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BIOGRAPHIES & AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
(List created by Peg Burington)

Sports & Adventure
Cop: A True Story by Michael Middleton
Field of Hope by Brett Butler
Go for the Goal by Mia Hamm
Greatest: Muhammad Ali by Walter Dean Myers
Into the Wild by Jon Kraukauer
It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder by Samuel Fussell
Pass the Butterworms by Tim Cahill
Road Song by Natalie Kusz
Second Ascent by Alison Osius
Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton
Total Impact by Ronnie Lott
Within Reach: My Mount Everest by Mark Pfetzer & Jack Galvin
Working Fire: The Making of an Accidental Fireman by Zac Unger

Health & the Human Condition
Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
Color of Water by James McBride
Joni: An Unforgettable Story by Joni Eareckson Tada
Lucky by Alice Seebold
Needles by Andie Dominick
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic by Donna Williams
Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood by Julie Gregory
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Freaks & Geeks
Candyfreak by Steve Almond
Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain by Michael Paterniti
Hacker Cracker by Ejovi Nuwaere
Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs
Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio by Terry Ryan
Radioactive Boy Scout by Ken Silverstein
Word Freak by Stefen Fatsis

Authors
Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life by Sid Fleischman
Bad Boy by Walter Dean Myers
Chewing the Cud by Dick King-Smith
Hole in my Life by Jack Gantos
King of the Mild Frontier by Chris Crutcher
Weeds in Bloom: Autobiography of an Ordinary Man by Robert Newton Peck

For the Animal Lover
Man Who Listens to Horses by Monty Roberts
You Belong in a Zoo by Peter Brazaitis
Zoo in my Luggage by Gerald Durrell

A Visit to the Past
Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl
Beautiful Days of my Youth by Ana Novac
Good Brother, Bad Brother by James Giblin
Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
I Have Lived One Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
I will Plant you a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor by Laura Hillman
Let Me Go by Helga Schneider
Lost Childhood: A World War II Memoir by Yehuda Nir
Malcolm X by Walter Dean Myers
Sitting Bull and His World by Albert Marrin
Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren
Thanks to my Mother by Schoschana Rabinovici

Celebrities
Hey Ya!: The Unauthorized Biography of Outcast by Chris Nickson
Tha Daag by Snoop Daag
Unbelievable: The Life, Death and Afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G. by Chei Coker

Other Cultures
Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Brent
Red Scarf Girl by Ji Li Jiang
When I was a Soldier by Vlaerie Zenatti