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Literary & Historical Autobiographies

Literary Autobiographies

1. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
2. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
3. Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
4. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
5. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
6. Diary by Lady Murasaki
7. Memoirs of My Life by Edward Gibbon
8. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey
9. Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu
10. The Life of Henry Brulard by Stendhal
11. Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche
12. Pages From the Goncourt Journals by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
13. A Country Doctor’s Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov
14. Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
15. Diaries by Franz Kafka
16. Safe Conduct by Boris Pasternak
17. My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber
18. The Autobiography by G.K. Chesterton
19. Something of Myself by Rudyard Kipling
20. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
21. The Autobiography by William Butler Yeats
22. A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy
23. If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
24. Sisters by a River by Barbara Comyns
25. Memoir of Hungary, 1944–1948 by Sandor Marai
26. On Overgrown Paths by Knut Hamsun
27. The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
28. The Autobiography by William Carlos Williams
29. Childhood Years: A Memoir by Junichiro Tanizaki
30. A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography by Evelyn Waugh
31. My Father and Myself by J.R. Ackerley
32. Diaries by Witold Gombrowicz
33. My Life In CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 by Harry Mathews
34. My Days by R.K. Narayan
35. Condundrum by Jan Morris
36. The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
37. Going Solo by Roald Dahl
38. Prisoner of Love by Jean Genet
39. My Life by Lyn Hejinian
40. The Great Fire of London by Jacques Roubaud
41. I, Asimov: A Memoir by Isaac Asimov
42. Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
44. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
45. Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan by Donald Keene
46. My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård
47. Autobiography by Morrissey

Historical Autobiographies

1. The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
2. The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
3. Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
4. The Autobiography by Malcolm X
5. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
6. Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan by Mother of Michitsuna
7. As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams by Lady Sarashina
8. The Confessions by Lady Nijo
9. The Baburnama: Memoirs by Babur
10. The Autobiography by Benvenuto Cellini
11. The Book of My Life by Girolamo Cardano
12. The Diary by Samuel Pepys
13. The Journal by George Fox
14. Story of My Life by Giacomo Girolamo Casanova
15. The Memoirs by Catherine the Great
16. Narrative of the Life by Frederick Douglass
17. Musui’s Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai by Katsu Kokichi
18. The Autobiography by William Tecumseh Sherman
19. Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant
20. The Autobiography by Charles Darwin
21. The Autobiography by Yukichi Fukuzawa
22. The Letters by Vincent van Gogh
23. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Daniel Paul Schreber
24. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
25. My Childhood by Maxim Gorky
26. Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
27. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon
28. The Secret Life by Salvador Dali
29. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
30. Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin by Felix Yusupov
31. The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait by Frida Kahlo
32. Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
33. Norman Rockwell by Norman Rockwell
34. Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung
35. The Double Helix by James D. Watson
36. Daybook: The Journey of an Artist by Anne Truitt
37. Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson
38. An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
39. Mr Nice by Howard Marks
40. Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
41. Geisha: A Life by Mineko Iwasaki

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