Genre :: Biography (19 books)

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  #97

  The Diary of a Young Girl

  by Anne Frank

  (19 Reviews)

  193 Points

  "On Friday, 12th June, I woke up at six o' clock and no wonder; it was my birthday"

  

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  #174

  If This Is a Man and The Truce

  by Primo Levi

  (3 Reviews)

  115 Points

  

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  #226

  Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

  by Jung Chang

  (4 Reviews)

  90 Points

  "At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national government of China."

  

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  #283

  Angela's Ashes

  by Frank McCourt

  (6 Reviews)

  75 Points

  "My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born."

  

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  #305

  The Executioner's Song

  by Norman Mailer

  (3 Reviews)

  70 Points

  "Brenda was six when she fell out of the apple tree."

  

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  #308

  Mountains Beyond Mountains

  by Tracy Kidder

  (1 Review)

  70 Points

  "Six years after the fact, Dr. Paul Edward Farmer reminded me, "We met because of a beheading, of all things.""

  

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  #312

  Confessions

  by Saint Augustine

  (2 Reviews)

  69 Points

  "You are great, O Lord, and greatly to be praised: great is your power and to your wisdom there is no limit.You are great, O Lord, and very worthy of praise; mighty is your power and your wisdom..."

  

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  #401

  The Color of Water

  by James McBride

  (1 Review)

  50 Points

  "As a boy, I never knew where my mother was from -- where she was born, who her parents were."

  

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  #436

  Testament of Youth

  by Vera Brittain

  (1 Review)

  42 Points

  "When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans."

  

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  #497

  Notes from a small island

  by Bill Bryson

  (5 Reviews)

  27 Points

  "My first sight of England was on a foggy March night in 1973 when I arrived on the midnight ferry from Calais."

  

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