BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs Books
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Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned
2014
Between the World and Me
2015
10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works
2014
My Story
2013
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
2014
Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
2012
My Life on the Road
2015
Born to Run
2016
Wildflower
2015
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
2012
Yes, Chef
2012
Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
2012
Primates of Park Avenue
2015
My Lobotomy
2007
Into the Wild
1996
The Glass Castle
2005
Steve Jobs
2011
Tuesdays with Morrie
1997
Bossypants
2011
Me Talk Pretty One Day
2000
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
2010
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
2012
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2010
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
2005
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
2003
Running with Scissors
2002
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
1997
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
2006
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1969
Yes Please
2014
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1971
John Adams
2001
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
2012
Naked
1997
A Million Little Pieces
2003
Man's Search for Meaning
1946
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
2000
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
1974
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
2000
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
1999
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
1995
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
1965
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living
2005
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
1976
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
2013
When Breath Becomes Air
2016
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
2007
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
2013
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
1999
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
2006
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
2011
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
2009
The Story of My Life
1902
Just Kids
2010
Sh*t My Dad Says
2010
A Beautiful Mind
1998
The Year of Magical Thinking
2005
The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
2009
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
2012
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
1984
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
2007
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
2004
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
2013
The Amityville Horror
1977
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
1996
Lucky
1999
Seriously... I'm Kidding
2011
Why Not Me?
2015
Cleopatra: A Life
2006
A Stolen Life
2011
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
1998
Einstein: His Life and Universe
2007
Dry
2003
How to Be a Woman
2011
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
2003
A Moveable Feast
1964
90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life
2004
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
2011
All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
1972
My Life in France
2006
The Dharma Bums
1958
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
2012
The Agony and the Ecstasy
1958
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
2007
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
1991
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
2015
Infidel
2006
All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small)
1973
Elon Musk: Inventing the Future
2015
Naked Lunch
1959
Zeitoun
2008
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
1968
Truman
1992
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
2003
Same Kind of Different as Me
2005
Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
1987
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
1959
Survivor
1999
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
2007
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
2011
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