List of autobiographies
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The following is a list of notable autobiographies:
| Author | Title of book | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Aerospace | ||
| Manfred von Richthofen | The Red Fighter Pilot | 1917 |
| Billy Bishop | Winged Warfare | 1918 |
| James McCudden | Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps | 1919 |
| René Fonck | My Fights (Mes Combats) | 1919 |
| Richard E. Byrd | Skyward | 1928 |
| Clarence Chamberlin | Record Flights | 1928 |
| Frank Hawks | Speed | 1931 |
| Willy Coppens | Days Gone: Memories (Jours Envolés: Mémoires)[a] | 1932 |
| Amelia Earhart | The Fun of It | 1933 |
| Duncan Grinnell-Milne | Wind in the Wires | 1933 |
| C. W. A. Scott | C. W. A. Scott's Book: The Life and Mildenhall-Melbourne Flight of C.W.A. Scott | 1934 |
| Beirne Lay Jr. | I Wanted Wings | 1937 |
| Frank Glasgow Tinker | Some Still Live | 1938 |
| Louise Thaden | High, Wide and Frightened | 1938 |
| Igor Sikorsky | The Story of the Winged-S | 1939 |
| Richard Hillary | The Last Enemy | 1940 |
| Beryl Markham | West with the Night | 1942 |
| Ted W. Lawson | Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | 1943 |
| Don S. Gentile | One Man Air Force | 1944 |
| Guy Gibson | Enemy Coast Ahead | 1946 |
| Arthur Harris | Bomber Offensive | 1947 |
| Bert Stiles | Serenade to the Big Bird | 1947 |
| Henry H. Arnold | Global Mission | 1949 |
| Claire Lee Chennault | Way of a Fighter: The Memoirs of Claire Lee Chennault | 1949 |
| George Kenney | General Kenney Reports: A Personal History of the Pacific War | 1949 |
| Ivan Kozhedub | I Serve the Motherland (Служу Родине) | 1949 |
| Hans-Ulrich Rudel | Nevertheless (Trotzdem)[b] | 1949 |
| Dick Grace | Visibility Unlimited | 1950 |
| William Bushnell Stout | So Away I Went! | 1951 |
| Pierre Clostermann | The Big Show (Le Grand Cirque) | 1951 |
| Hanna Reitsch | Flying is My Life (Fliegen, Mein Leben) | 1951 |
| Adolf Galland | The First and the Last | 1953 |
| Ernst Heinkel | Stormy Life (Stürmisches Leben) | 1953 |
| Heinz Knoke | I Flew for the Führer | 1953 |
| Hugh Henry Home Popham | Sea Flight: A Fleet Air Arm Pilot's Story | 1954 |
| Nevil Shute | Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer | 1954 |
| Bill Bridgeman | The Lonely Sky | 1955 |
| Eino Luukkanen | Fighter Over Finland (Hävittäjälentäjänä Kahdessa Sodassa) | 1956 |
| Johnnie Johnson | Wing Leader | 1956 |
| John Slessor | The Central Blue: Recollections and Reflections | 1956 |
| Basil Embry | Mission Completed[c] | 1957 |
| Saburō Sakai | Samurai! | 1957 |
| Pappy Boyington | Baa Baa Black Sheep | 1958 |
| Robert S. Johnson | Thunderbolt! | 1958 |
| Alan Deere | Nine Lives | 1959 |
| Albert Scott Crossfield | Always Another Dawn: The Story of a Rocket Test Pilot | 1960 |
| Eric Brown | Wings on My Sleeve | 1961 |
| Geoffrey de Havilland | Sky Fever: The Autobiography of Sir Geoffrey de Havilland | 1961 |
| John Braham | Night Fighter | 1961 |
| Nancy Bird | Born to Fly | 1961 |
| Bud Mahurin | Honest John | 1962 |
| Arch Whitehouse | The Fledgling: An Autobiography | 1964 |
| Curtis LeMay | Mission with LeMay: My Story | 1965 |
| Arthur Tedder | With Prejudice: The War Memoirs of Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Lord Tedder | 1966 |
| Eddie Rickenbacker | Rickenbacker: An Autobiography | 1967 |
| Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev | The Purpose of Life (Цель жизни) | 1967 |
| Benjamin Foulois | From the Wright Brothers to the Astronauts: The Memoirs of Benjamin D. Foulois | 1968 |
| George William Goddard | Overview: A Lifelong Adventure in Aerial Photography | 1969 |
| Francis Gary Powers | Operation Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story for the First Time | 1970 |
| Raymond Collishaw | Air Command: A Fighter Pilot's Story | 1973 |
| Donald Wilson | Wooing Peponi: My Odyssey through Many Years | 1973 |
| Jan Zumbach | Mister Brown[d] | 1973 |
| Arthur Lee | No Parachute: A Fighter Pilot in World War I | 1974 |
| Cecil Arthur Lewis | Never Look Back: An Attempt at Autobiography | 1974 |
| Igor Kaberov | Swastika in the Gunsight (В прицеле свастика) | 1975 |
| Alexander Lippisch | A Triangle Flies: The Development of Delta Aircraft Until 1945 (Ein Dreieck Fliegt: Die Entwicklung der Delta-Flugzeuge bis 1945)[e] | 1976 |
| Charles Lamb | War in a Stringbag | 1977 |
| Alan Cobham | A Time to Fly | 1978 |
| Alex Henshaw | Sigh for a Merlin: Testing the Spitfire[f] | 1979 |
| Murray Peden | A Thousand Shall Fall | 1979 |
| Jean Batten | Alone in the Sky | 1979 |
| George Gay | Sole Survivor | 1980 |
| Wladek Gnyś | First Kill: A Fighter Pilot's Autobiography | 1981 |
| William R. Dunn | Fighter Pilot: The First American Ace of World War II | 1982 |
| Robert Mason | Chickenhawk[g] | 1983 |
| Charles R. Bond Jr. | A Flying Tiger's Diary | 1984 |
| Duke Cunningham | Fox Two: The Story of America's First Ace in Vietnam | 1984 |
| Gerhard Neumann | Herman the German: Enemy Alien U.S. Army Master Sergeant | 1984 |
| Stanley Hooker | Not Much of an Engineer | 1985 |
| Al Mooney | The Al Mooney Story: They All Fly Through the Same Air | 1985 |
| Chuck Yeager | Yeager: An Autobiography | 1985 |
| Roald Dahl | Going Solo | 1986 |
| Haywood S. Hansell | The Strategic Air War Against Germany and Japan: A Memoir | 1986 |
| Jackie Cochran | Jackie Cochran: An Autobiography | 1987 |
| Alberto Briganti | Beyond the Clouds the Serene: Memories of Forty Years of Flight and Adventure (Oltre le Nubi il Sereno: Ricordi di Quarant'anni di Volo e di Avventura) | 1988 |
| Samuel Hynes | Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator | 1988 |
| Robert Lee Scott Jr. | The Day I Owned the Sky[h] | 1988 |
| Fred Weick | From the Ground Up | 1988 |
| John Thomas Blackburn | The Jolly Rogers: The Story of Tom Blackburn and Navy Fighting Squadron VF-17 | 1989 |
| Takeo Doi | Fifty Years Recollections on Aircraft Design (航空機設計50年の回想) | 1989 |
| Hugh Dundas | Flying Start: A Fighter Pilot's War Years | 1989 |
| Kelly Johnson | Kelly: More Than My Share of It All | 1989 |
| Boone Guyton | Whistling Death: The Test Pilot's Story of the F4U Corsair | 1990 |
| Bud Anderson | To Fly and Fight | 1991 |
| Jimmy Doolittle | I Could Never Be So Lucky Again | 1991 |
| Gabby Gabreski | Gabby: A Fighter Pilot's Life | 1991 |
| Hajo Herrmann | Eagle's Wings | 1991 |
| Brian Shul | Sled Driver: Flying the World's Fastest Jet | 1991 |
| Joe Foss | A Proud American: The Autobiography of Joe Foss | 1992 |
| Tex Johnson | Tex Johnston: Jet-Age Test Pilot | 1992 |
| Harry H. Crosby | A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Action over Europe in World War II | 1993 |
| Lawrence A. Hyland | Call Me Pat: The Autobiography of the Man Howard Hughes Chose to Lead Hughes Aircraft | 1993 |
| Diana Barnato Walker | Spreading My Wings: One of Britain's Top Women Pilots Tells Her Remarkable Story | 1994 |
| Marion Eugene Carl | Pushing the Envelope: The Career of Fighter Ace and Test Pilot Marion Carl | 1994 |
| Neal Vernon Loving | Lovings Love: A Black American's Experiences in Aviation | 1994 |
| Ben Rich | Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed | 1994 |
| Bob Hoover | Forever Flying: Fifty Years of High-flying Adventures, From Barnstorming in Prop Planes to Dogfighting Germans to Testing Supersonic Jets | 1996 |
