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Showing 1,251 results from 1980 to 2025 with a minimum of 1,000 ratings.
Matched genres: Memoir, History

Title Year Ratings Rating
A Small Place
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , History , School , Classics , Travel
Jamaica Kincaid
2000 16.5K 4.05
Zeitoun
Nonfiction , Biography , History , Memoir , Biography Memoir , Book Club , Politics
Dave Eggers
2009 79.3K 4.05
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
Memoir , Nonfiction , Biography , History , Jewish , Egypt , Africa
Lucette Lagnado
2007 4.9K 4.04
Ravenmaster
Nonfiction , Memoir , History , Biography , Animals , Birds , Audiobook
Christopher Skaife
2018 5.7K 4.04
Hardtack and Coffee or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life
Civil War , History , Nonfiction , American Civil War , Military Fiction , Memoir , American History
John Davis Billings
1993 1.2K 4.04
Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
Travel , History , Nonfiction , Politics , Asia , Travelogue , Memoir
Robert D. Kaplan
2001 1.7K 4.04
The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education
Military Fiction , Nonfiction , Memoir , History , Biography , War , Military History
Craig M. Mullaney
2009 4.1K 4.04
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
Memoir , Nonfiction , Biography , History , Jewish , Egypt , Africa
Lucette Lagnado
2007 4.9K 4.04
The Spy Wore Red: My Adventures as an Undercover Agent in World War II
Nonfiction , History , Biography , World War II , Memoir , Espionage , Mystery
Countess of Romanones Aline
1987 2.6K 4.04
Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust
Nonfiction , Animals , Dogs , Biography , Memoir , History , Biography Memoir
Michael Hingson
2011 11.8K 4.04
Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith
Music , Biography , Nonfiction , Autobiography , Memoir , Rock N Roll , History
Aerosmith
2003 3.9K 4.04
Russian Tattoo: A Memoir
Memoir , Nonfiction , Russia , Biography , History , Biography Memoir , Autobiography
Elena Gorokhova
2015 1.2K 4.04
My Life
Biography , History , Nonfiction , Israel , Politics , Memoir , Autobiography
Golda Meir
1975 1.8K 4.04
Daphne du Maurier
Biography , Nonfiction , Biography Memoir , History , British Literature , 20th Century , Memoir
Margaret Forster
1994 1.1K 4.04
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic
Nonfiction , History , Adventure , Survival , Travel , Memoir , Russia
Valerian Albanov
2000 2.8K 4.04
Young Men and Fire
Nonfiction , History , Nature , Science , Biography , Adventure , Memoir
Norman Maclean
1992 6.9K 4.04
Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero
Nonfiction , Animals , Dogs , Biography , Memoir , History , Biography Memoir
Michael Hingson
2011 11.8K 4.04
Lady Sings the Blues
Music , Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Autobiography , Jazz , History
Billie Holiday
1984 7.1K 4.04
The Hidden Girl: A True Story of the Holocaust
Holocaust , Nonfiction , History , Biography , World War II , Historical , Memoir
Lola Rein Kaufman
2008 2.1K 4.04
Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History
History , Biography , Politics , Nonfiction , Memoir , American History , Biography Memoir
Theodore C. Sorensen
2008 1.2K 4.04
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
Nonfiction , Books About Books , Essays , Politics , Memoir , Audiobook , History
Azar Nafisi
2022 1.8K 4.04
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Travel , History , Nonfiction , Biography , Adventure , Memoir , Australia
Tony Horwitz
2003 10.2K 4.04
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
Nonfiction , Africa , Biography , History , Memoir , Burundi , Biography Memoir
Tracy Kidder
2009 17.0K 4.04
John Lennon: The Life
Biography , Music , Nonfiction , Biography Memoir , History , Memoir , Audiobook
Philip Norman
2008 12.4K 4.04
The White Album
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Classics , History , Journalism , Biography
Joan Didion
2009 45.0K 4.04
Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point
Nonfiction , Military Fiction , History , Memoir , Military History , Education , Leadership
David Lipsky
2004 1.5K 4.03
On The Plain Of Snakes: A Mexican Journey
Travel , Nonfiction , History , Adventure , Memoir , Audiobook , Politics
Paul Theroux
2019 2.9K 4.03
Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared
Travel , Nonfiction , History , Kazakhstan , Asia , Memoir , Russia
Christopher Robbins
2008 1.3K 4.03
Miss Ex-Yugoslavia: A Memoir
Memoir , Nonfiction , Biography , Biography Memoir , History , Australia , War
Sofija Stefanovic
2018 1.1K 4.03
Blind Ambition: The White House Years
History , Politics , Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , American History , Presidents
John W. Dean
1976 1.8K 4.03
The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands
Africa , Nonfiction , Memoir , History , Travel , Biography , Journalism
Aidan Hartley
2003 2.7K 4.03
Blue Highways: A Journey Into America
Travel , Nonfiction , Memoir , Adventure , Biography , History , Biography Memoir
William Least Heat-Moon
1982 24.7K 4.03
The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright
Biography , Nonfiction , Biography Memoir , Memoir , Art , Photography , History
Jean Nathan
2005 1.6K 4.03
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
Nonfiction , Biography , Military Fiction , History , War , Memoir , Autobiography
Chris Kyle
2012 137.2K 4.03
My Autobiography
Biography , Nonfiction , Film , Autobiography , Memoir , History , Biography Memoir
Charles Chaplin
2003 8.0K 4.03
I. Asimov: A Memoir
Biography , Nonfiction , Memoir , Autobiography , History , Writing , Biography Memoir
Isaac Asimov
1995 3.5K 4.03
Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman's Survival Under Saddam Hussein
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , History , Politics , Biography Memoir , Autobiography
Jean Sasson
2004 6.0K 4.03
The Ra Expeditions
Nonfiction , Travel , History , Adventure , Anthropology , Science , Memoir
Thor Heyerdahl
1972 1.2K 4.03
After Long Silence: A Memoir
Memoir , Nonfiction , Holocaust , History , World War II , Biography , Biography Memoir
Helen Fremont
2000 3.5K 4.03
In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History
Nonfiction , History , Politics , Memoir , Race , Biography , Audiobook
Mitch Landrieu
2018 3.0K 4.03
Blue Highways
Travel , Nonfiction , Memoir , Adventure , Biography , History , Biography Memoir
William Least Heat-Moon
1999 24.7K 4.03
Slaves in the Family
History , Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , African American , American History , Race
Edward Ball
1998 3.0K 4.03
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Nonfiction , Travel , Audiobook , Sociology , Economics , Memoir , History
Jessica Bruder
2018 49.3K 4.03
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
Nonfiction , History , Africa , Nigeria , Memoir , Biography , African Literature
Chinua Achebe
2012 2.7K 4.03
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
Nonfiction , Memoir , Food , Russia , History , Cookbooks , Cooking
Anya von Bremzen
2013 4.6K 4.03
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
Nonfiction , History , Memoir , Biography , World War II , Biography Memoir , War
Madeleine K. Albright
2012 8.2K 4.03
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
Nonfiction , Military Fiction , History , War , Biography , Memoir , Military History
Mark Owen
2012 56.3K 4.03
My Own Words
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Politics , Feminism , History , Audiobook
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
2016 26.0K 4.03
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Biography Memoir , History , Feminism , Womens
jean-sasson
2001 38.6K 4.03
Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest
Nonfiction , Mountaineering , Adventure , Biography , Memoir , History , Christian
Brian Dickinson
2014 1.0K 4.02