Biography & Autobiography

#1

The Real Enid Blyton

Nadia Cohen

1308 upvotes

#2

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty

921 upvotes

#3

The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls

916 upvotes

#4

Know My Name

Chanel Miller

766 upvotes

#5

Educated

Tara Westover

758 upvotes

#6

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Oliver Sacks

578 upvotes

#7

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

558 upvotes

#8

Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt

523 upvotes

#9

Tiny Beautiful Things: Reese's Book Club

Cheryl Strayed

463 upvotes

#10

Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind Letters, 1936-1949

Margaret Mitchell

448 upvotes

#11

Autobiography Of A Face

Lucy Grealy

430 upvotes

#12

Born A Crime

Trevor Noah

417 upvotes

#13

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

334 upvotes

#14

Eat, Pray, Love

Elizabeth Gilbert

312 upvotes

#15

The Professor and the Madman

Simon Winchester

249 upvotes

#16

A Life Worth Living

Robert Zaretsky

235 upvotes

#17

Creativity, Inc

Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace

229 upvotes

#18

Night

Elie Wiesel

226 upvotes

#19

Wild

Cheryl Strayed

198 upvotes

#20

Furiously Happy

Jenny Lawson

150 upvotes

#21

Totto-Chan

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

149 upvotes

#22

All Creatures Great and Small

James Herriot

143 upvotes

#23

From Here to Eternity

Caitlin Doughty

139 upvotes

#24

Into Thin Air

Jon Krakauer

138 upvotes

#25

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Lori Gottlieb

135 upvotes

#26

Hunger

Roxane Gay

133 upvotes

#27

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

125 upvotes

#28

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

123 upvotes

#29

James Patterson by James Patterson

James Patterson

119 upvotes

#30

Dictionary of African Biography

Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

118 upvotes

#31

C.S. Lewis

Elaine Murray Stone

106 upvotes

#32

The Journal of Hélène Berr

Hélène Berr

96 upvotes

#33

The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls

91 upvotes

#34

Conversations with Graham Greene

Graham Greene

89 upvotes

#35

John Adams

David McCullough

88 upvotes

#36

The Opposite of Loneliness

Marina Keegan

87 upvotes

#37

Born a Crime

Trevor Noah

86 upvotes

#38

Becoming

Michelle Obama

86 upvotes

#39

Know My Name

Chanel Miller

82 upvotes

#40

The Cancer Journals

Audre Lorde

82 upvotes

#41

Just Kids

Patti Smith

82 upvotes

#42

The Path to Power

Robert A. Caro

81 upvotes

#43

Team of Rivals

Doris Kearns Goodwin

81 upvotes

#44

Jules Verne

William Butcher

81 upvotes

#45

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

79 upvotes

#46

Conversations with Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

77 upvotes

#47

How to Murder Your Life

Cat Marnell

73 upvotes

#48

Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness

Susannah Cahalan

68 upvotes

#49

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

67 upvotes

#50

A Fortune-Teller Told Me

Tiziano Terzani

64 upvotes

#51

Seventeen Seventy-six

David McCullough

64 upvotes

#52

On Writing

Stephen King

63 upvotes

#53

Hyperbole and a Half

Allie Brosh

63 upvotes

#54

Murakami T

Haruki Murakami

57 upvotes

#55

We Were an Island

Peter P. Blanchard

56 upvotes

#56

Conversations with William F. Buckley Jr

William F. Buckley (Jr.), William F. Meehan

56 upvotes

#57

Redefining Realness

Janet Mock

55 upvotes

#58

Boy Erased

Garrard Conley

55 upvotes

#59

Let's Pretend This Never Happened

Jenny Lawson

52 upvotes

#60

Broken: Chapter Sampler

Jenny Lawson

52 upvotes

#61

Bertha Maxwell-Roddey

Sonya Y. Ramsey

51 upvotes

#62

Assata

Assata Shakur

46 upvotes

#63

Survival In Auschwitz

Primo Levi

45 upvotes

#64

Here If You Need Me

Kate Braestrup

44 upvotes

#65

The Power Broker

Robert A. Caro

43 upvotes

#66

Ask Me His Name

Elle Wright

43 upvotes

#67

We Have Always Been Here

Samra Habib

42 upvotes

#68

Escape

Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer

42 upvotes

#69

Lakota Woman

Mary Crow Dog, Richard Erdoes

42 upvotes

#70

A Queer and Pleasant Danger

Kate Bornstein

42 upvotes

#71

Infidel

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

42 upvotes

#72

All Things Bright and Beautiful

James Herriot

42 upvotes

#73

By The Bridge

Ginni Louise Swanton

39 upvotes

#74

The Midwife

Jennifer Worth

38 upvotes

#75

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Azar Nafisi

38 upvotes

#76

The Great Escape

Paul Brickhill

36 upvotes

#77

Geisha

Mineko Iwasaki

35 upvotes

#78

The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley

Glenda Riley

34 upvotes

#79

Option B

Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant

34 upvotes

#80

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Jean-Dominique Bauby

33 upvotes

#81

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

30 upvotes

#82

The Best of James Herriot

James Herriot

29 upvotes

#83

Career in Crisis

John David Briley

28 upvotes

#84

The Invisible Bridge

Rick Perlstein

28 upvotes

#85

Reaganland

Rick Perlstein

28 upvotes

#86

A Child Called It

David J. Pelzer, Dave Pelzer

27 upvotes

#87

Lady Sings the Blues

Billie Holiday, William Dufty

26 upvotes

#88

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X

26 upvotes

#89

Destiny of the Republic

Candice Millard

24 upvotes

#90

The Gulag Archipelago

Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn

24 upvotes

#91

New Light on Liszt and His Music

Alan Walker

23 upvotes

#92

Eat Pray Love

Elizabeth Gilbert

22 upvotes

#93

Princess Sultana's Daughters

Jean P. Sasson

22 upvotes

#94

I Will Never See the World Again

Ahmet Altan

22 upvotes

#95

Eslanda

Barbara Ransby

22 upvotes

#96

Sickened

Julie Gregory

21 upvotes

#97

In Search of Silence

Samuel R. Delany

21 upvotes

#98

Kitchen Confidential

Anthony Bourdain

21 upvotes

#99

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius

Dave Eggers

21 upvotes

#100

My Family and Other Animals

Gerald Durrell

20 upvotes