Women -- Biography Books
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Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary - A Photographic Remembrance
1992
Of Mice and Men
1937
Memoirs of a Geisha
1997
Gone with the Wind
1936
A Thousand Splendid Suns
2007
Into the Wild
1996
The Glass Castle
2005
Steve Jobs
2011
Tuesdays with Morrie
1997
Bossypants
2011
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
2005
Me Talk Pretty One Day
2000
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
2010
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
1996
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
Never Let Me Go
2005
Running with Scissors
2002
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
2013
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
2005
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1969
She's Come Undone
1992
Yes Please
2014
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1971
Orphan Train
2013
Still Alice
2007
John Adams
2001
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
2012
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
1987
Naked
1997
A Streetcar Named Desire
1947
A Million Little Pieces
2003
Man's Search for Meaning
1946
The Hobbit: Graphic Novel
1989
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
2000
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
1974
High Fidelity
1995
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
2000
The Pearl
1947
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
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
Gerald's Game
1992
The Bonesetter's Daughter
2001
A Beautiful Mind
1998
The Hours
1998
Anthem
1938
Reading Lolita in Tehran
2003
The Year of Magical Thinking
2005
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
2012
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
1984
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned
2014
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
1939
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
2004
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
2013
My Ántonia
1918
The Amityville Horror
1977
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
1996
The Accidental Tourist
1985
Lucky
1999
Ulysses
1922
Seriously... I'm Kidding
2011
Why Not Me?
2015
Cleopatra: A Life
2006
The Shell Seekers
1987
Milk and Honey
2014
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
Dolores Claiborne
1992
Dry
2003
How to Be a Woman
2011
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
2003
A Moveable Feast
1964
A Doll's House
1879
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
1945
This Is How You Lose Her
2012
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
2011
All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
1972
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
1892
My Life in France
2006
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
Tara Road
1998
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