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Top Ten Autobiographies all Time

The Diary of a ​Young Girl​
The Diary of a ​Young Girl​

Diary of a Young Girl details the events, as well as Anne's thoughts and feelings, during her time hiding with her family during the Holocaust. Diary of a Young Girl is an autobiography and so it features first person point of view, use of personal pronouns, and a chronological structure.

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I Know Why ​the Caged Bird Sings​
I Know Why ​the Caged Bird Sings​

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the most highly acclaimed of Angelou's autobiographies. The other volumes in her series of seven autobiographies are judged and compared to Caged Bird. It became a bestseller immediately after it was published.

A Moveable ​Feast​
A Moveable ​Feast​

A Moveable Feast. Ernest Hemingway (posthumously 1964) Published three years after his death, this is part road trip, part love letter to Paris, part study of his friendship with characters such as F Scott Fitzgerald, and wholly wonderful. It is a mystery how he remembered a moment of it, though, since he drinks so much alcohol, all the time.

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The ​Autobiography of Malcolm X​
The ​Autobiography of Malcolm X​

The Autobiography of Malcolm X was published in 1965, the result of a collaboration between human rights activist Malcolm X and journalist Alex Haley. Haley coauthored the autobiography based on a series of in-depth interviews he conducted between 1963 and Malcolm X's 1965 assassination.

Long Walk to ​Freedom​
Long Walk to ​Freedom​

Long Walk to Freedom is an autobiographical work written by South African President Nelson Mandela, and first published in 1994 by Little Brown & Co. The book profiles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison.

Satya ke ​Prayoga : Sankshipta Atmakatha​
Satya ke ​Prayoga : Sankshipta Atmakatha​

To strive for Truth does not mean that we, as humans, can be sure that what we believe in or what we aspire to is some transcendental truth. Gandhi’s autobiography was not called I’ve Found Truth, but The Story of My Experiments with Truth.

The ​Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin​
The ​Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin​

The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, and a sketch of Franklin's life from the point where the autobiography ends, drawn chiefly from his letters. With notes and a chronological historical table. Boston: Houghton, 1886.

On Writing​
On Writing​

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Born Standing ​Up​
Born Standing ​Up​

The best autobiographies ever written include memoirs by famous historical figures, authors, politicians, celebrities, and more. This list includes a wide variety o... The best autobiographies ever written include memoirs by famous historical figures, authors, politicians, celebrities, and more.

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Walden​
Walden​

Fascinating lives captured impeccably: these are the best biographies and autobiographies of all time. Accessibility links. ... Walden. Henry David Thoreau (1854)

The Year of ​Magical Thinking​
The Year of ​Magical Thinking​

The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), by Joan Didion (b. 1934), is an account of the year following the death of the author's husband John Gregory Dunne (1932–2003). Published by Knopf in October 2005, The Year of Magical Thinking was immediately acclaimed as a classic book about mourning.

The Story of ​My Life​
The Story of ​My Life​

5 Of The Best Autobiographies Ever Written. ... The life story of the four times’ Academy Award Winner is a ... 5 Of The Best Children’s Authors Of All Time. ...

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Just Kids​
Just Kids​

The best autobiographies ever written include memoirs by famous historical figures, authors, politicians, celebrities, and more. This list includes a wide variety o... The best autobiographies ever written include memoirs by famous historical figures, authors, politicians, celebrities, and more.

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Bossypants​
Bossypants​

The best autobiographies ever written include memoirs by famous historical figures, authors, politicians, celebrities, and more. This list includes a wide variety o... The best autobiographies ever written include memoirs by famous historical figures, authors, politicians, celebrities, and more.

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Angela's ​Ashes​
Angela's ​Ashes​

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Out of Africa​
Out of Africa​

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Chronicles, ​Volume One​
Chronicles, ​Volume One​

The best autobiographies ever written include memoirs by famous historical figures, authors, politicians, celebrities, and more. This list includes a wide variety o... The best autobiographies ever written include memoirs by famous historical figures, authors, politicians, celebrities, and more.

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Surely You're ​Joking, Mr
Surely You're ​Joking, Mr

See opinions and rankings about Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! across various lists and topics. ... “What are the best autobiographies of all time ...

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A ​Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius​
A ​Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius​

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (ISBN 0-330-48455-9) is a memoir by Dave Eggers released in 2000. It chronicles his stewardship of younger brother Christopher "Toph" Eggers following the cancer-related deaths of his parents.

The ​Autobiography of Alice B
The ​Autobiography of Alice B

All-TIME 100 Nonfiction Books. ... Either way, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was groundbreaking in its experimentation with form: ...

The Glass ​Castle​
The Glass ​Castle​

The Glass Castle is a 2005 memoir by Jeannette Walls. The book recounts the unconventional, poverty-stricken upbringing Walls and her siblings had at the hands of their deeply dysfunctional parents. The title refers to her father’s long held intention of building his dream house, a glass castle.

Homage to ​Catalonia​
Homage to ​Catalonia​

Homage to Catalonia. ... Time. The story begins in December 1936 in the form of an autobiography mixed with reflections on the Spanish situation of the time.

Goodbye to ​All That​
Goodbye to ​All That​

Buy a cheap copy of Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography book by Robert Graves. ... becasue Graves ddi not ask for time off to go hunting.

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Wild Swans: ​Three Daughters of China​
Wild Swans: ​Three Daughters of China​

The Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China ... He was unaware that she was pregnant at the time of ... shifting the focus of the book to the author's own autobiography.

