Memoirs and Such for Aspiring Memoirists

1.
Bastard Out of Carolina
Bastard Out of Carolina 4.14 avg rating — 46,995 ratings
2.
Bournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls
Bournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls 4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
3.
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing 3.42 avg rating — 10,424 ratings
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The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating — 1,325,737 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 — 5,973 ratings
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The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking 3.93 avg rating — 285,005 ratings
7.
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,421 ratings
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Grit: The Banter and Brutality of the Late-Night Cab
Grit: The Banter and Brutality of the Late-Night Cab 3.76 avg rating — 1,100 ratings
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter 4.13 avg rating — 17,747 ratings
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The Complete Persepolis
The Complete Persepolis 4.40 avg rating — 199,597 ratings
11.
Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 4.49 avg rating — 822 ratings
12.
Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted 3.94 avg rating — 269,421 ratings
13.
About Looking
About Looking 4.09 avg rating — 9,053 ratings
14.
Red Azalea
Red Azalea 3.84 avg rating — 10,640 ratings
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) 4.39 avg rating — 365,617 ratings
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,151 ratings
17.
Black Boy
Black Boy 4.09 avg rating — 55,307 ratings
18.
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza 4.33 avg rating — 13,224 ratings
19.
My Father, the Pornographer
My Father, the Pornographer 3.62 avg rating — 2,023 ratings
20.
Janet Frame: An Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)
Janet Frame: An Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3) 4.21 avg rating — 2,516 ratings
21.
Fierce Attachments
Fierce Attachments 4.04 avg rating — 18,562 ratings
22.
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail 4.07 avg rating — 850,533 ratings
23.
Dog Years
Dog Years
by: Mark Doty
3.90 avg rating — 2,990 ratings
23.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? 4.01 avg rating — 45,379 ratings
25.
The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again
The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again 4.07 avg rating — 538 ratings
26.
Austerlitz
Austerlitz 3.98 avg rating — 25,619 ratings
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Where I Was From
Where I Was From 3.86 avg rating — 6,197 ratings
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Bone Black
Bone Black 4.26 avg rating — 4,137 ratings
29.
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance 3.94 avg rating — 229,617 ratings
30.
Fair Play
Fair Play 3.89 avg rating — 7,046 ratings
30.
A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas 4.18 avg rating — 5,090 ratings
30.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating — 132,003 ratings
33.
Running in the Family
Running in the Family 3.83 avg rating — 9,732 ratings
34.
Crying in H Mart
Crying in H Mart 4.24 avg rating — 555,748 ratings
35.
We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating — 320,755 ratings
36.
The Invention of Solitude
The Invention of Solitude 3.76 avg rating — 16,787 ratings
37.
Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing 3.93 avg rating — 418,879 ratings
37.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,196 ratings
39.
The Last Black Unicorn
The Last Black Unicorn 3.84 avg rating — 68,458 ratings
40.
The Poetics of Space
The Poetics of Space 4.18 avg rating — 10,888 ratings
41.
An American Childhood
An American Childhood 3.91 avg rating — 10,426 ratings
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 4.08 avg rating — 29,049 ratings
43.
Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia 3.93 avg rating — 4,445 ratings
44.
Not My Father's Son
Not My Father's Son 4.05 avg rating — 46,602 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 — 568,987 ratings
46.
Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric 4.26 avg rating — 50,755 ratings
47.
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir 4.49 avg rating — 25,287 ratings
48.
Take This Man: A Memoir
Take This Man: A Memoir 3.74 avg rating — 1,308 ratings
48.
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
48.
Scenes from My Life: A Memoir
Scenes from My Life: A Memoir 4.48 avg rating — 3,420 ratings
51.
Ronnie Gilbert: A Radical Life in Song
Ronnie Gilbert: A Radical Life in Song 4.02 avg rating — 42 ratings
52.
Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir 4.20 avg rating — 4,091 ratings
53.
Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
by: Mark Doty
4.22 avg rating — 2,097 ratings
53.
Memoirs of Hadrian
Memoirs of Hadrian 4.22 avg rating — 34,192 ratings
55.
