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266 books in this genre on this shelf. Finding aid — not a complete catalog.

• Book About Myself — Theodore Dreiser
• Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas — Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
• The secret of Charlotte Brontë followed by some reminiscences of the real Monsieur and Madame Heger — Frederika Richardson Macdonald
• My Days and Dreams — Edward Carpenter
• An American in the making — M. E. Ravage
• Early Kings of Norway — Thomas Carlyle
• Auguste Comte and Positivism — John Stuart Mill
• Autobiography — John Stuart Mill
• David Hume and his influence on philosophy and theology — James Orr
• Les rues de Paris — Bathild Bouniol
• Grace abounding to the chief of sinners — John Bunyan
• The Pilgrim's Progress — John Bunyan
• The story of Abraham Lincoln — Mary Agnes Hamilton
• Unbeaten tracks in Japan — Isabella L. Bird
• Samuel Johnson — Leslie Stephen
• Cromwell's place in history — Gardiner, Samuel Rawson
• Oliver Cromwell — Samuel Rawson Gardiner
• Boy's book of famous soldiers — J. Walker McSpadden
• The old wives' tale — Arnold Bennett
• The Life and death of Thomas Wolsey — George Cavendish
• Jane Austen and Her Times — Geraldine Edith Mitton
• Sir Francis Drake — Julian Corbett
• Abraham Lincoln — Francis Grierson
• How the "Mastiffs" Went to Iceland — Anthony Trollope
• An autobiography — Anthony Trollope
• A life of Napoleon Bonaparte — Ida Minerva Tarbell
• A book of scoundrels — Charles Whibley
• William the Third — Henry Duff Trail
• The Natural History of Selborne — Gilbert White
• Germania — P. Cornelius Tacitus
• "Abe" Lincoln's anecdotes and stories — R. D Wordsworth
• John James Audubon — John Burroughs
• Little journeys to the homes of the great — Elbert Hubbard
• Unsung Heroes — Elizabeth Ross Haynes
• Life of St. Paul — James Stalker
• Raleigh — Edmund Gosse
• Celebrated women travellers of the nineteenth century — W. H. Davenport Adams
• Apologia pro vita sua — John Henry Newman
• Mrs. Dymond — Anne Thackeray Ritchie
• Joseph Conrad — Hugh Walpole
• Les fleurs du mal — Charles Baudelaire
• A Texas cowboy; or, Fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life — Charles A. Siringo
• History of "Billy the Kid," — Charles A. Siringo
• Bismarck and the origin of the German Empire. -- — Frederick Maurice Powicke
• The story of young Abraham Lincoln — Wayne Whipple
• The life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy — E. Luscomb Haskell
• Pitt — Archibald Primrose
• The gamekeeper at home — Richard Jefferies
• The Autobiography of St. Ignatius — Saint Ignatius of Loyola
• Green Carnation — Robert Smythe Hichens
• Memoir of Washington Irving — Charles Adams
• Finding a Way Out: An Autobiography — Robert Russa Moton
• The Life of Nelson — Robert Southey
• Confessiones — Augustine of Hippo
• The early Hanoverians — Edward Ellis Morris
• John Barleycorn — Jack London
• The Cruise of the Dazzler — Jack London
• Poems by John Keats — John Keats
• Lucretia Borgia — Gregorovius, Ferdinand, 1821-1891
• Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist — Alexander Berkman
• Pictures from Italy — Charles Dickens
• The Soul of Man Under Socialism — Oscar Wilde
• Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth — George Alfred Townsend
• Eighty Years And More Reminiscences 1815 To 1897 — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Being a Boy — Charles Dudley Warner
• Ma double vie — Sarah Bernhardt
• A first year in Canterbury settlement — Samuel Butler
• Herndon's Lincoln — William H. Herndon
• Woman in Sacred History — Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Christ Legends — Selma Lagerlöf
• La vida de Rubén Darío escrita por el mismo — Rubén Darío
• Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Tobias Smollett
• Life of Chopin — Franz Liszt
• Life of St. Ignatius of Loyola — Frances Alice Forbes
• Como e porque sou romancista — José de Alencar
• Sketches of My Life in the South — Jacob Stroyer
• Richard of Jamestown : a Story of the Virginia Colony — James Otis
• Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon — Henry Fielding
• Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss — George Prentiss
• Mark Twain — Henderson, Archibald
• Diary of an Old Soul — George MacDonald
• Lilith — George MacDonald
• Der Antichrist — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Little journeys to the homes of good men and great... — Elbert Hubbard
• Black Beauty — Anna Sewell
• Microbe Hunters — Paul de Kruif
• The story of Aristotle's philosophy — Will Durant