| No Kum-Sok | A MiG-15 to Freedom: Memoir of the Wartime North Korean Defector Who First Delivered the Secret Fighter Jet to the Americans in 1953 | 1996 |
| Charles W. Dryden | A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman | 1997 |
| James V. Hartinger | From One Stripe to Four Stars | 1997 |
| Frank E. Petersen | Into the Tiger's Jaw: America's First Black Marine Aviator | 1998 |
| Paul Tibbets | Return of The Enola Gay | 1998 |
| Jeffrey Quill | Spitfire: A Test Pilot's Story | 1998 |
| Michael J. Novosel | Dustoff: The Memoir of an Army Aviator | 1999 |
| Gene Kranz | Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond | 2000 |
| Frederick Libby | Horses Don't Fly: A Memoir of World War I | 2000 |
| Roland Beamont | The Years Flew Past: 40 Years at the Leading Edge of Aviation | 2001 |
| Robert K. Morgan | The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot | 2001 |
| Peter Masefield | Flight Path: The Autobiography of Sir Peter Masefield | 2002 |
| Donald L. Mallick | Smell of Kerosene: A Test Pilot's Odyssey | 2003 |
| Bernard F. Fisher | Beyond the Call of Duty: The Story of an American Hero | 2004 |
| Clayton Kelly Gross | Live Bait: WWII Memories of an Undefeated Fighter Ace | 2006 |
| Günther Rall | My Logbook: Reminiscences, 1938-2006 | 2006 |
| Joe Sutter | 747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation | 2006 |
| Jack Broughton | Rupert Red Two: A Fighter Pilot's Life from Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs[i] | 2007 |
| Leland Snow | Putting Dreams to Flight | 2008 |
| Anna Yegorova | Red Sky, Black Death: A Soviet Woman Pilot's Memoir of the Eastern Front | 2009 |
| Ann B. Carl | A WASP Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II | 2000[j] |
| Mitsuo Fuchida | For That One Day: The Memoirs of Mitsuo Fuchida, the Commander of the Attack on Pearl Harbor | 2011 |
| Harold Brown | Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman | 2017 |
| Norman Kleiss | Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway | 2017 |
| Tammie Jo Shults | Nerves of Steel: How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced My Greatest Challenge | 2019 |
| Anthropology | ||
| Margaret Mead | Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years | 1972 |
| Archaeology | ||
| Margaret Murray | My First Hundred Years with Ammu | 1963 |
| Architecture | ||
| Frank Lloyd Wright | Autobiography | 1943 |
| Art | ||
| Salvador Dalí | The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí | 1942 |
| Claude Monet | An Interview | 1900 |
| Gwen Raverat | Period Piece | 1952 |
| Business | ||
| Andrew Carnegie | Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: with Illustrations | 1920 |
| Henry Ford | My Life and Work | 1922 |
| Richard DeVos | Simply Rich: Life and Lessons from the Cofounder of Amway: A Memoir | 2014 |
| Andrew S. Grove | A Memoir: Swimming Across | 2001 |
| Comedy | ||
| Terry-Thomas | Filling the Gap | 1959 |
| Harpo Marx | Harpo Speaks | 1961 |
| Charlie Chaplin | My Autobiography | 1964 |
| Moe Howard | Moe Howard and the Three Stooges, AKA I Came, I Stooged, I Conquered (published posthumously) | 1974 |
| Sid Caesar | Where Have I Been? | 1982 |
| Kenny Everett | The Custard Stops at Hatfield | 1982 |
| Bill Cosby | Fatherhood | 1986 |
| J. B. Boothroyd | A Shoulder To Laugh On | 1987 |
| Mel Blanc | That's NOT All, Folks | 1988 |
| Gilda Radner | It's Always Something | 1989 |
| Richard Pryor | Pryor Convictions | 1995 |
| Betty White | BW: In Person and Here We Go Again: My Life In Television | both 1995 |
| Damon Wayans | Bootleg | 1996 |
| Stephen Fry | Moab Is My Washpot | 1997 |
| Jenny McCarthy | Jen-X: My Open Book | 1997 |
| Chris Rock | Rock This | 1997 |
| Sandra Bernhard | Confessions of a Pretty Lady | 1998 |
| Danny Bonaduce | Random Acts of Badness | 2001 |
| Fran Drescher | Cancer Schmancer | 2002 |
| Alan Thicke | How Men Have Babies: a New Father's Survival Guide | 2003 |
| Rodney Dangerfield | It's Not Easy Being Me: a Lifetime of No Respect But Plenty of Sex and Drugs (published posthumously) | 2004 |
| Tom Green | Hollywood Causes Cancer | 2004 |
| Rik Mayall | Bigger than Hitler – Better than Christ | 2005 |
| Tommy Chong | The I Chong: Meditations From the Joint | 2006 |
| Bob Newhart | I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This! | 2006 |
| Alan Thicke | How to Raise Kids Who Won't Hate You | 2006 |
| Steve Martin | Born Standing Up | 2007 |
| Denis Leary | Why We Suck | 2008 |
| Stephen Fry | Ernie: The Autobiography | 2009 |
| Frankie Boyle | My Shit Life So Far | 2009 |
| Craig Ferguson | American on Purpose | 2009 |
| Todd Bridges | Killing Willis, AKA Thatswhatimtalkinbout | 2010 |
| Gilbert Gottfried | Rubber Balls & Liquor | 2011 |
| Michael Moore | Here Comes Trouble | 2011 |
| Victoria Jackson | Is My Bow Too Big? How I Went from SNL to the Tea Party | 2012 |
| Kevin Smith | Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Still Made Good | 2012 |
| Jimmie Walker | Dyn-o-mite! | 2012 |
| Andrew Dice Clay | The Filthy Truth | 2014 |
| Andrew Sachs | I Know Nothing (But Here's What I've Learned) | 2014 |
| John Cleese | So, Anyway... | 2014 |
| Bob Saget | Dirty Daddy | 2014 |
| David Jason | Only Fools and Stories | 2017 |
| Cheech Marin | Cheech Is Not My Real Name...But Don't Call Me Chong! | 2017 |
| Eric Idle | Always Look On the Bright Side Of Life | 2018 |
| Mel Brooks | All About Me: My Remarkable Life In Show Business | 2021 |
| Cassandra Peterson | Yours Cruelly, Elvira | 2021 |
| Dance | ||
| Isadora Duncan | My Life | 1927 |
| Suzanne Farrell | Holding Onto the Air | 1990 |
| Derek Hough | Taking the Lead: Lessons from a Life in Motion | 2014 |
| Russ Tamblyn | Dancing On the Edge: A Journey of Living, Loving, and Tumbling Through Hollywood | 2024 |
| Drama | ||
| Vincent Price | I Like What I Know | 1959 |
| Fred Astaire | Steps in Time | 1960 |
| Ken Murray | Life On a Pogo Stick | 1960 |
| George Sanders | Memoirs of a Professional Cad | 1960 |
| Sir Cedric Hardwicke | A Victorian in Orbit | 1961 |
| Dick Gregory | Nigger | 1964 |
| Brian Aherne | A Proper Job | 1969 |
| Veronica Lake | VL: the Autobiography | 1970 |
| Orson Bean | Me and the Orgone | 1971 |
| David Niven | The Moon's a Balloon | 1972 |
| Kim Hunter | Loose in the Kitchen | 1975 |
| Robert Mitchum | It Sure Beats Working | 1975 |
| David Niven | Bring On The Empty Horses | 1975 |
| Joyce Grenfell | Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure | 1976 |
| Christopher Lee | Tall, Dark & Gruesome | 1977 |
| Peter Ustinov | Dear Me | 1977 |
| Gregory Peck | An Actor's Life | 1978 |
| Ralph Bellamy | When the Smoke Hit the Fan | 1979 |
| Dale Evans & Roy Rogers | Happy Trails | 1979 |
| John Gielgud | An Actor and His Time | 1979 |
| Bette Midler | A View From a Broad | 1980 |
| Ricardo Montalbán | Reflections: a Life In Two Worlds | 1980 |
| Robert Stack | Straight Shooting | 1980 |
| Henry Fonda | Fonda: My Life, AKA How Did I Get to Golden Pond? | 1981 |
| Mercedes McCambridge | The Quality of Mercy | 1981 |
| James Mason | Before I Forget | 1982 |
| Satyajit Ray | Jakhan Choto Chilam | 1982 |
| Dirk Bogarde | An Orderly Man | 1983 |
| James Fox | Comeback: an Actor's Direction | 1983 |
| Akira Kurosawa | Something Like an Autobiography | 1983 |
| Laurence Olivier | Confessions of an Actor | 1983 |
| Roman Polanski | Roman by Polanski | 1984 |
| Mr. T | The Man With the Gold | 1984 |
