7 Top memoir books like The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley, Malcolm X

Cover of The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley, Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became …

"We all like chicken"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"We all like chicken"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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1. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

By: Ashlee Vance

3.87

Format: 54 pages, Hardcover

In Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, veteran technology journalist As… read more

Similar categories in Ashlee Vance's Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future book and Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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2. Steve Jobs

By: Walter Isaacson

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From best-selling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Job… read more

Similar categories in Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs book and Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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3. Long Walk to Freedom

By: Nelson Mandela

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Paperback

The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela i… read more

Similar categories in Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom book and Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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4. Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

By: Jon Lee Anderson

3.73

Format: None pages,

From the back of the book: "Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the defi… read more

Similar categories in Jon Lee Anderson's Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life book and Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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5. Long Walk To Freedom (Volume 1: 1918-1962)

By: Nelson Mandela

3.82

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

From his birth in a village on the banks of the Mbashe River in the Transkei to his politicisation … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley, Malcolm X

6. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more

Similar categories in Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X book and Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  • classics
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • race
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
"We all like chicken"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Cover of Assata: An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis, Assata Shakur, Lennox S. Hinds

7. Assata: An Autobiography

By: Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds

4.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to deat… read more

Similar categories in Angela Y. Davis's Assata: An Autobiography book and Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
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8. The Fire Next Time

By: James Baldwin

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more

Similar categories in James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time book and Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  • classics
  • history
  • memoir
  • race
  • nonfiction

9. Africa's Child (Dancing Soul Trilogy Book 1)

By: Maria Nhambu

3.98

Format: 296 pages,

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10. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

By: Barack Obama

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voic… read more

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11. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

By: Clayborne Carson , Martin Luther King Jr.

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Using Stanford University's voluminous collection of archival material, including previously unpubl… read more

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12. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

By: Maya Angelou

4.50

Format: 142 pages,

Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern tow… read more

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13. Leonardo da Vinci

By: Walter Isaacson

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A #1 New York Timesbestseller "A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creat… read more

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14. Einstein: His Life and Universe

By: Walter Isaacson

4.33

Format: 201 pages,

By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive… read more

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15. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

By: Walter Isaacson

4.33

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose … read more

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16. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

By: Malala Yousafzai , Christina Lamb

3.37

Format: None pages, Hardcover

I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday. Wh… read more

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17. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

By: Barack Obama

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

The Audacity of Hopeis Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics--a politics that builds upon … read more

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18. The Souls of Black Folk

By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more

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19. The Story of My Experiments With Truth

By: Mahatma Gandhi

4.29

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography h… read more

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20. Becoming

By: Michelle Obama

4.45

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most ico… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"When they go low, we go high"

-Michelle Obama, Becoming

"Grief and resilience live together."

-Michelle Obama, Becoming

"I've learned that it's harder to hate up close."

-Michelle Obama, Becoming

"At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be."

-Michelle Obama, Becoming

Cover of A Promised Land by Barack Obama

21. A Promised Land

By: Barack Obama

4.33

Format: 768 pages, Kindle Edition

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making, from the president who inspired us to… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Glory and tragedy, courage and stupidity - one set of truths didn't negate the other. For war was contradiction, as was the history of America."

-Barack Obama, A Promised Land

"I thought the country I'd just described to them - a hopeful, generous, courageous America, an America that was open to everyone. At about the same age as the graduates were now, I'd seized on that i…"

-Barack Obama, A Promised Land

"Then again, a president wasn’t a lawyer or an accountant or a pilot, hired to carry out some narrow, specialized task. Mobilizing public opinion, shaping working coalitions - that was the job. Whethe…"

-Barack Obama, A Promised Land

"But there comes a point in the speech where I find my cadence. The crowd quiets rather than roars. It's the kind of moment I'd come to recognize in subsequent years, on certain magic nights. There's …"

-Barack Obama, A Promised Land

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4.00

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Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

3.78

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Jon Lee Anderson

3.73

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3.82

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Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

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Assata: An Autobiography

Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds

4.80

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James Baldwin

3.54

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