• Travels in Alaska — John Reid Muir
• My first summer in the Sierra — John Reid Muir
• Life of Samuel Johnson — James Boswell
• Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq — William Makepeace Thackeray
• The rose and the ring — William Makepeace Thackeray
• Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman
• Eminent Victorians — Giles Lytton Strachey
• Fifty years in chains, or, The life of an American slave — Charles Ball
• The real Oscar Wilde — Sherard, Robert Harborough
• Token for children — James Janeway
• Good wives — Louisa May Alcott
• Ten days in a mad-house — Nellie Bly
• Diary of a Pilgrimage — Jerome K. Jerome
• Biographies of Working Men — Grant Allen
• John Quincy Adams — John Torrey Morse
• Captain Bill McDonald, Texas ranger — Albert Bigelow Paine
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth — Olive Gilbert
• Letters from America — Rupert Brooke
• Jesus the Christ — James E. Talmage
• The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits — William Hazlitt
• Mr. Munchausen — John Kendrick Bangs
• South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition — Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
• The red battle flyer — Richthofen, Manfred Freiherr von
• Acharnians — Aristophanes
• The autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt — Theodore Roosevelt
• The Rough Riders — Theodore Roosevelt
• Gulliver’s Travels — Jonathan Swift
• A history of astronomy — Walter W. Bryant
• The Promised Land — Mary Antin
• The life of Benjamin Franklin — Samuel G. Goodrich
• Tombstone — Walter Noble Burns
• The Story of the Other Wise Man — Henry Van Dyke
• The Life of Abraham Lincoln — Henry Ketcham
• Four Great Americans — James Baldwin
• Charles II — Osmund Airy
• Autobiography of Madame Guyon — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
• The life of George Stephenson, railway engineer — Samuel Smiles
• Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers — Samuel Smiles
• Discoverers and explorers — Edward R. Shaw
• Hero Tales from American History — Henry Cabot Lodge
• Captivity and Restoration — Mary White Rowlandson
• The education of Henry Adams — Henry Adams
• Zorra boys at home and abroad, or, How to succeed — W. A. MacKay
• Eleven Years A Drunkard, Or, The Life Of Thomas Doner — Thomas Doner
• Wild Wales — George Henry Borrow
• An alphabet of history — Wilbur D. Nesbit
• Dr. Elsie Inglis — Balfour, Frances Lady
• Co. Aytch — Samuel Rush Watkins
• Station Life in New Zealand — Mary Anne Barker
• Ecce Homo — Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Life of Kit Carson — Edward Sylvester Ellis
• The autobiography of Mother Jones — Mary "Mother" Jones
• Fact stranger than fiction — John Patterson Green
• With Lee in Virginia — G. A. Henty
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall — Anne Brontë
• Poems — Samuel Coleridge
• Geronimo's story of his life — Geronimo
• Hawthorne — Henry James
• Florence Nightingale, the Angel of the Crimea — Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
• David Crockett — Charles Fletcher Allen
• Backwoods of Canada — Catherine Parr Traill
• Souls of Black Folk — W. E. B. Du Bois
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl — Harriet A. Jacobs
• Orlando Furioso — Ludovico Ariosto
• Daniel Boone — John S. C. Abbott
• Henry IV — John S. C. Abbott
• My Thirty Years In Baseball — John McGraw
• Recollections of the Civil War — Charles Anderson Dana
• Passages from the Life of a Philosopher — Charles Babbage
• Glimpses of Bengal — Rabindranath Tagore
• My Reminiscences — Rabindranath Tagore
• La mitología — Fernán Caballero
• La vida — Teresa of Avila
• George Washington (Makers of American history) — Calista McCabe Courtenay
• English men of science: their nature and nurture — Sir Francis Galton
• The memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby — John Singleton Mosby
• Up from Slavery — Booker T. Washington
• Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin — Elizabeth Robins Pennell
• Venus and Adonis — William Shakespeare
• Julius Caesar — William Shakespeare
• My Own Story — Emmeline Pankhurst
• A handful of stars — Frank Boreham
• The worm Ouroboros — Eric Rücker Eddison
• Lord Jim — Joseph Conrad
• Nigger of the Narcissus — Joseph Conrad
• The Celtic twilight — William Butler Yeats
• Acres of diamonds — Russell Herman Conwell
• The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge — Laura Lee Hope
• Abraham Lincoln and the abolition of slavery in the United States — Charles Godfrey Leland
