Nonfiction Memoir

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#2
See You in a Hundred Years: Discover One Young Family's Search for a Simpler Life . . . Four Seasons of Living in the Year 1900
See You in a Hundred Years: Discover One Young Family's Search for a Simpler Life . . . Four Seasons of Living in the Year 1900
  • Logan Ward
51 read
#3
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Why I Came West

Why I Came West
  • Rick Bass
3.52 reads
#4
Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life
Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life
  • Michael Greenberg
51 read
#5
One Life to Give: A Path to Finding Yourself by Helping Others
One Life to Give: A Path to Finding Yourself by Helping Others
  • Andrew Bienkowski
  • Mary Akers
51 read
#6
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
  • Nujood Ali
418 reads
#7
The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family
The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family
  • Jim Minick
51 read
#8
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Witness

Witness
  • Curtis Smith
51 read
#9
A dog named Slugger
A dog named Slugger
  • Leigh Brill
41 read
#10
Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry
Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry
  • Rachel Hadas
41 read
#11
Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
  • Cameron Conaway
51 read
#12
Dispatches from the Peninsula: Six Years in South Korea
Dispatches from the Peninsula: Six Years in South Korea
  • Chris Tharp
31 read
#13
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
  • Tim O'Brien
4.298 reads
#14
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
  • Cheryl Strayed
3.81312 reads
#15
The Other Wes Moore
The Other Wes Moore
  • Wes Moore
51 read
#16
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Townie

Townie
  • Andre Dubus III
4.333 reads
#17
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The Three Marriages

The Three Marriages
  • David Whyte
31 read
#18
Dust to dust
Dust to dust
  • Benjamin Busch
52 reads
#19
The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time
  • James Baldwin
4.54174 reads
#20
Communion
Communion
  • Curtis Smith
51 read
#21
Barefoot to Avalon
Barefoot to Avalon
  • Payne, David
51 read
#22
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The Glimpse Traveler

The Glimpse Traveler
  • Marianne Boruch
51 read
#23
Gratitude
Gratitude
  • Oliver Sacks
4.133 reads
#24
Phoning Home
Phoning Home
  • Jacob M. Appel
51 read
#25
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The Time of the Monkey, Rooster, and Dog

The Time of the Monkey, Rooster, and Dog:A Peace Corps Volunteer’s Years in Korea
  • Charles A. Hobbie
51 read
#26
Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism
Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism
  • Maajid Nawaz
43 reads
#27
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Learning to Love Kimchi

Learning to Love Kimchi: Letters Home from a Peace Corps Volunteer
  • Carol Cissel
51 read
#28
When Things Get Dark: A Mongolian Winter's Tale
When Things Get Dark: A Mongolian Winter's Tale
  • Matthew Davis
41 read
#29
My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South
My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South
  • Rick Bragg
4.756 reads
#30
Traveling with Ghosts: A Memoir
Traveling with Ghosts: A Memoir
  • Shannon Leone Fowler
4.52 reads
#31
Voyager: Travel Writings
Voyager: Travel Writings
  • Russell Banks
41 read
#32
Annie's Ghosts
Annie's Ghosts
  • Steve Luxenberg
41 read
#33
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
  • J.D. Vance
3.49281 reads
#34
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Mukho Memories

Mukho Memories: A Peace Corps/Korea Memoir
  • Don Haffner
01 read
#35
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
  • Trevor Noah
4.56579 reads
#36
Playing with Dynamite: A Memoir
Playing with Dynamite: A Memoir
  • Sharon Harrigan
01 read
#37
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
  • Joan Didion
4.1169 reads
#38
The End of the World as We Know it
The End of the World as We Know it
  • Robert Goolrick
52 reads
#39
Civilianized: A Young Veteran's Memoir
Civilianized: A Young Veteran's Memoir
  • Michael Anthony
4.52 reads
#40
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Surviving Jersey

Surviving Jersey: Danger & Insanity in The Garden State
  • Scott Loring Sanders
51 read
#41
China Past and Present
China Past and Present
  • Pearl S. Buck
41 read
#42
Bound
Bound
  • James McKean
51 read
#43
Driven: A White-Knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back
Driven: A White-Knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back
  • Melissa Stephenson
4.673 reads
#44
Oracle Bones
Oracle Bones
  • Peter Hessler
4.65 reads
#45
Country Driving
Country Driving
  • Peter Hessler
4.389 reads
#46
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
  • Anthony Ray Hinton
  • Lara Love Hardin
4.4939 reads
#47
Objects of Affection
Objects of Affection
  • Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough
51 read
#48
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The Cooking Gene

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South: A James Beard Award Winner
  • Michael W. Twitty
31 read
#49
Born to Run
Born to Run
  • Bruce Springsteen
4.1740 reads
#50
Singapore Dream and Other Adventures: Travel Writings from an Asian Journey
Singapore Dream and Other Adventures: Travel Writings from an Asian Journey
  • Hermann Hesse
  • Sherab Chödzin Kohn (Translator)
41 read
#51
Shortest Way Home
Shortest Way Home
  • Pete Buttigieg
4.2124 reads
#52
Conversations with Kafka
Conversations with Kafka
  • Gustav Janouch
42 reads
#53
Meander Belt
Meander Belt
  • M. Randal O'Wain
4.52 reads
#54
Dad's Maybe Book
Dad's Maybe Book
  • Tim O'Brien
51 read
#55
Conversations With US - American Southwest
Conversations With US - American Southwest
  • Chris Register
51 read
#56
Deep Creek Finding Hope in the High Country
Deep Creek Finding Hope in the High Country
  • Pam Houston
4.85 reads
#57
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Borderline Citizen

Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood
  • Robin Hemley
51 read
#58
Educated: A Memoir
Educated: A Memoir
  • Tara Westover
4.43897 reads
#59
Big Magic
Big Magic
  • Elizabeth Gilbert
3.81162 reads
#60
Robert E. Lee and Me
Robert E. Lee and Me
  • Ty Seidule
4.139 reads
#61
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The Mysteries of Haditha

The Mysteries of Haditha: A Memoir
  • M.C. Armstrong
41 read
#62
In Love
In Love
  • Amy Bloom
4.59 reads
#63
Once I Was Cool: Personal Essays
Once I Was Cool: Personal Essays
  • Megan Stielstra
42 reads
#64
Ships In The Desert
Ships In The Desert
  • Jeff Fearnside
51 read
#65
Monkey in Residence & Other Speculations
Monkey in Residence & Other Speculations
  • Xu Xi
51 read
#66
A Man's Place
A Man's Place
  • Annie Ernaux
  • Tanya Leslie (Translator)
33 reads
#67
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Am I Alone Here?

Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live
  • Peter Orner
4.52 reads
#68
Where to Nest
Where to Nest
  • Kristen Van Nest
41 read
#69
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Penultimates

Penultimates
  • Thomas Farber
51 read