Literary & Historical Autobiographies
Literary Autobiographies
- Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
- Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
- Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- Diary by Lady Murasaki
- Memoirs of My Life by Edward Gibbon
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey
- Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu
- The Life of Henry Brulard by Stendhal
- Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Pages From the Goncourt Journals by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
- A Country Doctor’s Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
- Diaries by Franz Kafka
- Safe Conduct by Boris Pasternak
- My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber
- The Autobiography by G.K. Chesterton
- Something of Myself by Rudyard Kipling
- Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
- The Autobiography by William Butler Yeats
- A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy
- If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
- Sisters by a River by Barbara Comyns
- Memoir of Hungary, 1944–1948 by Sandor Marai
- On Overgrown Paths by Knut Hamsun
- The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
- The Autobiography by William Carlos Williams
- Childhood Years: A Memoir by Junichiro Tanizaki
- A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography by Evelyn Waugh
- My Father and Myself by J.R. Ackerley
- Diaries by Witold Gombrowicz
- My Life In CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 by Harry Mathews
- My Days by R.K. Narayan
- Condundrum by Jan Morris
- The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
- Going Solo by Roald Dahl
- Prisoner of Love by Jean Genet
- My Life by Lyn Hejinian
- The Great Fire of London by Jacques Roubaud
- I, Asimov: A Memoir by Isaac Asimov
- Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
- Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan by Donald Keene
- My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård
- Autobiography by Morrissey
Historical Autobiographies
- The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
- The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
- Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
- The Autobiography by Malcolm X
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
- Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan by Mother of Michitsuna
- As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams by Lady Sarashina
- The Confessions by Lady Nijo
- The Baburnama: Memoirs by Babur
- The Autobiography by Benvenuto Cellini
- The Book of My Life by Girolamo Cardano
- The Diary by Samuel Pepys
- The Journal by George Fox
- Story of My Life by Giacomo Girolamo Casanova
- The Memoirs by Catherine the Great
- Narrative of the Life by Frederick Douglass
- Musui’s Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai by Katsu Kokichi
- The Autobiography by William Tecumseh Sherman
- Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant
- The Autobiography by Charles Darwin
- The Autobiography by Yukichi Fukuzawa
- The Letters by Vincent van Gogh
- Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Daniel Paul Schreber
- The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
- My Childhood by Maxim Gorky
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
- Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Secret Life by Salvador Dali
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin by Felix Yusupov
- The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait by Frida Kahlo
- Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
- Norman Rockwell by Norman Rockwell
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung
- The Double Helix by James D. Watson
- Daybook: The Journey of an Artist by Anne Truitt
- Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson
- An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
- Mr Nice by Howard Marks
- Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
- Geisha: A Life by Mineko Iwasaki
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