By Date
| Name of author | Name of book | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Marcus Aurelius | The Meditations | c. 175 |
| Libanius | Oration I | 374 |
| Augustine of Hippo | Confessions | 397 |
| Sei Shōnagon | The Pillow Book | 1002 |
| Peter Abelard | Historia Calamitatum | 12th century |
| Al-Ghazali | The Deliverer from Error | 12th century |
| Leonor López de Córdoba | Memorias | early 15th century |
| Margery Kempe | The Book of Margery Kempe | 1436 |
| Teresa of Ávila | Autobiography of St. Teresa of Ávila | 1567 |
| Benvenuto Cellini | The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini | c. 1570, published 1728 |
| Girolamo Cardano | The Book of My Life | 1576 |
| Michel de Montaigne | Of the Education of Children | 1580 |
| Abraham Cowley | Of Myself | 1668 |
| Colley Cibber | An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Written by Himself | 1740 |
| Elizabeth Ashbridge | Some Account of the Fore-Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge | 1755 |
| Charlotte Charke | A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke | 1755 |
| Jonathan Edwards | Personall Narrative | 1768 |
| David Hume | The Life of David Hume, Esq., Written By Himself | 1777 |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Confessions (Les Confessions) | 1770, published 1782 |
| Olaudah Equiano | The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself | 1789 |
| Thomas Jefferson | Autobiography 1743-1790 | published posthumously in 1821 |
| Benjamin Franklin | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | 1791 |
| Edward Gibbon | The Autobiography and Correspondence of Edward Gibbon the Historian | 1795 |
| Mary Darby Robinson | Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson, Written by Herself, published in 2 volumes | 1801-1803 |
| Fu Sheng | Six Records of a Floating Life | c. 1808 |
| Manuel Belgrano | Autobiography of Manuel Belgrano | 1814 |
| William Cowper | Memoir of the Early Life of William Cowper, Esq., Written by Himself | 1816 |
| Thomas de Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium-Eater | 1821 |
| Harriette Wilson | Memoirs by Harriette Wilson | 1825 |
| Giacomo Casanova | Histoire de ma vie | published posthumously in 1826 |
| Cornelio Saavedra | Memoria autógrafa | 1829 |
| James Hogg | Memoir of the Author's Life, published in Altrive Tales | 1832 |
| Stendhal | Memoirs of an Egotist | 1832, published posthumously in 1892 |
| Charles Dickens | Autobiographical Fragment | 1847 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Italian Journey | 1817 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Autobiography Of Goethe: Truth And Poetry, From My Own Life | 1848 |
| P. T. Barnum | The Life of P.T. Barnum, Written by Himself | 1855 |
| Frederick Douglass | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave | 1845 |
| Frederick Douglass | My Bondage and My Freedom | 1855 |
| Frederick Douglass | Life and Times of Frederick Douglass | 1881 (expanded and revised, 1892) |
| George Sand | Histoire de ma vie | 1855 |
| Kit Carson | Kit Carson's Autobiography | 1856 |
| Harriet Jacobs | Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | 1861 |
| Sara Coleridge | Memoir | 1874 |
| John Stuart Mill | Autobiography | 1874 |
| Charles Darwin | The Recollections of the Development of My Mind and Character | 1876. Published posthumously in 1887 |
| Ambrose Bierce | What I Saw of Shiloh | 1881 |
| Ion Creangă | Memories of Boyhood | 1883 |
| Anthony Trollope | An Autobiography | 1883 |
| Walt Whitman | Specimen Days | 1883 |
| Leo Tolstoy | My Confession | 1884 |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant | 1885 |
| John Ruskin | Praeterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life | 1885 |
| Harriet Martineau | Harriet Martineau's Autobiography | 1887 |
| Thomas Henry Huxley | Autobiography | 1890 |
| Oscar Wilde | De Profundis | 1897 |
| Hannah Lynch | Autobiography of a Child | 1899 |
| Margaret Oliphant | The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant | 1899 |
| Claude Monet | An Interview | 1900 |
| Joaquim Nabuco | Minha formação | 1900 |
| Booker T. Washington | Up from Slavery | 1901 |
| Helen Keller | The Story of My Life | 1903 |
| Geronimo | Geronimo's Story of His Life | 1906 |
| Henry Adams | The Education of Henry Adams | 1907 |
| Edmund Gosse | Father and Son | 1907 |
| Victor Hugo | Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography | 1907 |
| Mark Twain | Mark Twain's Autobiography, posthumous | 1907 |
