Top 100 Biography & Autobiography Books

📘 Het Achterhuis

Het Achterhuis is de titel van het dagboek van Anne Frank (1929-1945) voor het eerst uitgegeven op 25 juni 1947. Het is genoemd naar het onderduikpand Het Achterhuis op de Prinsengracht en is het verhaal van een ondergedoken jong Joods meisje ten tijde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Het is wereldwijd een van de meest gelezen boeken.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 ... Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Steve Jobs

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years -- as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues -- Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfectio...

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 Wings of Fire

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, the son of a little-educated boat-owner in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, had an unparalleled career as a defence scientist, culminating in the highest civilian award of India, the Bharat Ratna.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou's autobiography, 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings', tells the story of her life and the challenges she faced growing up in Arkansas, including racism, abuse, and the loss of her father. The book is a powerful and moving portrayal of the African American experience during the 1930s and 1940s.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Autobiography of a Yogi

The autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (1893 - 1952) details his search for a guru, during which he encountered many spiritual leaders and world-renowned scientists. When it was published in 1946 it was the first introduction of many westerners to yoga and meditation.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Elon Musk

In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs -- a real-life Tony Stark -- and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new "makers.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 Michelle Obama in Her Own Words

The election of Barack Obama has brought worldwide attention not only to what his policies will be, but to what kind of First Lady Michelle Obama will be.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 Autobiografía Malcolm X

Biografía del líder negro americano religioso y activista que nació Malcolm Little, publicado en 1965. Escrito por Alex Haley, que había llevado a cabo extensas entrevistas grabadas con Malcolm X antes de su asesinato en 1965, el libro ganó fama como un trabajo clásico en negro experiencia americana.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live and a meditation on how to live better.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 The Glass Castle

A story about the early life of Jeannette Walls. The memoir is an exposing work about her early life and growing up on the run and often homeless. It presents a different perspective of life from all over the United States and the struggle a girl had to find normalcy as she grew into an adult.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Man's Search for Meaning [adaptation]

xvii, 159 pages : 23 cm

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 Into the Wild

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 Little girl lost

She was a modern-day Shirley Temple, but at the age of nine Drew Barrymore was drinking alcohol. At ten she took up marijuana, and by twelve she began snorting cocaine. Here is her gripping, heart-wrenching story--a story of a childhood gone awry and a young woman battling to restore order to her chaotic life.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Ikigai

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 A Long Way Gone

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (2007) is a memoir written by Ishmael Beah, an author from Sierra Leone. The book is a firsthand account of Beah's time as a child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone (1990s).

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman"

The biography of the physicist and Nobel prize winner Richard P. Feynman - a collection of short stories, chapters told to and written down by Ralph Leighton. Feynman tells of his childhood and youth and goes into his adult life, both personally and professionally.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Confessions

Garry Wills’s complete translation of Saint Augustine’s spiritual masterpiece—available now for the first time Garry Wills is an exceptionally gifted translator and one of our best writers on religion today. His bestselling translations of individual chapters of Saint Augustine’s Confessions have received widespread and glowing reviews.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Autobiography

Few men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he was probably the most successful diplomat in American history. David Hume hailed him as the first great philosopher and great man of letters in the New World.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 An autobiography

Gandhi's autobiography is a profound exploration of his non-violent resistance to racism and colonialism, as well as his efforts to seek purity and truth through simple living and spiritual devotion.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Mindhunter

Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country’s most notorious serial killers and criminals—the basis for the upcoming Netflix original series.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Into Thin Air

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Mercury and me

The relationship between Freddie Mercury and Jim Hutton evolved over several months in 1984 and 1985. Even when they first slept together Hutton had no idea who Mercury was, and when the star told him his name it meant nothing to him.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Celebrity Biography

📘 Pimp

This is the story of Iceberg Slim's life, as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. A trip through hell by the one man who lived to tell the tale. The dangers of jail, addiction and death that are still all too familiar.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Incidents in the life of a slave girl

The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains among the few extant slave narratives written by a woman.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Going Solo

The fascinating story of Roald Dahl's life continues in Going Solo, a marvelous evocation of the author's wartime exploits. As a pilot in World War II, Roald Dahl had some wonderfully exciting -- and frighteningly near-death -- experiences including encounters with the enemy, battles with deadly snakes, and incredible dogfights.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Boy

Boy is an autobiographical book by British writer Roald Dahl. This book describes his life from birth until leaving school, focusing on living conditions in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s, the public school system at the time, and how his childhood experiences led him to writing as a career. It ends with his first job, working for Royal Dutch Shell.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 When rabbit howls

Truddi Chase began therapy to discover why she suffered from blackouts. What surfaced was terrifying: she was inhabited by 'the Troops'-92 individual personalities. This groundbreaking true story is made all the more extraordinary in that it was written by the Troops themselves.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Hidden Figures

"Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 Terre des hommes

A lyrical account of the author’s time as a pilot flying the dangerous mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes. Many incidents are recounted, including the time he crashed his plane in the Sahara and, along with his navigator, is forced to walk for days without food or water before finding safety.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Black like me

Publisher's description: Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me: "This is a contemporary book, you bet." Indeed, Black Like Me remains required reading in thousands of high schools and colleges for this very reason.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass

This book is an autobiographical account by runaway slave Frederick Douglass that chronicles his experiences with his owners and overseers and discusses how slavery affected both slaves and slaveholders.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 The Warren Buffet way

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 The Worldly Philosophers

"The Worldly Philosophers is a bestselling classic that not only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better understand our own times. In this seventh edition, Robert L. Heilbroner provides a view theme that connects thinkers as diverse as Adam Smith and Karl Marx.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 American Prometheus

Biography of American physicist Robert J. Oppenheimer. Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 Livro do desassossego

The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa's greatest literary achievement. An "autobiography" or "diary" containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Farewell to Manzanar

"Farewell to Manzanar is the true story of one spirited Japanese American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention...and of a native-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up behind barbed wire in the United States. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 The Phantom Prince

Elizabeth Kendall is not her real name, but she is a real person.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 The Game

A male author seeks to win over women through seduction techniques, but his true love is discovered when he falls in love with the lead singer of a rock band.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Hillbilly Elegy

From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, this book is a probing look at the struggles of America's white working class through the author's own story of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town. Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of poor, white Americans.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Permanent Record

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Principles

Bridgewater Associates founder, Ray Dalio, offers a five-step process to getting what you want out of life, which involves systemizing everything to run like a machine — which can then be fine-tuned.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 Einstein

Albert Einstein's life and times.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 Black Boy

Black Boy is a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 The night stalker

The definitive account of this serial murderer, based on sixty hours of personal interviews with Ramirez himself. New edition includes interviews with women who have asked to contact Ramirez since the book was first published, and a "death row interview".--From publisher description.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 Alexander Hamilton

From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Political Biography

📘 Kitchen Confidential

A celebrity chef shares anecdotes of his experience in the restaurant industry, and of his journey from dishwasher to a position of fame in the food industry.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Celebrity Biography

📘 A father's story

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 Dreams from My Father

Dreams from My Father is Barack Obama's remarkable memoir. The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Tweak

Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger, and a place where hope and opportunity were hard to find.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 The minds of Billy Milligan

Subjected to horrific abuse at the hands of his stepfather, Billy Milligan "went to sleep" to protect himself from the pain. In his place other personalities rose: Ragan, the protector of children; Alan, the fast-talking con man; Christene, a cheerful innocent child; Adalana, a melancholy lesbian who yearned for love...

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 Rizal without the overcoat

"Through writing about history, Ocampo writes on Rizal as if he happened yesterday. In the clean, cool style of a good journalist...Ocampo is one historian who has never known to impose dogmas and definitive treatises. Reading Ocampo's history is like sitting down with a friend who shares what he has learned.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 The art of learning

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 Chasing Lincoln's killer

Based on rare archival material, obscure trial manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the conspirators and the manhunters, CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER is a fast-paced thriller about the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth: a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 A Beautiful Mind

Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr., suffered a breakdown at age thirty-one and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but experienced a remission of his illness thirty years later.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

A collection of Feynman's short works, including interviews, speeches, and lectures, showcasing his unique perspective on science and life.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolfe

After they met in 1922, Vita Sackville-West, a British novelist married to foreign diplomat Harold Nicolson, and Virginia Woolf began a passionate relationship that lasted until Woolf’s death in 1941.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 Assata

On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (previously known as JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that had claimed the life of a white state trooper. Long a target of J.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 In my own way

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 Greenlights

A motivational guide for movie stars, focusing on their personal growth and life lessons.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Celebrity Biography

📘 Mein Weltbild

A fascinating collection of Einstein’s observations about life, religion, nationalism, and a host of personal topics that engaged the genius’s intellect In the aftermath of the First World War, Albert Einstein writes about his hopes for the League of Nations, his feelings as a German citizen about the growing anti-Semitism and nationalism of his...

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 Doglapan

The story of Ashneer Grover, a young boy who becomes a successful entrepreneur despite the odds of being a refugee.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Steve Jobs

A biographical account of the life and accomplishments of Steve Jobs, the legendary computer and technology visionary who revolutionized the world with Apple and Pixar.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Celebrity Biography

📘 Hitler (Profiles in Power)

Ian Kershaw's Hitler offers an intimate and compelling biography of Adolf Hitler, focusing on his rise to power through vivid descriptions of key events and figures in Germany's history. The author's research is supported by many previously untapped sources, bringing us closer to understanding the mysterious and controversial figure that Hitler was.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Political Biography

📘 Life on the Mississippi

At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twains early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Gifted hands

