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#1
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deeply disturbing memoirthe best memoir I have ever readvery frank and rawreally interestingMORE THAN EIGHT YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST
The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly) m...See Full Details
Liked The Glass Castle?
#2
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coming of age memoirfunny and touchingwrite me a letteran above average memoir#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
More than one million copies sold! A "brilliant" (Lupita Nyong'o, Time), "poignant" (Entertainment Weekly), "soul-nouri...See Full Details
Liked Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood?
#3
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coming of age memoirshallow & almost banaldisturbing but compellingwitty, funny, and bizarreThe #1 New York Times Bestseller
An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year...See Full Details
Liked Running with Scissors?
#4
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the act of writingpart memoir and part guidevery frank and practicalpractical and common senseONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP 100 NONFICTION BOOKS OF ALL TIME
"Long live the King" hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen King's On Wr...See Full Details
Liked On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft?
#5
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entertaining and illustratingself deprecating humorinsightful and sarcasticsharp, funny, and perceptiveSpirited and whip-smart, these laugh-out-loud autobiographical essays are "a masterpiece" from the Emmy Award-winning actress and comedy writer known ...See Full Details
Liked Bossypants?
#6
"I pray that God forgive them…"
Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner. "Oh...See Full Details
Liked The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom?
#7
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incredibly heartbreakingsad yet eye-openinghighly readable and personalinformative and deeply sad yet happyDiscovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic-a powerful remin...See Full Details
Liked The Diary of a Young Girl?
#8
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dark edgy stylevery well writtena compelling memoirgrim and dark#4 on The New York Times' list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years
The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of a hardscrabble Texas chil...See Full Details
Liked The Liars' Club?
#9
Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen o...See Full Details
Liked I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
#10
The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world views. His Confessio...See Full Details
Liked Confessions?
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