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Autobiographies Books
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Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 270 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,187,641 ratings — published 2018
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 260 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,158,907 ratings — published 1947
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 224 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,434,862 ratings — published 2022
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 200 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,051,715 ratings — published 2011
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 187 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.49 — 799,455 ratings — published 2016
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 3.85 — 554,007 ratings — published 2014
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.37 — 289,963 ratings — published 1965
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.16 — 620,056 ratings — published 2012
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,838,738 ratings — published 2018
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 3.83 — 568,813 ratings — published 2023
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 129 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.30 — 578,346 ratings — published 1969
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 117 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 3.86 — 512,599 ratings — published 2011
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.36 — 93,847 ratings — published 1994
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 3.83 — 425,962 ratings — published 2023
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 3.94 — 392,241 ratings — published 2022
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,352,913 ratings — published 2005
Gandhi: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.10 — 74,737 ratings — published 1927
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,355,281 ratings — published 1956
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.20 — 451,061 ratings — published 2020
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.41 — 798,012 ratings — published 2016
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.32 — 272,902 ratings — published 2020
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)
by (shelved 67 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 3.94 — 163,509 ratings — published 2016
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,353,570 ratings — published 2011
Open (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.32 — 145,259 ratings — published 2009
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 3.85 — 91,453 ratings — published 1791
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.46 — 364,376 ratings — published 2016
Scrappy Little Nobody (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 3.85 — 105,641 ratings — published 2016
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 3.94 — 230,799 ratings — published 1995
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.13 — 134,413 ratings — published 1845
Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.28 — 153,084 ratings — published 2022
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,837,283 ratings — published 2006
Finding Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.53 — 176,078 ratings — published 2022
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.07 — 863,194 ratings — published 2012
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.37 — 866,298 ratings — published 1946
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.15 — 656,656 ratings — published 1996
Why Not Me? (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 3.90 — 226,123 ratings — published 2015
Wishful Drinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 3.82 — 93,195 ratings — published 2008
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.48 — 354,470 ratings — published 1971
The Princess Diarist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 3.70 — 90,853 ratings — published 2016
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.44 — 166,518 ratings — published 2021
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.21 — 348,867 ratings — published 2010
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.23 — 589,418 ratings — published 2021
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 3.72 — 130,505 ratings — published 2016
Scar Tissue (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.10 — 101,194 ratings — published 2004
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.19 — 373,811 ratings — published 2000
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.14 — 459,389 ratings — published 1995
Seriously... I'm Kidding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 3.67 — 110,426 ratings — published 2011
The Story of My Life (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.07 — 150,852 ratings — published 1902
Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.32 — 71,801 ratings — published 2019
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as autobiographies)
avg rating 4.34 — 316,414 ratings — published 2000
“I don't have anything against autobiographies, so long as the writer has a penis that's twelve inches long when erect.”
― The Secret of Evil
― The Secret of Evil
“[A]n old writer’s memory is the whore of his imagination. We all reinvent our pasts, I said, but writers are in a class of their own.”
― The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
― The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life












