Biographies & Memoirs Books in English
Browse 45 biographies & memoirs books in English to learn English with tap-to-translate in the Clue app. Reading in a single genre is one of the fastest ways to expand vocabulary.
45 books in Biographies & Memoirs
“We”
Charles A. Lindbergh
Intermediate (B1–B2)
A Confession
Leo Tolstoy
Advanced (C1–C2)
A Daughter of the Samurai
Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
Intermediate (B1–B2)
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
Matthew Henson
Intermediate (B1–B2)
A Personal Record
Joseph Conrad
Advanced (C1–C2)
A Yankee in the Trenches
Robert Derby Holmes
Intermediate (B1–B2)
American Indian Stories
Zitkála-Šá
Intermediate (B1–B2)
An Autobiography
Theodore Roosevelt
Intermediate (B1–B2)
Bashan and I
Thomas Mann
Intermediate (B1–B2)
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Thomas De Quincey
Advanced (C1–C2)
Eminent Victorians
Lytton Strachey
Advanced (C1–C2)
Father Henson’s Story of His Own Life
Josiah Henson
Intermediate (B1–B2)
Geronimo’s Story of His Life
Geronimo
Intermediate (B1–B2)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Linda Brent
Intermediate (B1–B2)
Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man
Siegfried Sassoon
Intermediate (B1–B2)
Memoirs of a Revolutionist
Peter Kropotkin
Intermediate (B1–B2)
My First Summer in the Sierra
John Muir
Intermediate (B1–B2)
My Four Weeks in France
Ring Lardner
Intermediate (B1–B2)
My Reminiscences
Rabindranath Tagore
Intermediate (B1–B2)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Intermediate (B1–B2)
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
Charles Babbage
Advanced (C1–C2)
Queen Victoria
Lytton Strachey
Advanced (C1–C2)
Recollections of Full Years
Helen Herron Taft
Intermediate (B1–B2)
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
William Craft
Intermediate (B1–B2)
Struggles and Triumphs
P. T. Barnum
Intermediate (B1–B2)
The Autobiography of an Idea
Louis H. Sullivan
Advanced (C1–C2)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Advanced (C1–C2)
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
Intermediate (B1–B2)
The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
Advanced (C1–C2)
The Autobiography of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk
Black Hawk
Intermediate (B1–B2)
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Intermediate (B1–B2)
The Diary
Samuel Pepys
Advanced (C1–C2)
The Education of Henry Adams
Henry Adams
Advanced (C1–C2)
The Inferno
August Strindberg
Advanced (C1–C2)
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano
Advanced (C1–C2)
The Journal of a Disappointed Man
W. N. P. Barbellion
Intermediate (B1–B2)
The Life of Buffalo Bill
William F. Cody
Intermediate (B1–B2)
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Mahatma Gandhi
Intermediate (B1–B2)
The Story of My Life
Helen Keller
Intermediate (B1–B2)
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
Intermediate (B1–B2)
Twenty Years at Hull House
Jane Addams
Intermediate (B1–B2)
Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington
Intermediate (B1–B2)
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
Mary Seacole
Intermediate (B1–B2)
Yashka
Maria Bochkareva
Intermediate (B1–B2)
You Can’t Win
Jack Black
Intermediate (B1–B2)Learning English with books — FAQ
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