Lakota Woman
Lakota Woman 3.97 avg rating — 8,729 ratings
56.
Brother, I'm Dying
Brother, I'm Dying 4.16 avg rating — 7,577 ratings
57.
Levels of Life
Levels of Life 3.90 avg rating — 13,856 ratings
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Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2) 4.42 avg rating — 156,039 ratings
57.
The Writing Life
The Writing Life 3.98 avg rating — 18,001 ratings
60.
Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
by: Mark Doty
4.38 avg rating — 1,092 ratings
60.
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place 4.18 avg rating — 10,618 ratings
62.
The Boys of My Youth
The Boys of My Youth 4.12 avg rating — 5,772 ratings
62.
The Mistress's Daughter
The Mistress's Daughter 3.31 avg rating — 4,459 ratings
62.
The Rules Do Not Apply
The Rules Do Not Apply 3.70 avg rating — 35,113 ratings
65.
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice 4.20 avg rating — 9,148 ratings
66.
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness 3.99 avg rating — 30,924 ratings
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The Loony-Bin Trip
The Loony-Bin Trip 3.83 avg rating — 1,091 ratings
68.
The Faraway Nearby
The Faraway Nearby 4.21 avg rating — 7,556 ratings
69.
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos 4.19 avg rating — 3,170 ratings
69.
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage 4.01 avg rating — 38,359 ratings
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Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge
Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge 3.77 avg rating — 472 ratings
72.
My Father and Myself
My Father and Myself 3.87 avg rating — 745 ratings
72.
My Life
My Life 4.16 avg rating — 2,001 ratings
72.
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name 4.40 avg rating — 23,085 ratings
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Journal of a Solitude
Journal of a Solitude 4.14 avg rating — 5,895 ratings
75.
Soldier: A Poet's Childhood
Soldier: A Poet's Childhood 4.21 avg rating — 428 ratings
75.
I Will Bear Witness 1933-41: A Diary of the Nazi Years
I Will Bear Witness 1933-41: A Diary of the Nazi Years 4.33 avg rating — 2,887 ratings
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The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant
The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant 4.05 avg rating — 8,735 ratings
78.
The Cancer Journals
The Cancer Journals 4.42 avg rating — 5,111 ratings
78.
I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years
I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years 4.38 avg rating — 1,266 ratings
81.
Pentimento
Pentimento 3.95 avg rating — 2,932 ratings
81.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,728 ratings
83.
Blue Nights
Blue Nights 3.94 avg rating — 46,066 ratings
83.
Stone Butch Blues
Stone Butch Blues 4.53 avg rating — 34,595 ratings
83.
Finding Me
Finding Me 4.54 avg rating — 165,847 ratings
86.
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters 4.15 avg rating — 6,787 ratings
86.
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table 4.08 avg rating — 38,840 ratings
86.
I Said Yes to Everything: A Memoir
I Said Yes to Everything: A Memoir
by: Lee Grant
3.52 avg rating — 567 ratings
89.
The Shape of a Pocket
The Shape of a Pocket 4.10 avg rating — 1,166 ratings
89.
Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art
Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art 3.90 avg rating — 7,254 ratings
91.
The Memory Chalet
The Memory Chalet
by: Tony Judt
4.13 avg rating — 2,188 ratings
92.
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry 4.26 avg rating — 3,543 ratings
92.
Brat: An '80s Story
Brat: An '80s Story 3.61 avg rating — 15,321 ratings
94.
In Pieces
In Pieces 3.94 avg rating — 40,902 ratings
95.
My Life So Far
My Life So Far 4.04 avg rating — 6,899 ratings
96.
Thinking Class: Sketches from a Cultural Worker
Thinking Class: Sketches from a Cultural Worker 4.36 avg rating — 133 ratings
97.
When I Was Puerto Rican
When I Was Puerto Rican 4.07 avg rating — 13,512 ratings
98.
A Child's Life and Other Stories
A Child's Life and Other Stories 4.12 avg rating — 2,565 ratings
99.
My New York Diary
My New York Diary 3.83 avg rating — 3,019 ratings
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The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship
The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship 4.10 avg rating — 576 ratings
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