Biography & Memoir

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Frederick Douglass

Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana

Solomon Northup

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell

The Confessions of St. Augustine

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint

Autobiography of a Yogi

Paramahansa Yogananda

Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

De Profundis

Oscar Wilde

Jesus the Christ: A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy; Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern

James E. (James Edward) Talmage

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

T. E. Lawrence

Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

Booker T. Washington

Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African: Written By Himself

Olaudah Equiano

My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Thomas De Quincey

Roughing It

Mark Twain

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete

Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus

Cornelius Tacitus

My own story

Emmeline Pankhurst

Apologia pro vita sua: being a history of his religious opinions

John Henry Newman

Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman

Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins) Bradford

Biographia Literaria

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Complete: Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen

Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4

United States. Work Projects Administration

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 2

United States. Work Projects Administration

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1

United States. Work Projects Administration

Society as I Have Found It

Ward McAllister

Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman

William Godwin

Erasmus and the Age of Reformation

Johan Huizinga