Best Biographies, Autobiographies and Memoirs

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Our List of the Month for January is devoted to the Best Biographies, Autobiographies and Memoirs. Each participant may vote on ten titles. Please only downvote titles if they do not fit the theme.
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Aquila, BookDoc16, harrietgate, camelama, bjappleg8, mstrust, cbl_tn, PaperbackPirate, atozgrl, PatsyMurray, perennialreader, Fjumonvi, miller.max, al.vick, AnneSteph, bookmary2, barefootsong, Karen74Leigh, Joy62, dave3pt0, Chanda.Leah
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cbl_tn: I highly recommend the audiobook narrated by Christopher Timothy!
perennialreader: Loved the whole series!
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512 besprekingen
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timspalding, kaulsu, camelama, bjappleg8, mstrust, sundancer, merrystar, atozgrl, perennialreader, susanbooks, Patchshank, hallhope, Karen74Leigh, Brandy1411, Tosta, Nikkimf88, DoomLuz, Joy62, WynneWages
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perennialreader: Read this book when I was her age. It has haunted me ever since.
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gbelik, oregonobsessionz, kaulsu, camelama, atozgrl, AbigailAdams26, harray, bookmary2, Wordslinger1919, Joy62, WynneWages, Chanda.Leah
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AbigailAdams26: One of the best biographies I have read, over the last ten years. The kick-off title of my Presidential Biography Book Club.
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brewergirl, oregonobsessionz, kaulsu, camelama, Bretzky1, noveltea, AbigailAdams26, davidflem1984, Joy62
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AbigailAdams26: As someone named for Abigail Adams, I have been given biographies of various Adams family members many times. This was one of my last Christmas gifts from my father.
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languagehat, BookDoc16, ecb06c, thalassa_thalassa, msemmag, bujeya, Karen74Leigh, KurtWombat, elahrairah
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elahrairah: How not to survive the unsurvivable.
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½ 4.5
6 Members
hipdeep, raidergirl3, lottpoet, megbmore, slimikin, SOShea
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hipdeep: Volume 1 standing in for the whole series.
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harrietgate, CarltonC, souloftherose
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CarltonC: Not so much an archaeological memoir, as a memoir about a time (1930's) and places (Orient Express, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq) that I imagine have changed beyond recognition. This memoir and travelogue clearly shows the author's happiness at that time, which she conveys so wonderfully in this brief book, so full of love and humour. There is little about archaeology, it is about the sights, sounds, smells and above all the people that she encountered. I was enchanted.
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bjappleg8, sundancer, msemmag, elahrairah
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elahrairah: How to survive the unsurvivable.
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tardis, yoyogod, RBeffa
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Faradaydon, Heather39, perennialreader
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perennialreader: About a woman who is bedridden for a year or so and how she manages.
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nicolecervone, elahrairah, SOShea
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elahrairah: Funny and sad.
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levitas, dhaxton
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EerierIdyllMeme, perennialreader, KurtWombat
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perennialreader: “Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.”
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paradoxosalpha, amanda4242
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paradoxosalpha: A stand-in for the full ten volumes in the excellent Trask translation.
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cbl_tn, Fjumonvi
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Faradaydon, elahrairah
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elahrairah: Hilarious, touching, and honest.
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vwinsloe, JustJune
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sherryearly, Joy62
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cbl_tn, ahef1963
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Cecrow, peterveen
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al.vick, dave3pt0
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