Memoir

Personal accounts and autobiographies — lives told in the author's own voice.

Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin

★3.9

BiographyHistory

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by HerselfHarriet A. Jacobs

★4.2

FictionHistory

Up from Slavery: An AutobiographyBooker T. Washington

★4.1

FictionBiography

Life on the MississippiMark Twain

★3.9

BiographyEssays

The Innocents AbroadMark Twain

★3.8

EssaysHumor & Satire

My Bondage and My FreedomFrederick Douglass

★4.4

BiographyHistory

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917Ernest Henry Shackleton

★4.2

BiographyHistory

Sailing Alone Around the WorldJoshua Slocum

★4.2

BiographyHistory

Confessions of an English Opium-EaterThomas De Quincey

★3.3

EssaysFiction

The Narrative of Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth Olive Gilbert

★4.1

FictionBiography

The pillow-book of Sei ShōnagonSei Shōnagon

★4.0

PoetryHistory

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, CompleteUlysses S. Grant

★4.1

Historical FictionFiction

The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910-1913Apsley Cherry-Garrard

★4.2

AdventureFiction

My First Summer in the SierraJohn Muir

★4.0

AdventureBiography

Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White HouseElizabeth Keckley

★3.9

BiographyFiction

The RoadJack London

★3.9

BiographyAdventure

The outermost houseHenry Beston

★4.1

Science & NatureFiction

The Autobiography of Charles DarwinCharles Darwin

★3.8

FictionScience & Nature

Father and Son: A Study of Two TemperamentsEdmund Gosse

★3.8

BiographyEssays

Hospital SketchesLouisa May Alcott

★3.7

Science FictionHistorical Fiction

Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — CompleteWilliam T. Sherman

★4.2

Science FictionHistorical Fiction

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. CompleteGiacomo Casanova

★3.8

EssaysFiction

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the GulfJohn Muir

★3.9

Science & NatureHistory

We of the Never-NeverJeannie Gunn

★3.7

FictionBiography