Autobiographical


The Diary of a Young Girl
Educated
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Night
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Becoming
Bossypants
The Bell Jar
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
When Breath Becomes Air
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
The Glass Castle
Me Talk Pretty One Day
The Complete Persepolis
Yes Please
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueSummer of '69 by Todd StrasserOn the Road by Jack KerouacThe Lover by Marguerite DurasThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Roman à clef
128 books — 40 voters
The Child I Lost Found Me by Niki BrownThe Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls12 Darling Dogs by Joni KeimThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Secrets of Filming Swallows & Amazons by Sophie Neville
My Favorite Memoirs
535 books — 402 voters

Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MDMaking A Difference by James L. HechtThe Soul Whispers Poetry by Vikki KoplickSacred Animal Activism by Vikki Koplick
Activist memoirs
185 books — 49 voters

And So It Goes by Linda EllerbeeNaked in Baghdad by Anne GarrelsIt's What I Do by Lynsey AddarioTake Big Bites by Linda EllerbeeDon't Be Afraid of the Bullets by Laura Kasinof
Memoirs of women journalists
76 books — 15 voters
I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiLove in a Headscarf by Shelina Zahra JanmohamedThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiIran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi
Memoirs by Muslim women
33 books — 30 voters

Glen Van Peski
Facing failure and learning to overcome it can be a powerful motivator, giving us a boost that transcends the problem currently facing us.
Glen Van Peski, Take Less. Do More.: Surprising Life Lessons in Generosity, Gratitude, and Curiosity from an Ultralight Backpacker

Bertrand Russell
I was not born happy. As a child, my favourite hymn was :'Weary of earth and laden with my sin.' At the age of five, I reflected that, if I should live to be seventy, I had only endured, so far, a fourteenth part of my whole life, and I felt the long-spread-out boredom ahead of me to be almost unedurable. In adolescense, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. ...more
Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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