Cash: The ​Autobiography​
Cash: The ​Autobiography​

Cash: The Autobiography is a 1997 autobiography of Johnny Cash, country musician, written twenty years after his first autobiography, Man in Black. Cash co-wrote this book with Patrick Carr. Cash's autobiographies were the basis for the biopic Walk the Line in 2005.

The Diving-​Bell and the Butterfly​
The Diving-​Bell and the Butterfly​

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (original French title: Le Scaphandre et le Papillon) is a memoir by journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby. It describes what his life is like after suffering a massive stroke that left him with locked-in syndrome.

The Moon's a ​Balloon​
The Moon's a ​Balloon​

One of the bestselling memoirs of all time, David Niven's The Moon's a Balloon is an account of one of the most remarkable lives Hollywood has ever seen. Beginning with the tragic early loss of his aristocratic father, then regaling us with tales of school, army and wartime hi-jinx, Niven shows how, even as an unknown young man, he knew how to live the good life.

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Black Boy​
Black Boy​

Black Boy, an autobiography of Richard Wright's early life, examines Richard's tortured years in the Jim Crow South from 1912 to 1927. In each chapter, Richard relates painful and confusing memories that lead to a better understanding of the man a black, Southern, American writer who eventually emerges.

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Kitchen ​Confidential​
Kitchen ​Confidential​

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain “Kitchen confidential is a fantastic read!” One of the most notorious and outspoken chefs of our time, Anthony Bourdain is a household name to most. In Kitchen Confidential first written over 15 years ago, Chef Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wickedly funny, inspiring memoir/expose.

The Double ​Helix
The Double ​Helix

James D. Watson, The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (1968), Atheneum, 1980, ISBN 0-689-70602-2, OCLC 6197022 James D. Watson, The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix, edited by Alexander Gann and Jan Witkowski (2012) Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-1-4767-1549-0.

A Child ​Called "It"​
A Child ​Called "It"​

A Child Called "It" an autobiography ? hi i was wondering if a child called it by david pelzer or something like that is a autobiography. n if it is has the charter changed from the beginning of the book to the end.

Life​
Life​

Best biographies and autobiographies of all time ... it is his chronicle of the First World War and his unflinching depiction of life in the trenches ...

Mein Kampf​
Mein Kampf​

Mein Kampf (German: [maɪ̯n kampf], My Struggle) is a 1925 autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1926.

My Family ​and Other Animals​
My Family ​and Other Animals​

My Family and Other Animals (1956) is an autobiographical work by British naturalist Gerald Durrell. It tells of the years that he lived as a child with his siblings and widowed mother on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939.

Survival In ​Auschwitz​
Survival In ​Auschwitz​

The autobiography, Survival in Auschwitz was written by an Italian resistance member named Primo Levi. In the novel, Levi accounts on his incarceration in the Auschwitz Holocaust concentration camp from February 1944 to January 27, 1945. Levi was born in July 1919 in Turin, Italy. Sixty seven years later, he died in the same city, Turin in Italy.

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Testament of ​Youth​
Testament of ​Youth​

A modern classic, Testament of Youth is both an elegy and a memoir, a book for all seasons that would have a remarkable literary afterlife in the 1970s and 1980s. Brittain’s “autobiographical study” (she would never allow “autobiography”) takes her readers on to the home front as much as into the trenches.

Giving up the ​Ghost​
Giving up the ​Ghost​

Giving up the ghost ... the writers behind celebrity autobiographies ... "Both of them were generous with their time and were interested in making the biographies as ...

Personal ​Memoirs of Ulysses S
Personal ​Memoirs of Ulysses S

The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is an autobiography by Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, focused mainly on his military career during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War, and completed as he was dying of cancer in 1885.

Mark Twain's ​own Autobiography​
Mark Twain's ​own Autobiography​

Twain's own attempt. Twain first started to compose an autobiography in 1870, but proceeded fitfully, abandoning the work and returning to it as the mood took him. In a 1904 letter to William Dean Howells, he wrote: “I’ve struck it! And I will give it away—to you.

Scar Tissue​
Scar Tissue​

The best autobiographies ever written ... Ever The Best Selling Books of All Time The Best Poems Ever Written ... Scar Tissue is the autobiography of Red Hot ...

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Eminent ​Victorians​
Eminent ​Victorians​

Fascinating lives captured impeccably: these are the best biographies and autobiographies of all time. ... Eminent Victorians. Lytton Strachey (1918)

I Am Malala
I Am Malala

By the time Malala was 10 and the top student in her father’s surprisingly flourishing school, radical Talibs had penetrated the valley all the way to the capital of Islamabad and were beheading Pakistani police, holding their severed heads high on the roadsides.

Moab Is My ​Washpot​
Moab Is My ​Washpot​

Moab Is My Washpot has 18,265 ratings ... Stephen Fry's first autobiography was an absolute pleasure ... you probably have heard of his long-time comedic partner ...

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The Fry ​Chronicles​
The Fry ​Chronicles​

The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography is the 2010 autobiography of Stephen Fry. The book is a continuation from the end of his 1997 publication of his first autobiography, Moab Is My Washpot: An Autobiography.

Running With ​Scissors​
Running With ​Scissors​

Running with Scissors has 318,010 ratings and 11,862 reviews. Oriana said: I talk about this all the time, so here, definitively, is my explanation of th... Running with Scissors has 318,010 ratings and 11,862 reviews.

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A Long Way ​Gone​
A Long Way ​Gone​

For me, the best autobiographies of all time are written by people that I think I would enjoy knowing. ... A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Bea;

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