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Autobiographies & Memoirs
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Julia Alvarez Something to Declare
Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Ishmael Beah A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Edith Bruck Who Loves You Like This
Forrest Carter The Education of Little Tree
Misha Defonseca Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years
Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Mick Foley Foley is Good - And the Real World is Faker than Wrestling
Mick Foley Mankind: Have a Nice Day! - A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks
Ben Fong-Torres The Rice Room: Growing Up Chinese-American - from Number Two Son to Rock 'n' Roll
Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl
Rudy Galindo Icebreaker: The Autobiography of Rudy Galindo
Jack Gantos Hole in My Life
Elva Treviño Hart Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
Tony Hawk Hawk: Occupation, Skateboarder
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
Livia Bitten Jackson My Bridges of Hope: Searching for Life and Love After Auschwitz
Ji-li Jiang Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
Helen Keller The Story of My Life
Joanie Laurer Chyna: If They Only Knew
Ted Lewin I was a Teenage Professional Wrestler
Michael Lewis The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
Adeline Yen Mah Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Rigoberta Menchu I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
Irene Gut Opdyke In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
Judith Ortiz Cofer Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
Gary Paulsen Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers: Reflections on Being Raised by a Pack of Sled Dogs
David J. Pelzer A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive
Matthew Polly American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch; An Odyssey in the New China
The Rock The Rock Says ... : The Most Electrifying Man in Sports-Entertainment
Luis J. Rodriguez Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
Esmeralda Santiago Almost a Woman
Esmeralda Santiago When I Was Puerto Rican
Ruth Minsky Sender The Cage
Gary Soto Living Up the Street: Narrative Recollections
Daniel Tammet Born on a Blue Day: A Memoir: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
Victor Villaseñor Walking Stars: Stories of Magic and Power
Ned Vizzini Teen Angst? Naaah ... : A Quasi-Autobiography
William T. Vollmann Riding Toward Everywhere
Jeannette Walls The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Booker T. Washington Up From Slavery
Richard Wright Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth
Paul Zindel The Pigman & Me

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