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Nonfiction Books » Best Biographies » The Best Memoirs and Autobiographies

The Story of My Life

by Helen Keller

Our most recommended books

How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

Blessings in Disguise by Alec Guinness

High Cotton by Darryl Pinckney

A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son's Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha by Rodrigo Garcia

Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison by Ahmed Naji, translated by Katharine Halls

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How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
by Safiya Sinclair

Speak, Memory
by Vladimir Nabokov

Blessings in Disguise
by Alec Guinness

High Cotton
by Darryl Pinckney

A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son's Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
by Rodrigo Garcia

Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison
by Ahmed Naji, translated by Katharine Halls