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Showing 3,438 results from 1980 to 2025 with a minimum of 1,000 ratings.
Matched genres: Memoir, Biography

Title Year Ratings Rating
Iran Awakening: From Prison to Peace Prize: One Woman's Struggle at the Crossroads of History
Nonfiction , Iran , Memoir , History , Biography , Politics , Feminism
Shirin Ebadi
2006 5.6K 4.17
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , History , African American , Autobiography , Biography Memoir
Sarah L. Delany
1994 14.1K 4.17
Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
Film , Nonfiction , Biography , Media Tie In , Memoir , Art , Autobiography
Robert Rodríguez
1996 5.1K 4.17
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
Nonfiction , History , Memoir , School , Biography , Historical , Race
Melba Pattillo Beals
1994 16.0K 4.17
The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
Nonfiction , Politics , History , Memoir , Biography , Audiobook , Crime
Andrew G. McCabe
2019 7.3K 4.17
Shadows of the Workhouse
Nonfiction , Memoir , History , Biography , Historical , Biography Memoir , Audiobook
Jennifer Worth
2008 26.5K 4.17
The Years
Nonfiction , Memoir , France , Biography , History , Nobel Prize , French Literature
Annie Ernaux
2008 38.7K 4.17
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
Africa , Nonfiction , Memoir , History , Zimbabwe , Biography , Travel
Peter Godwin
2006 9.2K 4.17
The Water Is Wide
Memoir , Nonfiction , Biography , Education , Southern , Biography Memoir , Teaching
Pat Conroy
2002 25.9K 4.17
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Nonfiction , Memoir , Feminism , Essays , Audiobook , Humor , Biography
Lindy West
2016 62.5K 4.17
Wake Up With Purpose!: What I’ve Learned in My First Hundred Years
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Audiobook , Sports , Biography Memoir , Autobiography
Jean Dolores Schmidt
2023 2.2K 4.17
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Psychology , Nonfiction , Philosophy , Biography , Memoir , Spirituality , Autobiography
C.G. Jung
1989 36.4K 4.17
Not Without My Daughter
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Iran , Biography Memoir , Autobiography , True Story
Betty Mahmoody
2004 36.9K 4.17
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Nonfiction , Science , Biography , Space , Memoir , Audiobook , Autobiography
Chris Hadfield
2013 61.1K 4.17
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Humor , Animals , Travel , Nature
Gerald Durrell
2004 60.0K 4.17
Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
Nonfiction , True Crime , Memoir , Biography , Crime , Biography Memoir , Audiobook
Michelle Knight
2014 29.6K 4.17
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Humor , Nonfiction , Graphic Novels , Memoir , Comics , Comedy , Biography
Allie Brosh
2013 212.2K 4.17
The Game
Sports , Nonfiction , Hockey , Biography , Memoir , Canada , History
Ken Dryden
1983 7.0K 4.16
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
Memoir , Nonfiction , LGBT , Biography , Gay , Queer , Biography Memoir
Paul Monette
1992 3.7K 4.16
Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
Music , Nonfiction , History , Audiobook , New York , Memoir , Biography
Lizzy Goodman
2017 11.7K 4.16
It's Not Yet Dark
Memoir , Nonfiction , Biography , Audiobook , Medical , Biography Memoir , Health
Simon Fitzmaurice
2014 2.8K 4.16
The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession
Nonfiction , Science , Biography , History , Biology , Memoir , Biography Memoir
Chandler Burr
2004 2.1K 4.16
Company Aytch; or, A Side Show of the Big Show: A Classic Memoir of the Civil War
History , Civil War , Nonfiction , Memoir , American Civil War , Biography , American History
Sam R. Watkins
1999 4.1K 4.16
You Deserve a Drink: Boozy Misadventures and Tales of Debauchery
Nonfiction , Humor , Memoir , Biography , Comedy , Autobiography , Essays