| Annie Besant | Annie Besant: An Autobiography | 1908 |
| Stephen A. Douglas | Autobiography of Stephen A. Douglas | 1913 |
| Maxim Gorky | My Childhood | 1913 |
| Henry James | A Small Boy and Others | 1913 |
| John Muir | The Story of My Boyhood and Youth | 1913 |
| Emmeline Pankhurst | My Own Story | 1914 |
| William Butler Yeats | Reveries Over Childhood and Youth | 1916 |
| Buffalo Bill Cody | Buffalo Bill's Own Story of His Life and Deeds | 1917 |
| Manfred von Richthofen | The Red Baron (Der rote Kampfflieger) | 1917 |
| Mary Augusta Ward | A Writer’s Recollections | 1918 |
| Nikola Tesla | My Inventions | c. 1919 |
| Andrew Carnegie | Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: with Illustrations | 1920 |
| Zitkala-Sa | Impressions of an Indian Childhood | 1921 |
| Sigmund Freud | An Autobiographical Study | 1925 |
| Adolf Hitler | Mein Kampf (My Struggle) | 1925 |
| Mary Harris Jones | Autobiography of Mother Jones | 1925 |
| Isadora Duncan | My Life | 1927 |
| Benito Mussolini | My Autobiography: With the Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism | 1928 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | The Story of My Experiments with Truth | 1927 and 1929 |
| Robert Graves | Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography | 1929 |
| Winston Churchill | My Early Life: 1874-1904 | 1930 |
| Walter Benjamin | Unpacking My Library | 1931 |
| Black Elk and John J. Neihardt | Black Elk Speaks | 1931 |
| Lincoln Steffens | The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens | 1931 |
| Vera Brittain | Testament of Youth | 1933 |
| Gertrude Stein | The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas | 1933 |
| G. K. Chesterton | The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton | 1936 |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | An Autobiography | 1936 |
| Noël Coward | Present Indicative | 1937 |
| Virginia Woolf | Moments of Being. Collection of autobiographical essays published posthumously in 1976, including "Reminiscences," 1907; "22 Hyde Park Gate," 1920-1921; "Old Bloomsbury," 1921-1922; "Am I a Snob?", 1936; and "A Sketch of the Past," 1938. | 1976 |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | A Short Autobiography | 1940 |
| Salvador Dalí | The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí | 1942 |
| Dylan Thomas | Holiday Memory | 1942 |
| Richard Wright | Black Boy | 1945 |
| Albert Einstein | Autobiographical Notes | 1945; published 1949 |
| Anne Frank | The Diary of a Young Girl | 1947 |
| Primo Levi | If This Is a Man | 1947 |
| George Orwell | Such, Such Were the Joys. . . | 1947. Published posthumously in 1953 |
| William Carlos Williams | The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams | 1948 |
| Nirad C. Chaudhuri | The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian | 1951 |
| Bertrand Russell | The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell | 1951, published in 3 volumes 1951-1969 |
| Gwen Raverat | Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood | 1952 |
| Christy Brown | My Left Foot | 1954 |
| Gerald Durrell | My Family and Other Animals | 1956 |
| Billie Holiday | Lady Sings the Blues | 1956 |
| P. G. Wodehouse | Over Seventy: An Autobiography with Digressions | 1957 |
| Winston Churchill | Memoirs of the Second World War | 1959 |
| Fred Astaire | Steps in Time | 1960 |
| Simone de Beauvoir | The Prime of Life | 1960 |
| Ken Murray | Life On a Pogo Stick | 1960 |
| Harpo Marx | Harpo Speaks | 1961 |
| Dalai Lama | My Land and My People | 1962 |
| Carl Jung | Memories, Dreams, Reflections | 1962 |
| Margaret Murray | My First Hundred Years | 1963 |
| Charlie Chaplin | My Autobiography | 1964 |
| Dick Gregory | Nigger | 1964 |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | The Words | 1964 |
| Malcolm X | The Autobiography of Malcolm X | 1965 |
| P. J. Kavanagh | The Perfect Stranger | 1966 |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Speak, Memory | 1966 |
| Rosamond Lehmann | The Swan in the Evening: Fragments of an Inner Life | 1967 |
| Edward Abbey | Desert Solitaire | 1968 |
| J. R. Ackerley | My Father and Myself | 1968 |
| Quentin Crisp | The Naked Civil Servant | 1968 |
| Czesław Miłosz | Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition | 1968 |
| Florida Scott-Maxwell | The Measure of My Days | 1968 |
| Maya Angelou | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | 1969 |
| Brian Aherne | A Proper Job | 1969 |
| Pat Boone | A New Song | 1970 |
| Pablo Casals | Joys and Sorrows: Reflections | 1970 |