| Brooke Shields | On Your Own | 1985 |
| Alec Guinness | Blessings in Disguise | 1986 |
| Laurence Olivier | On Acting | 1986 |
| Franco Zeffirelli | Zeffirelli: an Autobiography | 1986 |
| Ingmar Bergman | The Magic Lantern | 1987 |
| Patty Duke | Call Me Anna | 1987 |
| Arthur Miller | Timebends: A Life | 1987 |
| Mamie Van Doren | Playing the Field: Sex, Stardom, Love, and Life in Hollywood | 1987 |
| Orson Bean | Too Much Is Not Enough | 1988 |
| Chuck Norris | The Secret of Inner Strength: My Story | 1988 |
| Terence Stamp | Coming Attractions | 1988 |
| Drew Barrymore | Little Girl Lost | 1989 |
| Charles Grodin | It Would Be So Nice If You Weren't Here: My Journey Through Show Business | 1989 |
| Patrick Macnee | Blind in One Ear | 1989 |
| Wayne Newton | Once Before I Go | 1989 |
| Tony Randall | Which Reminds Me | 1989 |
| Cornel Wilde | Wildelife (published posthumously) | 1989 |
| Macdonald Carey | The Days of My Life | 1991 |
| Michael York | Accidentally on Purpose | 1991 |
| Katharine Hepburn | Me: Stories of My Life | 1991 |
| Patty Duke | A Brilliant Madness | 1992 |
| Peter O'Toole | Loitering with Intent: The Child | 1992 |
| Barry Williams | Growing Up Brady OR I Was a Teenage Greg | 1992 |
| Richard Fleischer | Just Tell Me When to Cry | 1993 |
| James Earl Jones | Voices and Silences | 1993 |
| Jeremy Lloyd | Listen Very Carefully, I Shall Say This Only Once | 1993 |
| Ann-Margret | My Story | 1994 |
| David Cassidy | C'mon, Get Happy: Fear and Loathing On the Partridge Family Bus | 1994 |
| Buddy Ebsen | The Other Side of Oz | 1994 |
| Sheldon Leonard | And the Show Goes On | 1994 |
| Burgess Meredith | So Far, So Good | 1994 |
| Nichelle Nichols | Beyond Uhura | 1994 |
| Burt Reynolds | My Life, AKA Smokey and I | 1994 |
| George Takei | To the Stars | 1994 |
| Adam West | Back To the Batcave | 1994 |
| Loni Anderson | My Life in High Heels | 1995 |
| Marlon Brando | Songs My Mother Taught Me | 1995 |
| Kelsey Grammer | So Far... | 1995 |
| Charlton Heston | In the Arena | 1995 |
| Garry Marshall | Wake Me When It's Funny | 1995 |
| Mary Tyler Moore | After All: How I Made It Despite Everything | 1995 |
| Leonard Nimoy | I Am Spock | 1995 |
| Anthony Quinn | One Man Tango | 1995 |
| Maureen Stapleton | One Hell of a Life | 1995 |
| Burt Ward | Boy Wonder: My Life In Tights | 1995 |
| Claire Bloom | Leaving a Doll's House | 1996 |
| James Doohan | Beam Me Up, Scotty | 1996 |
| Fran Drescher | Enter Whining | 1996 |
| Alec Guinness | My Name Escapes Me | 1996 |
| Clayton Moore | I Was That Masked Man | 1996 |
| Leslie Nielsen | Bad Golf My Way | 1996 |
| Christopher Reeve | Still Me | 1996 |
| Aaron Spelling | A Prime-Time Life | 1996 |
| Cathy Lee Crosby | Let the Magic Begin | 1997 |
| Yaphet Kotto | The Royalty: A Spiritual Awakening | 1997 |
| Jerry Mathers | ...And Myself as the Beaver | 1997 |
| Frank Muir | A Kentish Lad | 1997 |
| Kenneth Branagh | Beginning | 1998 |
| Jackie Chan | My Life in Action | 1998 |
| Peter Coyote | Sleeping Where I Fall | 1998 |
| Peter Fonda | Don't Tell Dad | 1998 |
| Walter Koenig | Warped Factors: A Neurotic's Guide to the Universe | 1998 |
| Patrick Macnee | The Avengers and Me | 1998 |
| Carroll O'Connor | I Think I'm Outta Here | 1998 |
| Grace Lee Whitney | The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy | 1998 |
| Ed Wood, Jr. | Hollywood Rat Race (published posthumously) | 1998 |
| Albert R. Broccoli | When the Snow Melts (released posthumously) | 1999 |
| Alec Guinness | A Positively Final Appearance | 1999 |
| Gloria Stuart | I Just Keep Hoping | 1999 |
| Esther Williams | Million-Dollar Mermaid | 1999 |
| Paul Daniels | Under No Illusion | 2000 |
| Michael York | How a Shakespearean Prepares | 2000 |
| Linda Blair | Going Vegan | 2001 |
| Larry Hagman | Hello Darlin': Tall – and Absolutely True – Tales From My Life | 2001 |
| Anne Heche | Call Me Crazy | 2001 |
| Sidney Poitier | The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography | 2001 |
| Lisa Whelchel | Life Lessons From Heavenly Father, AKA I've Taken the Good, I've Taken the Bad... | 2001 |
| Michael York | Dispatches From Armageddon | 2001 |
| Michael J. Fox | Lucky Man | 2002 |
| Richard Kiel | Making It Big In the Movies | 2002 |
| Richard Chamberlain | Shattered Love | 2003 |
| Tracey Gold | Room to Grow: an Appetite for Life | 2003 |
| Traci Lords | Underneath It All | 2003 |
| Caroll Spinney | Lessons From a Life in Feathers | 2003 |
| Gregory Walcott | Hollywood Adventures | 2003 |
| Sean Astin | There and Back Again: an Actor's Tale | 2004 |
| Ben Gazzara | In the Moment | 2004 |
| Tatum O'Neal | A Paper Life | 2004 |
| Alison Sweeney | All the Days of My Life (So Far), AKA Sami-I-Am | 2004 |
| Wil Wheaton | Dancing Barefoot | 2004 |
| Dick York | The Seesaw Girl & Me (published posthumously) | 2004 |
| Alan Alda | Never Have Your Dog Stuffed And Other Things I've Learned | 2005 |
| Dirk Benedict | Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy | 2005 |
| Jane Fonda | My Life So Far, AKA Working It Out | 2005 |
| Lauren Bacall | By Myself and Then Some | 2005 |
| Tab Hunter | TH Confidential: the Making of a Movie Star | 2005 |
| Brooke Shields | Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression | 2005 |
| Eli Wallach | The Good, the Bad, and Me | 2005 |
| Michael York | Are My Blinkers Showing? Film-making & Other Adventures In the New Russia | 2005 |
| Nena | "Do You Want to Go With Me?" (Willst du mit mir gehn?) | 2005 |
| Adrienne Barbeau | There Are Worse Things I Could Do | 2006 |
| Ellen Burstyn | Lessons In Becoming Myself | 2006 |
| Carmen Electra | How to Be Sexy | 2006 |
| Peter Falk | Just One More Thing | 2006 |
| David Hasselhoff | Don't Hassel the Hoff | 2006 |
| Denzel Washington | A Hand to Guide Me | 2006 |
| Willie Aames | Grace Is Enough | 2007 |
| David Cassidy | Could It Be Forever? | 2007 |
| Bruce Dern | Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have: an Unrepentant Memoir | 2007 |
| Kirk Douglas | Let's Face It | 2007 |
| Rutger Hauer | All Those Moments | 2007 |
| Norman Jewison | This Terrible Business Has Been Good To Me | 2007 |
| Gabe Kaplan | Kotter's Back | 2007 |
| Dave Madden | Reuben on Wry | 2007 |
| Alan Young | Mr. Ed & Me & More | 2007 |
| Ed Begley, Jr. | Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life | 2008 |
| Kirk Cameron | Still Growing | 2008 |
| Sean Connery | Being a Scot | 2008 |
| Tony Curtis | American Prince | 2008 |
| Mark Goddard | To Space and Back | 2008 |
| Gary David Goldberg | Sit, Ubu, Sit: How I Went from Brooklyn to Hollywood With the Same Woman, the Same Dog, and a Lot Less Hair | 2008 |
| George Hamilton | Don't Mind If I Do | 2008 |
| Chelsea Handler | Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea | 2008 |
| Maureen McCormick | Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice | 2008 |
| Tori Spelling | Stori Telling | 2008 |
| Robert Wagner | Pieces of My Heart | 2008 |
| Julie Walters | That's Another Story | 2008 |
| Ernest Borgnine | Ernie: the Autobiography | 2009 |
| Dustin Diamond | Behind the Bell | 2009 |
| Robert Englund | Hollywood Monster | 2009 |
| Michael J. Fox | Always Looking Up | 2009 |
| Alyssa Milano | Safe at Home | 2009 |
| Roger Moore | My Word Is My Bond | 2009 |
| Mackenzie Phillips | High on Arrival | 2009 |
| Patrick Swayze | The Time of My Life | 2009 |
