Memoirs and (Auto)Biographies


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This genre is my favorite

Recommended:

  • Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
  • Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
  • Joshua Fields Millburn, Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists
  • John W. Moffat, Einstein Wrote Back: My Life in Physics
  • Paramahansa Yogananda, An Autobiography of A Yogi
  • Swami Vivkenananda, Swami Vivekananda on Himself
  • Milkha Singh, The Race of My Life: An Autobiography
  • Richard P. FeynmanSurely, you are joking Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character
  • Richard P. FeynmanWhat Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
  • Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
  • A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
  • M.K. Gandhi, My Experiments With Truth
  • Jon Krakauer,
    • Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
    • Into the Wild: Christopher Johnson McCandless

To read:

  • Nimsdai Purja, Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone
  • Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind
  • Dava Sobel, Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

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