Memoirs: Beautiful, Weird, Experimental, But Not Celebrity (An Education)

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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail 4.07 avg rating β€” 850,442 ratings
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The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating β€” 1,325,577 ratings
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Just Kids
Just Kids 4.21 avg rating β€” 333,634 ratings
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Eat, Pray, Love
Eat, Pray, Love 3.64 avg rating β€” 1,819,768 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 β€” 34 ratings
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The Last Bar In NYC
The Last Bar In NYC 4.30 avg rating β€” 131 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 β€” 568,924 ratings
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Come to the Edge
Come to the Edge 3.93 avg rating β€” 3,319 ratings
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The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking 3.93 avg rating β€” 284,934 ratings
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What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love
What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love 4.20 avg rating β€” 22,039 ratings
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A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast 4.02 avg rating β€” 162,847 ratings
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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating β€” 1,334,162 ratings
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis 3.85 avg rating β€” 488,793 ratings
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Down and Out in Paris and London
Down and Out in Paris and London 4.09 avg rating β€” 97,502 ratings
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The Complete Persepolis
The Complete Persepolis 4.40 avg rating β€” 199,559 ratings
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Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) 4.15 avg rating β€” 650,944 ratings
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Orange Is the New Black
Orange Is the New Black 3.72 avg rating β€” 204,760 ratings
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Prozac Nation
Prozac Nation 3.64 avg rating β€” 63,384 ratings
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The Liars' Club
The Liars' Club
by: Mary Karr
3.94 avg rating β€” 71,037 ratings
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance 3.94 avg rating β€” 229,607 ratings
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Running with Scissors
Running with Scissors 3.77 avg rating β€” 400,426 ratings
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 4.08 avg rating β€” 29,044 ratings
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 3.66 avg rating β€” 138,464 ratings
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure 4.13 avg rating β€” 5,973 ratings
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An American Childhood
An American Childhood 3.91 avg rating β€” 10,425 ratings
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Blue Nights
Blue Nights 3.94 avg rating β€” 46,059 ratings
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Stop-Time
Stop-Time 3.93 avg rating β€” 2,496 ratings
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Negative Space
Negative Space 4.23 avg rating β€” 1,047 ratings
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Confessions
Confessions 3.59 avg rating β€” 9,159 ratings
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Down Below
Down Below 3.82 avg rating β€” 2,973 ratings
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Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art
Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art 4.37 avg rating β€” 1,005 ratings
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The Chronology of Water
The Chronology of Water 4.20 avg rating β€” 15,680 ratings
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Autobiography of a Face
Autobiography of a Face 3.97 avg rating β€” 29,612 ratings
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Truth & Beauty
Truth & Beauty 3.97 avg rating β€” 46,417 ratings
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Confessions of an English Opium Eater 3.28 avg rating β€” 10,818 ratings
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 3.69 avg rating β€” 182,714 ratings
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The Lover
The Lover 3.71 avg rating β€” 68,142 ratings
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West with the Night
West with the Night 4.15 avg rating β€” 40,230 ratings
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The Complete Maus
The Complete Maus 4.58 avg rating β€” 245,652 ratings
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Lessons from a CF Cornerman: 38 Lessons I Learned During My Wife's Illness And Lung Transplant
Lessons from a CF Cornerman: 38 Lessons I Learned During My Wife's Illness And Lung Transplant 4.68 avg rating β€” 44 ratings
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Rain of Gold
Rain of Gold 4.50 avg rating β€” 8,212 ratings
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The Nutcracker Chronicles: A Fairytale Memoir
The Nutcracker Chronicles: A Fairytale Memoir 4.32 avg rating β€” 47 ratings
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Dispatches from the Couch: A Neuroscientist and Her Therapist Conspire to Reboot Her Brain
Dispatches from the Couch: A Neuroscientist and Her Therapist Conspire to Reboot Her Brain 4.83 avg rating β€” 36 ratings
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Reveries of the Solitary Walker 3.61 avg rating β€” 7,316 ratings
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Whip Smart: A Memoir
Whip Smart: A Memoir 3.63 avg rating β€” 3,986 ratings
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The Glass Eye: A Memoir
The Glass Eye: A Memoir 3.95 avg rating β€” 1,406 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 β€” 160 ratings
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Jackson's Track : Memoir of a Dreamtime Place
Jackson's Track : Memoir of a Dreamtime Place 4.10 avg rating β€” 191 ratings
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When Breath Becomes Air
When Breath Becomes Air 4.41 avg rating β€” 767,192 ratings
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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City 3.80 avg rating β€” 11,799 ratings
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Paris to the Moon
Paris to the Moon 3.75 avg rating β€” 15,348 ratings
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Passing Clouds
Passing Clouds it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
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Fugitive Spring: A Memoir
Fugitive Spring: A Memoir 3.57 avg rating β€” 42 ratings
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Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo 3.76 avg rating β€” 12,197 ratings
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The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story
The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story 4.12 avg rating β€” 11,221 ratings
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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness 4.32 avg rating β€” 22,257 ratings
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My Sergei: A Love Story
My Sergei: A Love Story 4.14 avg rating β€” 5,338 ratings