| Dick Van Patten | Eighty Is Not Enough: One Actor's Journey Through the American Entertainment Industry | 2009 |
| Melissa Sue Anderson | The Way I See It: a Look Back at My Life | 2010 |
| Peter Bowles | Ask Me If I'm Happy | 2010 |
| Michael Caine | What's It All About; The Elephant to Hollywood | 2010 |
| Judi Dench | And, Furthermore... | 2010 |
| Shannen Doherty | Badass: A Hard-Earned Guide to Leading Your Life with Style and (the Right) Attitude | 2010 |
| Michael J. Fox | A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Future | 2010 |
| Louis Gossett Jr. | An Actor and a Gentleman | 2010 |
| Harry Hamlin | Full Frontal Nudity | 2010 |
| Molly Ringwald | Getting the Pretty Back | 2010 |
| Tori Spelling | Uncharted Territori | 2010 |
| Jodie Sweetin | UnSweetined | 2010 |
| Jerry Weintraub | When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead | 2010 |
| Meredith Baxter | Untied | 2011 |
| Julie Dawn Cole | I Want It NOW! | 2011 |
| Barbara Eden | Jeannie Out of the Bottle | 2011 |
| James Garner | The Garner Files | 2011 |
| Rob Lowe | Stories I Only Tell My Friends | 2011 |
| Julie Newmar | The Conscious Catwoman Explains Life On Earth | 2011 |
| David Prowse | Straight From the Force's Mouth | 2011 |
| Heather Donahue | Growgirl: How My Life After The Blair Witch Project Went to Pot | 2012 |
| Frank Langella | Dropped Names | 2012 |
| Julie London | Once I Was a Debutante (published posthumously) | 2012 |
| R. Lee Ermey | Gunny's Rules: How To Get Squared Away Like a Marine | 2013 |
| Corey Feldman | Corey-ography | 2013 |
| Gunnar Hansen | Chainsaw Confidential: Making the World's Most Notorious Horror Movie | 2013 |
| Melissa Joan Hart | Melissa Explains It All: Tales from My Abnormally Normal Life | 2013 |
| George Lazenby | This Is What Happened To the Other Fellow | 2013 |
| David Suchet | Poirot and Me | 2013 |
| Bill Allen | My RAD Career | 2014 |
| Cary Elwes | As You Wish | 2014 |
| Danielle Fishel | Normally, This Would Be Cause For Concern: Tales of Calamity and Unrelenting Awkwardness | 2014 |
| Jennie Garth | Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde | 2014 |
| Anjelica Huston | Watch Me | 2014 |
| Ron Perlman | Easy Street, the Hard Way | 2014 |
| Brooke Shields | There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me | 2014 |
| Martin Short | I Must Say: My Life As a Humble Legend | 2014 |
| Kathy Coleman | Lost Girl | 2015 |
| Mariel Hemingway | Out Came the Sun | 2015 |
| Charlotte Rae | The Facts Of My Life, AKA I Haven't Changed; Only My Strokes Are Diff'rent | 2015 |
| Burt Reynolds | ...But Enough About Me | 2015 |
| Peter Davison | Is There Life Outside the Box? | 2016 |
| Peter Engel | I Was Saved by the Bell: Stories of Life, Love, and Dreams that Indeed Came True | 2016 |
| Joel Grey | Master of Ceremonies | 2016 |
| Kathy Coleman | Run, Holly! Run! | 2017 |
| William Daniels | There I Go Again | 2017 |
| Anna Faris | Unqualified | 2017 |
| Gary Busey | Busey-isms | 2018 |
| Bernard Cribbins | Bernard Who: 75 Years of Doing Absolutely Everything | 2018 |
| Olivia Hussey | The Girl On the Balcony | 2018 |
| Patrick Kilpatrick | Dying For a Living: Sins and Confessions of a Hollywood Villain-Turned-Libertine Patriot | 2018 |
| Nick Nolte | Rebel: My Life Outside the Lines | 2018 |
| Matthias Hues | Shirtless in Hollywood | 2019 |
| Val Kilmer | I'm Your Huckleberry | 2020 |
| Gabriel Byrne | Walking With Ghosts | 2021 |
| Hayley Mills | Forever Young | 2021 |
| Jamie Lynn Spears | Things I Should Have Said | 2021 |
| Sharon Stone | The Beauty of Living Twice | 2021 |
| Mena Suvari | The Great Peace | 2021 |
| Don Bluth | Somewhere Out There: My Animated Life | 2022 |
| Geena Davis | Dying of Politeness | 2022 |
| Ralph Macchio | Waxing On | 2022 |
| Matthew Perry | Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing | 2022 |
| Kelly Ripa | Live Wire | 2022 |
| Bill Mumy | The Full Mumy, AKA It's Been a Real Good Life | 2023 |
| John Stamos | If You Would Have Told Me... | 2023 |
| Patrick Stewart | Making It So | 2023 |
| Josh Brolin | From Under the Truck | 2024 |
| Tom Selleck | You Never Know | 2024 |
| Donald Sutherland | Made Up, But Still True (published posthumously) | 2024 |
| Billy Dee Williams | What Have We Here? | 2024 |
| Edward Zwick | Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood | 2024 |
| Tim Curry | Vagabond | 2025 |
| Priscilla Presley | Softly, as I Leave You: Life After Elvis | 2025 |
| Christina Applegate | You With the Sad Eyes | 2026 |
| Valerie Bertinelli | Getting Naked | 2026 |
| Jennie Garth | I Choose Me | 2026 |
| History | ||
| Edward Gibbon | Memoirs of My Life and Writings | 17xx |
| Henry Adams | The Education of Henry Adams | 1907 |
| Journalism | ||
| Mehmood Hashmi | Kashmir Udaas Hai | 1950 |
| Lowell Thomas | Good Evening, Everybody | 1976 |
| Jessica Savitch | Anchorwoman | 1982 |
| Peter Sissons | When One Door Closes | 2011 |
| John Craven | Headlines and Hedgerows | 2019 |
| Law | ||
| Helene E. Schwartz | Lawyering | 1976 |
| Literature | ||
| Libanius | Oration | 0374 |
| Sei Shōnagon | The Pillow Book | 1002 |
| Kamo No Chomei | Hōjōki | 1212 |
| Leonor López de Córdoba | Memorias (López de Córdoba) | 1400 |
| Margery Kempe | The Book of Margery Kempe | 1436 |
| 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 |
| Voltaire | Mémoires pour servir à la vie de M. de Voltaire, écrits par lui-même | 1759 |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Confessions | 1770 |
| Benjamin Franklin | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | 1791 |
| Walter Scott | "Memoirs" | 1808–1826 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Dichtung und Wahrheit | 1811-1833 |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Biographia Literaria | 1817 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Italian Journey | 1817 |
| Thomas De Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium-Eater | 1821 |
| James Hogg | Altrive Tales: Featuring a Memoir of the Author's Life | 1832 |
| Charles Dickens | Autobiographical Fragment | 1847 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Autobiography Of Goethe: Truth And Poetry, From My Own Life | 1848 |
| William Wordsworth | The Prelude | 1850 |
| Leo Tolstoy | Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth | 1856 |
| Alexandre Dumas | Mes Mémoires | 1856 |
| John Neal | Wandering Recollections of a Somewhat Busy Life: An Autobiography | 1869 |
| Sara Coleridge | Memoir | 1874 |
| Thomas Carlyle | Reminiscences | 1881 |
| Ambrose Bierce | What I Saw of Shiloh | 1881 |
| Anthony Trollope | An Autobiography | 1883 |
| Walt Whitman | Specimen Days | 1883 |
| Leo Tolstoy | A Confession | 1884 |
| John Ruskin | Praeterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life | 1885 |
| Oscar Wilde | De Profundis | 1897 |
| Margaret Oliphant | The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant | 1899 |
| George Bernard Shaw | Shaw: an Autobiography, 1898–1950: The Playwright Years | 1907 |
| Victor Hugo | Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography | 1907 |
| Henry James | A Small Boy and Others | 1913 |
| Maxim Gorky | My Childhood | 1913 |
| William Butler Yeats | Reveries Over Childhood and Youth | 1916 |
| Mark Twain | Autobiography of Mark Twain | 1910 |
| Henry James | Notes of a Son and Brother | 1914 |
| Mary Augusta Ward | A Writer's Recollections | 1918 |
