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Biography & Memoir

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biography-memoir

The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

Ada’s Score

4.8

biography-memoir

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

Ada’s Score

4.8

biography-memoir

Know My Name

Chanel Miller

Ada’s Score

4.7

biography-memoir

The Warmth of Other Suns

Isabel Wilkerson

Ada’s Score

4.7

biography-memoir

The Autobiography of a Yogi

Paramahansa Yogananda

Ada’s Score

4.7

biography-memoir

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X with Alex Haley

Ada’s Score

4.6

biography-memoir

Just Kids

Patti Smith

Ada’s Score

4.6

Award Winner

biography-memoir

Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner

Ada’s Score

4.6

Award Winner

biography-memoir

How to Rule the World

Theo Baker

Ada’s Score

4.5

Ada Brief

biography-memoir

Becoming

Michelle Obama

Ada’s Score

4.5

biography-memoir

Born a Crime

Trevor Noah

Ada’s Score

4.5

biography-memoir

The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls

Ada’s Score

4.5

biography-memoir

The Liars' Club

Mary Karr

Ada’s Score

4.5

biography-memoir

Live Laugh Love

Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Ada’s Score

4.3

biography-memoir

An Unexpected Life

Gloria Steinem

Ada’s Score

4.3

biography-memoir

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

Ada’s Score

4.2

biography-memoir

Lab Girl

Hope Jahren

Ada’s Score

4.2

biography-memoir

American Scoundrel

Kai Bird

Ada’s Score

4.2

biography-memoir

Strangers

Belle Burden

Ada’s Score

4.1

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biography-memoir

The U.S. Constitution

Melissa Murray

Ada’s Score

4.1

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biography-memoir

The Taste of Salt

Martha Southgate

Ada’s Score

4.1

biography-memoir

Wild

Cheryl Strayed

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biography-memoir

This Is Me

Hayden Panettiere

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biography-memoir

Regime Change

Maggie Haberman

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biography-memoir

Star of the Show

Dolly Parton

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biography-memoir

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

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biography-memoir

The Land and Its People

David Sedaris

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biography-memoir

Never Say Die

Ke Huy Quan

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New

biography-memoir

H Is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald

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Award Winner

biography-memoir

The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

Walter Isaacson

Ada’s Score

3.9

biography-memoir

Spare

Prince Harry

Ada’s Score

3.9

biography-memoir

An Inconvenient Widow

Lois Romano

Ada’s Score

3.9

biography-memoir

Behind the Seams

Dolly Parton

Ada’s Score

3.9

New

biography-memoir

Actually, Nevermind

Taylor Tomlinson

Ada’s Score

3.9

New

biography-memoir

Transcendent

Laverne Cox

Ada’s Score

3.9

biography-memoir

On Courage

Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer

Ada’s Score

3.9

New

biography-memoir

America, U.S.A.

Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Ada’s Score

3.9

New

biography-memoir

The Crooked Places Made Straight

Raphael G. Warnock

Ada’s Score

3.9

New

biography-memoir

The Renoir Girls

Catherine Ostler

Ada’s Score

3.9

New

biography-memoir

Idle in Provence

Eric Idle

Ada’s Score

3.9

New

biography-memoir

A Screaming Life

Kim Thayil

Ada’s Score

3.8

New

biography-memoir

All That's Unseen

Emilee Hackney

Ada’s Score

3.8

New

biography-memoir

One Man In

Christian Craighead

Ada’s Score

3.8

New

biography-memoir

Push the Wall

Frank Miller

Ada’s Score

3.8

New

biography-memoir

In My Darkest Hour

Dave Mustaine

Ada’s Score

3.8

New

biography-memoir

Famesick

Lena Dunham

Ada’s Score

3.8

biography-memoir

The Perilous Fight

Colin Kaepernick

Ada’s Score

3.8

New

biography-memoir

All We Say

Ben Rhodes

Ada’s Score

3.7

New

biography-memoir

The Education of a Senator

Lamar Alexander

Ada’s Score

3.7

biography-memoir

Roll the Calls

Ari Emanuel

Ada’s Score

3.7

New

biography-memoir

The Hero Next Door

Martha Raddatz

Ada’s Score

3.7

New

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Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I've Cried About

Isabel Klee

Ada’s Score

3.7

New

biography-memoir

Stripped Down

Bunnie Xo

Ada’s Score

3.7

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Plot Twist

Harlan Coben

Ada’s Score

3.7

New

biography-memoir

Courage Can Save Us

Rye Barcott

Ada’s Score

3.6

New

biography-memoir

The Case for America

Bret Baier

Ada’s Score

3.6

biography-memoir

Go and Do Likewise

Andy Beshear

Ada’s Score

3.6

New

biography-memoir

All American

Rachel Campos-Duffy

Ada’s Score

3.6

biography-memoir

Communion

JD Vance

Ada’s Score

3.6

New

biography-memoir

View from the East Wing

Jill Biden

Ada’s Score

3.6

New

biography-memoir

I Once Knew a Guy Named Charlie

Jaclyn Smith

Ada’s Score

3.6

New

biography-memoir

Going Further

Ted Cruz

Ada’s Score

3.5

New

biography-memoir

Unburdened

Dorit Kemsley

Ada’s Score

3.5

New

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