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Memoir Biography

#1

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2019 • 1 Reader • 4

#2

Between the World and Me

2015 • 716 Readers • 166 pages • 4.5

#3

Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea

2014 • 8 Readers • 339 pages • 4.7

#4

In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End

1991 • 1 Reader • 2

#5

Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously

2019 • 58 Readers • 384 pages • 4.2

#6

Craigslist Confessional

2020 • 13 Readers • 256 pages • 3.3

#7

In Order to Live

161 Readers • 4.5

#8

A Map Is Only One Story

2020 • 10 Readers • 252 pages • 4

#9

Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey

1974 • 31 Readers • 478 pages • 4.5

#10

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2019 • 1 Reader • 5

#11

Heat

2006 • 30 Readers • 336 pages • 3.9

#12

True Believer

2021 • 11 Readers • 432 pages • 3.7

#13

Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir

33 Readers • 4.2

#14

This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together

2020 • 9 Readers • 336 pages • 3.7

#15

Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian

2010 • 8 Readers • 399 pages • 3

#16

Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite

2014 • 2 Readers • 4

#17

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

2016 • 366 Readers • 352 pages • 3.5

#18

Letters from an Astrophysicist

2019 • 38 Readers • 247 pages • 4.2

#19

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

2016 • 356 Readers • 404 pages • 4.2

#20

A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

2000 • 131 Readers • 172 pages • 4.2

#21

The Monk of Mokha

2018 • 32 Readers • 352 pages • 4.6

#22

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

2016 • 4 Readers • 288 pages • 2.5

#23

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

2020 • 255 Readers • 240 pages • 4.1

#24

Running with Sherman How a Rescue Donkey Inspired a Rag-Tag Gang of Runners to Enter the Craziest Race in America

2020 • 12 Readers • 369 pages • 4.2

#25

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

2000 • 25 Readers • 3.7

#26

Sailing Alone Around the World

1899 • 32 Readers • 268 pages • 4

#27

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe

2011 • 8 Readers • 304 pages • 3.3

#28

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

2012 • 53 Readers • 414 pages • 3.7

#29

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

2007 • 107 Readers • 238 pages • 3.9

#30

Winter Pasture: One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders

2012 • 5 Readers • 320 pages • 3.3

#31

War Doctor

2019 • 15 Readers • 355 pages • 4.5

#32

Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love

2020 • 14 Readers • 240 pages • 3.7

#33

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

#1 of 3 in Daughter of Cambodia

2000 • 59 Readers • 198 pages • 4.3

#34

Crying in H Mart

2021 • 982 Readers • 239 pages • 4.3

#35

Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom

2015 • 7 Readers • 288 pages • 3

#36

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1932 • 1 Reader • 4

#37

The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade

2021 • 4 Readers • 3.5

#38

Educated: A Memoir

2018 • 1,343 Readers • 352 pages • 4.4

#39

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

#1 of 2 in Feynman

1985 • 448 Readers • 391 pages • 4.3

#40

Making rounds with Oscar

2009 • 4 Readers • 240 pages • 3.7

#41

The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert

2021 • 8 Readers • 304 pages • 4

#42

The Diary of a Bookseller

#1 of 3 in The Diary of a Bookseller

2017 • 95 Readers • 310 pages • 4.1

#43

First, They Erased Our Name: a Rohingya Speaks

2018 • 1 Reader • 5

#44

Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

2024 • 22 Readers • 336 pages • 4.4

#45

It's on the Meter: Traveling the World by London Taxi

2017 • 1 Reader • 320 pages • 3

#46

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

2014 • 34 Readers • 278 pages • 3.9

#47

Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

2022 • 40 Readers • 244 pages • 3.6