List of best autobiographies
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25 of the best autobiographies you won't be able to put down
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Every Kind of People: A Journey into the Heart of Care Work by Kathryn Faulke
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A moving memoir bygd a care worker, told through her humorous, heartbreaking and eye-opening encounters with the often overlooked and marginalised people she cares for. While open about the challenges facing the NHS and the care system, this book a celebration of humanity and of the life-changing impact of caring.
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I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee
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Baek Sehee's second volume of memoirs further explores her psychiatric sessions and struggles with dysthymia with the same empathy and insight that made I Want to Die but inom Want to Eat Tteokbokki a worldwide bestseller.
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Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne
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Gagne’s remarkable memoir offers a thought-provoking and surprisingly life-affirming exp
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The Best Autobiographies of All Time
Autobiographies give us a sneak peek into famous people's lives, turning them into real people, with real feelings. By reading their stories, we learn powerful lessons, become inspired, and realize that every person has a unique story worth telling.
Discover the incredible power of personal stories with our picks below of some of the greatest autobiographies in history.
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The Diary of a Young Girl
"The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank provides an unflinching honesty into the life of a Jewish teen hiding during the unspeakable atrocities of World War II. It shows Anne's struggles with being a typical teenager while hiding from the Nazis and witnessing the horrors of that time.
What makes "The Diary of a Young Girl" special is not just its anställda sto
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Fierce Attachments
“I remember only the women,” Vivian Gornick writes near the start of her memoir of growing up in the Bronx tenements in the s, surrounded by the blunt, brawling, yearning women of the neighborhood, chief among them her indomitable mother. “I absorbed them as I would chloroform on a cloth laid against my face. It has taken me 30 years to understand how much of them I understood.”
When Gornick’s father died suddenly, she looked in the coffin for so long that she had to be pulled away. That fearlessness suffuses this book; she stares unflinchingly at all that is hidden, difficult, strange, unresolvable in herself and others — at loneliness, sexual malice and the devouring, claustral closeness of mothers and daughters. The book is propelled by Gornick’s attempts to extricate herself from the stifling sorrow of her home — first through sex and marriage, but later, and more reliably, through the life of the mind, the “glamorous company” of ideas. It’s a portrait of th