18 books like Reading autobiography

A history of autobiography in antiquity
A history of autobiography in antiquity Georg Misch · 1950 · 364p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.
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Marse Henry : An Autobiography Henry Watterson · 1919 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.
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The Library of American Biography Jared Sparks · 1846 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.
Missing Persons
Missing Persons Mary Evans · 1998 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.
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Two Sisters Gore Vidal · 1970 · ★ 5.0 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Originally published in 1970 this fairly short novel (174 pages) contains, according to the blurb on the dust jacket of the first edition, “Gore Vidal’s singular speculations on love, sex, death, literature and politics.” Shares Biography & Memoir
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Mr. Nice Howard Marks · 1996 · 468p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.
Autobiography
Autobiography Anderson L Staff · 2001 · 166p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.
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Butcher's Crossing John Williams · 1960 · ★ 4.2 · 265p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In the 1870s, Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. One of these men regales Will with tales of the immense buffalo herds hidden away in the Colorado Rockies and convinces him to join an… Shares Literature - Classics, Literary
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Martin Bircks ungdom Hjalmar Söderberg · 1904 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "Hjalmar Soderberg's partly autobiographical second novel was originally published in 1901, and traces the development of the title character from a seemingly idyllic Stockholm childhood to maturity as a thirty-year-old man, an introspective outsider, critical of society, constantly searching for the truth but going through a gradual process of disillusionment. He dreams of being a poet, but is… Shares Literature - Classics, General
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Tress of the Emerald Sea Brandon Sanderson · 2023 · ★ 4.4 · 551p · ≈ 18h · Moderate \#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride. Narrated by Michael Kramer. The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from… Shares General
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Anatomy of a Robot Despina Kakoudaki · 2014 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Literary, Biography & Memoir with this book.
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Torches Together Emmy Arnold · 1964 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate **Not many people talk about "joy" these days.** Emmy Arnold's memoir radiates just that - an enthusiasm for life and an unflagging optimism grounded in faith. In a genre awash in sordid sex and dysfunctional relationships, she offers a refreshing account of a hard life lived victoriously, of people brought together, despite their own weakness and turbulent times, to experience new levels of… Shares Biography & Memoir
Talent
Talent Juliet Lapidos · 2019 · ★ 3.6 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate An English grad student struggling with her dissertation about the intellectual history of inspiration desperately searches for a perfect case study to anchor her thesis, only to find it in the unlikeliest of places. Shares Literary, General
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Pembroke Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman · 1894 · 330p · ≈ 11h · Challenging "Pembroke begins with a heated political argument between Barney Thayer and Cephas Barnard, the father of Barney's betrothed, Charlotte Barnard. The angry Cephas throws his prospective son-in-law out of the house and, because of his immense pride, Barney refuses to apologize, even though it means he cannot marry Charlotte. The Thayers and Barnards become locked in a clash of wills, and the broken… Shares Literature - Classics, Literary
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Steaming into a Victorian future Julie Anne Taddeo · 2012 · 347p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Examines various manifestations of steampunk in order to better understand steampunk sub-culture & its effect on popular culture & wider society. Expands & extends existing scholarship on steampunk in order to explore many previously unconsidered questions about cultural creativity, social networking, fandom, appropriation, & creation of meaning. Shares Literary, Biography & Memoir
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A Q zheng zhuan Lu Xun · 1926 · ★ 5.0 · 68p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Chinese and Thai on opposite pages. Shares Literature - Classics, General, Biography & Memoir
Modern Retellings of Chivalric Texts
Modern Retellings of Chivalric Texts Gloria Allaire · 2018 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Literary, Biography & Memoir with this book.
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Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief James Fenimore Cooper · 1897 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief is a serial novel by James Fennimore Cooper first published by Graham's Magazine in 1843. The novel explores the upper crust of New York Society from the perspective of a woman's handkerchief. Shares Biography & Memoir

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