Ethnic/Cultural Memoirs
1. 
Journey to the West: A Long March from Eastern Dream to Western Reality
by:
Biao Wang
4.27 avg rating — 142 ratings 2. 
The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
by:
Widad Akreyi
4.20 avg rating — 409 ratings 3. 
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by:
Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,680 ratings 4. 
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment 3.71 avg rating — 19,530 ratings
5. 
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
by:
Malala Yousafzai
4.16 avg rating — 612,703 ratings 
7. 
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
by:
Chester Nez
4.26 avg rating — 8,400 ratings 
12. 
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by:
Maya Angelou
4.30 avg rating — 568,944 ratings 
14. 
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by:
Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating — 52,424 ratings 
16. 
The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
by:
Somaly Mam
4.20 avg rating — 8,709 ratings 17. 
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by:
Marjane Satrapi
4.27 avg rating — 224,931 ratings 18. 
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
by:
Blaine Harden
4.01 avg rating — 70,869 ratings 
21. 
Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran
by:
Parsua Bashi
3.42 avg rating — 448 ratings 22. 
A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice
by:
Malalai Joya
3.99 avg rating — 1,478 ratings 23. 
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
by:
Trevor Noah
4.49 avg rating — 778,767 ratings 24. 
Only Beautiful, Please: A British Diplomat in North Korea
by:
John Everard
4.02 avg rating — 393 ratings 
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Eyes of the Tailless Animals: Prison Memoirs of a North Korean Woman
by:
Soon Ok Lee
3.90 avg rating — 324 ratings 
31. 
The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
by:
Nadia Murad
4.48 avg rating — 27,356 ratings 32. 
Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America
by:
Francis Bok
4.11 avg rating — 691 ratings 33. 
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
by:
John G. Neihardt
4.12 avg rating — 18,419 ratings 
37. 
Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness
by:
Jeffrey Tayler
3.80 avg rating — 1,016 ratings 38. 
Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo
by:
Kate Jackson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 185 ratings 38. 
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 4.03 avg rating — 8,270 ratings
41. 
A Kazakh Teacher's Story: Surviving the Silent Steppe really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
44. 
Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa
by:
Paul R. Linde
3.74 avg rating — 105 ratings 
47. 
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years With a Midwife in Mali
by:
Kris Holloway
4.17 avg rating — 4,983 ratings 
49. 
Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu 3.86 avg rating — 13,874 ratings
52. 
Shush! Growing Up Jewish under Stalin: A Memoir
by:
Emil Draitser
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings 53. 
Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo
by:
Vanessa Woods
4.01 avg rating — 2,027 ratings 
56. 
Small Town Is a World: The "Rabbi Stories" of David Kossoff
by:
David Kossoff
4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings 57. 
The Hotel on the Roof of the World: From Miss Tibet to Shangri-La
by:
Alec Le Sueur
3.92 avg rating — 1,226 ratings 57. 
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope 4.07 avg rating — 31,874 ratings
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
by:
Alexandra Fuller
3.97 avg rating — 56,655 ratings 
64. 
Hostages: The personal testimony of a Soviet Jew
by:
Gregory Svirsky
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 
67. 
Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion
by:
Michael Levy
3.85 avg rating — 1,248 ratings 
69. 
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (All Creatures Great and Small, #2)
by:
James Herriot
4.36 avg rating — 7,620 ratings 70. 
The Doctor + the Teacher: Oman 1955-1970: Memoirs of Dr. Donald and Eloise Bosch
by:
Donald Bosch
4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings 
72. 
Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule from Ecuador to Cuzco
by:
Dervla Murphy
3.99 avg rating — 614 ratings 
73. 
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
by:
Masaji Ishikawa
4.28 avg rating — 60,939 ratings 75. 
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
by:
Yeonmi Park
4.49 avg rating — 99,414 ratings 76. 
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
by:
Hyeonseo Lee
4.43 avg rating — 98,743 ratings 77. 
78. 
A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea
by:
Eunsun Kim
3.97 avg rating — 8,066 ratings 
79. 
This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President 3.99 avg rating — 1,962 ratings
85. 
A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
by:
Gertrude Bell
3.79 avg rating — 508 ratings 
87. 
Mapping My Way Home: Activism, Nostalgia, and the Downfall of Apartheid South Africa
by:
Stephanie Urdang
4.67 avg rating — 18 ratings 89. 
Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America
by:
Jack Barsky
4.07 avg rating — 2,660 ratings 90. 
The Man Who Dreamed of Elk-Dogs & Other Stories from the Tipi
by:
Paul Goble
3.59 avg rating — 37 ratings 
92. 
Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival
by:
Fadumo Korn
3.89 avg rating — 278 ratings 93. 
Lost Among the Baining: Adventure, Marriage, and Other Fieldwork (Volume 1)
by:
Gail Pool
4.14 avg rating — 29 ratings 
96. 
Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World
by:
Yang Erche Namu
3.94 avg rating — 2,083 ratings 
98. 
King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village 3.90 avg rating — 2,537 ratings
