Autobiography and Memoir Books

Get lost in someone else’s life for awhile. Read about how other people think and live. Autobiographies take us into the minds of other people, their thought processes, and the often unusual events in their lives.

Angela’s Ashes: a Memoir by Frank Mccourt

Bad Boy: a Memoir by Walter Dean Myers

The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Borrowed Finery: a Memoir by Paula Fox

Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl

The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jimenez

Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody

The Diary of a Young Girl: the Definitive Edition by Anne Frank

Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston

Funny in Farsi: a Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas

Growing Up by Russell Baker

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography by Chris Crutcher

Lost in Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia by Mark Salzman

Lucky: a Memoir by Alice Sebold

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

My Dog Skip by Willie Morris

Night by Elie Wiesel

No Pretty Pictures: a Child of War by Anita Lobel

October Sky by Homer Hickman

Old School by Tobias Wolff

Running With Scissors: a Memoir by Augusten Burroughs

Sickened: the True Story of a Lost Childhood by Julie Gregory

Stop-Time: a Memoir by Frank Conroy

This Boy’s Life: a Memoir by Tobias Wolff

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston