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- Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) by Frank McCourt.
- Love Life by Rob Lowe.
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.
- Open by Andre Agassi.
- The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou (2004) Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is one of the most acclaimed and recommended memoirs and one of the best books for women.
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (1909) Written by Franklin between 1771 to 1790 and published in the early 1900s, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin details the Founding Father‘s early life and unique adulthood.
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845) This historic work of nonfiction is widely considered to be one of the best autobiographies ever written.
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947) This autobiography, one of the most famous books about the Holocaust, takes the form of a collection of writings from the diary Anne Frank kept for the two years she was in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
Mar 18, 2024 · 50 best autobiographies & biographies of all time. Enlightening and inspiring: these are the best autobiographies and biographies of 2024, and all time. Reading an autobiography can offer a unique insight into a world and experience very different from your own – and these real-life stories are even more entertaining, and stranger, than fiction.
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- Open, Andre Agassi
- Everything I Know About Love, Dolly Alderton
- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
- Wild Swans, Jung Chang
- The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
- The Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher
- The Diary of A Young Girl, Anne Frank
- All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot
- This Is Going to Hurt, Adam Kay
- Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela
Written in 2009, this is the autobiography of the American former World No.1 tennis player, Andre Agassi. Written in collaboration with JR Moehringer from a collection of hundreds of hours of tapes, this memoir gives top insight into the life of a professional sportsperson. Agassi's was a career of fierce rivalries and it's fascinating to hear thes...
Everything I Know About Love follows Times columnist Dolly Alderton through her early life and 20s. It tackles themes of dating, love, friendship as Alderton comes of age and grows into herself. Dispersed with recipes in the style of Nora Ephron's Heartburn, the book gained a cult following since it was published in 2018 and won a National Book Awa...
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings is the first of seven autobiographies Angelou wrote about her life. It follows her childhood, beginning when she's just three years old and spanning to when she is 16 — from her time as a child to when she had a child herself. The book follows the young Maya as she and her brother Bailey are moved between family memb...
Slightly different from traditional first person autobiographies, in this book Jung Chang tells the stories of three generations of women in her own family — her grandmother, her mother and herself. At a time when China is becoming increasingly isolated from the rest of the world, this book provides vital context into the 20th century history of th...
Published in 2005 when it went on to win Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, this book follows Didion in the year after her the death of her husband of nearly 40 years, John Gregory Dunne. In this harrowing depiction of grief, love and loss, Didion turns her personal experience into one that is universally relatable. Didion and Donne's a...
This might be an obvious choice for any Star Warsfan, but we think the appeal of this book stretches far beyond just that. Made up of the diaries Fisher wrote when she was 19 years old and first started playing Princess Leia, the book was released shortly before her death in 2016. Any peak behind the scenes of such a well-known franchise is bound t...
The title of this book is clever because in so many ways, Anne Frank's diary is just that — the diary of a young girl. But it is also a vital account of history. Starting on her 13th birthday, Anne writes about her life with her family living in Amsterdam from 1942 to 1944. Alongside other Jews, Anne and her family go into hiding to escape persecut...
This book would make a great gift for the animal lover in your life, or any fan of the great outdoors. In it, James Herriot recounts his experiences as a newly qualified vet working in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. The first in his series of memoirs, All Creatures Great and Small finds Herriot in situations where there are high stakes, and more...
This autobiography follows Adam Kay through his years as a junior doctor specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology and working within the NHS. It will have you crying of laughter and sorrow as the young doctor finds himself helping people from all walks of life, all while his own personal life falls into disarray. Kay's debut publication was the b...
This autobiography hardly needs an introduction. It tells the life story of former South African President and antiapartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela, covering his childhood, education and the 27 years he spent in prison. Mandela is internationally praised for overcoming enormous persecution and struggle, rebuilding South Africa's society as Pr...
Jun 26, 2019 · 1. The Woman Warrior. Maxine Hong Kingston. Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. This book is more than four decades old, but I can’t think of another memoir quite like it that has been published since.
Autobiography. An autobiography (from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write) is a book about the life of a person, written by that person. Closely associated with autobiography (and sometimes difficult to precisely distinguish from it) is the form of memoir. However, an autobiography typically ...
Best Memoir & Autobiography. New to Goodreads? Get great book recommendations! Start Now. Want to Read. Rate it: Open Preview. WINNER 51,361 votes. Crying in H Mart. by. Michelle Zauner. If it feels like this one was on display at every bookstore in 2021, that’s because it pretty much was.
