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Invincible Louisa

Meigs, Ciornelia, Illustrated, Cornelia Meigs

1933 ★ 3.8

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

1854 ★ 3.9

Travels with Charley

John Steinbeck

1962 ★ 4.1

84, Charing Cross Road

Helene Hanff

1974 ★ 4.3

The Princess Diarist

Carrie Fisher

2016 ★ 3.7

Notes from a small island

Bill Bryson

1996 ★ 3.8

The Endless Steppe

Esther Rudomin Hautzig

1968 ★ 4.4

Memoirs of a Beatnik

Diane di Prima

1988 ★ 3.7

Comfort Me with Apples

Ruth Reichl

2001 ★ 3.7

Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri

1999 ★ 3.9

In Search of Our Mother's Garden

Alice Walker

1983 ★ 5.0

The Snow Leopard

Peter Matthiessen

1979 ★ 4.7

Travels

Michael Crichton

1988 ★ 4.0

A Girl From Yamhill

Beverly Cleary

1988 ★ 4.3

Journal

Henry David Thoreau

1927 ★ 2.8

Life among the savages

Lesa Lockford, Shirley Jackson

1953 ★ 4.2

The Road

Jack London

1907 ★ 3.8

Divine invasions

Lawrence Sutin

1989 ★ 3.8

John Barleycorn

Jack London

1913 ★ 4.8

On Writing

Stephen King

2000 ★ 4.1

Cherry

Mary Karr

2000 ★ 3.7

El Deafo

Cece Bell

2014 ★ 4.0

Desert solitaire

Edward Abbey

1968 ★ 4.2

Manhood for amateurs

Michael Chabon

2009 ★ 3.3

Black Boy

Richard Wright

1945 ★ 4.1

Shout

Laurie Halse Anderson

2019 ★ 3.7

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Gertrude Stein

1933 ★ 3.0

The Kiss

Kathryn Harrison

1997 ★ 2.4

Flora and Tiger

Eric Carle

1997 ★ 4.0

The writing life

Annie Dillard

1989 ★ 3.7

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