In 1987, Dr. Benjamin Carson gained worldwide recognition for his part in the first successful separation of Siamese twins joined at the back of the head. The extremely complex and delicate operation, five months in the planning and twenty-two hours in the execution, involved a surgical plan that Carson helped initiate.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Leonardo da Vinci

The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 Cider with Rosie

Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity and cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belongs to a now-distant past.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Confessions of an economic hit man

Sinhalese translation of a controversial book on the economic policies of U.S. government with respect to developing countries.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Diana, Her True Story

For the first time, here is the true story of Princess Diana, complete with revelations that will shock the world. Diana: Her True Story is a unique royal biography. It is based on facts that are published here for the first time and includes private photographs made available exclusively for this book.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Celebrity Biography

📘 Brown Girl Dreaming

Newbery Honor Book National Book Award Finalist

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Warriors don't cry

The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, brought the promise of integration to Little Rock, Arkansas, but it was hard-won for the nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Central High School in 1957.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 A stolen life

In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen. For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse. For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Brain on fire

A compelling biography of Susannah Cahalan's battle with encephalitis and the challenges of diagnosis and recovery.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Wild Swans

"Jung Chang vividly evokes China's sights, sounds, and smells to create what must be one of the grimmest, yet most perceptive accounts of growing up middle-class in the maelstrom that has swept China since the 1920s." - Back cover.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Fifty years with the Golden Rule

Autobiography of James Cash Penney, entrepreneur, Christian, philanthropist.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 The Innocent Man

Murder and injustice in a small townJohn Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 A Promised Land

Obama's presidential memoir: A personal account of history's making.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Up from Slavery

Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slavery in the deep south, to work for the betterment of African Americans in the post Reconstruction period. "Up From Slavery" is an autobiography of Booker T. Washington's life and work, which has been the source of inspiration for all Americans.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Sybil

This is the amazing story of a woman who lived with 16 different personalities. Here is the unbelievable yet true story of Sybil Dorsett, a survivor of terrible childhood abuse who as an adult was a victim of sudden and mysterious blackouts.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 Longitude

The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 I Have Lived a Thousand Years

So wonders thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann, just one of the many innocent Holocaust victims, as she fights for her life in a concentration camp. It wasn't long ago that Elli led a normal life; a life rich and full that included family, friends, school, and thoughts about boys.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 The woman warrior

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is Kingston's disturbing and fiercely beautiful account of growing up Chinese-American in California. The young Kingston lives in two worlds: the America to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother's "talk stories.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 How to Build a Car

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 Final Truth

Synopsis: Offering rare insight into the tortured mind of a mass murderer and serial killer, this autobiographical account graphically details the crimes of this South Carolina resident prior to his execution in 1991. Original. From the Author: BY SERIAL KILLER GASKINS: "In this book I'm not asking nobody's forgiveness.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, details its writer's life in slavery, his time spent serving on galleys, the eventual attainment of his own freedom and later success in business.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 My life in crime

Talks of a young man who leaves his rural home to go m home in Central Kenya to go and live with an Uncle in Nairobi.He later joins bad company and stops going to school,when his uncle realizes this he sends him back to the village.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Benjamin Franklin

Chronicles the founding father's life and his multiple careers as a shopkeeper, writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, business strategist, and political leader, while showing how his faith in the wisdom of the common citizen helped forge an American national identity based on the virtues of its middle class.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Political Biography

📘 The Seven Storey Mountain

The Seven Storey Mountain tells of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man, who at the age of twenty-six, takes vows in one of the most demanding Catholic orders—the Trappist monks.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 I Heard You Paint Houses

"I heard you paint houses" are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Biography

📘 Les confessions

Je forme une entreprise qui n'eut jamais d'exemple, et dont l'execution n'aura point d'imitateur. Je veux montrer a mes semblables un homme dans toute la verite de la nature; et cet homme, ce sera moi. Moi seul. Je sens mon coeur, et je connais les hommes.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir

My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir, the Twelfth Edition of which is now being released, is a land-mark publication.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Kaffir Boy

The autobiography of a young South African boy's experiences during the apartheid era, focusing on racial discrimination and societal challenges of the time.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 My Feudal Lord

An auto-biography of the writer beautifully and boldly written. From her childhood to her position of power as one of the several wives of a prominent and celebrated politician, she tells her story and that of her second husband Mustafa Khar as is with unabashed guts.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Bossypants

Tina Fey’s new book *Bossypants* is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description of the comedian herself).

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 Confessions of a video vixen

An instant bestseller upon publication, Confessions of a Video Vixen is the page-turning memoir of Karrine Steffans: dancer, actress, and companion to many a celebrity.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography

📘 A million little pieces

"The most lacerating tale of drug addiction since William S. Burroughs' Junky." --The Boston Globe"Again and again, the book delivers recollections that leave the reader winded and unsteady. James Frey's staggering recovery memoir could well be seen as the final word on the topic."--San Francisco Chronicle"A brutal, beautifully written memoir.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography Subgenre: Autobiography