A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
A Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
A Moveable Feast (memoir of Hemingway’s life in Paris) by Ernest Hemingway
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
A River Runs Through It (semi-autobiographical) by Norman Maclean
A Walk in the Woods (Bill Bryson’s memoir) by Bill Bryson
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography by Agatha Christie
Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Andre Agassi: Open by Andre Agassi
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
Autobiography of Mark Twain by Mark Twain
Autobiography of Nikola Tesla: My Inventions by Nikola Tesla
Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson
Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa by Fukuzawa Yukichi
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph by Jan Swafford
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Cash: The Autobiography by Johnny Cash
Churchill: A Life by Martin Gilbert
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela
Crazy from the Heat by David Lee Roth
David Copperfield (semi-autobiographical) by Charles Dickens
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
Educated by Tara Westover
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings by Mahatma Gandhi
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera
Gandhi: An Autobiography – The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
Good-Bye to All That by Robert Graves
Helen Keller: The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park
Into the Wild (Christopher McCandless’ life) by Jon Krakauer
Jobs (Steve Jobs Biography) by Walter Isaacson
Josephine: Napoléon’s Incomparable Empress by Eleanor Herman
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Katherine Graham: Personal History by Katharine Graham
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
Life (Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards) by Keith Richards
Long Hard Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
Man’s Search for Meaning (memoir) by Viktor Frankl
Marie Curie: A Biography by Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie
Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers
Martin Luther King Jr.: Bearing the Cross by David J. Garrow
Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
My Life by Bill Clinton
My Life in France by Julia Child
My Life in My Own Words by Queen Noor of Jordan
My Life with Martin Luther King Jr. by Coretta Scott King
My Life with the Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall
My Prison My Home by Mohammad Nasr
My Story by Kamala Das
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
Nelson Mandela: Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela
Night (memoir of the Holocaust) by Elie Wiesel
Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
Pablo Neruda: Memoirs by Pablo Neruda
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Personal History by Katharine Graham
Playing It My Way by Sachin Tendulkar
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean Sasson
Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart by John Guy
Quiet Strength (Tony Dungy) by Tony Dungy
Rabindranath Tagore: My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore
Richard Nixon: RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon by Richard Nixon
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Salt: A World History (with autobiographical elements) by Mark Kurlansky
Schindler’s Ark (Schindler’s List) by Thomas Keneally
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis
Testimony: Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich by Solomon Volkov
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin by Charles Darwin
The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill by John Stuart Mill
The Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi
The Bell Jar (semi-autobiographical) by Sylvia Plath
The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Last Lion: Winston Churchill by William Manchester
The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
The Life of Pi (semi-autobiographical novel style) by Yann Martel
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
The Long Hard Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
The Road Ahead by Bill Gates
The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
The Story of Philosophy (with biographical sketches) by Will Durant
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
Things Fall Apart (with autobiographical context) by Chinua Achebe
This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival by Laura Hillenbrand
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
War and Peace (Tolstoy’s life influences) by Leo Tolstoy
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Wings of Fire by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
