Autobiography

An autobiography (from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write) is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.

Closely associated with autobiography (and sometimes difficult to precisely distinguish from it) is the form of memoir. However, an autobiography typically focuses on the "life and times" of the writer, while a memoir has a narrower, more intimate focus on his or her own memories, feelings and emotions.

Also see Biography Memoir and Memoir.

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Born a Crime
The Princess Diarist
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Tippi: A Memoir
Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses, and Liberation of Joan Rivers
Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
The Magnolia Story
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A Life in Parts
My Own Words
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Not Dead Yet: The Memoir
The Magnolia Story
Yes Please
Bossypants
The Princess Diarist
Love Warrior
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded
Mrs Funnybones
Vous n'aurez pas ma haine
A Long Way Home
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
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Coming-of-Age Memoirs
79 books — 91 voters
The Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Favorite memoirs/autobiographies
1,317 books — 1,228 voters

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Life in a Foreign Country
375 books — 239 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Memoirs by Women
1,847 books — 2,149 voters

Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob LoweMe by Katharine HepburnNatasha by Suzanne FinstadBossypants by Tina FeyNever Have Your Dog Stuffed by Alan Alda
Celebrity Biography
634 books — 197 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieChasing the Devil by Tim Butcher
Africa
1,263 books — 1,267 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl
Bossypants
Night
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
Yes Please
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
Eat, Pray, Love
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer #1)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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