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The Well-Educated Mind Updated: The Autobiographies and Memoirs

These are books discussed in Chapter 6 of "The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (Updated and Expanded)" by Susan Wise Bauer. Chapter 6 is titled "The Story of Me: Autobiography and Memoir". Chapter 5 of the same book, discussing important novels, is at the link.
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28: An additional recommended resource.
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Confessions (Saint Augustine, Tr. Henry Chadwick)
Confessions
1
Saint Augustine, Tr. Henry Chadwick
The Book of Margery Kempe (Margery Kempe, Tr. John Skinner)
The Book of Margery Kempe
2
Margery Kempe, Tr. John Skinner
The Complete Essays (Michel De Montaigne)
The Complete Essays
3
Michel De Montaigne
The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself (Saint Teresa of Avila)
The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself
4
Saint Teresa of Avila
Meditations & Other Metaphysical Writings (René Descartes)
Meditations & Other Metaphysical Writings
5
René Descartes
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (John Bunyan)
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
6
John Bunyan
The Account of Mary Rowlandson and Other Indian Captivity Narratives (Mary Rowlandson & Others)
The Account of Mary Rowlandson and Other Indian Captivity Narratives
7
Mary Rowlandson & Others
Confessions (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Confessions
8
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin Franklin)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
9
Benjamin Franklin
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
10
Frederick Douglass
Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
Walden
11
Henry David Thoreau
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself (Harriet Jacobs)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself
12
Harriet Jacobs
Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington)
Up From Slavery
13
Booker T. Washington
Ecce Homo (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Ecce Homo
14
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler)
Mein Kampf
15
Adolf Hitler
Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth (Mohandas K. Gandhi)
Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
16
Mohandas K. Gandhi
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Gertrude Stein)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
17
Gertrude Stein
The Seven Storey Mountain (Thomas Merton)
The Seven Storey Mountain
18
Thomas Merton
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (C.S. Lewis)
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
19
C.S. Lewis
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Malcolm X)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
20
Malcolm X
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
21
Maya Angelou
Journal of a Solitude (May Sarton)
Journal of a Solitude
22
May Sarton
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
23
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Born Again (Charles W. Colson)
Born Again
24
Charles W. Colson
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (Richard Rodríguez)
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
25
Richard Rodríguez
The Road From Coorain (Jill Ker Conway)
The Road From Coorain
26
Jill Ker Conway
All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs (Elie Wiesel)
All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs
27
Elie Wiesel
The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events (Bernard Grun)
The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events
28
Bernard Grun
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