Category
page 1Literary autobiographies

Man's Search for Meaning
1946 essay by Viktor Frankl

Confessions
1782 autobiographical work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The World of Yesterday
novel by Stefan Zweig

The Doors of Perception
1954 essay by Aldous Huxley

Dreams from My Father
memoir by Barack Obama
A Tale of Love and Darkness
2003 novel by Amos Oz
Istanbul: Memories and the City
2003 novel by Orhan Pamuk

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
autobiographical work by Thomas De Quincey
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Roald Dahl's memoir of childhood until age 18
Reveries of a Solitary Walker
book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
book by Agatha Christie

Speak, Memory
book by Vladimir Nabokov

The Education of Henry Adams
autobiography by Henry Brooks Adams
Living to Tell the Tale
2002 autobiography by Gabriel García Márquez

Si le grain ne meurt
book by André Gide

Peeling the Onion
2006 autobiographical work by Günter Grass

The Heart of a Woman
autobiographical work by Maya Angelou

Sun and Steel
essay by Yukio Mishima

Good-Bye to All That
1929 autobiography by Robert Graves

Black Boy
novel by Richard Wright

Memories of My Youth
2006 autobiography by José Saramago

The Year of Magical Thinking
2005 memoir by Joan Didion

Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
autobiography of François-René de Chateaubriand

A Fish in the Water
autobiographical work by Mario Vargas Llosa

Darkness Visible
1990 memoir by William Styron
The Life of Henry Brulard
novel by Stendhal

Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
1796 travel narrative by Mary Wollstonecraft

84, Charing Cross Road
1970 memoir by Helene Hanff

Surprised by Joy
partial autobiography about the author's conversion to Christianity by C.S. Lewis

Biographia Literaria
autobiographical work by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Bitter Lemons
autobiographical work by writer Lawrence Durrell
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
book by Audre Lorde

Repetition
book by Søren Kierkegaard

Autobiography of Mark Twain
written collection of reminiscences by Mark Twain

A Personal Record
book by Joseph Conrad

Before Night Falls
1990 novel by Reinaldo Arenas Fuentes

The Days
book by Taha Hussein
Themes in Maya Angelou's autobiographies
Themes including racism, identity, family, and travel