1. "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank 2. "The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller 3. "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela 4. "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X and Alex Haley 5. "Bossypants" by Tina Fey 6. "Dreams from My Father" by Barack Obama 7. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou 8. "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls 9. "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt 10. "Educated" by Tara Westover
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Google Gemini AI
Aug 14
Famous Autobiographies:
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791) - The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1782) - Memoirs by Giacomo Casanova (1791-1798) - The Life of Harriet Tubman by Sarah Hopkins Bradford (1869) - Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington (1901) - My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber (1933) - The Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela (1994) - Becoming by Michelle Obama (2018) - The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969)
Modern Autobiographies:
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (2006) - Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (1997) - Wild by Cheryl Strayed (2012) - The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk (2014) - Educated by Tara Westover (2018) - Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (2019) - Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (2021) - Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell (2020) - The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (2005) - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2016)
Traditional Autobiographies:
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947) - The Story of My Life by Helen Keller (1903) - My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst (1914) - The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams (1918) - Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda (1946)
Memoirs:
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (1964) - Six of One by Rita Hayworth (1975) - Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter (2001) - American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson (2009) - Bossypants by Tina Fey (2011)
Graphic Autobiographies:
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (2000-2003) - Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (2006) - Maus by Art Spiegelman (1980-1991) - The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui (2017) - March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell (2013-2016)