52 best autobiographies & biographies of all time

Given by Pan Macmillan

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Enlightening and inspiring: these are the best autobiographies and biographies to read this year.

Reading an autobiography can offer a unique insight into a world and experience very different from näytä lisää your own – and these real-life stories are even more entertaining, and stranger, than fiction. Take a glimpse into the lives of some of the world's most inspiring and successful celebrities, politicians and sports people and more in our edit of the best autobiographies and biographies to read right now. näytä vähemmän
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2023
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Life Lessons: Wisdom and Wit from Life's Ups and Downs (2023) (tekijä: Jay Blades)
The best celebrity autobiographies and biographies
Berserker!: The riotous, one-of-a-kind memoir from one of Britain's most beloved comedians (2023) (tekijä: Adrian Edmondson)
The best celebrity autobiographies and biographies
Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery (2021) (tekijä: David Harewood)
The best celebrity autobiographies and biographies
Steve Jobs (2011) (tekijä: Walter Isaacson)
The best celebrity autobiographies and biographies
Me: Elton John Official Autobiography (2019) (tekijä: Elton John)
The best celebrity autobiographies and biographies
More Myself: A Journey (2020) (tekijä: Alicia Keys)
The best celebrity autobiographies and biographies
A Funny Life (2021) (tekijä: Michael McIntyre)
The best celebrity autobiographies and biographies
And Away... (2021) (tekijä: Bob Mortimer)
The best celebrity autobiographies and biographies
Celebrating the Seasons with the Yorkshire Shepherdess: Farming, Family and Delicious Recipes to Share (2021) (tekijä: Amanda Owen)
The best celebrity autobiographies and biographies
Gotta Get Theroux This (2019) (tekijä: Louis Theroux)
The best celebrity autobiographies and biographies
Scenes From My Life (2022) (tekijä: Michael K. Williams)
The best celebrity autobiographies and biographies
Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond (2023) (tekijä: Henry Winkler)
The best celebrity autobiographies and biographies
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) (tekijä: Maya Angelou)
The best inspiring autobiographies and biographies
In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin (2018) (tekijä: Lindsey Hilsum)
The best inspiring autobiographies and biographies
The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor (2020) (tekijä: Eddie Jaku)
The best inspiring autobiographies and biographies
Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian: My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph (2018) (tekijä: Yusra Mardini)
The best inspiring autobiographies and biographies
Minä olen Malala : koulutyttö, jonka Taliban yritti vaientaa (2013) (tekijä: Malala Yousafzai)
The best inspiring autobiographies and biographies
I Heard What You Said (2022) (tekijä: Jeffrey Boakye)
The best literary autobiographies
The Reluctant Carer: Dispatches from the Edge of Life (2022) (tekijä: The Reluctant Carer)
The best literary autobiographies
Father and Son: A Memoir (2023) (tekijä: Jonathan Raban)
The best literary autobiographies
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir (2021) (tekijä: Michelle Zauner)
The best literary autobiographies
Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir (2018) (tekijä: Dolly Alderton)
The best memoirs
Nothing But The Truth: Stories of Crime, Guilt and the Loss of Innocence (2022) (tekijä: The Secret Barrister)
The best memoirs
Kitchen confidential : mestarikokin tunnustuksia (2000) (tekijä: Anthony Bourdain)
The best memoirs
Brown Girl Like Me: The Essential Guidebook and Manifesto for South Asian Girls and Women (2022) (tekijä: Jaspreet Kaur)
The best memoirs
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (2017) (tekijä: Adam Kay)
The best memoirs
The Colour Of Madness (2018) (tekijä: Samara Linton)
The best memoirs
Minun tarinani (2018) (tekijä: Michelle Obama)
The best memoirs
What Are You Doing Here?: My Autobiography (2022) (tekijä: Floella Benjamin)
The best new autobiographies of 2023
Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS (2023) (tekijä: BTS)
The best new autobiographies of 2023
Is This OK?: One Woman's Search for Connection Online (2023) (tekijä: Harriet Gibsone)
The best new autobiographies of 2023
A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter (2022) (tekijä: Carolyn Hays)
The best new autobiographies of 2023
Stay True (2022) (tekijä: Hua Hsu)
The best new autobiographies of 2023
Finding Hildasay: How one man walked the UK's coastline and found hope and happiness (2023) (tekijä: Christian Lewis)
The best new autobiographies of 2023
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story (2022) (tekijä: Polly Morland)
The best new autobiographies of 2023
Spare (2023) (tekijä: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex)
The best new autobiographies of 2023
Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary (2023) (tekijä: Nina Stibbe)
The best new autobiographies of 2023
Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny (2023) (tekijä: Con Coughlin)
The best political and historical autobiographies
Nuoren tytön päiväkirja (1947) (tekijä: Anne Frank)
The best political and historical autobiographies
Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II (2022) (tekijä: Robert Hardman)
The best political and historical autobiographies
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey (2019) (tekijä: Kamala Harris)
The best political and historical autobiographies
The Sister: The extraordinary story of Kim Yo Jong, the most powerful woman in North Korea (2023) (tekijä: Sung-Yoon Lee)
The best political and historical autobiographies
Pitkä tie vapauteen omaelämäkerta (1994) (tekijä: Nelson Mandela)
The best political and historical autobiographies
The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Full Story (2022) (tekijä: Sebastian Payne)
The best political and historical autobiographies
At Home with Muhammad Ali (2018) (tekijä: Hana Ali)
The best sports autobiographies and biographies
They Don't Teach This (2020) (tekijä: Eniola Aluko)
The best sports autobiographies and biographies
Too Many Reasons to Live (2021) (tekijä: Rob Burrow)
The best sports autobiographies and biographies
Alone on the Wall (2015) (tekijä: Alex Honnold)
The best sports autobiographies and biographies
Belonging: The Autobiography (2021) (tekijä: Alun Wyn Jones)
The best sports autobiographies and biographies
Kammy: My Unbelievable Life (2023) (tekijä: Chris Kamara)
The best sports autobiographies and biographies
On Days Like These: My Life in Football (2022) (tekijä: Martin O'Neill)
The best sports autobiographies and biographies
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (1988) (tekijä: Joe Simpson)
The best sports autobiographies and biographies

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