A list of memoirs/autobiographies by and about women and their lives
created by Spellitout
last updated August, 2026
Just Sayin': My Life In Words
Malorie Blackman
Stone Butch Blues
Leslie Feinberg
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Maya Angelou
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Jeanette Winterson
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai
Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
Sarah Polley
Blue Nights
Joan Didion
Becoming
Michelle Obama
Educated
Tara Westover
Love, Pamela
Pamela Anderson
Down the Drain
Julia Fox
Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself
Crystal Hefner
The Year of Magical Thinking
Men Have Called Her Crazy
Anna Marie Tendler
Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen
In the Dream House: A Memoir
Carmen Maria Machado
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