Great Biographies/Autobiographies/Memoirs with under 500 ratings on Goodreads
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Lessons from a CF Cornerman: 38 Lessons I Learned During My Wife's Illness And Lung Transplant
by:
Raymond L. Poole
4.68 avg rating — 44 ratings 
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A Stranger Among Saints: Stephen Hopkins, the Man Who Survived Jamestown and Saved Plymouth
by:
Jonathan Mack
3.95 avg rating — 143 ratings 8. 
The Great Divorce: a Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times
by:
Ilyon Woo
3.84 avg rating — 450 ratings 
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Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy
by:
Joseph P. Lash
4.32 avg rating — 536 ratings 
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"We Were Five:" The Dionne Quintuplets' Story From Birth Through Girlhood to Womanhood
by:
James Brough
3.67 avg rating — 141 ratings 14. 
Family Secrets: The Dionne Quintuplets' Autobiography
by:
Jean-Yves Soucy
3.83 avg rating — 117 ratings 
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Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956
by:
Gavin Maxwell
3.70 avg rating — 285 ratings 16. 
Extraordinary Lives: The Art and Craft of American Biography
by:
William Zinsser
3.94 avg rating — 282 ratings 16. 
Hiding From Myself: My Complicated Rebirth into Womanhood and My Own Skin 4.01 avg rating — 334 ratings
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Carrying the Tiger: Living with Cancer, Dying with Grace, Finding Joy While Grieving
by:
Tony Stewart
4.23 avg rating — 43 ratings 
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A Place for Us: A Greek Immigrant Boy's Odyssey to a New Country and an Unknown Father
by:
Nicholas Gage
4.32 avg rating — 312 ratings 
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Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino
by:
Emily W. Leider
4.12 avg rating — 420 ratings 
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Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
by:
Veronica Buckley
3.45 avg rating — 502 ratings 
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Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot 3.79 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Right Time, Right Place: Coming of Age with William F. Buckley Jr. and the Conservative Movement 3.81 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Tracking the Wild Coomba: The Life of Legendary Skier Doug Coombs
by:
Robert Cocuzzo
4.42 avg rating — 404 ratings 
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The Secret of Kit Cavenaugh: A Remarkable Irishwoman and Soldier
by:
Anne Holland
3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings 47. 
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Breakfast in hell: A doctor's eyewitness account of the politics of hunger in Ethiopia
by:
Myles F. Harris
3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings 
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Mountain Rescue Doctor: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature 3.78 avg rating — 382 ratings
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The Labyrinth: Memoirs Of Walter Schellenberg, Hitler's Chief Of Counterintelligence 3.91 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Paul's Records: How a Refugee from the Vietnam War Found Success Selling Vinyl on the Streets of Hong Kong 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Hole in the Sheet: A Modern Woman Looks at Orthodox and Hasidic Judaism
by:
Evelyn Kaye
2.38 avg rating — 8 ratings 
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You have a Lot to Lose: A Memoir, 1956–1986 (2) (C. K. Stead Memoirs)
by:
C.K. Stead
3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings 
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Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine's Civil War, 1917-1921
by:
Sean Patterson
4.43 avg rating — 28 ratings 
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Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard: A Cultural History
by:
William Kerrigan
3.82 avg rating — 51 ratings 75. 
Carl Rückert's Memoirs of the Franco-Prussian War
by:
Alfred Kelly
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 75. 
The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown
by:
Nathen Amin
4.23 avg rating — 427 ratings 75.
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The Mannings: The Fall and Rise of a Football Family
by:
Lars Anderson
4.04 avg rating — 312 ratings 79. 
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In the Shadow of Freedom: A Heroic Journey to Liberation, Manhood, and America 4.31 avg rating — 221 ratings
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A Season in the Sun: The Inside Story of Bruce Arians, Tom Brady, and the Making of a Champion
by:
Lars Anderson
4.04 avg rating — 399 ratings 
89. 
Musical Memories of Laura Ingalls Wilder (History Alive Through Music)
by:
William Anderson
4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings 89. 
The Way It Spozed to Be (Innovators in Education)
by:
Jack Herndon
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 110 ratings 93. 
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Ally Betrayed: The Uncensored Story of Tito and Mihailovich
by:
David Martin
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 
97. 
Massacre on the Merrimack: Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America
by:
Jay Atkinson
3.75 avg rating — 422 ratings 
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The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out For
by:
Alison Bechdel
4.39 avg rating — 525 ratings