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Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
4.16 average rating, · 665.1k ratings
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The Story of My Life
Helen Keller
4.07 average rating, · 151.9k ratings
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Boy: Tales of Childhood
Roald Dahl
4.07 average rating, · 75k ratings
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Lust for Life
Irving Stone
4.28 average rating, · 32.3k ratings
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We're Going to Need More Wine
Gabrielle Union
4.19 average rating, · 38k ratings
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
Maggie O'Farrell
4.00 average rating, · 56.1k ratings
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M Train
Patti Smith
4.02 average rating, · 53k ratings
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Karl Ove Knausgård
4.33 average rating, · 24.9k ratings
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
4.28 average rating, · 27.1k ratings
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Cheaper by the Dozen
Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
4.00 average rating, · 45.2k ratings
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You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Maggie Smith
4.02 average rating, · 39.4k ratings
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Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Anne Lamott
4.18 average rating, · 26.3k ratings
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Shout
Laurie Halse Anderson
4.24 average rating, · 22.4k ratings
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Gather Together in My Name
Maya Angelou
4.32 average rating, · 19k ratings
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Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
Kelly Corrigan
4.17 average rating, · 22.2k ratings
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All Creatures Great and Small / All Things Bright and Beautiful
James Herriot
4.35 average rating, · 15.9k ratings
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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
Sherman Alexie
4.13 average rating, · 18.5k ratings
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Journals
Kurt Cobain
4.02 average rating, · 17.9k ratings
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J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
Humphrey Carpenter
4.06 average rating, · 16.8k ratings
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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
T Kira Madden
4.25 average rating, · 10.6k ratings
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You Got Anything Stronger?
Gabrielle Union
4.11 average rating, · 12.1k ratings
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Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
Maya Angelou
4.25 average rating, · 9.9k ratings
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Widow Basquiat: A Love Story
Jennifer Clement
4.34 average rating, · 8.7k ratings
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Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson
Paul Perry
4.32 average rating, · 9.4k ratings
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