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Things The Grandchildren Should Know
Mark Oliver Everett
4.24 average rating, · 9.5k ratings
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Patrimony
Philip Roth
4.21 average rating, · 6.4k ratings
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Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
Sharon Olds
4.14 average rating, · 4.9k ratings
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A Russian Journal
John Steinbeck
4.09 average rating, · 4.7k ratings
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My Life
Lyn Hejinian
4.16 average rating, · 2k ratings
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Heaven Is a Playground
Rick Telander
4.23 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz
Eve Babitz
4.12 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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Molly's Game
Molly Bloom
4.05 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Three Years Among the Comanches: The Narrative of Nelson Lee, Texas Ranger
Nelson Lee
4.06 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
Ted Conover
4.07 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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Burning the Days: Recollection
James Salter
4.03 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder
4.11 average rating, · 979 ratings
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The Romance of American Communism
Vivian Gornick
4.33 average rating, · 918 ratings
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Starting at Zero
Jimi Hendrix
4.14 average rating, · 932 ratings
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Off to the Side: A Memoir
Jim Harrison
4.20 average rating, · 896 ratings
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The Lost Continent & Neither Here Nor There
Bill Bryson
4.16 average rating, · 932 ratings
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Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.10 average rating, · 909 ratings
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The Unswept Room
Sharon Olds
4.04 average rating, · 924 ratings
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American Nomads: Travels with Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders
Richard Grant
4.06 average rating, · 905 ratings
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Jason Molina: Riding with the Ghost
Erin Osmon
4.06 average rating, · 846 ratings
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My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You
Aleksandar Hemon
4.08 average rating, · 759 ratings
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The Shift: The Next Evolution in Baseball Thinking
Russell A. Carleton
4.10 average rating, · 702 ratings
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It's Garry Shandling's Book
Judd Apatow
4.25 average rating, · 577 ratings
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