Peter Abelard, Historia Calamitatum, 12th century
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907
Anna Akhmatova, Hope Against Hope, 1910
Maya Angelou, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, 1969
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, 397
Black Elk and John J. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks, 1931
Roald Dahl, Boy & Going Solo, 1986
Giacomo Casanova, Histoire de ma vie, published posthumously in 1826.
Benvenuto Cellini, Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, 1728
Fredrick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, 1845
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1869
Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, 1927 and 1929
Ulysses S. Grant, Memoirs, 1885
Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on the Road, 1942
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861
Helen Keller, The Story of My Life, 1903
Claude McKay, A Long Way From Home, 1937
John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory, 1966
Joaquim Nabuco, Minha formação, 1900
Jawaharlal Nehru, Autobiography, 1936
Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1966-76
Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1821
Manfred von Richthofen (Red baron), Der rote Kampfflieger (The Red Battle Flier), 1917
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Les Confessions), 1770, published 1782
Bertrand Russell, Autobiography, 1967, 1969
Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words, 1964
Albert Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought, 1933
Alan Sillitoe, Life Without Armour, 1995
Lincoln Steffens, Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, 1931
Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 1933
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1917
Giambattista Vico, The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico, 1735-1741
Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery, 1901
Frank Lloyd Wright, Autobiography, 1943
Richard Wright, Black Boy, 1945
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1965
William Butler Yeats, Autobiography, 1936