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Title Year Ratings Rating
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
Nonfiction , Biography , Writing , Memoir , Classics , Religion , Literature
Flannery O'Connor
1988 2.1K 4.47
Oblivion: A Memoir
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Spanish Literature , Literature , History , Latin American
Héctor Abad Faciolince
2006 20.3K 4.39
Diaries, 1910-1923
Nonfiction , Classics , Biography , Memoir , Literature , Diary , German Literature
Franz Kafka
1988 3.9K 4.23
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Israel , Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , History , Jewish , Literature
Amos Oz
2005 12.4K 4.23
Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
Nonfiction , Memoir , Classics , Essays , Biography , Feminism , Literature
Virginia Woolf
1976 3.2K 4.22
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 2: 1934-1939
Biography , Memoir , Nonfiction , Diary , Classics , Autobiography , Literature
Anaïs Nin
1970 2.9K 4.22
De Profundis and Other Writings
Classics , Nonfiction , Essays , Poetry , Literature , Memoir , Philosophy
Oscar Wilde
1976 2.8K 4.22
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Diary , Classics , Womens , Literature
Anaïs Nin
1971 1.1K 4.21
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Diary , Classics , Womens , Literature
Anaïs Nin
1971 1.8K 4.21
Moments of Being
Nonfiction , Memoir , Classics , Essays , Biography , Feminism , Literature
Virginia Woolf
1976 3.2K 4.21
Capote
Biography , Nonfiction , Biography Memoir , History , Writing , Memoir , Literature
Gerald Clarke
2005 5.1K 4.16
The Grass Arena
Nonfiction , Biography , Autobiography , Memoir , Literature , Irish Literature , Classics
John Healy
2008 1.1K 4.16
My Life
Poetry , Memoir , Nonfiction , Womens , Biography , Feminism , Literature
Lyn Hejinian
2002 2.0K 4.16
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
Essays , Nonfiction , Books About Books , Memoir , Literature , Short Stories , Biography
Anne Fadiman
2007 2.2K 4.12
At Large and at Small: Confessions of a Literary Hedonist
Essays , Nonfiction , Books About Books , Memoir , Literature , Short Stories , Biography
Anne Fadiman
2007 2.2K 4.12
Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career
Biography , Nonfiction , History , Biography Memoir , Literature , Memoir , 20th Century
George Plimpton
1998 1.1K 4.09
Autobiography: My Childhood, In the World, My Universities
Classics , Russia , Russian Literature , Biography , Nonfiction , Literature , Memoir
Maxim Gorky
2001 8.7K 4.09
My Childhood
Classics , Russia , Russian Literature , Biography , Nonfiction , Literature , Memoir
Maxim Gorky
1991 8.7K 4.09
Letters
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Autobiography , Biography Memoir , Essays , Literature
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2012 1.7K 4.08
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Nonfiction , Travel , Classics , Memoir , Biography , Literature , Audiobook
John Steinbeck
2002 101.1K 4.08
The Fragrance of Guava
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Spanish Literature , Writing , Essays , Literature
Gabriel García Márquez
1998 1.5K 4.06
The Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson
Biography , Nonfiction , Journalism , Politics , Literature , History , Memoir
Michael Cleverly
2008 1.2K 4.06
Ten Years in the Tub: A Decade Soaking in Great Books
Nonfiction , Books About Books , Essays , Memoir , Humor , Writing , Literature
Nick Hornby
2013 1.4K 4.05
Ten Years in the Tub
Nonfiction , Books About Books , Essays , Memoir , Humor , Writing , Literature
Nick Hornby
2013 1.4K 4.05
Burning the Days: Recollection
Memoir , Nonfiction , Biography , Biography Memoir , Autobiography , Literature , Writing
James Salter
1998 1.0K 4.04
Living to Tell the Tale
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Autobiography , Literature , Spanish Literature , Latin American
Gabriel García Márquez
2002 12.3K 4.03
ERNEST HEMINGWAY ON WRITING
Writing , Nonfiction , Classics , Literature , Memoir , Reference , Biography
Larry W. Phillips
1984 4.6K 4.03
Loitering: New & Collected Essays
Essays , Nonfiction , Memoir , Short Stories , Literature , Biography , Writing
Charles D'Ambrosio
2014 1.5K 4.03
A Moveable Feast
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , France , Classics , Literature , Travel
Ernest Hemingway
2012 159.6K 4.02
John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs
Nonfiction , Classics , Biography , Memoir , American , The United States Of America , Literature
Jack London
1998 3.7K 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
And So it Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life
Biography , Nonfiction , Biography Memoir , History , Writing , Literature , Memoir
Charles J. Shields
2011 2.7K 3.96
Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Erotica , Classics , Literature , Autobiography
Anaïs Nin
1992 1.7K 3.95
Walden and Other Writings
Classics , Philosophy , Nonfiction , Essays , Nature , Literature , Memoir
Henry David Thoreau
2000 4.8K 3.95
The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend
Memoir , Nonfiction , Grief , Death , Literature , Essays , Biography
Sarah Manguso
2012 1.1K 3.93
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Nonfiction , History , Classics , Biography , Journalism , Memoir , Literature
Tom Wolfe
1999 77.5K 3.92
Letters to Milena
Classics , Nonfiction , Romance , Poetry , Biography , Literature , Memoir
Franz Kafka
1990 20.9K 3.91
J. K. Rowling: The Wizard Behind Harry Potter
Nonfiction , Biography , Biography Memoir , Childrens , Middle Grade , Memoir , Literature
Marc Shapiro
2000 4.9K 3.90
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do
Writing , Nonfiction , Essays , Books About Books , Biography , Memoir , Literature
Meredith Maran
2013 2.8K 3.90
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions
Nonfiction , Books About Books , Essays , Memoir , Philosophy , Biography , Literature
Alberto Manguel
2018 2.4K 3.90
Fifth Chinese Daughter
Memoir , Nonfiction , China , Biography , History , Literature , Historical
Jade Snow Wong
1989 1.3K 3.90
Winter Journal
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , American , Autobiography , Literature , The United States Of America
Paul Auster
2012 9.1K 3.90
Experience: A Memoir
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Autobiography , Biography Memoir , Literature , British Literature
Martin Amis
2001 4.0K 3.89
The Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father
Memoir , Nonfiction , Biography , Biography Memoir , Autobiography , Literature , School
Geoffrey Wolff
1990 1.3K 3.87
Life on the Mississippi
Classics , Nonfiction , History , Travel , Memoir , Biography , Literature
Mark Twain
2001 15.2K 3.87
A Tramp Abroad
Travel , Classics , Humor , Nonfiction , Literature , Memoir , Biography
Mark Twain
2006 2.9K 3.86
The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress
Travel , Classics , Nonfiction , Humor , History , Literature , Memoir
Mark Twain
2003 14.4K 3.84
The Innocents Abroad
Travel , Classics , Nonfiction , Humor , History , Literature , Memoir
Mark Twain
1980 14.4K 3.84
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
Nonfiction , Memoir , Books About Books , Biography , Literature , Literary Criticism , Biography Memoir
William Deresiewicz
2011 4.0K 3.84