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Matched genres: Memoir, History

Title Year Ratings Rating
Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James and the Shondells
Music , Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Autobiography , History , Crime
Tommy James
2010 1.1K 3.90
Fifth Chinese Daughter
Memoir , Nonfiction , China , Biography , History , Literature , Historical
Jade Snow Wong
1989 1.3K 3.90
GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love
Nonfiction , History , World War II , Biography , Historical , War , Memoir
Duncan Barrett
2014 3.5K 3.90
Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin
Music , Biography , Nonfiction , Biography Memoir , Womens , Memoir , History
Myra Friedman
1992 1.8K 3.90
Nisei Daughter
Nonfiction , Memoir , History , Biography Memoir , Japan , World War II , Biography
Monica Itoi Sone
1979 1.0K 3.90
Diana
Biography , Nonfiction , Biography Memoir , History , Memoir , British Literature , Politics
Sarah Bradford
2006 1.5K 3.90
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex
History , Nonfiction , Adventure , Survival , Memoir , Biography , Maritime
Owen Chase
1999 1.4K 3.90
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom: a triumph
History , Nonfiction , Biography , Classics , War , Memoir , Philosophy
T.E. Lawrence
1986 11.6K 3.90
Mr. Nice
Nonfiction , Biography , Autobiography , True Crime , Crime , Memoir , History
Howard Marks
2003 10.7K 3.90
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
History , Nonfiction , Biography , Classics , War , Memoir , Philosophy
T.E. Lawrence
1991 11.6K 3.90
Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
Nonfiction , Politics , Feminism , Memoir , Audiobook , Womens , History
Jennifer Palmieri
2018 5.4K 3.89
My Mama, Cass: A Memoir
Memoir , Music , Nonfiction , Biography , Audiobook , Biography Memoir , History
Owen Elliot-Kugell
2024 1.5K 3.89
Let Me Go
Nonfiction , History , Memoir , Holocaust , World War II , Biography , War
Helga Schneider
2005 3.9K 3.89
Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems
Nonfiction , Feminism , History , Morocco , Islam , Religion , Memoir
Fatema Mernissi
2002 1.3K 3.89
Let Me Go: My Mother and the SS
Nonfiction , History , Memoir , Holocaust , World War II , Biography , War
Helga Schneider
2001 3.9K 3.89
West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story
Nonfiction , Memoir , History , Biography , Politics , Religion , Islam
Tamim Ansary
2003 1.7K 3.89
My Cross to Bear
Music , Biography , Nonfiction , Memoir , Autobiography , Audiobook , History
Gregg Allman
2012 6.0K 3.89
Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II
Biography , Nonfiction , History , British Literature , Biography Memoir , Greece , Memoir
Philip Eade
2011 1.2K 3.89
Life with Father
Humor , Classics , Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , History , Biography Memoir
Clarence Day Jr.
2005 3.4K 3.89
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
Travel , Africa , Nonfiction , Memoir , Angola , South Africa , History
Paul Theroux
2013 3.8K 3.89
The Yellow House
Memoir , Nonfiction , Biography , History , Biography Memoir , Race , African American
Sarah M. Broom
2019 24.8K 3.89
My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Travel , History , Spanish Literature , Biography Memoir
Isabel Allende
2003 11.7K 3.89
The Jew Store
Memoir , Nonfiction , Jewish , History , Biography , Judaism , Biography Memoir
Stella Suberman
2001 2.9K 3.89
Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker
Nonfiction , True Crime , Sports , Memoir , History , Crime , Games
James McManus
2004 3.0K 3.89
Conversations With Myself
Nonfiction , Biography , History , Politics , Memoir , Africa , Autobiography
Nelson Mandela
2010 3.2K 3.89
Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides
Nonfiction , Scotland , Travel , Nature , Memoir , History , Biography
Adam Nicolson
2002 1.2K 3.88
Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides
Nonfiction , Scotland , Travel , Nature , Memoir , History , Biography
Adam Nicolson
2002 1.2K 3.88
Born on the Fourth of July
Nonfiction , History , War , Biography , Memoir , Military Fiction , Autobiography
Ron Kovic
1976 5.1K 3.88
Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians (1871)
History , Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Native American , Autobiography , Westerns
Fanny Kelly
2015 1.8K 3.88
Out of the Silence: After the Crash
Nonfiction , Memoir , History , Biography , Autobiography , Survival , Audiobook
Eduardo Strauch Urioste
2019 7.0K 3.88
The Gate
Nonfiction , History , Biography , Memoir , Asia , War , France
François Bizot
2004 1.1K 3.88
Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn
Biography , Nonfiction , Biography Memoir , Audiobook , History , Film , Memoir
Donald Spoto
2006 4.3K 3.88
Slave of the Sioux- The Fanny Kelly Captivity Narrative, 1864
History , Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Native American , Autobiography , Westerns
Fanny Kelly
2011 1.8K 3.88
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , History , Autobiography , Biography Memoir , Southern
Neil W. White III
2009 8.4K 3.88
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
Biography , Nonfiction , France , History , Biography Memoir , Queer , Memoir
Judith Thurman
1999 1.7K 3.88
Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century
Nonfiction , Biography , History , Romance , Biography Memoir , Memoir , Film
Sam Kashner
2010 4.5K 3.88
My Lunches with Orson
Film , Nonfiction , Biography , Media Tie In , History , Memoir , Biography Memoir
Henry Jaglom
2013 1.4K 3.88
Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses
Nonfiction , Religion , History , Travel , Christian , Memoir , Christianity
Bruce Feiler
2005 3.6K 3.88
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
Biography , Nonfiction , Food , History , Biography Memoir , Audiobook , Memoir
Bob Spitz
2012 9.4K 3.88
Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted
Biography , Nonfiction , Poetry , Biography Memoir , History , Memoir , Mental Health
Andrew Wilson
2013 1.1K 3.87
Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
Nonfiction , History , Audiobook , Politics , Memoir , Biography , Espionage
Antonio J. Méndez
2012 14.2K 3.87
My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir
Memoir , Israel , Nonfiction , Biography , Jewish , Humor , History
Meir Shalev
2011 2.2K 3.87
Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop Who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters
Nonfiction , History , Biography , Memoir , Historical , Survival , Autobiography
Violet Jessop
1998 1.6K 3.87
Confessions of an Economic Hitman
Nonfiction , Economics , Politics , History , Biography , Business , Memoir
John Perkins
2004 38.5K 3.87
Homesick: My Own Story
Memoir , Nonfiction , Biography , China , History , Childrens , Middle Grade
Jean Fritz
2007 2.9K 3.87
Out of the Shoebox: An Autobiographic Mystery
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , History , Mystery , World War II , Amazon
Yaron Reshef
2014 1.3K 3.87
Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
Nonfiction , History , Audiobook , Politics , Memoir , Biography , Espionage
Antonio J. Méndez
2012 14.2K 3.87
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
Nonfiction , History , Essays , Humor , Memoir , Audiobook , Politics
Sarah Vowell
2003 28.6K 3.87
Life on the Mississippi
Classics , Nonfiction , History , Travel , Memoir , Biography , Literature
Mark Twain
2001 15.2K 3.87
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Nonfiction , Economics , Politics , History , Biography , Business , Memoir
John Perkins
2005 38.5K 3.87