| Graham Greene | A Sort of Life | 1971 |
| Paul Bowles | Without Stopping | 1972 |
| Margaret Mead | Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years | 1972 |
| Muhammad Ali | The Greatest: My Own Story | 1975 |
| James Baldwin | The Devil Finds Work | 1976 |
| Anaïs Nin | The Diary of Anaïs Nin | 1966–76 |
| Agatha Christie | An Autobiography | 1977 |
| Pablo Neruda | Memoirs (Confieso que he vivido: Memorias) | 1977 |
| Ralph Bellamy | When the Smoke Hit the Fan | 1979 |
| Robert Stack | Straight Shooting | 1980 |
| Manny Shinwell | Conflict Without Malice | 1955 |
| Manny Shinwell | I've Lived Through It All | 1973 |
| Manny Shinwell | Lead With the Left: My First Ninety-Six Years | 1981 |
| James Mason | Before I Forget | 1982 |
| John Mortimer | Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life | 1982 |
| Michael Ondaatje | Running in the Family | 1982 |
| Dirk Bogarde | An Orderly Man | 1983 |
| Roy Hattersley | A Yorkshire Boyhood | 1983 |
| Akira Kurosawa | Something Like an Autobiography | 1983 |
| Eudora Welty | One Writer's Beginnings | 1983 |
| Ingmar Bergman | The Magic Lantern | 1987 |
| Annie Dillard | An American Childhood | 1987 |
| Mary McCarthy | Memories of a Catholic Girlhood | 1957 |
| Mary McCarthy | How I Grew | 1987 |
| Arthur Miller | Timebends: A Life | 1987 |
| Michael Jackson | Moonwalk | 1988 |
| Orson Bean | Me and the Orgone: One Man's Sexual Revolution | 1971 |
| Orson Bean | Too Much Is Not Enough | 1988 |
| Mel Blanc | That's NOT All, Folks! | 1988 |
| Drew Barrymore | Little Girl Lost | 1989 |
| Janet Frame | To the Is-land | 1982 |
| Janet Frame | An Angel at My Table and The Envoy From Mirror City | 1984 |
| Janet Frame | An Autobiography | 1989 |
| Eva Hoffman | Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language | 1989 |
| Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Giant Steps Kareem | 1990 |
| Anthony Burgess | Little Wilson and Big God, Being the First Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess | 1986 |
| Anthony Burgess | You've Had Your Time, Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess | 1990 |
| Ronald Reagan | An American Life | 1990 |
| Ronald Reagan | The Reagan Diaries | published posthumously in 2007 |
| William Styron | Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness | 1990 |
| Sonny Bono | And the Beat Goes On | 1991 |
| Katharine Hepburn | Me: Stories of My Life | 1991 |
| Brian Keenan | An Evil Calling | 1991 |
| Laurie Lee | Cider with Rosie | 1959, published in the U.S. as The Edge of Day, 1960 |
| Laurie Lee | As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning | 1969 |
| Laurie Lee | A Moment of War | 1991 |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage | 1991 |
| Reinaldo Arenas | Before Night Falls: A Memoir | 1992 |
| Chang Jung | Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China | 1992 |
| Peter O'Toole | Loitering with Intent: The Child | 1992 |
| Blake Morrison | And When Did You Last See Your Father? | 1993 |
| Naguib Mahfouz | Echoes of an Autobiography | 1994 |
| Nelson Mandela | A Long Walk to Freedom | 1994 |
| Ann-Margret | My Story | 1994 |
| Tobias Wolff | In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of a Lost War | 1994 |
| Loni Anderson | My Life in High Heels | 1995 |
| Marlon Brando | Songs My Mother Taught Me | 1995 |
| M. F. K. Fisher | Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon | 1991 |
| M. F. K. Fisher | To Begin Again: Stories and Memoirs 1908-1929 | 1992 |
| M. F. K. Fisher | Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: Journals and Stories 1933-1941 | 1993 |
| M. F. K. Fisher | Last House: Reflections, Dreams and Observations 1943-1991 | 1995 |
| Boy George | Taking It Like a Man | 1995 |
| Mary Karr | The Liars' Club | 1995 |
| Margaret Thatcher | The Path to Power | 1995 |
| Gore Vidal | Palimpsest: A Memoir | 1995 |
| Harold Brodkey | The Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death | 1996 |
| Patrick Chamoiseau | Une enfance Créole | 1996 |
| Frank McCourt | Angela's Ashes | 1996 |
| Barack Obama | Dreams from My Father | 1996 |
| Aerosmith | Walk This Way | 1997 |
| Spalding Gray | It's a Slippery Slope | 1997 |
| David Sedaris | Naked | 1997 |
| Sandra Bernhard | Confessions of a Pretty Lady; Love, Love and Love; May I Kiss You On the Lips, Miss Sandra? | 1998 |
| Kenneth Branagh | Beginning | 1998 |
| Jimmy Buffett | Where Is Joe Merchant?; Tales From Margueritaville; A Pirate Looks At 50 | 1998 |
| Jesse Lee Kercheval | Space: A Memoir | 1998 |
