Memoirs About One's Parents

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The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating β€” 1,325,639 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 Long Winter (Little House, #6)
The Long Winter (Little House, #6) 4.18 avg rating β€” 91,400 ratings
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Educated
Educated 4.47 avg rating β€” 1,772,937 ratings
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Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) 4.15 avg rating β€” 650,956 ratings
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating β€” 197,140 ratings
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Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1) 4.21 avg rating β€” 281,978 ratings
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Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama 3.71 avg rating β€” 35,013 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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French Milk
French Milk 3.33 avg rating β€” 8,405 ratings
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Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
Relish: My Life in the Kitchen 3.95 avg rating β€” 22,339 ratings
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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
by: Roz Chast
4.16 avg rating β€” 31,597 ratings
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Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir
Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir 4.11 avg rating β€” 834 ratings
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Wheels Within Wheels
Wheels Within Wheels 4.22 avg rating β€” 540 ratings
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The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life
The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life 3.95 avg rating β€” 3,718 ratings
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Farangi Girl Growing Up in Iran: A Daughter's Story
Farangi Girl Growing Up in Iran: A Daughter's Story 4.14 avg rating β€” 192 ratings
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Anu: The Yo-Yo Years
Anu: The Yo-Yo Years it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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Scent of Dried Roses
Scent of Dried Roses
by: Tim Lott
4.05 avg rating β€” 257 ratings
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Mom's Marijuana: Life, Love, and Beating the Odds
Mom's Marijuana: Life, Love, and Beating the Odds 4.15 avg rating β€” 278 ratings
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The Slow Farm
The Slow Farm 4.20 avg rating β€” 98 ratings
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Just Another Number
Just Another Number 3.69 avg rating β€” 87 ratings
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A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me: A Memoir
A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me: A Memoir 4.04 avg rating β€” 1,415 ratings
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Eulogy
Eulogy 3.87 avg rating β€” 52 ratings
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My Father Baliah
My Father Baliah 4.26 avg rating β€” 435 ratings
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Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me 3.98 avg rating β€” 32,641 ratings
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Eleni
Eleni 4.42 avg rating β€” 2,723 ratings
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An Encyclopedia of Bending Time
An Encyclopedia of Bending Time 4.61 avg rating β€” 28 ratings
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My Mother Next Door
My Mother Next Door 3.89 avg rating β€” 37 ratings
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Anu: The Nomad Years
Anu: The Nomad Years 4.43 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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Mendel's Daughter: A Memoir
Mendel's Daughter: A Memoir 3.93 avg rating β€” 295 ratings
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The Maharaja's Household: A Daughter's Memories of Her Father
The Maharaja's Household: A Daughter's Memories of Her Father
by: Binodini
3.40 avg rating β€” 20 ratings
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Cherry
Cherry
by: Mary Karr
3.80 avg rating β€” 10,496 ratings
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Her Father's Daughter
Her Father's Daughter 3.94 avg rating β€” 856 ratings
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Anu: The Raj Years
Anu: The Raj Years 4.36 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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Bending Toward the Sun: A Mother and Daughter Memoir
Bending Toward the Sun: A Mother and Daughter Memoir 4.01 avg rating β€” 753 ratings
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The Liars' Club
The Liars' Club
by: Mary Karr
3.94 avg rating β€” 71,039 ratings
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Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story
Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story 3.28 avg rating β€” 120 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by: Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating β€” 52,425 ratings
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Rory & Ita
Rory & Ita 3.44 avg rating β€” 410 ratings
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My Mother's Wars
My Mother's Wars 4.07 avg rating β€” 118 ratings
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The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood 3.75 avg rating β€” 1,642 ratings
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Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
by: Zoya Phan
4.03 avg rating β€” 662 ratings
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Mommie Dearest
Mommie Dearest 3.67 avg rating β€” 11,365 ratings
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Home Before Night
Home Before Night 3.86 avg rating β€” 121 ratings
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Thanks to My Mother
Thanks to My Mother 4.12 avg rating β€” 2,517 ratings
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The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice, Countess de JanzΓ©
The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice, Countess de JanzΓ© 3.65 avg rating β€” 572 ratings
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Murder Book: A Graphic Memoir of a True Crime Obsession
Murder Book: A Graphic Memoir of a True Crime Obsession 3.67 avg rating β€” 2,079 ratings
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My Dawn
My Dawn really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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The Impostor's Daughter: A True Memoir
The Impostor's Daughter: A True Memoir 3.57 avg rating β€” 2,407 ratings
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Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields
Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields 4.36 avg rating β€” 33 ratings
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Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef 3.77 avg rating β€” 36,936 ratings
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Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home
Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home 3.69 avg rating β€” 1,149 ratings
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Mom's Cancer
Mom's Cancer 3.93 avg rating β€” 1,681 ratings
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Geisha, a Life
Geisha, a Life 3.93 avg rating β€” 26,804 ratings
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Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More 4.30 avg rating β€” 16,467 ratings
