Best Autobiographies and Memoirs

1
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
de Anne Frank
12,798 membros
242 resenhas
4.1
15 Members
adsddy, SqueakyChu, DaynaRT, kageeh, dara85, SylviaC, susiesharp, souloftherose, alex68, JuliaMaria, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Joy62, PureChaos
Explicações
JuliaMaria: Ein Klassiker.
2
Night
de Elie Wiesel
27,910 membros
574 resenhas
½ 4.3
14 Members
adsddy, SqueakyChu, kageeh, dara85, raidergirl3, norabelle414, ncgraham, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, EstCSmith, ManWithAnAgenda, f1rstpancake, Joy62
3
The Hiding Place
de Corrie ten Boom
10,346 membros
147 resenhas
½ 4.4
11 Members
DaynaRT, dara85, raidergirl3, aulsmith, ncgraham, souloftherose, cej1027, ahef1963, AmourFou, EstCSmith, Joy62
4
My Family and Other Animals
de Gerald Durrell
5,305 membros
152 resenhas
4.2
9 Members
Edward, dhm, CarltonC, subarcticmike, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, EstCSmith, PureChaos
5
Autobiografia de Benjamin Franklin
de Benjamin Franklin
7,390 membros
110 resenhas
3.8
7 Members
aulsmith, belgrade18, 2wonderY, MDGentleReader, John_Vaughan, catkidi68, PureChaos
6
Só Pode Ser Brincadeira, Sr. Feynman! As excêntricas aventuras de um físico
de Richard Feynman
9,942 membros
172 resenhas
4.2
7 Members
Edward, raidergirl3, dhm, MDGentleReader, jeffza, Jahhnavi, PureChaos
7
Angela's Ashes
de Frank McCourt
22,045 membros
339 resenhas
4
8 Members
hipdeep, SqueakyChu, Minthe, raidergirl3, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72, EstCSmith
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Just Kids
de Patti Smith
5,548 membros
240 resenhas
4.1
7 Members
hipdeep, elkiedee, alex68, JuliaMaria, kara.shamy, EstCSmith, Drapetsona
Explicações
JuliaMaria: Autobiografie und Biografie (Robert Mapplethorpe) in einem: der Wille und das Durchhaltevermögen Künster bzw Ķüstlerin zu werden und sich gegenseitig dabei zu unterstützen.
9
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
de Jean-Dominique Bauby
4,484 membros
154 resenhas
4
6 Members
SqueakyChu, SylviaC, alex68, eclecticdodo, ahef1963, philna
10
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
de Malcolm X
9,866 membros
124 resenhas
½ 4.3
6 Members
hipdeep, dhm, elkiedee, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Petrisin
11
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
de Marjane Satrapi
8,585 membros
322 resenhas
4.2
7 Members
Minthe, raidergirl3, dhm, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, PureChaos
12
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
de Gertrude Stein
2,719 membros
44 resenhas
½ 3.6
7 Members
thorold, belgrade18, alex68, JuliaMaria, ahef1963, FranzK72, Drapetsona
13
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
de Azar Nafisi
13,060 membros
280 resenhas
½ 3.6
7 Members
raidergirl3, belgrade18, Soupdragon, elkiedee, alex68, FranzK72, EstCSmith
14
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
de Trevor Noah
6,257 membros
359 resenhas
½ 4.4
6 Members
dhm, elkiedee, cej1027, ahef1963, catkidi68, PureChaos
15
An Autobiography
de Agatha Christie
1,924 membros
40 resenhas
4.1
5 Members
Samantha_kathy, souloftherose, arrwa, alex68, ahef1963
16
Educated: A Memoir
de Tara Westover
10,004 membros
512 resenhas
½ 4.3
6 Members
dhm, CarltonC, elkiedee, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda
17
Life
de Keith Richards
3,223 membros
140 resenhas
3.8
5 Members
dhm, birder4106, susiesharp, EstCSmith, Drapetsona
18
The Confessions
de Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3,164 membros
30 resenhas
½ 3.6
4 Members
alex68, JuliaMaria, FranzK72, EstCSmith
Explicações
JuliaMaria: Ein Klassiker der autobiografischen Literatur.