| Carroll O'Connor | I Think I'm Outta Here | 1998 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Wings of Fire | 1999 |
| Ariel Dorfman | Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey | 1999 |
| Alec Guinness | Blessings in Disguise | 1985 |
| Alec Guinness | My Name Escapes Me | 1996 |
| Alec Guinness | A Positively Final Appearance | 1999 |
| Taslima Nasrin | My Girlhood | 1999 |
| Elie Wiesel | Night | 1955 |
| Elie Wiesel | All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs Vol. 1, 1928-1969 | 1995 |
| Elie Wiesel | And the Sea is Never Full: Memoirs Vol. ll, 1969- | 1999 |
| Dave Eggers | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story | 2000 |
| Lorna Sage | Bad Blood, A Memoir | 2000 |
| Edward Said | Out of Place: A Memoir | 2000 |
| Linda Blair | Going Vegan! | 2001 |
| Danny Bonaduce | Random Acts of Badness | 2001 |
| Paula Fox | Borrowed Finery | 2001 |
| Maya Angelou | The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou | 1969-2002 |
| J. M. Coetzee | Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life | 1997 |
| J. M. Coetzee | Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II | 2002 |
| Michael J. Fox | Lucky Man | 2002 |
| Ken Kaiser | Planet of the Umps: My Life Behind the Plate, with Kevin Fisher | 2003 |
| Azar Nafisi | Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir of Books | 2003 |
| Sherwin Nuland | Lost in America: A Journey With My Father | 2003 |
| Nuala O'Faolain | Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman | 2003 |
| Craig Thompson | Blankets | 2003 |
| Emanuel Derman | My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance | 2004 |
| Aron Ralston | Between a Rock and a Hard Place | 2004 |
| Sean Astin | There and Back Again: an Actor’s Tale | 2004 |
| Rodney Dangerfield | It's Not Easy Being Me: a Lifetime With No Respect But Plenty of Sex & Drugs | 2004 |
| Alan Alda | Never Have Your Dog Stuffed And Other Things I've Learned | 2005 |
| Dirk Benedict | Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy | 2005 |
| William F. Buckley, Jr. | Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography | 2005 |
| Medgar Evers | The Autobiography of Medgar Evers | published posthumously in 2005 |
| René Galand | War hentoù an tremened, 2 vols. | 2002–2005 |
| Chelsea Handler | My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands | 2005 |
| Nena | "Do You Want to Go With Me?" (Willst du mit mir gehn?) | 2005 |
| Jeannette Walls | The Glass Castle | 2005 |
| Adrienne Barbeau | There Are Worse Things I Could Do | 2006 |
| Fidel Castro | My Life: A Spoken Autobiography | published posthumously in 2006 |
| Wole Soyinka | The Man Died: Prison Notes | 1971 |
| Wole Soyinka | Ake: The Years of Childhood | 1981 |
| Wole Soyinka | Isara: A Voyage Around Essay | 1990 |
| Wole Soyinka | Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years: A Memoir 1946-65 | 1994 |
| Wole Soyinka | You Must Set Forth at Dawn | 2006 |
| Ishmael Beah | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier | 2007 |
| Willie Aames and Maylo McCaslin | Grace Is Enough | 2007 |
| Ed Begley, Jr. | Living Like Ed | 2008 |
| Roald Dahl | Boy: Tales of Childhood | 1984 |
| Roald Dahl | Going Solo | 1986 |
| Roald Dahl | More About Boy | 2008 |
| Eminem | The Way I Am | 2008 |
| Chelsea Handler | Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea | 2008 |
| Tito Ortiz | This Is Gonna Hurt: the Life of a Mixed Martial Arts Champion | 2008 |
| Chip St. Clair | The Butterfly Garden | 2008 |
| Robert Wagner | Pieces of My Heart | 2008 |
| Bob Barker | Priceless Memories | 2009 |
| Ernest Borgnine | Ernie: the Autobiography | 2009 |
| Stephen Fry | Moab Is My Washpot | 1997 |
| Stephen Fry | Ernie: the Autobiography | 2009 |
| Taslima Nasrin | Gusty Wind | 2002 |
| Taslima Nasrin | Speak Up or Split into two | 2003 |
| Taslima Nasrin | Those Dark Days | 2004 |
| Taslima Nasrin | I am not fine, but you stay well my beloved country | 2006 |
| Taslima Nasrin | Nothing is there | 2010 |
| Keith Richards | Life | 2010 |
| Melissa Sue Anderson | The Way I See It: a Look Back at My Life | 2010 |
| Todd Bridges | Killing Willis | 2010 |
| Lizzie Velazquez | Lizzie Beautiful, The Lizzie Velásquez Story | 2010 |
| Andrea Ashworth | Once in a House on Fire | 2011 |
| Meredith Baxter | Untied | 2011 |
| Florence Henderson | Life Is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond, with Joel Brokaw | 2011 |
| Marcus Samuelson | Yes, Chef: A Memoir | 2012 |
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