Biography & memoir books
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193 book guides · Showing 145–192
The Orchid Thief
Susan Orlean
Effort 45/100
The River of Doubt
Candice Millard
Effort 40/100
Guts
Gary Paulsen
Effort 19/100
Citizen 13660
Miné Okubo
Effort 32/100
Beyond Magenta
Susan Kuklin
Effort 28/100
Death Be Not Proud
John Gunther
Effort 26/100
Arabian Sands
Wilfred Thesiger
Effort 45/100
Blue Highways
William Least Heat-Moon
Effort 46/100
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson
Effort 22/100
Eve's Hollywood
Eve Babitz
Effort 31/100
The Map That Changed the World
Simon Winchester
Effort 46/100
The Other Wes Moore
Wes Moore
Effort 34/100
I Am Jazz
Jessica Herthel, Jazz Jennings
Effort 2/100
The Professor and the Madman
Simon Winchester
Effort 26/100
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
Eric Newby
Effort 26/100
Bill Bryson's African Diary
Bill Bryson
Effort 17/100
Vacationland
John Hodgman
Effort 24/100
Casino
Nicholas Pileggi
Effort 35/100
The White Album
Joan Didion
Effort 66/100
River Town
Peter Hessler
Effort 51/100
Brainiac
Ken Jennings
Effort 22/100
Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm
Jeremy Clarkson
Effort 20/100
Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
David Lipsky
Effort 41/100
Dynasty
Tom Holland
Effort 49/100
Into the Planet
Jill Heinerth
Effort 22/100
Challenger
Adam Higginbotham
Effort 48/100
The Unwinding
George Packer
Effort 53/100
Draft No. 4
John McPhee
Effort 41/100
The Monopolists
Mary Pilon
Effort 46/100
Cache Lake Country
John J. Rowlands
Effort 27/100
Murderland
Caroline Fraser
Effort 67/100
Conversations with David Foster Wallace
Stephen J. Burn
Effort 43/100
Indian Creek Chronicles
Pete Fromm
Effort 26/100
The Answer Is . . .
Alex Trebek
Effort 22/100
A Walk in the Park
Kevin Fedarko
Effort 44/100
Adventures of a Computational Explorer
Stephen Wolfram
Effort 48/100
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail
David Miller
Effort 24/100
Lost on Planet China
J. Maarten Troost
Effort 24/100
Monsters in the Archives
Caroline Bicks
Effort 33/100
Positively Fifth Street
James McManus
Effort 50/100
Roads
Larry McMurtry
Effort 26/100
The Country Kitchen
Della T. Lutes
Effort 24/100
The End of the End of the Earth
Jonathan Franzen
Effort 54/100
The Gambler
William C. Rempel
Effort 38/100
The Long Haul
Finn Murphy
Effort 24/100
The Meadow
James Galvin
Effort 52/100
The Merchant of Prato
Iris Origo
Effort 56/100
The Salt Stones
Helen Whybrow
Effort 43/100
