Autobiography and Memoir

Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

Alison Bechdel

Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten

Edward Dmytryk

Memoirs of a Revolutionist (Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science)

Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin and Nicolas Walter

West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Political Memoir

William Blum

Coming of Age in Mississippi

Anne Moody

Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir

Cornel West

My Bondage and My Freedom (Black Rediscovery)

Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Dover Thrift Editions)

Frederick Douglass

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1

Mark Twain, Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, and Leslie Diane Myrick

The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)

Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Ekwueme Michael Thelwell, and John Edgar Wideman

My Life: A Spoken Autobiography

Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet

Back on the Road: A Journey Through Latin America

Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Alberto Granado, Richard Gott, and Patrick Camiller

Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary (Documents of Twentieth Century Art)

Hugo Ball, John Elderfield, and Ann Raimes

Memoirs of a Dada Drummer (The Documents of Twentieth Century Art)

Richard Huelsenbeck and Hans J. Kleinschmidt

The Pain Journal (Native Agents)

Bob Flanagan

Memoirs

Tennessee Williams and John Waters

The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust

Noam Chayut

Buck

M.K. Asante Jr.

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Ishmael Beah

The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley

Attallah Shabazz (introduction), Alex Haley, and Malcolm X

In the Sierra: Mountain Writings (New Directions Paperbook)

Kenneth Rexroth and Kim Stanley Robinson (Editor)

The Autobiography of Leroi Jones

Imamu Amiri Baraka

The Complete Persepolis: Now a Major Motion Picture

Marjane Satrapi

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Crossing Press Feminist Series)

Audre Lorde

The Motion of Light in Water

Samuel R. Delany

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson

A Queer and Pleasant Danger: A Memoir

Kate Bornstein

Siberian Education: Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld

Nicolai Lilin and Jonathan Hunt

The Transvestite Memoirs

Abbie De Choisy

Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps (New York Review Books Classics)

Emmett Grogan and Peter Coyote

Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America

John Waters

Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond

David Gilbert and Boots Riley

Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl

Stacy Pershall

Necropolis (Slovenian Literature Series)

Boris Pahor and Michael Biggins

Ray Bradbury: the Last Interview: And Other Conversations

Ray Bradbury

Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition

Mark Twain

The Rice Room: Growing Up Chinese-American from Number Two Son to Rock 'n' Roll, Updated and Expanded Edition

Ben Fong-Torres

Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon

Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa and Mim Eichler Rivas

Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

My Chinese Dream: From Red Guard to CEO

Ping Liu

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

Issa Rae

The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger

Clothes Music Boys

Viv Albertine

Starve the Vulture: A Memoir

Jason Carney

One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir

Binyavanga Wainaina

Yes Please

Amy Poehler

Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, & Me: a Graphic Memoir

Ellen Forney

Berlin Childhood Circa 1900

Walter Benjamin and Carl Skoggard (Translator)

The Autobiography of Mark Twain: Deluxe Modern Classic

Charles Neider and Mark Twain

A Simple Revolution: The Making of an Activist Poet

Judy Grahn

Choctalking on Other Realities

LeAnne Howe

Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir

Shahrnush Parsipur

The Tin Ring

Zdenka Fantlová

Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter

Carmen Aguirre

My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement

Alix Dobkin

I'll Never Write My Memoirs

Grace Jones and Paul Morley

Just Kids

Patti Smith

Big Freedia: God Save the Queen Diva!

Big Freedia and Nicole Balin

Modern Romance

Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg

The Last Holiday: A Memoir

Gil Scott-Heron

Life After Death

Damien Echols

Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes: A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s

Martha Long

Ma, Jackser's Dyin Alone

Martha Long

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past

Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair

The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir

D. Watkins

Fresh Off the Boat

Eddie Huang

Rat Girl

Kristin Hersh

A Semite: A Memoir of Algeria

Denis Guénon

Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine

Damon Tweedy, M.D.

Words Without Music: A Memoir

Philip Glass (Author)

Tomboy Survival Guide

Ivan E. Coyote

I'll Tell You in Person

Chloe Caldwell

MDC - Memoir from a Damaged Civilization: Stories of Punk, Fear, and Redemption

Dave Dictor

The Last Time I Wore A Dress

Daphne Scholinski

Wounded in the House of a Friend

Sonia Sanchez

Yokohama Threeway: And Other Small Shames

Beth Lisick

Outlaw

Jon Gnarr

Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir

Terry Galloway

Negroland: A Memoir

Margo Jefferson

And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to Lgbt Equality

Mark Segal

Fighting the Lamb's War: Skirmishes With the American Empire : The Autobiography of Philip Berrigan

Philip Berrigan, Fred A. Wilcox, and Fred Wilcox

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Marya Hornbacher

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout

Laura Jane Grace

Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America

Chesa Boudin

Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival

Sean Strub

Love's Work

Gillian Rose

Unbowed: A Memoir

Wangari Maathai (Author)

Bad Boy

Jim Thompson

The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-up Comedian

W. Kamau Bell

Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man

Marcus Baram

Dadland

Keggie Carew

Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions, and Criticisms

Michelle Tea

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America

Darnell L Moore

Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home

Sheri Booker

My Riot: Agnostic Front, Grit, Guts & Glory

Roger Miret

Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos, and Me

Lorina Mapa

Sara: My Whole Life Was a Struggle

Sakine Cansiz

Heart Berries: A Memoir

Terese Marie Mailhot

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir

T Kira Madden

My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race, and Defiance

Harry Belafonte and Michael Shnayerson

Crazy Brave: A Memoir

Joy Harjo

Gender Queer: A Memoir

Maia Kobabe

Anything for a Hit: An A&R Woman's Story of Surviving the Music Industry

Dorothy Carvello

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Rebecca Solnit

What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues

Clifford Thompson

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope

Carmelo Anthony and D. Watkins

Never Silent: ACT Up and My Life in Activism

Peter Staley

Part of My Soul Went with Him

Winnie Mandela and Mary Benson

Pass with Care

Cooper Lee Bombardier

How To Be Autistic

Charlotte Amelia Poe

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl

Jeannie Vanasco

Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir

Robin Ha

Slugg : A Boy's Life in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Tony Lewis, Jr. and K.L. Reeves

You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir

Wole Soyinka

Black Boy Smile: A Memoir in Moments

D. Watkins

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

Michelle Zauner

Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness

Baynard Woods

This Heart Holds Many: My Life As the Nonbinary Millennial Child of a Polyamorous Family

Koe Creation

Dungeons 'n' Durags

Ron Dawson

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, new edition: Collected Stories

Cookie Mueller

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