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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy 3.77 avg rating β€” 329,140 ratings
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That Summer in Paris
That Summer in Paris 3.89 avg rating β€” 522 ratings
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Minor Characters
Minor Characters 4.07 avg rating β€” 2,830 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 β€” 44,121 ratings
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Smile (Smile, #1)
Smile (Smile, #1) 4.23 avg rating β€” 301,075 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
Me Talk Pretty One Day 4.01 avg rating β€” 714,078 ratings
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Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction
Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction 3.78 avg rating β€” 500 ratings
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating 4.15 avg rating β€” 20,362 ratings
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The Balloonists
The Balloonists
by: Eula Biss
4.17 avg rating β€” 703 ratings
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The Argonauts
The Argonauts 4.02 avg rating β€” 54,643 ratings
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The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss 3.95 avg rating β€” 61,682 ratings
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Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites
Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites 3.37 avg rating β€” 2,576 ratings
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Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life 4.21 avg rating β€” 2,003 ratings
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Fat Girl: A True Story
Fat Girl: A True Story 3.32 avg rating β€” 4,023 ratings
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If Only You People Could Follow Directions: A Memoir
If Only You People Could Follow Directions: A Memoir 3.64 avg rating β€” 406 ratings
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When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice 4.20 avg rating β€” 9,148 ratings
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Wave
Wave 3.79 avg rating β€” 22,484 ratings
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Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir
Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir
by: Tom Hart
4.14 avg rating β€” 3,394 ratings
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The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of "Joe" Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water
The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of "Joe" Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water 3.71 avg rating β€” 684 ratings
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Finding My Invincible Summer
Finding My Invincible Summer 4.13 avg rating β€” 38 ratings
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Narrative of the life of James Allen, alias George Walton, alias Jonas Pierce, alias James H. York, alias Burley Grove, the highwayman: being his death-bed confession, to the warden of the Massachusetts state prison
Narrative of the life of James Allen, alias George Walton, alias Jonas Pierce, alias James H. York, alias Burley Grove, the highwayman: being his death-bed confession, to the warden of the Massachusetts state prison 3.65 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
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A Naive Heart
A Naive Heart 3.23 avg rating β€” 22 ratings
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The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance: A Memoir
The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance: A Memoir 3.61 avg rating β€” 7,467 ratings
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The Natural History of Selborne
The Natural History of Selborne 3.97 avg rating β€” 557 ratings
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Quit or Die Trying
Quit or Die Trying 4.45 avg rating β€” 22 ratings
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The Orton Diaries
The Orton Diaries
by: Joe Orton
4.04 avg rating β€” 677 ratings
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The Hospital by the River
The Hospital by the River 4.10 avg rating β€” 2,573 ratings
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Just Another Number
Just Another Number 3.69 avg rating β€” 87 ratings
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Things The Grandchildren Should Know
Things The Grandchildren Should Know 4.25 avg rating β€” 8,719 ratings
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Dysfunction: The Memoirs of a Junkie Who No Longer Exists
Dysfunction: The Memoirs of a Junkie Who No Longer Exists 4.43 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
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Persona Medusa: A Tale of Selective Mutism & Social Anxiety
Persona Medusa: A Tale of Selective Mutism & Social Anxiety 4.31 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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Realizing River City
Realizing River City 4.30 avg rating β€” 53 ratings
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Now for the Disappointing Part: A Pseudo-Adult?s Decade of Short-Term Jobs, Long-Term Relationships, and Holding Out for Something Better
Now for the Disappointing Part: A Pseudo-Adult?s Decade of Short-Term Jobs, Long-Term Relationships, and Holding Out for Something Better 3.99 avg rating β€” 114 ratings
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I Shock Myself : the Autobiography of Beatrice Wood
I Shock Myself : the Autobiography of Beatrice Wood 4.16 avg rating β€” 231 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 β€” 45 ratings
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time 3.87 avg rating β€” 41,521 ratings
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The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts
The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts 3.91 avg rating β€” 1,491 ratings
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My Body Is a Book of Rules
My Body Is a Book of Rules 4.06 avg rating β€” 1,175 ratings
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At Death Do Us Part: A Grieving Widower Heals After Losing his Wife to Breast Cancer
At Death Do Us Part: A Grieving Widower Heals After Losing his Wife to Breast Cancer 4.26 avg rating β€” 69 ratings
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The Obsidian Mirror: Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse
The Obsidian Mirror: Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse 4.31 avg rating β€” 98 ratings
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Busted: A Memoir of Teenage Years
Busted: A Memoir of Teenage Years 4.29 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
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Long Daze at Long Binh: The humorous adventures of two Wisconsin draftees trained as combat medics and sent off to set up a field hospital in South Vietnam
Long Daze at Long Binh: The humorous adventures of two Wisconsin draftees trained as combat medics and sent off to set up a field hospital in South Vietnam 4.02 avg rating β€” 48 ratings
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The Hitchhiker Man
The Hitchhiker Man
by: Matt Fox
4.02 avg rating β€” 114 ratings
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