List of best autobiographies

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25 of the best autobiographies you won't be able to put down

Every Kind of People: A Journey into the Heart of Care Work by Kathryn Faulke

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A moving memoir by a care worker, told through her humorous, heartbreaking and eye-opening encounters with the often overlooked and marginalised people she cares for. While open about the challenges facing the NHS and the care system, this book a celebration of humanity and of the life-changing impact of caring.

I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee

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Baek Sehee's second volume of memoirs further explores her psychiatric sessions and struggles with dysthymia with the same empathy and insight that made I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki a worldwide bestseller.

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Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne

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Gagne’s remarkable memoir offers a thought-provoking and surprisingly life-affirming exploration of what it means to belong to the five percent of the population categorised as sociopaths. It’s a gripping tale of a life lived on the edge of the law, a healing love story and a woman's journey to create a place for herself all in one.

The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop

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Fierce Attachments

“I remember only the women,” Vivian Gornick writes near the start of her memoir of growing up in the Bronx tenements in the s, surrounded by the blunt, brawling, yearning women of the neighborhood, chief among them her indomitable mother. “I absorbed them as I would chloroform on a cloth laid against my face. It has taken me 30 years to understand how much of them I understood.”

When Gornick’s father died suddenly, she looked in the coffin for so long that she had to be pulled away. That fearlessness suffuses this book; she stares unflinchingly at all that is hidden, difficult, strange, unresolvable in herself and others — at loneliness, sexual malice and the devouring, claustral closeness of mothers and daughters. The book is propelled by Gornick’s attempts to extricate herself from the stifling sorrow of her home — first through sex and marriage, but later, and more reliably, through the life of the mind, the “glamorous company” of ideas. It’s a portrait of the artist as she finds a language — original, allergic to euphemism and therapeutic banalities — worthy of the women that raised her. — Parul Sehgal

I love this book — even during those moments when I want to scream at Gornick, which are the times when she becomes the hypercritical, cons