Bibliomemoirs
2. 
The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared
by:
Alice Ozma
3.67 avg rating — 6,776 ratings 3. 
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
by:
Nina Sankovitch
3.48 avg rating — 7,282 ratings 4. 
So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
by:
Sara Nelson
3.39 avg rating — 3,041 ratings 
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The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book
by:
Wendy Welch
3.71 avg rating — 3,250 ratings 11. 
Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
by:
Susan Hill
3.65 avg rating — 4,001 ratings 
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Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
by:
Annie Spence
3.76 avg rating — 11,056 ratings 
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A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books
by:
Alberto Manguel
3.53 avg rating — 1,364 ratings 18. 
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter 3.84 avg rating — 4,024 ratings
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I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
by:
Anne Bogel
4.02 avg rating — 19,941 ratings 20. 
Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World
by:
David Denby
3.86 avg rating — 1,077 ratings 21. 
The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading
by:
Phyllis Rose
3.67 avg rating — 725 ratings 
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My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop
by:
Ronald Rice
3.88 avg rating — 1,145 ratings 24. 
The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
by:
Laura Miller
3.81 avg rating — 1,143 ratings 25. 
Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love
by:
Anne Fadiman
3.72 avg rating — 964 ratings 26. 
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
by:
Maureen Corrigan
3.46 avg rating — 1,995 ratings 26. 
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The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians, and Other Remarkable People
by:
Bethanne Patrick
3.61 avg rating — 584 ratings 
31. 
Bookmarked: Reading My Way from Hollywood to Brooklyn
by:
Wendy W. Fairey
3.24 avg rating — 143 ratings 32. 
Ten Years in the Tub: A Decade Soaking in Great Books
by:
Nick Hornby
4.04 avg rating — 1,424 ratings 33. 
Gutenberg’s Fingerprint: A Book Lover Bridges the Digital Divide
by:
Merilyn Simonds
3.91 avg rating — 107 ratings 
40. 
Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
by:
Helene Hanff
4.05 avg rating — 2,200 ratings 
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A Book Teacher for Every School: Featuring Mount Kenya Academy
by:
Kemie Nix
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 45. 
Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education
by:
Michael Dirda
4.26 avg rating — 314 ratings 
46. 
The Great Comic Book Heroes: The Origins and Early Adventures of the Classic Super-Heroes of the Comic Books
by:
Jules Feiffer
4.12 avg rating — 273 ratings 48. 
Welcome to Lizard Motel: Children, Stories, and the Mystery of Making Things Up, A Memoir
by:
Barbara Feinberg
3.21 avg rating — 68 ratings 48. 
Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible
by:
David Plotz
3.81 avg rating — 1,581 ratings 50. 
The Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me about Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else 3.57 avg rating — 569 ratings
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So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
by:
Gabriel Zaid
3.72 avg rating — 1,189 ratings 52. 
Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children's Picture Books
by:
Clare Pollard
4.15 avg rating — 330 ratings 53. 
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
by:
Elif Batuman
3.71 avg rating — 5,946 ratings 53. 
From Little Houses to Little Women: Revisiting a Literary Childhood
by:
Nancy McCabe
3.37 avg rating — 101 ratings 55. 
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My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
by:
Pamela Paul
3.71 avg rating — 4,511 ratings 
58. 
Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult
by:
Bruce Handy
3.75 avg rating — 1,891 ratings 59. 
Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life
by:
Stephanie Staal
3.67 avg rating — 599 ratings 
61. 
Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship
by:
Michelle Kuo
4.16 avg rating — 5,943 ratings 61. 
Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs & Counterculture in the Lower East Side
by:
Ed Sanders
4.12 avg rating — 154 ratings 
65. 
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting and Living with Books
by:
Michael Dirda
3.63 avg rating — 1,291 ratings 66. 
The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading
by:
Anne Gisleson
3.67 avg rating — 597 ratings 
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Comic Book Babylon: A Cautionary Tale of Sex, Drugs & Comics
by:
Tim Pilcher
2.97 avg rating — 30 ratings 
73. 
The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison
by:
Mikita Brottman
3.15 avg rating — 1,128 ratings 74. 
A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the Brontës Taught Me about Life, Love, and Women's Work 3.85 avg rating — 182 ratings
76. 
The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder
by:
Erin Blakemore
3.55 avg rating — 1,478 ratings 77. 
An Alphabetical Life: Living It Up in the World of Books
by:
Wendy Werris
3.38 avg rating — 355 ratings 78. 
Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore 3.53 avg rating — 563 ratings
79. 
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
by:
Vivian Gornick
3.73 avg rating — 1,144 ratings 
81. 
The Golden Thread: A Reader's Journey Through The Great Books
by:
Bruce Meyer
4.10 avg rating — 51 ratings 82. 
Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan
by:
Ted Scheinman
3.21 avg rating — 673 ratings 83. 
Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom
by:
Deborah Yaffe
3.65 avg rating — 1,265 ratings 
86. 
Everything I Needed to Know about Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume 3.49 avg rating — 2,044 ratings
87. 
Robin Ince's Bad Book Club: One Man's Quest to Uncover the Books that Time Forgot
by:
Robin Ince
3.59 avg rating — 374 ratings 
89. 
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions
by:
Alberto Manguel
3.89 avg rating — 2,488 ratings 90. 
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The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time And Fighting Wars 3.73 avg rating — 1,795 ratings
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Raising a Reader: A Mother's Tale of Desperation and Delight
by:
Jennie Nash
3.68 avg rating — 129 ratings 96. 
Would You Like Some Bread With That Book? And Other Instances of Literary Love
by:
Veena Venugopal
3.96 avg rating — 119 ratings 97. 
