Notable autobiographical novels
Notable autobiographical novels
- See also: Category:Autobiographical novels
- Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (1850)
- George Borrow, Lavengro (1851)
- Leo Tolstoy, Childhood (1852)
- Charlotte Brontë, Villette (1853)
- Leo Tolstoy, Boyhood (1854)
- Leo Tolstoy, Youth (1856)
- Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days (1857)
- Fitz Hugh Ludlow, The Hasheesh Eater (1857)
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1860), which has many autobiographical elements but to a lesser extent
- George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)
- Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868)
- Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh (1903)
- D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (1913)
- Jack London, John Barleycorn (1913)
- Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (1915)
- James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920)
- Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (1927), aka A Remembrance of Things Past
- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929)
- Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel (1929)
- Louis Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night (1932), as well as "Death on Credit" (also, "Death on an Installment Plan") and subsequent books as well.
- Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), a mock autobiography of Stein's secretary and companion purported to be Toklas's views of Stein.
- Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (1934)
- Ayn Rand, We, the Living (1936)
- Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn (1939)
- James A. Michener, The Fires of Spring (1949), semi-autobiographical
- Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (1951)
- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)
- James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953)
- Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
- William S. Burroughs, Junkie (1953)
- James Agee, A Death in the Family (1957)
- Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957)
- Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums (1958)
- Elie Wiesel, Night (1958), sometimes considered an autobiographical novel although classified as a memoir by the author.
- Ian Fleming, (1960s) Some of the James Bond experiences are based in his own World War II spy missions.
- Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco (1961)
- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)
- Kenzaburo Oe, A Personal Matter (1964)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, In My Father's Court, (1966)
- Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes (1967)
- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)
- Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle (1973)
- Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1973)
- Pat Conroy, The Great Santini (1976)
- Samuel R. Delany, Heavenly Breakfast (1979)
- Philip K. Dick, VALIS (1981), perhaps the only book that could be considered both an autobiographical novel and a work of science fiction
- Isabel Allende, The House of Spirits (1982), includes many elements from her family history
- Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye (1982)
- J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun (1984)
- Marguerite Duras, The Lover (1984)
- Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)
- Jaan Kross, The Wikman Boys (1988)
- Samuel R. Delany, The Motion of Light in Water (1988)
- Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried (1990)
- Davis Miller, The Tao of Muhammad Ali (1996), described as a 'non-fiction novel'.
- Homer Hickam, Rocket Boys (1998)
- James Frey, A Million Little Pieces (2003), marketed as a memoir before a media controversy questioned its accuracy.
- Craig Thompson, Blankets (2003), an autobiographical graphic novel.
- Tobias Wolff, Old School (2003), loosely based on Wolff's life although more novel than biography.
- Muhammad Ali with Hana Yasmeen Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly (2004)
- James Frey, My Friend Leonard (2005)
- Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007)
- Daniel Selby Retracing My Steps (2009)
- Peter Selgin, Life Goes to the Movies (2009)
- Mona Simpson, Anywhere But Here
- Tao Lin, Richard Yates (2010)
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