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Title Year Ratings Rating
Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
Nonfiction , Science , History , Natural History , Nature , Museums , Memoir
Richard Fortey
2008 1.5K 3.73
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
Nonfiction , Memoir , History , Biography , Biography Memoir , Historical , Autobiography , Book Club
Mildred Armstrong Kalish
2007 6.4K 3.73
The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris
Nonfiction , Travel , France , History , Essays , Walking , Memoir
Edmund White
2001 2.3K 3.72
The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris
Nonfiction , Travel , France , History , Essays , Walking , Memoir
Edmund White
2001 2.3K 3.72
Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
Nonfiction , Feminism , Mythology , Essays , Audiobook , Memoir , History
Jess Zimmerman
2021 2.9K 3.72
Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Islam , Biography Memoir , History , Autobiography , Book Club
Carmen Bin Ladin
2004 6.0K 3.72
Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
Nonfiction , History , Biography , Travel , Adventure , Womens , Memoir , Book Club
Linda Lawrence Hunt
2003 2.3K 3.72
Alcatraz-1259
Nonfiction , Biography , History , Memoir , True Crime , Autobiography , Crime
William G. Baker
2013 1.6K 3.72
Summer at Tiffany
Nonfiction , Memoir , New York , Biography , Biography Memoir , History , Chick Lit , Book Club
Marjorie Hart
2007 9.8K 3.72
Things I've Been Silent About
Nonfiction , Memoir , Iran , Biography , Biography Memoir , History , Womens
Azar Nafisi
2008 4.8K 3.72
The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
Travel , Nonfiction , Humor , Memoir , Audiobook , British Literature , History
Bill Bryson
2015 37.6K 3.72
The Loneliest Americans
Nonfiction , Memoir , History , Politics , Race , Audiobook , Essays
Jay Caspian Kang
2021 2.4K 3.71
The Bravest Voices: A Memoir of Two Sisters' Heroism During the Nazi Era
History , Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , World War II , Holocaust , Historical
Ida Cook
1950 1.3K 3.71
Hospital Sketches
Classics , History , Nonfiction , Civil War , Memoir , War , Biography
Louisa May Alcott
1863 2.4K 3.71
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
Nonfiction , History , Memoir , Biography , School , Historical , World War II
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
1973 19.2K 3.71
Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India
Memoir , Food , Nonfiction , India , Biography , Biography Memoir , History
Madhur Jaffrey
2005 2.3K 3.71
Sliding on the Snow Stone
Nonfiction , History , Biography , Memoir , Ukraine , War , Autobiography
Andy Szpuk
2011 1.2K 3.71
White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing
Nonfiction , Memoir , History , Biography , Race , Audiobook , Biography Memoir
Gail Lukasik
2017 2.4K 3.70
Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle Of The Gulf War And Other Battles
Nonfiction , War , Military Fiction , Memoir , History , Biography , Military History
Anthony Swofford
2003 11.7K 3.70
Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographs
Fashion , Memoir , Nonfiction , Biography , Art , Biography Memoir , History
Bill Cunningham
2018 1.9K 3.70
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran
Nonfiction , Memoir , Iran , Biography Memoir , Biography , Islam , History
Azadeh Moaveni
2005 4.7K 3.70
Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
Nonfiction , War , Military Fiction , Memoir , History , Biography , Military History
Anthony Swofford
2003 11.7K 3.70
Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland
Nonfiction , Travel , Memoir , Biography Memoir , Biography , History , Nature
Sarah Moss
2012 3.3K 3.69
My Feudal Lord
Nonfiction , Pakistan , Biography , Memoir , Autobiography , Politics , History
Tehmina Durrani
1991 5.1K 3.69
Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
Music , Memoir , Biography , Nonfiction , Autobiography , Biography Memoir , History
Linda Ronstadt
2013 3.1K 3.69
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Nonfiction , Australia , History , Biography , Memoir , Historical , Indigenous , Book Club
Doris Pilkington
1996 8.5K 3.69
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
Nonfiction , Food , History , China , Travel , Food Writing , Memoir
Jennifer 8. Lee
2008 5.1K 3.69
Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5
Nonfiction , Biography , History , Espionage , Memoir , Autobiography , Politics
Stella Rimington
2002 1.1K 3.68
Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5
Nonfiction , Biography , History , Espionage , Memoir , Autobiography , Politics
Stella Rimington
2002 1.1K 3.68
Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar
History , Nonfiction , Biography , Africa , Memoir , Tanzania , Classics
Emily Ruete
1886 1.7K 3.68
An Area of Darkness: A Discovery of India
India , Travel , Nonfiction , History , Memoir , Asia , Indian Literature
V.S. Naipaul
1964 2.4K 3.68
The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
Nonfiction , Feminism , History , Memoir , Journalism , Womens , Biography , Book Club
Lynn Povich
2012 3.8K 3.67
Two Lives
Nonfiction , Biography , India , Memoir , History , Indian Literature , Biography Memoir
Vikram Seth
2005 3.7K 3.67
In the Shadow of No Towers
Graphic Novels , Comics , Nonfiction , History , Graphic Novels Comics , Memoir , Politics
Art Spiegelman
2004 4.1K 3.67
David Beckham: My Side
Football , Biography , Soccer , Biography Memoir , Memoir , Autobiography , History
David Beckham
1998 2.9K 3.67
Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me
Graphic Novels , Comics , Nonfiction , History , Memoir , Politics , Religion
Harvey Pekar
2012 1.1K 3.66
The Little Locksmith
Nonfiction , Memoir , Classics , Biography , History , Biography Memoir , Autobiography
Katharine Butler Hathaway
1943 1.2K 3.66
We of the Never-Never
Australia , Classics , Nonfiction , History , Biography , Memoir , Travel
Jeannie Gunn
1907 1.6K 3.66
Around the World in 50 Years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth
Travel , Nonfiction , Memoir , Adventure , Biography , History , Africa
Albert Podell
2015 1.7K 3.66
In Patagonia
Travel , Nonfiction , History , Adventure , Memoir , Classics , Travelogue
Bruce Chatwin
1977 18.2K 3.66
VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave
Music , Nonfiction , Biography , History , Memoir , Pop Culture , Oral History
Nina Blackwood
2013 1.8K 3.65
Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom
Nonfiction , Books About Books , Memoir , History , Fandom , Travel , Sociology
Deborah Yaffe
2013 1.3K 3.65
Twenty Years at Hull House
History , Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Sociology , Classics , Philosophy
Jane Addams
1910 1.3K 3.65
A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley
Biography , Nonfiction , History , Audiobook , Biography Memoir , Travel , Memoir , Book Club
Neal Thompson
2013 2.5K 3.65
Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places
Travel , Nonfiction , Environment , Science , Memoir , History , Ecology , Book Club
Andrew Blackwell
2012 1.8K 3.65
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Nonfiction , Memoir , Iran , Biography , Books About Books , Feminism , History , Book Club
Azar Nafisi
2003 137.3K 3.65
Married to a Bedouin
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Travel , History , Biography Memoir , Womens , Book Club
Marguerite van Geldermalsen
2006 3.6K 3.64
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
Nonfiction , Travel , Memoir , Greece , Language , History , Biography
Mary Norris
2019 2.1K 3.63
Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
Books About Books , Nonfiction , Memoir , Travel , Biography , Biography Memoir , History
Paul Collins
2003 2.8K 3.63
His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra
Biography , Music , Nonfiction , Biography Memoir , History , Film , Memoir
Kitty Kelley
1983 2.0K 3.63