| Robert Graves | Good-Bye to All That | 1929 |
| Lincoln Steffens | Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens | 1931 |
| Walter Benjamin | Unpacking My Library | 1931 |
| Vera Brittain | Testament of Youth | 1933 |
| Gertrude Stein | The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas | 1933 |
| H. G. Wells | Experiment in Autobiography | 1934 |
| William Butler Yeats | Autobiography | 1936 |
| G. K. Chesterton | The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton | 1936 |
| Claude McKay | A Long Way From Home | 1937 |
| Noël Coward | Present Indicative | 1937 |
| Virginia Woolf | Moments of Being | 1938 |
| William Butler Yeats | Autobiographies of William Butler Yeats | 1938 |
| A. A. Milne | It's Too Late Now | 1939 |
| John Buchan | Memory Hold the Door | 1940 |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | A Short Autobiography | 1940 |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Dust Tracks on a Road | 1942 |
| Stefan Zweig | The World of Yesterday | 1942 |
| Dylan Thomas | Holiday Memory | 1942 |
| Richard Wright | Black Boy | 1945 |
| George Orwell | Such, Such Were the Joys... | 1947 |
| Nirad C. Chaudhuri | The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian | 1951 |
| Christy Brown | My Left Foot | 1954 |
| Elie Wiesel | Night | 1955 |
| Mary McCarthy | Memories of a Catholic Girlhood | 1957 |
| Mary McCarthy | How I Grew | 1987 |
| P. G. Wodehouse | Over Seventy | 1957 |
| Dick Francis | The Sport of Queens | 1957 |
| Simone de Beauvoir | The Prime of Life | 1960 |
| John Betjeman | Summoned by Bells | 1960 |
| Laurie Lee | Cider with Rosie | 1960 |
| Evelyn Waugh | A Little Learning | 1966 |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Speak, Memory | 1966 |
| P. J. Kavanagh | The Perfect Stranger | 1966 |
| C. S. Lewis | Surprised by Joy | 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 |
| Czesław Miłosz | Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition | 1968 |
| Laurie Lee | As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning | 1969 |
| Maya Angelou | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | 1969 |
| Anaïs Nin | The Diary of Anaïs Nin | 1976 |
| Nadezhda Mandelstam | Hope Against Hope | 1970 |
| Graham Greene | A Sort of Life | 1971 |
| Wole Soyinka | The Man Died: Prison Notes | 1971 |
| Mario Puzo | The Godfather Papers & Other Confessions | 1972 |
| Joyce Maynard | Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties | 1973 |
| James Baldwin | The Devil Finds Work | 1976 |
| Pablo Neruda | Memoirs (Confieso que he vivido: Memorias) | 1977 |
| Agatha Christie | Agatha Christie: An Autobiography | 1977 |
| Wole Soyinka | Aké: The Years of Childhood | 1981 |
| John Mortimer | Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life | 1982 |
| Michael Ondaatje | Running in the Family | 1982 |
| Janet Frame | To the Is-land | 1982 |
| Janet Frame | An Angel at My Table and The Envoy From Mirror City | 1984 |
| Eudora Welty | One Writer's Beginnings | 1983 |
| Roald Dahl | Boy: Tales of Childhood | 1984 |
| Roald Dahl | Going Solo | 1986 |
| Anthony Burgess | Little Wilson and Big God | 1986 |
| Annie Dillard | An American Childhood | 1987 |
| Anthony Burgess | You've Had Your Time | 1990 |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Fates Worse Than Death | 1991 |
| James A. Michener | The World Is My Home: A Memoir | 1992 |
| Nina Berberova | The Italics are Mine | 1993 |
| Doris Lessing | Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 | 1994 |
| Alan Sillitoe | Life Without Armour | 1995 |
| Gore Vidal | Palimpsest: A Memoir | 1995 |
| J. M. Coetzee | Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life | 1997 |
| Doris Lessing | Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 to 1962 | 1997 |
| René Galand | War Hentoù an Tremened | 2002 |
| Amos Oz | A Tale of Love and Darkness | 2002 |
| Maya Angelou | The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou | 2002 |
| Orhan Pamuk | Istanbul: Memories and the City | 2003 |
| Gay Talese | A Writer's Life | 2006 |
| Roald Dahl | More About Boy (published posthumously) | 2008 |
| Jacqueline Wilson | Jacky Daydream & My Secret Diary | 2008 |
| Andrea Ashworth | Once in a House on Fire | 2011 |
| Paul Kipchumba | Turning Point in My Life | 2016 |
| Mathematics | ||
| G. H. Hardy | A Mathematician's Apology | 1940 |
| Norbert Wiener | I Am a Mathematician | 1964 |
| Bertrand Russell | Autobiography | 1967 |
| Freeman Dyson | Disturbing the Universe | 1979 |
| Paul Halmos | I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography | 1985 |
| Stanislaw Ulam | Adventures of a Mathematician | 1991 |
| André Weil | The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician | 1992 |
| Gian-Carlo Rota | Indiscrete Thoughts | 1998 |
| Vladimir Arnold | Yesterday and Long Ago | 2006 |
| Neal Koblitz | Random Curves: Journeys of a Mathematician | 2007 |
| Goro Shimura | The Map of My Life | 2008 |
| Edward Frenkel | Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality | 2014 |
| Michael Harris | Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation | 2015 |
| Cédric Villani | Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure | 2015 |
| Medicine | ||
| Albert Schweitzer | Out of My Life and Thought | 1933 |
| Sydney Smith | Mostly Murder | 1959 |
| Sandra Lee | Put Your Best Face Forward | 2019 |
| Military | ||
| Ulysses S. Grant | Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant | 1885 |
| Manfred von Richthofen | The Red Baron (Der rote Kampfflieger) | 1917 |
| Heinz Guderian | Panzer Leader | 1950 |
| Music | ||
| Hector Berlioz | Mémoires | 1870 |
| Elsa Reger | Mein Leben mit und für Max Reger (My life with and for Max Reger) | 1930 |
| Billie Holiday | Lady Sings the Blues | 1956 |
| Pat Boone | A New Song | 1970 |
| Pablo Casals | Joys and Sorrows: Reflections | 1970 |
| Charles Mingus | Beneath the Underdog | 1971 |
| Paul Bowles | Without Stopping | 1972 |
| Tom Sullivan | If You Could See What I Hear | 1975 |
| Tom Sullivan | Adventures In Darkness | 1976 |
| Liberace | The Things I Love | 1977 |
| Ray Charles | Brother Ray | 1978 |
| Pinky Tomlin | The Object of My Affection | 1981 |
| Dizzy Gillespie | To Be or Not to Bop | 1982 |
| Lennon Sisters | Same Song, Separate Voices | 1985 |
| Davy Jones | They Made a Monkee Out Of Me, AKA Do I Tell It Like I'm Joking? | 1986 |
| Tina Turner | I, Tina | 1986 |
| Michael Jackson | Moonwalk | 1988 |
| Frank Zappa | The Real FZ Book | 1988 |
| Debbie Gibson | Between the Lines | 1989 |
| Sonny Bono | And the Beat Goes On | 1991 |
| La Toya Jackson | La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family | 1991 |
| Vanilla Ice | Ice By Ice | 1991 |
| Micky Dolenz | I'm a Believer | 1993 |
| Naomi Judd | Love Can Build a Bridge | 1993 |
| Roy Clark | My Life – In Spite of Myself | 1994 |
| Ice-T | The Ice Opinion | 1994 |
| Dolly Parton | My Life and Other Unfinished Business | 1994 |
| Boy George | Taking It Like a Man | 1995 |
| Luciano Pavarotti | My World | 1995 |
| Wolfman Jack | Have Mercy! | 1995 |
| Waylon Jennings | Waylon, AKA Just Another Good Ol' Boy | 1996 |
| Aerosmith | Walk This Way | 1997 |
| Chuck D | Fight the Power | 1997 |
| John Denver | Take Me Home | 1997 |
| LL Cool J | I Make My Own Rules | 1997 |
| Jimmy Buffett | A Pirate Looks At 50 | 1998 |
| Marilyn Manson | The Long Hard Road Out of Hell | 1998 |