19
A Tale of Love and Darkness
de Amos Oz
2,382 membros
58 resenhas
4.2
4 Members
SqueakyChu, alex68, Polaris-, FranzK72
20
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
de Vladimir Nabokov
3,656 membros
44 resenhas
4.2
5 Members
belgrade18, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72, EstCSmith
21
Writing Home
de Alan Bennett
1,124 membros
8 resenhas
4
4 Members
abbottthomas, thorold, Crypto-Willobie, John_Vaughan
22
Call the Midwife
de Jennifer Worth
2,486 membros
136 resenhas
4.1
5 Members
elkiedee, eclecticdodo, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Joy62
23
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
de Bill Bryson
6,591 membros
235 resenhas
3.9
5 Members
dara85, raidergirl3, souloftherose, ahef1963, darllenwr_brwd
24
The World of Yesterday
de Stefan Zweig
2,588 membros
77 resenhas
½ 4.3
4 Members
mousse, alex68, FranzK72, Drapetsona
25
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
de Edward Abbey
3,961 membros
90 resenhas
4.2
4 Members
dhm, CarltonC, Polaris-, shayhurst
26
The Story of My Life
de Giacomo Girolamo Casanova
1,058 membros
11 resenhas
3.8
4 Members
belgrade18, alex68, FranzK72, Drapetsona
27
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
de Simone de Beauvoir
2,099 membros
29 resenhas
4
4 Members
CarltonC, alex68, JuliaMaria, FranzK72
Explicações
JuliaMaria: Inzwischen ein Klassiker der Frauenliteratur. Erster Band einer mehrbändigen Autobiografie.
28
The Cloister Walk
de Kathleen Norris
2,706 membros
32 resenhas
4
4 Members
lilithcat, ahef1963, AmourFou, EstCSmith
29
Testament of Youth
de Vera Brittain
2,168 membros
53 resenhas
4.1
4 Members
thorold, Soupdragon, elkiedee, ahef1963
30
West with the Night
de Beryl Markham
3,639 membros
131 resenhas
4.1
3 Members
deebee1, subarcticmike, Joy62
31
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
de Nelson Mandela
4,913 membros
62 resenhas
½ 4.3
5 Members
dhm, belgrade18, ahef1963, FranzK72, PureChaos
32
The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume 5 (1947-1955)
de Anaïs Nin
421 membros
2 resenhas
3.9
4 Members
dhm, alex68, JuliaMaria, FranzK72
Explicações
JuliaMaria: Anaïs Nin hat ihr Leben lang Tagebücher geschrieben, jeden Tag. Ein Klassiker der Frauenliteratur.
33
Memoirs of the Second World War
de Winston S. Churchill
850 membros
10 resenhas
4.2
4 Members
alex68, Bretzky1, FranzK72, PureChaos
34
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
de James D. Watson
3,045 membros
45 resenhas
3.8
4 Members
dhm, belgrade18, ahef1963, PureChaos
35
Margrave of the Marshes
de John Peel
721 membros
7 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
Minthe, darllenwr_brwd, Drapetsona
36
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey
de Michael Collins
745 membros
24 resenhas
½ 4.4
3 Members
subarcticmike, Polaris-, PureChaos
37
Persepolis II: The Story of a Return
de Marjane Satrapi
4,196 membros
112 resenhas
4.1
4 Members
Minthe, cej1027, ahef1963, PureChaos
38
Surpreendido pela Alegria
de C. S. Lewis
6,943 membros
55 resenhas
3.9
4 Members
dhm, cej1027, ahef1963, EstCSmith
39
84 Charing Cross Road / The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
de Helene Hanff
1,131 membros
38 resenhas
4.2
4 Members
raidergirl3, dhm, souloftherose, ahef1963
40
Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
de Nando Parrado
936 membros
44 resenhas
4.1
4 Members
SqueakyChu, dara85, ahef1963, Joy62
41
Christopher and His Kind
de Christopher Isherwood
810 membros
11 resenhas
3.8
3 Members
thorold, aulsmith, CarltonC
42
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
de Avi Steinberg
873 membros
49 resenhas
½ 3.6
3 Members
lahochstetler, kara.shamy, EstCSmith,aulsmith
Explicações
aulsmith : I heard from a real prison librarian that Steinberg only worked a couple of months as a temp librarian in a prison.
