Top books: Biography & Memoir

Author: Rebecca Skloot

Setting: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland

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Author: Michelle Obama

Setting: South Side, Chicago, Illinois

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Author: Ben Macintyre

Setting: Colditz Castle, Colditz, Germany

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Author: George Anastasia

Setting: Howard Beach, Queens, New York

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Author: Steve Osborne

Setting: New York City, New York

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Author: Michael Finkel

Setting: North Pond, Maine

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Author: Harriet Jacobs

Setting: Edenton, North Carolina

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Author: Cristina Rivera Garza

Setting: Mexico City, Mexico

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Author: Rick McIntyre

Setting: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

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Author: Kylie Moore-Gilbert

Setting: Evin Prison, Tehran, Iran

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Author: Patti Smith

Setting: Chelsea Hotel, New York City, New York

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Author: Jon Krakauer

Setting: Stampede Trail, Alaska

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Author: Gregory Boyle

Setting: Homeboy Industries, Los Angeles, California

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Author: Dawn Staley

Setting: North Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Author: Billy Moore

Setting: Klong Prem Prison, Bangkok, Thailand

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Author: Phuc Tran

Setting: Carlisle, Pennsylvania

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Author: Jeannine A. Cook

Setting: Harriett’s Bookshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Author: Corrie ten Boom

Setting: Haarlem, Netherlands

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Author: Piper Kerman

Setting: Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury, Connecticut

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Author: Elizabeth Smart, Chris Stewart

Setting: Salt Lake City, Utah

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Author: Ernest Hemingway

Setting: Paris, France

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Author: Kevin Fedarko

Setting: Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

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Author: Joe Simpson

Setting: Siula Grande, Peruvian Andes, Peru

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Author: Jaycee Dugard

Setting: Antioch, California

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Author: Chanel Miller

Setting: Stanford University, Stanford, California

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Author: John Muir

Setting: Yosemite National Park, California

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Author: Quiara Alegría Hudes

Setting: North Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Author: Jennette McCurdy

Setting: Los Angeles, California

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Author: Tara Westover

Setting: Clifton, Idaho

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Author: Mike Moy

Setting: Chinatown, Manhattan, New York City, New York

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Author: Maureen Callahan

Setting: Anchorage, Alaska

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Author: Henry David Thoreau

Setting: Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts

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Author: Walter Isaacson

Setting: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Author: Jon Meacham

Setting: Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia

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Author: Christie Brinkley

Setting: New York City, New York

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Author: Susanna Kaysen

Setting: McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts

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Author: Martin Doyle

Setting: Tullylish, County Down, Northern Ireland

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Author: J. D. Vance

Setting: Middletown, Ohio

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Author: Katriona O'Sullivan

Setting: Dublin, Ireland

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Author: Peter McGough

Setting: Downtown New York City, New York

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Author: Clinton Romesha

Setting: Combat Outpost Keating, Kamdesh, Afghanistan

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Author: Salman Rushdie

Setting: Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York

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Author: Eli Sharabi

Setting: Kibbutz Be'eri, Israel

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Author: Holly Madison

Setting: Las Vegas, Nevada

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Author: Jack Sacco

Setting: Dachau concentration camp, Dachau, Germany

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Author: Natalie Dykstra

Setting: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts

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Author: Geronimo

Setting: Fort Sill, Oklahoma

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Author: Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Setting: Burnt Fork, Wyoming

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Author: Maya Angelou

Setting: Stamps, Arkansas

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Author: Ann Rule

Setting: Seattle, Washington

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Author: Edith Eva Eger

Setting: Auschwitz concentration camp, Oświęcim, Poland

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Author: Mitch Albom

Setting: West Newton, Massachusetts

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Author: Jeannette Walls

Setting: Welch, West Virginia

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Author: Amir Tibon

Setting: Kibbutz Nahal Oz, Israel

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Author: Ruth Wariner

Setting: Colonia LeBaron, Chihuahua, Mexico

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Author: Piers Paul Read

Setting: Andes crash site, Mendoza Province, Argentina

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Author: Patrick Bringley

Setting: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York

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Author: Randy Pausch

Setting: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Author: Frederick Douglass

Setting: Baltimore, Maryland

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Author: Robert O'Neill

Setting: Abbottabad compound, Abbottabad, Pakistan

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Author: Robert A. Caro

Setting: New York City, New York

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Author: Helen Keller

Setting: Tuscumbia, Alabama

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Author: Richard Wurmbrand

Setting: Jilava Prison, Bucharest, Romania

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Author: Malala Yousafzai

Setting: Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan

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Author: Paul Kalanithi

Setting: Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California

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Author: Anthony Bourdain

Setting: New York City, New York

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Author: Trevor Noah

Setting: Johannesburg, South Africa

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Author: Viktor E. Frankl

Setting: Auschwitz concentration camp, Oświęcim, Poland

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