Biography/Memoir/Autobiography on Goodreads with 500 to 999 ratings
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Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties 4.07 avg rating β 982 ratings
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The Ear of the Heart: An Actress' Journey from Hollywood to Holy Vows
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Dolores Hart
4.03 avg rating β 780 ratings 3. 
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Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror
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Nonie Darwish
4.06 avg rating β 747 ratings 6. 
Granuaile: Grace O'Malley, Ireland's Pirate Queen
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Anne Chambers
3.48 avg rating β 1,079 ratings 6. 
Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel
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John Scott
3.71 avg rating β 649 ratings 8. 
A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
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Jennet Conant
3.19 avg rating β 1,055 ratings 
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Dog Company: A True Story of American Soldiers Abandoned by Their High Command
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Lynn Vincent
4.44 avg rating β 647 ratings 
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Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage
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Jeff Benedict
4.11 avg rating β 725 ratings 15. 
Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right
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Ken Stern
3.74 avg rating β 560 ratings 16. 
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Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas
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Carl Safina
4.31 avg rating β 941 ratings 20. 
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My Life as Laura: How I Searched for Laura Ingalls Wilder and Found Myself 3.76 avg rating β 505 ratings
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Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans
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Charles Moore
3.90 avg rating β 531 ratings 24. 
Wine to Water: A Bartender's Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World
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Doc Hendley
3.95 avg rating β 782 ratings 25. 
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No Place to Hide: A Brain Surgeonβs Long Journey Home from the Iraq War
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W. Lee Warren
4.45 avg rating β 905 ratings 
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Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland
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Chris Thrall
3.60 avg rating β 771 ratings 31. 
The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
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Barbara Taylor
3.56 avg rating β 605 ratings 
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Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler 4.25 avg rating β 987 ratings
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Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal
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Sarah Maslin Nir
4.07 avg rating β 681 ratings 
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One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival
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Donald Antrim
3.78 avg rating β 1,014 ratings 
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Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System
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Jarrett Adams
4.77 avg rating β 643 ratings 54. 
The Lady Whose Mouth I Set on Fire: True Tales from the ER
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Dr. McAnonymous
3.84 avg rating β 682 ratings 
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Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures
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Louise Rafkin
3.07 avg rating β 550 ratings 58. 
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
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William Neuman
4.12 avg rating β 979 ratings 
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River Monsters: True Stories of the Ones that Didn't Get Away
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Jeremy Wade
4.26 avg rating β 948 ratings 
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Demonic Foes: My Twenty-Five Years as a Psychiatrist Investigating Possessions, Diabolic Attacks, and the Paranormal 3.76 avg rating β 968 ratings
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Downstairs at the White House: The Story of a Teenager, an Oval Office, and a Ringside Seat to Watergate 4.27 avg rating β 692 ratings
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The True History of the Elephant Man: The Definitive Account of the Tragic and Extraordinary Life of Joseph Carey Merrick
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Peter Ford
3.84 avg rating β 1,026 ratings 74. 
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Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home
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Sheri Booker
3.50 avg rating β 931 ratings 77. 
Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection
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Deborah Blum
4.25 avg rating β 926 ratings 
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Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea
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Kira Salak
4.02 avg rating β 942 ratings 80. 
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People of the Century: One Hundred Men & Women Who Shaped the Last One Hundred Years
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Walter Isaacson
3.83 avg rating β 585 ratings 
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Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted
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Gerald Imber
4.05 avg rating β 802 ratings 
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A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family
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Lou Ann Walker
3.97 avg rating β 1,004 ratings 
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Dorothy Day; The World Will Be Saved By Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of Dorothy Day
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Kate Hennessy
3.94 avg rating β 1,000 ratings 
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Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
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Larry Tye
3.95 avg rating β 842 ratings 
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Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America
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Michelle Kennedy
3.55 avg rating β 631 ratings 100. 
Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
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Raghu Karnad
3.89 avg rating β 556 ratings