Which Autobiographies you have Read and which the best one

hasanmahir

Hi,

All I love to read Autobiographies because from them you learn something. I have read manyfew of them are

Henry Ford
Warren Buffet
Bill Gates
Mohammed Ali
M.K. Gandhi
Richard Branson
APJ Abdul Kalam
I Am Malala
and many more

I liked APJ Kalam and I Am Malala

cynic

I prefer memoirs to autobiographies. Have read APJ Kalam and I Am Malala; and both are really good.
Among the memoirs, I really liked

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (If it can be classified as a memoir)

jammy sen

I am malala-Malala
Wings of fire-apj Abdul Kalam
It's all about the bike-lance Armstrong
My experiments with truth- Mahatma gandhi
Open - Andre Agassi
My autobiography-Charlie Chaplin and many more.
The best one I like are open and wings of fire.

divey

somehow i am just not able to read any biography....there are many great personalities but somehow i am just not able to read more than a few pages for any of them

divey

I am simply unable to read any biography, this is one genre which I have never been able to crack. I read some memoirs though like one for Nawazuddin Siddiqui and APJ Abdul Kalam

jhsurti

I also don't like to read biographies of the great personalities - basically I don't like which in some way are motivational! But I do like to read biographies of Hindi Film personalities and I have read on Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Naushad, R D Burman, S D Burman, Manna Dey. And I have some others lined up - Prem Chopra, Pran, Amrish Puri, Rajesh Khanna. Also read Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman as conversational books narrated by Nasreen Munni Kabir.

hasanmahir

jhsurti 31-7-2018 01:06 PM
I also don't like to read biographies of the great personalities - basically I don't like which in s ...

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Rushcourt71

I like to read autobiographies, memoirs, biographies and even profiles (in a collection of short life stories of famous people) just to know more about the lives, struggles, aspirations and triumphs of the subjects.

I also look at their perspectives, prejudices (we all have them) and where they have them, regrets as well. You can learn a lot about someone if you take the time to carefully analyse their backgrounds, passions, motivations and in some cases the pressures on them to become someone.

1. Autobiography of Malcolm X
2. Memoirs by David Rockefeller
3. Aleister Crowley, man, myth, magick
4. Conan Doyle by Michael Coren
5. Shivaji: The Grand Rebel
6. Jennie: The mother of Winston Churchill
7. Confessions of An American Sikh: Locked up in India
8. Autobiography of Howard Hughes
9. Shame and Daughters of Shame by Jasvinder Singh
10. The Kaiser by Alan Palmer
11. Martin Pierce: Spymaster
12. Marie Bonaparte: The Frigid Princess
13. Theresa May: The Enigmatic Prime Minister
14. Speaking Out: Paul Findley
15. Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania
16. Isaac Newton by Tom King
17. A River of Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
18. Steve Jobs, biography
19. Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
20. Breaking the spell: My life as a Rajnashee

jhsurti

hasanmahir 31-7-2018 01:56 PM
Bollywood Lover

Not the current bollywood though. Only the era of 50's & 60's. Mainly I am interested in the Hindi Film Music of that period and hence you must have marked that I had read only the music composers and singers. The actors I said I have and I will read in future but I am not too sure. Guru Dutt & Waheeda were exceptions.

hasanmahir

Rushcourt71 31-7-2018 07:40 PM
I like to read autobiographies, memoirs, biographies and even profiles (in a collection of short lif ...

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