Genre :: Biography (19 books)

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  #501

  Night

  by Elie Wiesel

  (7 Reviews)

  25 Points

  "They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life."

  

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  #507

  The road from Coorain

  by Jill Ker Conway

  (3 Reviews)

  24 Points

  "The western plains of New South Wales are grasslands."

  

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  #510

  The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

  by Gertrude Stein

  (3 Reviews)

  23 Points

  "I was born in San Francisco, California."

  

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  #541

  An evil cradling

  by Brian Keenan

  (3 Reviews)

  17 Points

  

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  #555

  The Education of Henry Adams

  by Henry Adams

  (1 Review)

  14 Points

  "Under the shadow of Boston State House, turning its back on the house of John Hancock, the little passage called Hancock Avenue runs, or ran, from Beacon Street, skirting the State House grounds,..."

  

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  #565

  The Periodic Table

  by Primo Levi

  (3 Reviews)

  12 Points

  "There are the so-called inert gases in the air we breathe."

  

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  #592

  Goodbye to All That

  by Robert Graves

  (2 Reviews)

  7 Points

  "As a proof of my readiness to accept autobiographical conventions, let me at once record my two earliest memories."

  

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  #606

  The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  by Malcolm X

  (1 Review)

  4 Points

  "When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha, Nebraska, one night."

  

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  #615

  Eminent Victorians

  by Lytton Strachey

  (1 Review)

  3 Points

  "The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it."

  

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