Biography/Memoir
15 books
Must-Read 1997
Cancer Ward
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Must-Read 1969
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
Must-Read 2015
If This Is a Man
Primo Levi
Must-Read 1994
Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
Must-Read 1997
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Must-Read 1845
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Must-Read 1963
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Must-Read 1999
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X and Alex Haley
Must-Read 2017
The Drowned and the Saved
Primo Levi
Must-Read 1997
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Must-Read 1995
The Periodic Table
Primo Levi
Recommended 2012
A Man's Place
Annie Ernaux
Recommended
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
William Manchester
Recommended 1976
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston
Recommended 2017
The Years
Annie Ernaux