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Type Memoir books
29 titles tagged Memoir. Practice typing with real literature — not random drills.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Linda Brent
The autobiography of a woman who grew up in, and escaped from, slavery.
My Four Weeks in France
Ring Lardner
A sports columnist and humorist travels to France as a war correspondent during World War I and recounts his experiences on the assignment.
Sailing Alone Around the World
Joshua Slocum
A sailor gives his account how he completed the first solo sailing voyage around the world.
The House of the Dead
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A ex-convict in 19th-century Russia reminisces on his experiences in a Siberian prison.
South!
Ernest Shackleton
A British expedition sets off to cross Antarctica, but when their ship is wrecked they have to face a long struggle for survival.
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
The account of a free black man kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery, from which it took twelve years to free himself.
Now It Can Be Told
Philip Gibbs
A British war correspondent recalls his experiences during the Great War.
Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860–69
Edward Whymper
A classic in early mountaineering literature, describing the first ascent of the Matterhorn and other climbs in the Alps.
The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The travelogue of a member of Robert Scott’s ill-fated Antarctic expedition of 1910.
A Personal Record
Joseph Conrad
Conrad recounts his childhood in Poland, his sailing experiences, and the work on his debut novel.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
T. E. Lawrence
T. E. Lawrence’s memoir of leading the Arab revolt against the Ottoman empire during World War I.
Roughing It
Mark Twain
Mark Twain’s semiautobiographical account of his travel across the United States.
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi relates his life experiences from his birth in Gujarat in 1869 through the Indian National Congress of 1915.
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
Matthew Henson
The self-told story of the black man who accompanied Robert Peary during the first trip to the North Pole.
The Mirror of the Sea
Joseph Conrad
An autobiographical memoir on Joseph Conrad’s maritime experiences and his relationship with the sea.
The Life of Buffalo Bill
William F. Cody
The 1879 autobiography of William F. Cody, more commonly known as Buffalo Bill, detailing his early life in the American West.
Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington
The autobiography of Booker T. Washington, former slave and founder of the Tuskegee Institute.
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
William Craft
The authors escape from slavery by posing as a slaveowner and his slave.
Travel Essays
Robert Louis Stevenson
A collection of Robert Louis Stevenson’s travel essays.
Essays
Henry David Thoreau
A collection of Henry David Thoreau’s essays.
Red Dusk and the Morrow
Paul Dukes
A newly-minted secret agent is sent to pick up the pieces of Britain’s spy networks after they are shattered by the Red Terror.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano
An autobiography of an ex-slave in the mid 1700s.
The Bolshevik Myth
Alexander Berkman
A left-wing radical records his experiences in revolutionary Russia.
The Education of Henry Adams
Henry Adams
A prominent and caustic historian reflects on the reasons that “the more he was educated, the less he understood,” and what he believes the future holds for American society.
My Life in China and America
Yung Wing
A Chinese-American graduate of Yale recounts his experiences as a student and civil servant.
Recollections of Full Years
Helen Herron Taft
Helen Herron Taft, wife of William Howard Taft, the twenty-seventh President of the United States, recalls her life married to one of America’s most influential political figures.
My Disillusionment in Russia
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman recounts her experiences living in the early Soviet Union.
The Hashish Eater
Fitz Hugh Ludlow
A philosophical contemplation of youthful adventures spent ingesting large doses of psychoactive cannabis extract.
Commentaries on the Gallic War
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar’s account of the conflicts between Rome and Gaul in the later years of the Roman republic.