| Ray Manzarek | Light My Fire: Life With the Doors | 1998 |
| Yehudi Menuhin | Unfinished Journey: Twenty Years Later | 1999 |
| Paul Nicholas | Behind the Smile | 1999 |
| Donny Osmond | Life Is Just What You Make It | 1999 |
| Meat Loaf | To Hell and Back | 2000 |
| Britney Spears | Heart to Heart | 2000 |
| Gene Simmons | KISS and Makeup | 2002 |
| Carnie Wilson | I'm Still Hungry | 2003 |
| Sting | Broken Music | 2003 |
| Jimmy Dean | Thirty Years of Sausage & Fifty Years of Ham | 2004 |
| Bob Dylan | Chronicles: Volume One | 2004 |
| Merle Haggard | My House of Memories | 2004 |
| Anthony Kiedis | Scar Tissue | 2004 |
| Nena | "Do You Want to Go With Me?" (Willst du mit mir gehn?) | 2005 |
| Bobby "Boris" Pickett | Monster Mash: Half-Dead in Hollywood | 2005 |
| Robie Lester | Lingerie For Hookers In the Snow (released posthumously) | 2006 |
| John Reed | Nothing Whatever to Grumble At: His Story, as told to Cynthia Morey | 2006 |
| Alice Cooper | Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict | 2007 |
| Mike Oldfield | Changeling | 2007 |
| Horace Silver | Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty | 2007 |
| Slash | It Seems Excessive...But That Doesn't Mean it Didn't Happen | 2007 |
| Miley Cyrus | Miles To Go | 2008 |
| Eminem | The Way I Am | 2008 |
| Westlife | Our Story | 2008 |
| Carnie Wilson | Gut Feelings | 2008 |
| Marie Osmond | I May As Well Laugh About It | 2009 |
| Belinda Carlisle | Lips Unsealed | 2010 |
| Keith Richards | Life | 2010 |
| Rick Springfield | Late, Late at Night | 2010 |
| Alice Bag | Violence Girl | 2011 |
| Ace Frehley | No Regrets | 2011 |
| Florence Henderson | Life Is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond, with Joel Brokaw | 2011 |
| Shania Twain | From This Moment On | 2011 |
| Gregg Allman | My Cross to Bear | 2012 |
| Larry Butler | Just For the Record | 2012 |
| Peter Criss | Makeup to Breakup: My Life In and Out of KISS | 2012 |
| Elton John | Love Is the Cure | 2012 |
| Dee Snider | Shut Up and Give Me the Mic | 2012 |
| Pete Townshend | Who I Am | 2012 |
| Shirley Jones | SJ: a Memoir, AKA I Don't Jest, but Please Call Me Shirley! | 2013 |
| Shane Filan | My Side of Life | 2014 |
| Edgar Froese | Force Majeure: 47 Years of Tangerine Dream-ing | 2014 |
| Paul Stanley | Face the Music: A Life Exposed | 2014 |
| Sir Tom Jones | Over the Top & Back | 2015 |
| Sebastian Bach | 18 & Life on Skid Row | 2016 |
| Thomas Dolby | The Speed of Sound | 2016 |
| Lita Ford | Living Like a Runaway | 2016 |
| Grace Jones | I'll Never Write My Memoirs | 2016 |
| Toni Tennille | TT: a Memoir, AKA The Captain & I | 2016 |
| Jack Wild | It's a Dodger's Life, AKA Reviewing My Situation (published posthumously) | 2016 |
| Charlie Daniels | Never Look At the Empty Seats | 2017 |
| Samantha Fox | Forever, AKA A Fox for All Centuries | 2017 |
| Art Garfunkel | What Is It All But Luminous? | 2017 |
| Mike Nesmith | Infinite Tuesday: an Autobiographical Riff | 2017 |
| John Oates | Change of Seasons | 2017 |
| Roger Daltrey | Thanks a Lot, Mr. Kibblewhite | 2018 |
| K.K. Downing | Heavy Duty: My Days & Nights In Judas Priest | 2018 |
| Drew Fortier | Dark, Depressing, and Hilarious | 2018 |
| Steve Lukather | The Gospel According to Luke | 2018 |
| Olivia Newton-John | Don't Stop Believing | 2018 |
| Leif Garrett | Idol Truth | 2019 |
| John Georgiadis | Bow to Baton: A Leader's Life | 2019 |
| Deborah Harry | Face It | 2019 |
| Liz Phair | Horror Stories | 2019 |
| Andrew Ridgeley | WHAM!, George Michael, & Me | 2019 |
| Stephen Morris (musician) | Record Play Pause | 2019 |
| Mariah Carey | The Meaning of M.C. | 2020 |
| Jessica Simpson | Open Book | 2020 |
| Kathy Valentine | All I Ever Wanted: A Rock 'N' Roll Memoir | 2020 |
| Richard Marx | Stories to Tell | 2021 |
| Stephen Morris (musician) | Fast Forward | 2021 |
| Paul Nicholas | Musicals, Marigolds, & Me | 2021 |
| Sinéad O'Connor | Rememberings | 2021 |
| Gina Schock | Made In Hollywood: All Access with the Go-Go's | 2021 |
| Will Smith | Will, AKA Where There's a Way | 2021 |
| Bono | Surrender | 2022 |
| Boy George | Karma | 2023 |
| Britney Spears | The Woman In Me | 2023 |
| Bonnie Tyler | Straight from the Heart | 2023 |
| Moon Zappa | Earth to Moon | 2024 |
| Ozzy Osbourne | Last Rites (released posthumously) | 2025 |
| Lionel Richie | Truly | 2025 |
| Liza Minnelli | Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! | 2026 |
| Natural History | ||
| Charles Darwin | The Recollections of the Development of My Mind and Character | 1876 |
| Charles Darwin | The Autobiography of Charles Darwin | 1887 |
| Philosophy | ||
| Jean-Paul Sartre | The Words | 1964 |
| David Hume | My Own Life | 1777 |
| John Stuart Mill | Autobiography | 1874 |
| Paramahansa Yogananda | Autobiography of a Yogi | 1955 |
| Simone de Beauvoir | The Prime of Life | 1960 |
| Physics | ||
| Philip M. Morse | In at the Beginnings: A Physicist's Life | 1976 |
| Richard Feynman | Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! | 1985 |
| Luis Alvarez | Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist | 1987 |
| Emilio Segrè | A Mind Always in Motion | 1993 |
| Fay Ajzenberg-Selove | A Matter of Choices: Memoirs of a Female Physicist | 1994 |
| Alvin M. Weinberg | The First Nuclear Era: The Life and Times of a Technological Fixer | 1994 |
| John Wheeler | Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics | 1998 |
| Maurice Wilkins | Maurice Wilkins: The Third Man of the Double Helix | 2003 |
| Isaak Khalatnikov | From the Atomic Bomb to the Landau Institute: Autobiography. Top Non-Secret | 2012 |
| Rudolf Peierls | Bird of Passage: Recollections of a Physicist | 2014 |
| Politics | ||
| Marcus Aurelius | Meditations | 0175 |
| Manuel Belgrano | Autobiography of Manuel Belgrano | 1814 |
| Frederick Douglass | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave | 1845 |
| Frederick Douglass | My Bondage and My Freedom | 1855 |
| Joaquim Nabuco | Minha formação | 1900 |
| Booker T. Washington | Up from Slavery | 1901 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography | 1913 |
| Stephen A. Douglas | Autobiography of Stephen A. Douglas | 1913 |
| Emmeline Pankhurst | My Own Story | 1914 |
| Mary Harris Jones | Autobiography of Mother Jones | 1925 |
| Adolf Hitler | Mein Kampf | 1925 |
| Benito Mussolini | My Autobiography: With the Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism | 1928 |
| Calvin Coolidge | The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge | 1929 |
| Winston Churchill | My Early Life | 1930 |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | An Autobiography | 1936 |
| Manny Shinwell | Conflict Without Malice | 1955 |
| Winston Churchill | Memoirs of the Second World War | 1959 |
| Malcolm X | The Autobiography of Malcolm X | 1965 |
| Golda Meir | My Life | 1973 |
| Manny Shinwell | I've Lived Through It All | 1973 |
| Manny Shinwell | Lead With the Left: My First Ninety-Six Years | 1981 |
| Roy Hattersley | A Yorkshire Boyhood | 1983 |
| Ronald Reagan | An American Life | 1990 |
| Margaret Thatcher | The Downing Street Years | 1993 |
| Dan Quayle | Standing Firm | 1994 |
| Nelson Mandela | Long Walk to Freedom | 1995 |
| Barack Obama | Dreams from My Father | 1995 |
| Margaret Thatcher | The Path to Power | 1995 |
| Dan Quayle | The American Family: Discovering the Values that Make Us Strong | 1996 |
