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Showing 94 results from 1980 to 2025 with a minimum of 1,000 ratings.
Matched genres: Memoir, Writing

Title Year Ratings Rating
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography
Biography , Nonfiction , Audiobook , Memoir , Autobiography , History , Writing
Rob Wilkins
2022 4.0K 4.67
Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making
Nonfiction , Christian , Writing , Christian Living , Memoir , Faith , Christianity
Andrew Peterson
2019 6.3K 4.51
Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter
Doctor Who , Nonfiction , Writing , Biography , Tv , Memoir , Media Tie In
Russell T. Davies
2008 2.6K 4.51
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
Nonfiction , Biography , Writing , Memoir , Classics , Religion , Literature
Flannery O'Connor
1988 2.1K 4.47
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
Writing , Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , History , Politics , Audiobook
Robert A. Caro
2019 6.8K 4.44
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Essays , Nonfiction , Memoir , Writing , Queer , LGBT , Biography
Alexander Chee
2018 12.0K 4.39
Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
Writing , Nonfiction , Memoir , Audiobook , Biography , Self Help , Crafts
Chuck Palahniuk
2020 5.4K 4.38
A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Writing , Biography , Audiobook , Biography Memoir
Pat Conroy
2016 2.1K 4.36
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
Nonfiction , Essays , Writing , Philosophy , Feminism , Books About Books , Memoir
Ursula K. Le Guin
2004 2.7K 4.34
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Nonfiction , Writing , Memoir , Biography , Audiobook , Reference , Autobiography
Stephen King
2002 304.7K 4.34
The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village
Memoir , Nonfiction , Biography , Queer , LGBT , Gay , Writing
Samuel R. Delany
2004 1.2K 4.32
The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life
Writing , Memoir , Nonfiction , Reference , Crafts , How To , Self Help
Marion Roach Smith
2011 1.5K 4.32
One Man's Meat
Essays , Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Classics , Writing , Biography Memoir
E.B. White
2023 2.1K 4.28
Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
Poetry , Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Biography Memoir , Writing , Womens
Anne Sexton
2004 1.8K 4.28
Making Movies
Film , Nonfiction , Media Tie In , Art , Memoir , Writing , Biography
Sidney Lumet
1996 9.2K 4.28
A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
Nonfiction , Essays , Biography , Humor , Writing , Audiobook , Memoir
Terry Pratchett
2014 5.9K 4.24
Bird by Bird
Writing , Nonfiction , Memoir , Self Help , Essays , Reference , Audiobook
Anne Lamott
1995 106.7K 4.24
How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back
Music , Nonfiction , Writing , Audiobook , Art , Self Help , Memoir
Jeff Tweedy
2020 6.3K 4.22
A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, #1)
Memoir , Nonfiction , Biography , Writing , Biography Memoir , Spirituality , Faith
Madeleine L'Engle
1984 6.9K 4.21
The Faraway Nearby
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Biography , Writing , Philosophy , Feminism
Rebecca Solnit
2013 7.4K 4.21
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Writing , Nonfiction , Reference , Self Help , Memoir , Poetry , Crafts
Natalie Goldberg
2006 30.9K 4.21
Daybook
Art , Memoir , Nonfiction , Biography , Biography Memoir , Writing , Diary
Anne Truitt
1982 1.1K 4.19
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Nonfiction , Language , Linguistics , Books About Books , History , Writing , Memoir
Kory Stamper
2017 8.9K 4.19
The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life
Writing , Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Biography Memoir , Biography , Books About Books
Ann Patchett
2011 2.1K 4.19
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs: The Nobel Lecture
Nonfiction , Essays , Writing , Memoir , Nobel Prize , Japan , Audiobook
Kazuo Ishiguro
2017 1.5K 4.18
Upstream: Selected Essays
Poetry , Essays , Nonfiction , Nature , Memoir , Short Stories , Writing
Mary Oliver
2016 22.8K 4.17
A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf
Nonfiction , Writing , Classics , Biography , Memoir , Diary , Feminism
Virginia Woolf
1973 6.4K 4.16
Capote
Biography , Nonfiction , Biography Memoir , History , Writing , Memoir , Literature
Gerald Clarke
2005 5.1K 4.16
A Writer's Diary
Nonfiction , Writing , Classics , Biography , Memoir , Diary , Feminism
Virginia Woolf
2003 6.4K 4.16
Journal of a Solitude
Nonfiction , Memoir , Poetry , Writing , Biography , Biography Memoir , Autobiography
May Sarton
1992 5.7K 4.15
The Art of Memoir
Writing , Memoir , Nonfiction , Biography , Audiobook , Crafts , Biography Memoir
Mary Karr
2015 8.0K 4.14
Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life
Writing , Nonfiction , Self Help , Reference , Memoir , Poetry , Essays
Natalie Goldberg
1990 6.5K 4.14
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting
Nonfiction , Film , Writing , Memoir , Media Tie In , Biography , Biography Memoir
William Goldman
1989 8.0K 4.12
If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
Writing , Nonfiction , Art , Self Help , Reference , Philosophy , Memoir
Brenda Ueland
1997 8.6K 4.12
True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
Nonfiction , Memoir , Writing , Education , Biography , Teaching , Biography Memoir
Mark Salzman
2004 2.6K 4.11
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Nonfiction , Books About Books , Essays , Memoir , Biography , Writing , Humor
Anne Fadiman
2000 13.8K 4.10
Things I Don't Want to Know: On Writing
Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Writing , Feminism , Biography , Autobiography
Deborah Levy
2014 16.9K 4.08
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
Writing , Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Reference , Art , Philosophy
Ray Bradbury
1992 20.7K 4.08
The Fragrance of Guava
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Spanish Literature , Writing , Essays , Literature
Gabriel García Márquez
1998 1.5K 4.06
One Writer's Beginnings
Memoir , Writing , Nonfiction , Biography , Autobiography , Biography Memoir , Southern
Eudora Welty
1998 4.0K 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
If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Writing , Audiobook , Inspirational , Christian
Hannah Brencher
2015 1.8K 4.04
Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself
Art , Nonfiction , Self Help , Memoir , Inspirational , Writing , Journaling
Sabrina Ward Harrison
2000 4.9K 4.04
How to Read Now
Nonfiction , Essays , Books About Books , Audiobook , Writing , Memoir , Literary Criticism
Elaine Castillo
2022 1.8K 4.03
I. Asimov: A Memoir
Biography , Nonfiction , Memoir , Autobiography , History , Writing , Biography Memoir
Isaac Asimov
1995 3.5K 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
Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
Essays , Nonfiction , Memoir , Poetry , Short Stories , Feminism , Writing
Durga Chew-Bose
2017 5.6K 4.02