Biographies And Memoirs

Updated over 1 year ago
236 Books

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#2	Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets Sudhir Venkatesh	3.91	37 reads
#4	Self-Made Man Norah Vincent	2.25	11 reads
#5	The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion	4.03	270 reads
#6	Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Barack Obama	3.99	130 reads
#7	A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive Dave Pelzer	3.68	235 reads
#8	Into the Wild Jon Krakauer Christopher Johnson McCandless	3.83	650 reads
#9	The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank	4.02	1,369 reads
#10	Stolen Innocence Elissa Wall	3.77	14 reads
#11	Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss: The Early Days of SNL from Someone Who Was There Tom Davis	2	1 read
#12	Wishful Drinking Carrie Fisher	3.91	147 reads
#13	John Lennon: The Life Philip Norman	3.44	10 reads
#14	This Common Secret : My Journey as an Abortion Doctor Susan Wicklund	4.2	6 reads
#15	Clapton: The Autobiography Eric Clapton Claus Bech (Translator)	3.67	17 reads
#16	Tender at the Bone Ruth Reichl	4	26 reads
#17	Rumspringa Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish Tom Shachtman	0	0 reads
#18	Eat This Book: A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit Ryan Nerz	0	0 reads
#19	Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia Elizabeth Gilbert	3.31	422 reads
#20	The Apprentice Jacques Pépin	4.43	7 reads
#21	My Life in France Julia Child	4.03	66 reads
#24	A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary Marta Hillers Philip Boehm (Translator)	4.32	12 reads
#25	Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story Chuck Klosterman	3.67	56 reads
#27	Welfare Brat Welfare Brat Mary Childers	2	1 read
#28	H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life Michel Houellebecq	3.89	11 reads
#29	The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox Nancy Rubin Stuart	0	0 reads
#30	Chronicles: Volume One Bob Dylan	4.22	31 reads
#31	Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger Nigel Slater	3.5	6 reads
#32	How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale Jenna Jameson Neil Strauss	3.6	7 reads
#33	Rotten John Lydon Keith Zimmerman Kent Zimmerman	3.67	7 reads
#35	The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn Alison Weir	3.33	3 reads
#36	Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot	4.18	405 reads
#37	His Favorite Wife His Favorite Wife: Trapped in Polygamy Susan Ray Schmidt	0	0 reads
#38	Escape Carolyn Jessop Laura Palmer	4.04	29 reads
#39	Cobain. Più pesante del cielo Charles R. Cross	4	22 reads
#40	The Bedwetter Sarah Silverman	3.46	41 reads
#43	My First Five Husbands... And the Ones Who Got Away My First Five Husbands... And the Ones Who Got Away Rue McClanahan	5	1 read
#44	Brutal Kevin Weeks	5	1 read
#46	The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson	4.46	104 reads
#49	The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee	4.23	164 reads
#50	Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea Chelsea Handler	3.64	53 reads
#51	Things The Grandchildren Should Know Mark Oliver Everett	3.73	17 reads
#52	A Man Without a Country Kurt Vonnegut	4.15	83 reads
#53	Just Kids Patti Smith	4.18	214 reads
#55	Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang Chelsea Handler	3.36	26 reads
#56	Neon Angel Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway Cherie Currie Tony O'Neill	3.33	3 reads
#57	Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster Jon Krakauer	4.26	420 reads
#58	Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto Chuck Klosterman	3.72	132 reads
#60	The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath	3.95	992 reads
#61	And So It Goes Charles J. Shields	0	0 reads
#62	Let's Pretend This Never Happened Jenny Lawson	4.35	13 reads
#65	Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples Rodger Streitmatter	3.5	4 reads
#66	Yes, Chef Marcus Samuelsson	3.67	15 reads
#68	Dearie Bob Spitz	4	9 reads
#69	Loving Frank Nancy Horan	3.38	33 reads
#70	The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific J. Maarten Troost	3.46	30 reads
#72	Gods like us Ty Burr	0	0 reads
#73	The Emancipator's Wife: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln Barbara Hambly	0	0 reads
#74	A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of The Smiths Tony Fletcher	0	0 reads
#75	Going Clear Lawrence Wright	3.92	72 reads
#80	Running With Scissors Augusten Burroughs	3.55	180 reads
#81	Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal Jon Wiederhorn Katherine Turman	4	2 reads
#82	A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley Neal Thompson	4	3 reads
#83	An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist Richard Dawkins	2.88	9 reads
#84	Divine Invasions Divine Invasions Lawrence Sutin	4.5	3 reads
#85	Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living Nick Offerman	3.81	69 reads
#86	My Story Elizabeth Smart Chris Stewart	3.32	29 reads
#87	Finding the Dragon Lady Monique Brinson Demery	3	1 read
#88	Long Walk To Freedom Nelson Mandela	4.36	72 reads
#89	The Missionary Position Christopher Hitchens	3.56	15 reads
#90	Thomas Jefferson: Author of America Christopher Hitchens	4	6 reads
#92	The Diving Bell And The Butterfly Jean-Dominique Bauby Jeremy Leggatt (Translator)	3.85	60 reads
#93	I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales from a Happy Life Without Kids Jen Kirkman	3.44	10 reads
#94	Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me Chelsea Handler	3.25	17 reads
#95	Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America John Waters	3.36	16 reads
#96	Pioneer Girl Laura Ingalls Wilder	5	6 reads
#97	Small Steps Peg Kehret	0	1 read
#98	Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory Caitlin Doughty	4.17	192 reads
#99	Manson	4.33	9 reads
#100	The Diary of Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo	4.2	8 reads
#102	Dr. Mèutter's marvels Dr. Mèutter's marvels : a true tale of intrigue and innovation at the dawn of modern medicine Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz	4.23	14 reads
#103	Bossypants	3.83	706 reads
#104	Furiously Happy Jenny Lawson	3.94	200 reads
#105	You're Never Weird on the Internet Felicia Day	4.28	166 reads
#106	Ice Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption—from South Central to Hollywood Ice-T Douglas Century	4	5 reads
#107	The Silent Twins Marjorie Wallace	3	2 reads
#108	Just like someone without mental illness only more so Mark Vonnegut	4	4 reads
#109	Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? Mindy Kaling	3.65	289 reads
#110	Wonderful Tonight Pattie Boyd	3	12 reads
#111	Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology Leah Remini	3.86	67 reads
#112	The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy Rainn Wilson	3.75	24 reads
#113	Wildflower Drew Barrymore	3.37	31 reads
#114	Why Not Me? Mindy Kaling	3.72	74 reads
#115	Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" Lena Dunham	3	88 reads
#116	I Shock Myself I Shock Myself: The Autobiography of Beatrice Wood Beatrice Wood	0	0 reads
#117	In the Country We Love: My Family Divided Diane Guerrero	4.09	12 reads
#118	Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy Judd Apatow	3.56	26 reads
#119	Notorious RBG Irin Carmon Shana Knizhnik	4.04	59 reads
#120	Our Revolution A Future to Believe In Bernie Sanders	4.13	10 reads
#121	Modern Romance Aziz Ansari Eric Klinenberg	3.63	255 reads
#122	Becoming Michelle Obama	4.45	593 reads
#123	The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X Alex Haley	4.45	190 reads