Peter Abelard, Historia Calamitatum, 12th century 
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907 
Anna Akhmatova, Hope Against Hope, 1910 
Maya Angelou, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, 1969 
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, 397 
Black Elk and John J. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks, 1931 
Roald Dahl, Boy & Going Solo, 1986 
Giacomo Casanova, Histoire de ma vie, published posthumously in 1826. 
Benvenuto Cellini, Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, 1728 
Fredrick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, 1845 
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1869 
Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, 1927 and 1929 
Ulysses S. Grant, Memoirs, 1885 
Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on the Road, 1942 
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861 
Helen Keller, The Story of My Life, 1903 
Claude McKay, A Long Way From Home, 1937 
John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873 
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory, 1966 
Joaquim Nabuco, Minha formação, 1900 
Jawaharlal Nehru, Autobiography, 1936 
Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1966-76 
Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1821 
Manfred von Richthofen (Red baron), Der rote Kampfflieger (The Red Battle Flier), 1917 
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Les Confessions), 1770, published 1782 
Bertrand Russell, Autobiography, 1967, 1969 
Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words, 1964 
Albert Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought, 1933 
Alan Sillitoe, Life Without Armour, 1995 
Lincoln Steffens, Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, 1931 
Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 1933 
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854 
Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1917 
Giambattista Vico, The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico, 1735-1741 
Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery, 1901 
Frank Lloyd Wright, Autobiography, 1943 
Richard Wright, Black Boy, 1945 
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1965 
William Butler Yeats, Autobiography, 1936