Mamrie Hart
2015 7.1K 4.16
The Sunset Route: Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
Memoir , Nonfiction , Travel , Biography , Mental Health , Adventure , Queer
Carrot Quinn
2021 1.8K 4.16
The Private Life of Chairman Mao
China , History , Biography , Nonfiction , Politics , Asia , Memoir
Li Zhisui
1996 2.7K 4.16
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft
Nonfiction , Travel , Adventure , History , Classics , Biography , Memoir
Thor Heyerdahl
2010 24.2K 4.16
Shy Boy: The Horse That Came in from the Wild
Horses , Nonfiction , Animals , Memoir , Biography , Biography Memoir , True Story
Monty Roberts
2000 3.0K 4.16
Memoirs
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Poetry , Spanish Literature , Autobiography , Biography Memoir
Pablo Neruda
1974 4.6K 4.16
Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang
Nonfiction , True Crime , Crime , Biography , Memoir , Audiobook , Biography Memoir
William Queen
2006 5.4K 4.16
The Seven Good Years
Nonfiction , Memoir , Short Stories , Israel , Humor , Biography , Jewish
Etgar Keret
2015 8.8K 4.16
Mud, Sweat and Tears
Biography , Nonfiction , Autobiography , Adventure , Memoir , Audiobook , Survival
Bear Grylls
2011 12.3K 4.16
Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , African American , Autobiography , Race , History
Nathan McCall
1994 5.7K 4.16
The Man Who Listens to Horses
Nonfiction , Horses , Animals , Biography , Memoir , Autobiography , Biography Memoir
Monty Roberts
1998 11.8K 4.16
A Long Way Gone
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , War , History , Biography Memoir , Autobiography
Ishmael Beah
2007 191.1K 4.16
Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War
History , Civil War , Nonfiction , Memoir , American Civil War , Biography , American History
Sam R. Watkins
2003 4.1K 4.16
Dear Theo
Art , Nonfiction , Biography , History , Art History , Memoir , Classics
Vincent van Gogh
1995 18.5K 4.16
White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port
Nonfiction , History , Biography , Audiobook , Politics , Memoir , Presidents
Kate Storey
2023 1.8K 4.16
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
Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
Nonfiction , Spirituality , Memoir , Biography , Health , Self Help , Inspirational
Anita Moorjani
2012 16.5K 4.16
Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
Biography , Nonfiction , Autobiography , Audiobook , Memoir , Business , Biography Memoir
Arnold Schwarzenegger
2012 22.7K 4.16
After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
Nonfiction , True Crime , Memoir , Crime , Biography Memoir , Biography , Audiobook
Sarah Perry
2017 5.2K 4.16
Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
Graphic Novels , Memoir , Nonfiction , Comics , Graphic Novels Comics , Canada , Biography
Sarah Leavitt
2010 1.9K 4.16
Capote
Biography , Nonfiction , Biography Memoir , History , Writing , Memoir , Literature
Gerald Clarke
2005 5.1K 4.16
Undisputed: How to Become the World Champion in 1,372 Easy Steps
Biography , Nonfiction , Sports , Autobiography , Memoir , Music , Humor
Chris Jericho
2011 4.2K 4.16
Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan
Travel , Nonfiction , Memoir , Asia , Biography , Adventure , Biography Memoir
Jamie Zeppa
2000 4.3K 4.16
A Writer's Diary
Nonfiction , Writing , Classics , Biography , Memoir , Diary , Feminism
Virginia Woolf
2003 6.4K 4.16
The Grass Arena
Nonfiction , Biography , Autobiography , Memoir , Literature , Irish Literature , Classics
John Healy
2008 1.1K 4.16
River of Time: A Memoir of Vietnam and Cambodia
Nonfiction , Travel , History , Asia , War , Biography , Memoir
Jon Swain
1999 1.1K 4.16
Big Russ & Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Autobiography , Biography Memoir , Politics , Inspirational
Tim Russert
2004 4.6K 4.16