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Autobiography Literature 

A Cellarful of Noise (1964) by Brian Epstein
A Kentish Lad (1997) by Frank Muir
A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee (1834) by Davy Crockett
A New England Girlhood (1889) by Lucy Larcom
A Peculiar Treasure (1939) by Edna Ferber
A Personal Record (1912) by Joseph Conrad
A Reporter's Life (1996) by Walter Cronkite
A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002) by Maya Angelou
A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford (1979) by Gerald R. Ford
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986) by Maya Angelou
All Said and Done (1972) by Simone de Beauvoir
An American Life: The Autobiography (1990) by Ronald Reagan
An Appetite for Wonder (2013) by Richard Dawkins
An Autobiography (1977) by Agatha Christie
An Autobiography, Tiny An Autobiography (1927) by Mahatma Gandhi
Antimémoires (1967) by Andre Malraux
As It Happened (1954) by Clement Attlee
Baruch: My Own Story (1957) by Bernard Baruch
Black Boy (1945) by Richard Wright
Black Elk Speaks (1932) by Black Elk
Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years (1972) by Margaret Mead
Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984) by Roald Dahl
Brief Candle in the Dark (2015) by Richard Dawkins
Call Me Ted: The Autobiography of Ted Turner (2008) by Ted Turner
Confessions (1782) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Confessions of a Young Man (1888) by George A. Moore
Critique and Conviction (1995) by Paul Ricoeur
Daughter of the East (1988) by Benazir Bhutto
David Suzuki: The Autobiography (2006) by David Suzuki
Death at an Early Age (1967) by Jonathan Kozol
Driving Under the Affluence (1995) by Julia Phillips
Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (1940) by W. E. B. Du Bois
Ecce Homo, Tiny Ecce Homo (1888) by Friedrich Nietzsche
Everybody's Autobiography (1937) by Gertrude Stein
Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography (2017) by Richard Branson
First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President (2000) by Vladimir Putin
Gather Together In My Name (1974) by Maya Angelou
Going Solo (1986) by Roald Dahl
Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's (1977) by Ray Kroc
I Confess That I Have Lived (1974) by Pablo Neruda
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) by Maya Angelou
If It Die, Tiny If It Die (1926) by Andre Gide
In My Own Way: An Autobiography (1972) by Alan Watts
It's Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer (1939) by A. A. Milne
John Barleycorn (1913) by Jack London
Joseph Anton (2012) by Salman Rushdie
Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict (1953) by William S. Burroughs
Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs (2000) by William S. Burroughs
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881) by Frederick Douglass
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (revised edition) (1892) by Frederick Douglass
Life of Henry Brulard (1835) by Stendhal
Little Wilson and Big God (1986) by Anthony Burgess
Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way (1998) by Richard Branson
Mary Kay (1981) by Mary Kay Ash
Mary Kay: You Can Have It All (1995) by Mary Kay Ash
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1958) by Simone de Beauvoir
Memories of Eighty Years (1906) by Fanny Crosby
Metamorphosis (1988) by David Suzuki
Midstream: My Later Life (1929) by Helen Keller
Models of My Life (1991) by Herbert Simon
Mom & Me & Mom (2013) by Maya Angelou
My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) by Frederick Douglass
My Girlhood (1998) by Taslima Nasrin
My Life (2004) by William J. Clinton
My Life and Fortunes (1963) by J. Paul Getty
My Life and Times (1969) by Henry Miller
My Life and Work (1922) by Henry Ford
My Past and Thoughts (1852) by Alexander Herzen
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) by Frederick Douglass
North Toward Home (1967) by Willie Morris
Oscar Wilde and Myself (1914) by Lord Alfred Douglas
Out of My Life (Aus meinem Leben) (1920) by Paul von Hindenburg
Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century (1987) by Sidney Hook
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864) by Charles Babbage
Philosopher at Large: An Intellectual Autobiography (1977) by Mortimer Adler
Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography (2014) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Random Reminiscences of Men and Events (1909) by John D. Rockefeller
Sam Walton: Made in America (1992) by Sam Walton
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976) by Maya Angelou
Soldier: A Poet's Childhood (2000) by June Jordan
Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve (1995) by George Soros
Speak, Memory (1951) by Vladimir Nabokov
Taken Care Of: An Autobiography (1965) by Edith Sitwell
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) by Gertrude Stein
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge (1929) by Calvin Coolidge
The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (1931) by Lincoln Steffens
The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas (1929) by Lord Alfred Douglas
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931–1934 (1966) by Anais Nin
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1939 (1967) by Anais Nin
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939–1944 (1971) by Anais Nin
The Double Helix (1968) by James D. Watson
The Force of Circumstances (1963) by Simone de Beauvoir
The Heart of a Woman (1981) by Maya Angelou
The Journals of Sylvia Plath (1982) by Sylvia Plath
The Naked Civil Servant, Tiny The Naked Civil Servant (1968) by Quentin Crisp
The Reminiscences of an Astronomer (1903) by Simon Newcomb
The Seven Storey Mountain (1948) by Thomas Merton
The Story of a Life (1999) by Aharon Appelfeld
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (1913) by John Muir
The Story of My Experiments with Truth (1927) by Mahatma Gandhi
The Story of My Life (1903) by Helen Keller
Time and Chance (1987) by James Callaghan
Toward Freedom (An Autobiography) (1936) by Jawaharlal Nehru
Two‑Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage (1988) by Madeleine L'Engle
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography (1919–1949) (1994) by Doris Lessing
Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography (1976) by Karl Popper
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography (1949–1962) (1997) by Doris Lessing
Way of the Peaceful Warrior (1980) by Dan Millman
You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again (1991) by Julia Phillips
You've Had Your Time (1990) by Anthony Burgess

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