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Glitter and Glue
Glitter and Glue 3.85 avg rating β€” 17,881 ratings
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Hero Mama: A Daughter Remembers the Father She Lost in Vietnam--and the Mother Who Held Her Family Together
Hero Mama: A Daughter Remembers the Father She Lost in Vietnam--and the Mother Who Held Her Family Together 3.82 avg rating β€” 153 ratings
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? 4.01 avg rating β€” 45,373 ratings
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Black Cat in the Window: A Family Album with Much Love and Squalor
Black Cat in the Window: A Family Album with Much Love and Squalor 4.17 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir
A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir 4.12 avg rating β€” 2,253 ratings
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My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family
My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family 3.81 avg rating β€” 1,019 ratings
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Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter: Growing Up with a Gay Dad
Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter: Growing Up with a Gay Dad 3.82 avg rating β€” 720 ratings
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My Mother's Spice Cupboard: A Journey from Baghdad to Bombay to Bondi
My Mother's Spice Cupboard: A Journey from Baghdad to Bombay to Bondi 4.19 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoodsβ€”My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine
Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoodsβ€”My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine 3.56 avg rating β€” 503 ratings
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Sidonia's Thread: The Secrets of a Mother and Daughter Sewing a New Life in America
Sidonia's Thread: The Secrets of a Mother and Daughter Sewing a New Life in America 4.03 avg rating β€” 501 ratings
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This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone
This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone 3.75 avg rating β€” 2,961 ratings
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The Flamboya Tree : Memories of a Family's War-Time Courage
The Flamboya Tree : Memories of a Family's War-Time Courage 4.22 avg rating β€” 913 ratings
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Dirty Secret: A Daughter Comes Clean About Her Mother's Compulsive Hoarding
Dirty Secret: A Daughter Comes Clean About Her Mother's Compulsive Hoarding 3.74 avg rating β€” 2,330 ratings
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Special Exits
Special Exits 4.03 avg rating β€” 1,905 ratings
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The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics
The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics 3.85 avg rating β€” 189 ratings
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A Penny Always Has Two Sides
A Penny Always Has Two Sides 4.33 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale
Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale 3.83 avg rating β€” 1,218 ratings
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In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide
In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide 3.74 avg rating β€” 173 ratings
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Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love
Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love 4.07 avg rating β€” 2,439 ratings
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My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq 4.24 avg rating β€” 2,792 ratings
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Family Outing: What Happened When I Found Out My Mother Was Gay
Family Outing: What Happened When I Found Out My Mother Was Gay 3.48 avg rating β€” 44 ratings
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House Rules: A Memoir
House Rules: A Memoir 3.69 avg rating β€” 2,582 ratings
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The Color of Water
The Color of Water 4.15 avg rating β€” 131,556 ratings
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Hope's Boy: A Memoir
Hope's Boy: A Memoir 3.94 avg rating β€” 3,638 ratings
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The Hypocrisy of Disco
The Hypocrisy of Disco 3.90 avg rating β€” 316 ratings
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Driving with Dead People
Driving with Dead People 3.86 avg rating β€” 5,918 ratings
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The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood
The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood 4.06 avg rating β€” 2,923 ratings
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Comes the Peace: My Journey to Forgiveness
Comes the Peace: My Journey to Forgiveness 3.56 avg rating β€” 89 ratings
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Notes from Nethers: Growing Up in a Sixties Commune
Notes from Nethers: Growing Up in a Sixties Commune 3.75 avg rating β€” 114 ratings
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Nisei Memories: My Parents Talk about the War Years (Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies)
Nisei Memories: My Parents Talk about the War Years (Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies) 3.90 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
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Miss Black America
Miss Black America 3.86 avg rating β€” 64 ratings
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All the Fishes Come Home to Roost
All the Fishes Come Home to Roost 3.72 avg rating β€” 811 ratings
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When All the World Was Young: A Memoir
When All the World Was Young: A Memoir 3.91 avg rating β€” 276 ratings
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Rescuing Patty Hearst: Growing Up Sane in a Decade Gone Mad
Rescuing Patty Hearst: Growing Up Sane in a Decade Gone Mad 3.58 avg rating β€” 1,387 ratings
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American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood 3.72 avg rating β€” 910 ratings
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The Bonfire of Berlin: A Lost Childhood in Wartime Germany
The Bonfire of Berlin: A Lost Childhood in Wartime Germany 4.16 avg rating β€” 1,826 ratings
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Let Me Go
Let Me Go 3.90 avg rating β€” 4,065 ratings
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Love, Ellen: A Mother/Daughter Journey
Love, Ellen: A Mother/Daughter Journey 3.88 avg rating β€” 2,369 ratings
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Ethel and Ernest
Ethel and Ernest 4.20 avg rating β€” 3,820 ratings
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Under a Wing: A Memoir
Under a Wing: A Memoir 3.70 avg rating β€” 838 ratings
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The Jew Store
The Jew Store 3.89 avg rating β€” 2,967 ratings
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Mama's Girl
Mama's Girl 3.92 avg rating β€” 355 ratings
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The Autobiography of My Mother
The Autobiography of My Mother 3.78 avg rating β€” 6,046 ratings
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The Dream of Water: A Memoir
The Dream of Water: A Memoir 3.88 avg rating β€” 224 ratings
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The Mother I Carry: A Memoir of Healing from Emotional Abuse
The Mother I Carry: A Memoir of Healing from Emotional Abuse 4.24 avg rating β€” 38 ratings
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