Best Popular Autobiography Books on Goodreads

This list is for the most well known Autobiography books on Goodreads.

For purposes of this list, only include books with over 50,000 ratings and shelved at least 100 times as autobiography.

Anything with less than 50,0000 ratings or shelved less than 100 times as autobiography will be removed and without comment.

If its super obvious that it's not an autobiography, it should be removed - like for example Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.

For purposes of this list, if it is written by the subject - it still counts as an autobiography even if it is, or is labeled a memoir or a diary (as long as it has the ratings and 100 tags of autiobiography)

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4.43 avg rating — 1,214,703 ratings
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4.07 avg rating — 151,699 ratings
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3.96 avg rating — 1,062,126 ratings
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4.38 avg rating — 1,379,185 ratings
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4.33 avg rating — 1,379,604 ratings
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4.34 avg rating — 321,655 ratings
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4.37 avg rating — 294,375 ratings
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4.49 avg rating — 820,622 ratings
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4.26 avg rating — 365,590 ratings
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4.19 avg rating — 386,085 ratings
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3.69 avg rating — 91,917 ratings
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3.65 avg rating — 1,853,378 ratings
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4.46 avg rating — 1,900,679 ratings
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4.07 avg rating — 874,655 ratings
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4.15 avg rating — 661,875 ratings
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4.01 avg rating — 723,908 ratings
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4.37 avg rating — 899,827 ratings
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3.85 avg rating — 559,458 ratings
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3.86 avg rating — 515,238 ratings
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4.41 avg rating — 823,527 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 463,331 ratings
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4.07 avg rating — 449,775 ratings
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4.48 avg rating — 360,983 ratings
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3.66 avg rating — 358,968 ratings
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4.27 avg rating — 234,039 ratings
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3.74 avg rating — 66,647 ratings
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4.23 avg rating — 76,455 ratings
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4.19 avg rating — 79,757 ratings
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4.68 avg rating — 264,170 ratings
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4.26 avg rating — 219,627 ratings
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3.90 avg rating — 227,308 ratings
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4.25 avg rating — 74,410 ratings
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4.46 avg rating — 376,462 ratings
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3.98 avg rating — 78,208 ratings
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4.40 avg rating — 208,866 ratings
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3.82 avg rating — 94,632 ratings
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3.97 avg rating — 148,645 ratings
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4.13 avg rating — 136,720 ratings
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3.71 avg rating — 110,532 ratings
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3.90 avg rating — 202,178 ratings
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3.67 avg rating — 110,634 ratings
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3.94 avg rating — 167,717 ratings
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3.72 avg rating — 131,291 ratings
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3.88 avg rating — 107,860 ratings
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3.90 avg rating — 98,899 ratings
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3.79 avg rating — 112,072 ratings
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4.18 avg rating — 99,197 ratings
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3.83 avg rating — 100,366 ratings
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3.85 avg rating — 107,122 ratings
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3.85 avg rating — 92,603 ratings
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3.95 avg rating — 284,133 ratings
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4.04 avg rating — 1,254,862 ratings
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3.77 avg rating — 205,829 ratings
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4.16 avg rating — 195,219 ratings
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4.17 avg rating — 122,216 ratings
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4.20 avg rating — 92,986 ratings
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3.77 avg rating — 405,470 ratings
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4.15 avg rating — 93,829 ratings
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4.30 avg rating — 587,897 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 477,676 ratings
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4.26 avg rating — 576,267 ratings
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4.16 avg rating — 629,261 ratings
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4.22 avg rating — 79,706 ratings
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3.72 avg rating — 206,781 ratings
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4.10 avg rating — 103,102 ratings
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3.69 avg rating — 184,126 ratings
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3.83 avg rating — 69,818 ratings
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3.93 avg rating — 308,659 ratings
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4.12 avg rating — 290,400 ratings
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3.94 avg rating — 231,868 ratings
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4.07 avg rating — 74,420 ratings
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4.07 avg rating — 204,652 ratings
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4.12 avg rating — 72,582 ratings
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3.83 avg rating — 508,691 ratings
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3.74 avg rating — 82,715 ratings
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4.09 avg rating — 103,063 ratings
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3.94 avg rating — 68,520 ratings
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3.92 avg rating — 69,828 ratings
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3.84 avg rating — 170,432 ratings
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4.21 avg rating — 363,548 ratings
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4.23 avg rating — 125,613 ratings
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4.13 avg rating — 12,695 ratings
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4.30 avg rating — 125,577 ratings
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4.36 avg rating — 160,080 ratings
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3.84 avg rating — 168,548 ratings
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4.32 avg rating — 149,915 ratings
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4.36 avg rating — 95,198 ratings
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4.15 avg rating — 134,837 ratings
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4.16 avg rating — 64,543 ratings
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4.40 avg rating — 370,643 ratings
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3.88 avg rating — 86,352 ratings
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4.21 avg rating — 1,225,477 ratings
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4.02 avg rating — 169,158 ratings
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4.09 avg rating — 239,836 ratings
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4.03 avg rating — 142,145 ratings
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4.06 avg rating — 86,690 ratings
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3.89 avg rating — 176,720 ratings
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3.87 avg rating — 208,800 ratings
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4.21 avg rating — 110,176 ratings
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message 1: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jan 04, 2021 02:09AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) "For purposes of this list, only include books with over 50,000 ratings and shelved at least 100 times as autobiography."

That sure limits it... I thought to add A Fortunate Life but now I can't 😒

By the way, The Diary of a Young Girl (#1) is not an autobiography; it is a diary.


message 2: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Added a bunch of books and removed a few. There are some more recent autobiographies on page 2


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