| Dan Quayle | Worth Fighting For | 1999 |
| Bill Clinton | My Life | 2004 |
| Medgar Evers | The Autobiography of Medgar Evers | 2005 |
| Barack Obama | The Audacity of Hope | 2006 |
| Fidel Castro | My Life: A Spoken Autobiography | 2006 |
| Ronald Reagan | The Reagan Diaries | 2007 |
| John Howard | Lazarus Rising: A Personal and Political Autobiography | 2010 |
| Malala Yousafzai | I Am Malala | 2013 |
| Julia Gillard | My Story | 2014 |
| Jimmy Carter | A Full Life: Reflections at 90 | 2015 |
| Sarah Mcbride | Tomorrow Will Be Different | 2018 |
| Psychology | ||
| Sigmund Freud | An Autobiographical Study | 1925 |
| Carl Jung | Memories, Dreams, Reflections | 1962 |
| Sports | ||
| Babe Ruth | The Babe Ruth Story | 1948 |
| Joe DiMaggio | Lucky to Be a Yankee | 1951 |
| Ted Husing | My Eyes Are In My Heart | 1959 |
| Jerry Kramer | Instant Replay | 1968 |
| Earl Weaver | Winning | 1972 |
| Muhammad Ali | The Greatest: My Own Story | 1975 |
| Bill Russell | Second Wind: The Memoirs of an Opinionated Man | 1979 |
| Earl Weaver | It's What You Learn After You Know It All That Counts | 1983 |
| Howard Cosell | I Never Played the Game | 1985 |
| Kapil Dev | By God's Decree | 1985 |
| Mark "Jacko" Jackson | Dumb Like a Fox | 1986 |
| Kapil Dev | Cricket My Style | 1987 |
| John Matuszak | Cruising With the Tooz | 1987 |
| Steve Howe | Between the Lines: My Struggle to Escape the Nightmare of Addiction | 1989 |
| Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Giant Steps | 1990 |
| Wilt Chamberlain | A View From Above | 1990 |
| Elizabeth Manley | Thumbs Up | 1990 |
| Nancy Kerrigan | In My Own Words | 1996 |
| Dominique Moceanu | DM: an Autobiography | 1996 |
| Tara Lipinski | Triumph on Ice | 1998 |
| Jesse Ventura | I Ain't Got Time To Bleed | 1998 |
| Durwood Merrill | You're Out and You're Ugly Too! Confessions of an Umpire With Attitude | 1999 |
| Summer Sanders | Champions Are Raised, Not Born | 1999 |
| Tony Hawk | Occupation: Skateboarder | 2000 |
| Pete Sampras | A Champion's Mind: Lessons From a Life In Tennis | 2000 |
| Tiger Woods | How I Play Golf | 2001 |
| Rowdy Roddy Piper | In the Pit | 2002 |
| Earl Weaver | Weaver on Strategy | 2002 |
| Ken Kaiser | Planet of the Umps: My Life Behind the Plate, with Kevin Fisher | 2003 |
| Sasha Cohen | Fire On Ice | 2005 |
| Katarina Witt | Only With Passion | 2005 |
| Randy Couture | Becoming the Natural: My Life In and Out of the Cage | 2008 |
| Evander Holyfield | Becoming EH: a Fighter's Journey | 2008 |
| Tito Ortiz | This Is Gonna Hurt: the Life of a Mixed Martial Arts Champion | 2008 |
| Hulk Hogan | My Life Outside the Ring | 2009 |
| Andre Agassi | Open: An Autobiography | 2010 |
| Big John McCarthy | Are You Ready? Let's Get It On! The Making of MMA and Its Ultimate Referee | 2011 |
| Shawn Johnson | Winning Balance: What I've Learned So Far about Love, Faith, and Living Your Dreams | 2013 |
| Milkha Singh | The Race of My Life | 2013 |
| Yuvraj Singh | The Test of My Life | 2013 |
| Mike Tyson | Undisputed Truth | 2013 |
| Sachin Tendulkar | Playing It My Way | 2014 |
| Nastia Liukin | Finding My Shine | 2015 |
| Thomas Hitzlsperger | Mutproben | 2024 |
| Nicole Bobek | Bobek: the Wild One | 2025 |
| Religion/Theology | ||
| Augustine of Hippo | Confessions | 398 |
| Albert Schweitzer | Out of My Life and Thought | 1933 |
| Bob Erler | They Called Me the Catch Me Killer | 1982 |
| Dalai Lama | My Land and My People | 1962 |
| Edith Stein | Life in a Jewish Family | 1986 |
| Pope John Paul II | Gift and Mystery | 1996 |
| Robert H. Schuller | My Journey: From an Iowa Farm to a Cathedral of Dreams | 2001 |
| Oswald Rufeisen | I Swallowed the Catch of Queen of Carmel | 2001 |
| Morris Cerullo | The Legend of Morris Cerullo: How God Used an Orphan to Change the World | 2016 |
| Lilia Tarawa | Daughter of Gloriavale: My Life in a Religious Cult | 2017 |
| Uncategorized | ||
| Al-Ghazali | The Deliverer from Error | 1100 |
| Peter Abelard | Historia Calamitatum | 1132 |
| Firoz Shah Tuglaq | Futuhat-e-firozshahi | 1351 |
| Tuzuk-i-Babri | Baburnama | 1520 |
| Teresa of Ávila | Life of St. Teresa of Jesus | 1567 |
| Benvenuto Cellini | The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini | 1570 |
| Gerolamo Cardano | De Vita Propria/De Propria Vita Liber | 1576 |
| Jahangir | Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri | 1610 |
| John Bunyan | Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners | 1666 |
| Giambattista Vico | The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico | 1741 |
| Charlotte Charke | A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke (Youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq;) | 1755 |
| Elizabeth Ashbridge | Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge | 1755 |
| Jonathan Edwards | Personal Narrative | 1768 |
| Olaudah Equiano | The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano | 1789 |
| Thomas Jefferson | Autobiography | 1790 |
| Mary Robinson | Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson, Written by Herself | 1801 |
| Shen Fu | Six Records of a Floating Life | 1808 |
| William Cowper | Memoir of the Early Life of William Cowper, Esq., Written by Himself | 1816 |
| Harriette Wilson | Memoirs of Harriette Wilson | 1825 |
| Giacomo Casanova | Histoire de ma vie | 1826 |
| Cornelio Saavedra | Memoria autógrafa | 1829 |
| Richard Henry Dana Jr. | Two Years Before the Mast | 1840 |
| Alphonse de Lamartine | Les Confidences | 1849 |
| François-René de Chateaubriand | Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe | 1849 |
| George Sand | Story of My Life | 1854 |
| P. T. Barnum | The Life of P.T. Barnum, Written by Himself | 1855 |
| Kit Carson | Memoirs | 1856 |
| Harriet Jacobs | Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | 1861 |
| John Henry Newman | Apologia Pro Vita Sua | 1864 |
| Harriet Martineau | Harriet Martineau's Autobiography | 1887 |
| Thomas Henry Huxley | Autobiography | 1890 |
| Stendhal | The Life of Henry Brulard | 1890 |
| Stendhal | Memoirs of an Egotist | 1892 |
| Thérèse of Lisieux | The Story of a Soul | 1897 |
| Buffalo Bill | The Life and Adventures of Buffalo Bill | 1879 |
| Helen Keller | The Story of My Life | 1903 |
| Geronimo | Geronimo's Story of His Life | 1906 |
| Edmund Gosse | Father and Son | 1907 |
| Annie Besant | An Autobiography | 1908 |
| James Weldon Johnson | The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man | 1912 |
| John Muir | The Story of My Boyhood and Youth | 1913 |
| Bertrand Russell | The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (Vol. 1) | 1914 |
| Nikola Tesla | My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla | 1919 |
| Zitkala-Sa | Impressions of an Indian Childhood | 1921 |
| Constantin Stanislavski | My Life in Art | 1924 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | The Story of My Experiments with Truth | 1927 |
| Francis Yeats-Brown | The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | 1930 |
| Black Elk | Black Elk Speaks | 1931 |
| Beryl Markham | West with the Night | 1942 |
| Bertrand Russell | The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (Vol. 2) | 1944 |
| Albert Einstein | Autobiographical Notes | 1945 |
| Primo Levi | If This Is a Man | 1947 |
| Anne Frank | The Diary of a Young Girl | 1947 |
| Thomas Merton | The Seven Storey Mountain | 1948 |
