Less Than Everything: One Man’s Quest for Spiritual Enlightenment
Not Less Than Everything: One Man’s Quest for Spiritual Enlightenment 3.88 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Blue Light of the Screen: On Horror, Ghosts, and God
Blue Light of the Screen: On Horror, Ghosts, and God 3.90 avg rating — 165 ratings
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The Sailor in the Wardrobe
The Sailor in the Wardrobe 3.81 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Uttermost Part of the Earth
Uttermost Part of the Earth 4.52 avg rating — 254 ratings
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