Memoirs Worth Reading
3. 
Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home
by:
Jessica Fechtor
4.04 avg rating — 3,470 ratings 4. 
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
by:
Caitlin Doughty
4.22 avg rating — 104,637 ratings 
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Hiding From Myself: My Complicated Rebirth into Womanhood and My Own Skin 4.01 avg rating — 334 ratings
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As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
by:
Cary Elwes
4.18 avg rating — 73,028 ratings 10. 
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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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Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
by:
Phuc Tran
4.29 avg rating — 9,605 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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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
by:
Rob Sheffield
3.87 avg rating — 41,528 ratings 
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Making a Difference Memoirs From the Women's Movement in India
by:
Ritu Menon
3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings 
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Taxi to Tashkent: Two Years with the Peace Corps in Uzbekistan
by:
Tom Fleming
3.71 avg rating — 35 ratings 
52. 
#Caste is Not a Rumour: The Online Diary of Rohith Vemula
by:
Rohith Vemula
3.90 avg rating — 62 ratings 
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Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
by:
Maria Bamford
3.72 avg rating — 23,388 ratings 
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Saving Simon: How a Rescue Donkey Taught Me the Meaning of Compassion
by:
Jon Katz
4.13 avg rating — 1,897 ratings 57. 
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
by:
Sujatha Gidla
3.80 avg rating — 2,558 ratings 
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I, Toto: The Autobiography of Terry, the Dog Who Was Toto
by:
Willard Carroll
4.11 avg rating — 172 ratings 61. 
The Weight of Shadows: A Memoir of Immigration & Displacement
by:
José Orduña
4.25 avg rating — 97 ratings 
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Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,741 ratings
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The Hotel on the Roof of the World: Five Years in Tibet
by:
Alec Le Sueur
3.92 avg rating — 1,226 ratings 
70. 
Apologies to My Censor: The High and Low Adventures of a Foreigner in China
by:
Mitch Moxley
3.25 avg rating — 260 ratings 
73. 
Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion
by:
Michael Levy
3.85 avg rating — 1,248 ratings 
76. 
Small-Town Russia: Childhood Memories of the Final Soviet Decade really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran
by:
Afschineh Latifi
4.06 avg rating — 551 ratings 
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The Last Executioner: Memoirs of Thailand's Last Prison Executioner 3.78 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Elephant Dance: A Story of Love and War in the Kingdom of Elephants
by:
Tammie Matson
3.78 avg rating — 101 ratings 86. 
Only Beautiful, Please: A British Diplomat in North Korea
by:
John Everard
4.02 avg rating — 393 ratings 
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Trains: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During and After World War II
by:
Miriam Winter
3.83 avg rating — 102 ratings 90. 
Between the Dances: World War II Women Tell Their Stories
by:
Jacqueline Dinan
3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings 92. 
The Other Side!: The Life Journey of a Young Girl Through Nazi Germany
by:
Inge Myrick
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 92. 
Horrie The War Dog: The Story of Australia's Most Famous Dog
by:
Roland Perry
4.21 avg rating — 237 ratings 
94. 
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by:
Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating — 52,428 ratings 
98. 
Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
by:
Loung Ung
4.20 avg rating — 3,496 ratings 100. 