• Thirty Years A Slave From Bondage To Freedom The Institution Of Slavery As Seen On The Plantation And In The Home Of The Planter — Louis Hughes
• Elizabeth I — Jacob Abbott
• History of Cleopatra, queen of Egypt — Jacob Abbott
• History of King Richard the First of England — Jacob Abbott
• History of Peter the Great, emperor of Russia — Jacob Abbott
• Romulus — Jacob Abbott
• Genghis Khan — Jacob Abbott
• History of Hannibal the Carthaginian — Jacob Abbott
• History of Pyrrhus — Jacob Abbott
• Mary, Queen of Scots — Jacob Abbott
• History of Nero — Jacob Abbott
• History of William the Conqueror — Jacob Abbott
• Life of Henry David Thoreau — Henry Salt
• The art of money-getting — P. T. Barnum
• Auguste Rodin — Rainer Maria Rilke
• Bambi: A Life in the Woods — Felix Salten
• Walpole — John Morley
• Alexander the Great — Jacob Abbott
• True Stories from History and Biography — Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia — Samuel Johnson
• A gold hunter's experience — Chalkley J. Hambleton
• Confessions of an English opium eater — Thomas De Quincey
• Autobiography of a Thief — Hutchins Hapgood
• Haarmann — Theodor Lessing
• Tales of lonely trails — Zane Grey
• Studies in the Sermon on the Mount — Oswald Chambers
• Two years and four months in a lunatic asylum — Hiram Chase
• Behind the Scenes — Elizabeth Keckley
• Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands — Mary Seacole
• Remarkable rogues — Charles Kingston
• Quo Vadis? Powieść z czasów Nerona — Henryk Sienkiewicz
• The Magician — William Somerset Maugham
• On a Chinese Screen — W. Somerset Maugham
• Joseph Conrad — Ford Madox Ford
• The life and letters of Charles Darwin — Charles Darwin
• Aus meinem Leben — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Campaigning with Grant — Horace Porter
• Lincoln, The Lawyer — Frederick Trevor Hill
• A Tramp Abroad — Mark Twain
• Life on the Mississippi — Mark Twain
• Indian heroes and great chieftans — Charles Alexander Eastman
• Indian Boyhood — Charles Alexander Eastman
• A short life of Abraham Lincoln — John G. Nicolay
• Wild Animals I Have Known — Ernest Thompson Seton
• Civil Disobedience — Henry David Thoreau
• Walden — Henry David Thoreau
• Recollections of a missionary in the great West — Cyrus Townsend Brady
• Sailing alone around the world — Joshua Slocum
• Prophets, priests, & kings — Alfred George Gardiner
• Edward the First — T. F. Tout
• American Men of Mind — Burton Egbert Stevenson
• Henry James at work — Theodora Bosanquet
• Haendel — Romain Rolland
• My Mark Twain — William Dean Howells
• Years of My Youth — William Dean Howells
• Life and times of Frederick Douglass — Frederick Douglass
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass — Frederick Douglass
• My Bondage and My Freedom — Frederick Douglass
• The works of Francis Bacon — Francis Bacon
• Alexander Hamilton — Charles A. Conant
• Stories of the first American animals — Langford, George
• The lives of Mrs. Ann H. Judson and Mrs. Sarah B. Judson — Arabella M. Stuart Willson
• The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African — Olaudah Equiano
• The Road — Jack London
• Heroines of history — Jenkins, John S.
• Heroes of the Middle Ages — Eva March Tappan
• In God's garden — Amy Steedman
• Saint Francis of Assisi — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
• Charles Dickens — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
• The child's book of American biography — Mary Stoyell Stimpson
• Alpine Path: The Story of My Career — Lucy Maud Montgomery
• The men who found America — Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson
• Lewis and Clark — Lighton, William R.
• George Müller of Bristol — Arthur T. Pierson
• Twelve Years a Slave — Solomon Northup
• The life and ventures of the original John Jacob Astor — Elizabeth L. Gebhard
• La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes, y de sus fortunas y adversidades — Anonymous
• Paradise Lost — John Milton
• Stepping heavenward — Elizabeth Prentiss
• Love Poems — D. H. Lawrence
• Memoirs of Fanny Hill — John Cleland
• Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman — Mary Wollstonecraft
• Tell It All: The story of a life's experience in Mormonism — Fanny Stenhouse
• The atrocities of the pirates — Aaron Smith
• Gleanings in Buddha Fields — Lafcadio Hearn
• Edison, His Life and Inventions — Frank Lewis Dyer
• Dr. John Dee — G. M. Hort
• A Narrative Of The Life And Adventures Of Venture A Native Of Africa But Resident Above Sixty Years In The United States Of America — Venture Smith
• Greater than Napoleon, Scipio Africanus — B. H. Liddell Hart
• Journal of a Disappointed Man — W. N. P. Barbellion