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We highly recommend that you obtain your copy of your chosen memoir/autobiography through a used bookstore or your local public library! The Phoenix Public Library system has multiple locations and a wide variety of books. Go to https://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/Locations to find the location nearest you.

Popular and Well-Known Memoirs & Autobiographies

AUTHOR                            TITLE
Abagnale, Frank W.           Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
Angelou, Maya                   I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Bauby, Jean-Dominique    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Beah, Ishmael                    A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Belfort, Jordan                   The Wolf of Wall Street
Bourdain, Anthony             Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Bryson, Bill                         A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Burroughs, Augusten         Running with Scissors
Buzzell, Colby                    My War: Killing Time in Iraq
Dalh, Roald                        Boy: Tales of Childhood
Didion, Joan                       The Year of Magical Thinking
Dillard, Annie                      An American Childhood
Douglass, Frederick            Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
Eggers, Dave                      A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Ehrenreich, Barbara           Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
Fey, Tina                            Bossypants
Foer, Jonathan Safran        Eating Animals
Frank, Anne                        Diary of a Young Girl
Fuller, Alexandra                Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
Gantos, Jack                      Hole in My Life
Gilbert, Elizabeth                Eat, Pray, Love
Grandin, Temple                Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
Griffin, John Howard          Black Like Me
Grogan, John                     Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog
Halpern, Justin                   Sh*t My Dad Says
Hornbacher, Marya            Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Kaysen, Susanna               Girl, Interrupted
Keller, Helen                      The Story of My Life
King, Stephen                     On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Krakauer, Jon                     Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Lawson, Jenny                   Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Lorde, Audre                      Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Luttrell, Marcus                  Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of 
                                                  SEAL Team 10
Malcolm X                          The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Mandela, Nelson                Long Walk to Freedom
Martin, Steve                      Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life
McBride, James                 The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
McCourt, Frank                  Angela’s Ashes
Nafisi, Azar                         Reading Lolita in Tehran
Northrup, Solomon             Twelve Years a Slave
Obama, Barack                   Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Pelzer, Dave                       A Child Called “It”
Poehler, Amy                      Yes Please
Powell, Julie                       Julie and Julia: 365 Day, 524 Recipes, One Tiny Apartment Kitchen
Santiago, Esmeralda          When I was Puerto Rican: A Memoir
Satrapi, Marjane                Persepolis I & II
Sebold, Alice                      Lucky
Sedaris, David                    Me Talk Pretty One Day
Strayed, Cheryl                  Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Walls, Jeanette                  The Glass Castle
Yasso, Bart                        My Life On the Run: The Wit, Wisdom, and Insights of a Road Racing Icon
Yousafzai, Malala              I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Zailckas, Koren                 Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood



Some Books Available for Free Online

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave 
by Frederick Douglass (PDF)
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Autobiography
by Mahatma Ghandi (TXT)



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The Liar's Club
by Mary Karr
(EPUB)


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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
(DOC)

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Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt
(TXT)

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The Glass Castle 
by Jeanette Walls
(PDF)


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The Double Helix by James D. Watson (PDF)
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Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (TXT)
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Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup (EPUB)
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck (EPUB/TXT)
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Download TXT Here
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