| William Carlos Williams | The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams | 1948 |
| H. V. Kaltenborn | Fifty Fabulous Years | 1950 |
| A. J. Cronin | Adventures in Two Worlds | 1952 |
| Dorothy Day | The Long Loneliness | 1952 |
| Whittaker Chambers | Witness | 1952 |
| Bing Crosby | Call Me Lucky | 1953 |
| Gerald Durrell | My Family and Other Animals | 1956 |
| Jessica Mitford | Hons and Rebels | 1960 |
| Chet Huntley | The Generous Years | 1968 |
| Florida Scott-Maxwell | The Measure of My Days | 1968 |
| Quentin Crisp | The Naked Civil Servant | 1968 |
| Bertrand Russell | The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (Vol. 3) | 1969 |
| Albert Speer | Inside the Third Reich | 1970 |
| Marguerite de Angeli | Butter at the Old Price | 1971 |
| Michael Collins | Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys | 1974 |
| Diana Mitford | A Life of Contrasts | 1977 |
| Sheldon Vanauken | A Severe Mercy | 1977 |
| Albert Facey | A Fortunate Life | 1981 |
| Richard Rodriguez | Hunger of Memory | 1982 |
| Joseph D. Pistone | Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia | 1988 |
| Jamaica Kincaid | A Small Place | 1988 |
| Janet Frame | An Autobiography | 1989 |
| Eva Hoffman | Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language | 1989 |
| William Styron | Darkness Visible | 1990 |
| Laurie Lee | A Moment of War | 1991 |
| Brian Keenan | An Evil Calling | 1991 |
| Dalai Lama | Freedom in Exile | 1991 |
| M. F. K. Fisher | Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon | 1991 |
| Reinaldo Arenas | Before Night Falls | 1992 |
| M. F. K. Fisher | To Begin Again: Stories and Memoirs 1908-1929 | 1992 |
| Chang Jung | Wild Swans | 1992 |
| Mario Vargas Llosa | A Fish in the Water | 1993 |
| Blake Morrison | And When Did You Last See Your Father? | 1993 |
| M. F. K. Fisher | Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: Journals and Stories 1933-1941 | 1993 |
| Victor Villanueva | Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color | 1993 |
| Naguib Mahfouz | Echoes of an Autobiography | 1994 |
| Wole Soyinka | Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years: A Memoir 1946-65 | 1994 |
| Tobias Wolff | In Pharaoh's Army | 1994 |
| Elie Wiesel | All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs (Vol. 1) | 1995 |
| M. F. K. Fisher | Last House: Reflections, Dreams and Observations 1943-1991 | 1995 |
| Mary Karr | The Liars' Club | 1995 |
| Frank McCourt | Angela's Ashes | 1996 |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | Love and Exile: An Autobiographical Trilogy | 1996 |
| Patrick Chamoiseau | School Days (Une enfance Créole) | 1996 |
| Harold Brodkey | The Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death | 1996 |
| Spalding Gray | It's a Slippery Slope | 1997 |
| David Sedaris | Naked | 1997 |
| Jesse Lee Kercheval | Space: A Memoir | 1998 |
| Elie Wiesel | And the Sea is Never Full: Memoirs (Vol. 3) | 1999 |
| John McCain | Faith of My Fathers | 1999 |
| Marc Summers | Everything in Its Place | 1999 |
| Ariel Dorfman | Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey | 1999 |
| Taslima Nasrin | My Girlhood | 1999 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Wings of Fire | 1999 |
| Dave Eggers | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | 2000 |
| Lorna Sage | Bad Blood, A Memoir | 2000 |
| Edward Said | Out of Place: A Memoir | 2000 |
| Haven Kimmel | A Girl Named Zippy | 2001 |
| Paula Fox | Borrowed Finery | 2001 |
| Keith Jessop | Goldfinder | 2001 |
| Stan Lee | Excelsior | 2002 |
| Taslima Nasrin | Gusty Wind | 2002 |
| Gabriel García Márquez | Living to Tell the Tale | 2002 |
| J. M. Coetzee | Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II | 2002 |
| Nuala O'Faolain | Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman | 2003 |
| Barry Norman | And Why Not? Memoirs of a Film Lover | 2003 |
| Craig Thompson | Blankets | 2003 |
| Sherwin B. Nuland | Lost in America: A Journey with My Father | 2003 |
| Azar Nafisi | Reading Lolita in Tehran | 2003 |
| Taslima Nasrin | Speak Up or Split Into Two | 2003 |
| Carlos Eire | Waiting for Snow in Havana | 2003 |
| Aron Ralston | Between a Rock and a Hard Place | 2004 |
| Emanuel Derman | My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance | 2004 |
| Anthony Kiedis | Scar Tissue | 2004 |
| Taslima Nasrin | Those Dark Days | 2004 |
| Kapil Dev | Straight From the Heart | 2004 |
| William F. Buckley, Jr. | Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography | 2005 |
| Chelsea Handler | My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands | 2005 |
| Jeannette Walls | The Glass Castle | 2005 |
| Taslima Nasrin | I Am Not Fine, But You Stay Well My Beloved Country | 2006 |
| Gordon Ramsay | Humble Pie | 2006 |
| Wole Soyinka | You Must Set Forth At Dawn | 2006 |
| Julia Child | My Life in France | 2006 |
| Ishmael Beah | A Long Way Gone | 2007 |
| Bob Barker | Priceless Memories | 2009 |
| Lizzie Velásquez | Lizzie Beautiful, The Lizzie Velásquez Story | 2010 |
| Taslima Nasrin | Nothing Is There | 2010 |
| Abhinav Bindra | A Shot at History | 2011 |
| Marcus Samuelsson | Yes, Chef: A Memoir | 2012 |
| Barry Norman | See You in the Morning | 2013 |
| Zohre Esmaeli | Meine neue Freiheit. Von Kabul über den Laufsteg zu mir selbst | 2014 |
| Ree Drummond | Frontier Follies: Adventures in Marriage and Motherhood in the Middle of Nowhere | 2020 |
| Alex Trebek | And the Answer Is...Reflections on My Life | 2020 |
| Ranjan Gogoi | Justice for the Judge | 2021 |
| Christie Brinkley | Uptown Girl | 2025 |
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References
Footnotes
- ↑ Published in English as Days on the Wing in 1934 and Flying In Flanders in 1971.
- ↑ This would later be re-edited and published in English as Stuka Pilot.
- ↑ A previous book, Wingless Victory (alternately known as Alone He Went), was published in 1950. However, it was it was "written by an R.A.F. colleague of Embry's, and thus [does not have] the personal touch of autobiography" according to a review.[1]
- ↑ Published in English as On Wings of War: My Life as a Pilot Adventurer in 1975.
- ↑ Published in English as The Delta Wing: History and Development in 1981.
- ↑ The author published two additional books: The Flight of the Mew Gull in 1980 and Wings Across the Great Divide: Postwar Flying in Africa in the 1940s in 2004. They cover his prewar and postwar life, respectively.
- ↑ The author published an additional book: Chickenhawk: Back in the World: Life After Vietnam in 1993.
- ↑ An earlier memoir was published as God is My Co-Pilot.
- ↑ The author wrote two previous books Thud Ridge in 1968 and Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington in 1988.
- ↑ It is not clear when this book was first published. An edition was published by the Smithsonian Institution in 2010.[2] However, her 2008 obituary mentions the work by name.[3] A WorldCat entry with limited details mentions an edition published in 2000.[4] This date has been used for the entry.
Notes
- ↑ "Books: Flyer's Flight". Time. 27 August 1951. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
- ↑ A Wasp Among Eagles: A Wasp Among Eagles [sic]. OCLC 833293641.
- ↑ Calos, Katherine (22 March 2008). "Ann G.B. Carl, First U.S. Woman to Fly Jet, Dies". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
- ↑ A Wasp Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II. OCLC 539565861.