43
A Moveable Feast
de Ernest Hemingway
9,128 membros
190 resenhas
4
4 Members
hipdeep, dhm, elkiedee, FranzK72,aulsmith
Explicações
aulsmith : I started this to see if I could figure out why Gertrude Stein put up with him. Couldn't put up with his narcissism and homophobia long enough to find out.
44
The Bell Jar
de Sylvia Plath
28,325 membros
501 resenhas
4
4 Members
alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda
45
Cider with Rosie
de Laurie Lee
2,656 membros
56 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
CarltonC, elkiedee, shayhurst
46
Running with Scissors
de Augusten Burroughs
14,709 membros
309 resenhas
½ 3.5
4 Members
alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda
47
Life on the Mississippi
de Mark Twain
4,667 membros
51 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
John_Vaughan, AmourFou, EstCSmith
48
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
de Dorothy Day
1,273 membros
16 resenhas
4
3 Members
lilithcat, aulsmith, EstCSmith
49
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
de Esther Hautzig
2,041 membros
31 resenhas
4.1
3 Members
dara85, elkiedee, cej1027
50
A Year in Provence
de Peter Mayle
5,584 membros
111 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
belgrade18, ahef1963, shayhurst
51
I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
de Izzeldin Abuelaish
563 membros
58 resenhas
4.1
3 Members
SqueakyChu, souloftherose, elkiedee
52
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
de Jeanette Winterson
2,119 membros
102 resenhas
4.1
3 Members
CarltonC, elkiedee, EstCSmith
53
The Naked Civil Servant
de Quentin Crisp
852 membros
13 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
thorold, dhm, belgrade18
54
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
de Jeannette Walls
20,609 membros
798 resenhas
4.2
4 Members
dara85, raidergirl3, elkiedee, ahef1963
55
Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
de Doris Kearns Goodwin
1,463 membros
33 resenhas
4
2 Members
lilithcat, hipdeep
56
A Sort of Life
de Graham Greene
662 membros
6 resenhas
½ 3.6
3 Members
John_Vaughan, FranzK72, EstCSmith
57
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
de Robert Graves
3,725 membros
65 resenhas
4
3 Members
CarltonC, elkiedee, ahef1963
58
March: Books 1-3
de John Lewis
454 membros
11 resenhas
½ 4.6
3 Members
hipdeep, raidergirl3, cej1027
59
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
de Paul Monette
1,023 membros
12 resenhas
4.2
2 Members
thorold, aulsmith
60
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
de Barbara Kingsolver
7,721 membros
258 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
Minthe, raidergirl3
61
My Beloved World
de Sonia Sotomayor
1,381 membros
51 resenhas
4
2 Members
MDGentleReader, kara.shamy
62
Peeling the Onion
de Günter Grass
919 membros
15 resenhas
3.8
3 Members
thorold, alex68, FranzK72
63
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life
de J. M. Coetzee
1,119 membros
27 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
Minthe, alex68, FranzK72
64
Winter Journal
de Paul Auster
897 membros
52 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
alex68, JuliaMaria, FranzK72
65
Autobiography of a Yogi
de Paramahansa Yogananda
3,041 membros
48 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
dhm, Saraswati_Library
66
The Travels of Marco Polo
de Marco Polo
5,124 membros
55 resenhas
½ 3.6
3 Members
alex68, ahef1963, Drapetsona
67
An Autobiography
de Anthony Trollope
586 membros
12 resenhas
3.8
3 Members
belgrade18, souloftherose, FranzK72
68
My Father and Myself
de J. R. Ackerley
468 membros
8 resenhas
3.9
2 Members
thorold, dhm
69
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
de Benvenuto Cellini
2,556 membros
22 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
belgrade18, alex68, FranzK72
70
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
de Julie Andrews
1,334 membros
48 resenhas
3.9
2 Members
