Literary Memoirs and Biographies

1.
Expecting Adam: A true story of birth, transformation and unconditional love
Expecting Adam: A true story of birth, transformation and unconditional love 3.85 avg rating — 10,777 ratings
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The Seducer’s Diary
The Seducer’s Diary 3.58 avg rating — 6,955 ratings
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Letters To A Young Poet
Letters To A Young Poet 4.28 avg rating — 113,846 ratings
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Bluets
Bluets 4.06 avg rating — 54,803 ratings
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Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book 4.06 avg rating — 2,823 ratings
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Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography 3.93 avg rating — 15,316 ratings
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A Gentleman of Pleasure : One Life of John Glassco : Poet, Memoirist, Translator, and Pornographer
A Gentleman of Pleasure : One Life of John Glassco : Poet, Memoirist, Translator, and Pornographer 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Breaking the Silence
Breaking the Silence 4.13 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Time Without Clocks
Time Without Clocks 3.72 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's Memoirs
The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's Memoirs 4.36 avg rating — 107 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 — 45 ratings
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Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature 4.14 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Lamb Of Legacy
Lamb Of Legacy 4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger
Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger 3.24 avg rating — 4,304 ratings
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Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays
Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays 4.22 avg rating — 649 ratings
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Herinneringen aan Montparnasse
Herinneringen aan Montparnasse 3.87 avg rating — 559 ratings
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter 4.13 avg rating — 17,743 ratings
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Herinneringen uit de oude tijd: Aan schrijvers die ik persoonlijk heb gekend
Herinneringen uit de oude tijd: Aan schrijvers die ik persoonlijk heb gekend 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir
The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir 3.87 avg rating — 415 ratings
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Oorlogsdagboeken: 1914-1918. Een vrouw vertelt over haar Eerste Wereldoorlog
Oorlogsdagboeken: 1914-1918. Een vrouw vertelt over haar Eerste Wereldoorlog 4.15 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts 4.07 avg rating — 2,267 ratings
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In anderhalve kamer : Drie autobiografische novellen
In anderhalve kamer : Drie autobiografische novellen 3.73 avg rating — 26 ratings
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On Clowns: The Dictator and The Artist: Essays
On Clowns: The Dictator and The Artist: Essays 3.96 avg rating — 78 ratings
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My Place
My Place 3.99 avg rating — 6,669 ratings
25.
Russian Thinkers
Russian Thinkers 4.29 avg rating — 792 ratings
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Don't Take Your Love to Town
Don't Take Your Love to Town 3.93 avg rating — 257 ratings
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The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy
The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy 4.18 avg rating — 299 ratings
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Pieces of Blue
Pieces of Blue 3.76 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Walker Percy, an American Search
Walker Percy, an American Search 4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Jackson's Track : Memoir of a Dreamtime Place
Jackson's Track : Memoir of a Dreamtime Place 4.10 avg rating — 191 ratings
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The File: A Personal History
The File: A Personal History 3.82 avg rating — 1,281 ratings
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Gherla
Gherla
by: Paul Goma
4.36 avg rating — 146 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 4.30 avg rating — 568,945 ratings
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My Childhood
My Childhood
by: Paul Goma
4.12 avg rating — 132 ratings
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The Getting of Wisdom
The Getting of Wisdom 3.48 avg rating — 1,650 ratings
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Disappearance of the Outside
Disappearance of the Outside 3.81 avg rating — 57 ratings
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We of the Never-Never
We of the Never-Never 3.66 avg rating — 1,598 ratings
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Speak, Memory
Speak, Memory 4.08 avg rating — 17,394 ratings
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Over Prairie Trails
Over Prairie Trails 3.45 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939
Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 3.85 avg rating — 793 ratings
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Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over
Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over 3.94 avg rating — 2,886 ratings
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Diary of an Unknown
Diary of an Unknown 3.72 avg rating — 123 ratings
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The Road from Coorain
The Road from Coorain 4.02 avg rating — 13,391 ratings
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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen 4.12 avg rating — 11,548 ratings
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë
The Life of Charlotte Brontë 3.85 avg rating — 8,901 ratings
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True North - A Memoir
True North - A Memoir 3.91 avg rating — 1,574 ratings
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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections 4.29 avg rating — 12,264 ratings
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Samuel Pallache : koopman, kaper en diplomaat tussen Marrakesh en Amsterdam
Samuel Pallache : koopman, kaper en diplomaat tussen Marrakesh en Amsterdam 3.69 avg rating — 54 ratings
49.
Henry Miller: The Paris Years
Henry Miller: The Paris Years
by: Brassaï
4.11 avg rating — 405 ratings
50.
Life with Picasso
Life with Picasso 4.09 avg rating — 5,237 ratings
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The Captive Mind
The Captive Mind 4.27 avg rating — 4,725 ratings
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Selected Non-Fictions
Selected Non-Fictions 4.44 avg rating — 2,353 ratings
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Summer Meditations
Summer Meditations 4.15 avg rating — 336 ratings
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Vaclav Havel: Open Letters, Selected Prose 1965-1990
Vaclav Havel: Open Letters, Selected Prose 1965-1990 4.29 avg rating — 434 ratings
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Vaclav Havel: Or Living in Truth
Vaclav Havel: Or Living in Truth 4.38 avg rating — 212 ratings
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The Uses of Literature
The Uses of Literature 4.07 avg rating — 1,107 ratings
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On Certainty
On Certainty 4.16 avg rating — 4,909 ratings
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Fugitive Days: A Memoir
Fugitive Days: A Memoir 3.68 avg rating — 650 ratings
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Change Me into Zeus's Daughter: A Memoir
Change Me into Zeus's Daughter: A Memoir 4.02 avg rating — 2,838 ratings
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The Musil Diaries: Robert Musil, 1899-1942
The Musil Diaries: Robert Musil, 1899-1942 4.08 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Essays
Essays 4.51 avg rating — 755 ratings
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
by: Paul Elie
4.29 avg rating — 1,358 ratings
63.
A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays
A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays 3.75 avg rating — 538 ratings
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Burning the Days: Recollection
Burning the Days: Recollection 4.03 avg rating — 1,035 ratings
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Vera
Vera 3.86 avg rating — 1,373 ratings
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An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)
An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books) 3.93 avg rating — 1,087 ratings
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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments 4.36 avg rating — 13,072 ratings
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The Velvet Prison: Artists Under State Socialism
The Velvet Prison: Artists Under State Socialism 3.97 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Fierce and Beautiful World
The Fierce and Beautiful World 4.22 avg rating — 553 ratings
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My Happy Days In Hell
My Happy Days In Hell 4.52 avg rating — 581 ratings
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How to Be Alone
How to Be Alone 3.58 avg rating — 12,393 ratings
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I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud
I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud 4.26 avg rating — 308 ratings
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Memories of the Future
Memories of the Future 3.91 avg rating — 1,259 ratings
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Everything Flows
Everything Flows 4.21 avg rating — 4,295 ratings
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Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 - Updated Edition
Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 - Updated Edition 4.20 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Hell
Hell 3.59 avg rating — 2,544 ratings
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The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay
The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay 3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews : First Series
Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews : First Series 4.24 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Self-Consciousness
Self-Consciousness 3.82 avg rating — 589 ratings
80.
Men Explain Things to Me
Men Explain Things to Me 3.83 avg rating — 85,147 ratings
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On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry
On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry 3.84 avg rating — 1,982 ratings
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Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975
Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975 4.12 avg rating — 203 ratings