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Matched genres: Memoir, History

Title Year Ratings Rating
An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , History , Presidents , Autobiography , Politics
Jimmy Carter
2001 3.5K 4.02
BLOW: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellín Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All
Nonfiction , True Crime , Biography , Crime , History , Audiobook , Memoir
Bruce Porter
1993 2.6K 4.02
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
Music , Biography , Nonfiction , Biography Memoir , Memoir , History , Rock N Roll
Crystal Zevon
2007 3.5K 4.02
Tracy and Hepburn
Biography , Nonfiction , Film , Memoir , Media Tie In , History , Biography Memoir
Garson Kanin
1988 1.5K 4.02
Cash: The Autobiography of Johnny Cash
Music , Biography , Nonfiction , Memoir , Autobiography , Biography Memoir , History
Johnny Cash
1997 24.7K 4.02
Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy
Biography , Nonfiction , Politics , History , American History , Memoir , American
Peter S. Canellos
2009 1.6K 4.02
Jim Henson: The Biography
Biography , Nonfiction , Audiobook , Biography Memoir , History , Memoir , Art
Brian Jay Jones
2013 15.1K 4.02
The Road from Coorain
Memoir , Nonfiction , Australia , Biography , Biography Memoir , Autobiography , History
Jill Ker Conway
1990 13.4K 4.02
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
History , Classics , Nonfiction , Travel , Adventure , Biography , Memoir
Richard Henry Dana Jr.
2001 14.3K 4.02
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Biography , Nonfiction , Biography Memoir , Horror , Memoir , History , Writing
Ruth Franklin
2016 5.1K 4.02
Hitch 22: A Memoir
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Politics , Autobiography , Biography Memoir , History
Christopher Hitchens
2010 22.0K 4.02
Out of Egypt: A Memoir
Memoir , Nonfiction , Egypt , Biography , History , Jewish , Biography Memoir
André Aciman
1980 3.0K 4.02
Cash
Music , Biography , Nonfiction , Memoir , Autobiography , Biography Memoir , History
Johnny Cash
2003 24.7K 4.02
The Pillow Book
Japan , Classics , Nonfiction , History , Japanese Literature , Poetry , Memoir
Sei Shōnagon
1991 9.3K 4.02
Palimpsest: A Memoir
Memoir , Biography , Nonfiction , Biography Memoir , History , LGBT , Autobiography
Gore Vidal
1995 2.0K 4.01
Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda
Nonfiction , Terrorism , Politics , Memoir , History , Biography , Islam
Omar Nasiri
2006 1.2K 4.01
Mary Chesnut's Civil War
History , Civil War , Nonfiction , Biography , American History , American Civil War , Memoir
Mary Boykin Chesnut
1981 1.2K 4.01
Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley
Nonfiction , Memoir , History , Biography , Audiobook , Adventure , Outdoors
Brent Underwood
2024 1.2K 4.01
Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Politics , History , Art , Biography Memoir
Madeleine K. Albright
2009 2.0K 4.01
Palimpsest
Memoir , Biography , Nonfiction , Biography Memoir , History , LGBT , Autobiography
Gore Vidal
1996 2.0K 4.01
Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's
Business , Biography , Nonfiction , Entrepreneurship , Autobiography , History , Memoir
Ray Kroc
1992 8.4K 4.01
True Compass: A Memoir
Biography , Nonfiction , Politics , Memoir , History , Autobiography , American History
Edward M. Kennedy
2009 12.5K 4.01
Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , History , Autobiography , Labor , Biography Memoir
Ben Hamper
1992 1.7K 4.01
The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
Nonfiction , Anthropology , History , Africa , Science , Memoir , War
Clea Koff
2005 2.9K 4.01
What It is Like to Go to War
Nonfiction , History , War , Military Fiction , Memoir , Biography , Psychology
Karl Marlantes
2011 9.6K 4.01
House
Nonfiction , Architecture , Memoir , Biography , Biography Memoir , History , American
Tracy Kidder
1999 2.4K 4.00
Out of Place
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , History , Autobiography , Politics , Biography Memoir
Edward W. Said
2000 3.4K 4.00
Vivien Leigh: A Biography
Biography , Nonfiction , Film , Biography Memoir , Memoir , History , European History
Anne Edwards
1980 1.5K 4.00
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
Nonfiction , History , Politics , Travel , Audiobook , Memoir , American History
Lawrence Wright
2018 6.8K 4.00
Spoken from the Heart Collector's Edition
Biography , Nonfiction , Memoir , Politics , Autobiography , History , Biography Memoir
Laura Bush
2010 8.1K 4.00
Forgiveness
Nonfiction , Memoir , Canada , Biography , History , Historical , Biography Memoir
Mark Sakamoto
2014 4.4K 4.00
Gracie: A Love Story
Biography , Nonfiction , Memoir , Humor , Biography Memoir , Autobiography , History
George Burns
1991 3.3K 4.00
Journey Interrupted: A Family Without a Country in a World at War
Nonfiction , Memoir , History , Biography , Historical , World War II , Japan
Hildegarde Mahoney
2016 2.1K 4.00
Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp
Nonfiction , Holocaust , History , Biography , Memoir , World War II , Autobiography
Helga Weiss
2013 2.7K 4.00
Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
Travel , Nonfiction , Memoir , History , Travelogue , Humor , Adventure
Tony Horwitz
1992 4.1K 4.00
One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General
Politics , Biography , Nonfiction , History , Memoir , Law , Autobiography
William P. Barr
2022 2.4K 4.00
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Nonfiction , Biography , History , Memoir , Politics , Audiobook , Biography Memoir
Blaine Harden
2012 70.0K 4.00
The Library at Night
Nonfiction , Books About Books , History , Essays , Philosophy , Literature , Memoir
Alberto Manguel
2008 3.9K 3.99
The Library at Night
Nonfiction , Books About Books , History , Essays , Philosophy , Literature , Memoir
Alberto Manguel
2008 3.9K 3.99
This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
Africa , Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , History , Politics , Liberia
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
2009 2.0K 3.99
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
Nonfiction , Memoir , True Crime , Crime , Journalism , History , Sociology
Ted Conover
2001 4.4K 3.99
Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend
Biography , Nonfiction , History , Biography Memoir , Audiobook , Memoir , Fashion
Meryl Gordon
2017 1.7K 3.99
Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
Nonfiction , History , Biography , World War II , Memoir , Holocaust , Biography Memoir
Leslie Maitland
2012 2.1K 3.99
The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , History , Audiobook , Biography Memoir , Philosophy
David von Drehle
2023 10.4K 3.99
Uncle Tungsten
Science , Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Chemistry , History , Autobiography
Oliver Sacks
2002 6.8K 3.99
The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
Biography , Nonfiction , Audiobook , Biography Memoir , Memoir , History , Education
Maxwell King
2018 27.5K 3.99
Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea
Travel , Nonfiction , Memoir , Adventure , Biography , History , Humor
Eric Hansen
1992 1.6K 3.99
My Place
Nonfiction , Australia , Biography , Memoir , Indigenous , History , Autobiography
Sally Morgan
2010 6.6K 3.99
A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Politics , Feminism , Womens , History
Malalai Joya
2009 1.5K 3.99
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
Travel , Africa , Nonfiction , Memoir , Adventure , History , Travelogue
Paul Theroux
2004 15.3K 3.99