hipdeep, suitable1
71
An Education
de Lynn Barber
391 membros
17 resenhas
½ 3.4
2 Members
norabelle414, elkiedee
72
Fate is the Hunter
de Ernest K. Gann
484 membros
11 resenhas
½ 4.3
2 Members
subarcticmike, Polaris-
73
Down and Out in Paris and London
de George Orwell
7,875 membros
132 resenhas
4
3 Members
CarltonC, elkiedee, ahef1963
74
Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
de Rob Sheffield
1,861 membros
64 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
hipdeep, elkiedee
75
Lucky Man: A Memoir
de Michael J. Fox
1,820 membros
38 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
dara85, dhm, alex68
76
Dear Me
de Peter Ustinov
581 membros
7 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
abbottthomas, John_Vaughan
77
Gorillas in the Mist
de Dian Fossey
1,053 membros
15 resenhas
4
3 Members
Minthe, alex68, ahef1963
78
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
de John Berendt
14,894 membros
290 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
CarltonC, alex68, ahef1963
79
Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now
de Jan Wong
710 membros
15 resenhas
3.9
2 Members
elkiedee, Petrisin
80
Blue Highways: A Journey into America
de William Least Heat-Moon
3,363 membros
64 resenhas
4
2 Members
Minthe, EstCSmith
81
Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm
de Jeanne Marie Laskas
279 membros
12 resenhas
4
2 Members
hipdeep, shayhurst
82
The Memoirs of George Sherston
de Siegfried Sassoon
338 membros
5 resenhas
4.2
2 Members
CarltonC, John_Vaughan
83
Palimpsest: A Memoir
de Gore Vidal
1,084 membros
14 resenhas
4
2 Members
dhm, ManWithAnAgenda
84
My Guru and His Disciple
de Christopher Isherwood
209 membros
6 resenhas
½ 3.6
2 Members
aulsmith, dhm
85
Gathering Evidence: A Memoir
de Thomas Bernhard
295 membros
5 resenhas
½ 4.5
2 Members
thorold, JuliaMaria
86
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant: A Memoir
de Daniel Tammet
2,525 membros
96 resenhas
½ 3.7
2 Members
SqueakyChu, kageeh
87
Life and Death in Shanghai
de Nien Cheng
1,490 membros
20 resenhas
4.2
2 Members
dhm, belgrade18
88
My Struggle: Book 1
de Karl Ove Knausgård
2,848 membros
112 resenhas
3.9
2 Members
JuliaMaria, kara.shamy
Explicações
JuliaMaria: Teil 1 einer mehrbändigen Autobiografie. Dieser Teil beschreibt die Kindheit und schwierige Beziehung zum Vater. 
89
Clinging to the Wreckage
de John Mortimer
401 membros
3 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
abbottthomas, thorold
90
The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 2, 1920-1924
de Virginia Woolf
453 membros
4 resenhas
4.2
2 Members
JuliaMaria, FranzK72
91
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
de Dave Eggers
2,380 membros
30 resenhas
½ 3.5
2 Members
alex68, ManWithAnAgenda
92
The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village {revised}
de Samuel R. Delany
532 membros
5 resenhas
½ 4.3
2 Members
aulsmith, dhm
93
Paris to the Moon
de Adam Gopnik
2,795 membros
33 resenhas
½ 3.7
2 Members
hipdeep, dhm
94
Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania
de Andy Behrman
267 membros
6 resenhas
½ 3.7
2 Members
SqueakyChu, belgrade18
95
Naked
de David Sedaris
12,369 membros
121 resenhas
4
2 Members
alex68, ManWithAnAgenda
96
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
de Alison Arngrim
575 membros
56 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
dara85, ahef1963
97
The Words
de Jean-Paul Sartre
2,333 membros
18 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
JuliaMaria, FranzK72
98
Homage to Catalonia
de George Orwell
6,226 membros
105 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
CarltonC, elkiedee
99
How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading too Much
de Samantha Ellis
555 membros
21 resenhas
4
2 Members
souloftherose, elkiedee
100
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
de Alison Bechdel
8,243 membros
366 resenhas
4.2
2 Members
dhm, ManWithAnAgenda