This project is based on the Annotated Autobiography List found in Susan Wise Bauer'sThe Well-Educated Mind book. The pace is to read one a month, although some will be split over a few months as larger works come up. I will be starting in the summer of 2014. | |
This list of books should certainly give my mind a work-out, publication date noted.
The Confessions by Augustine (400 AD)
The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe (c. 1430)
Essays by Michel de Montaigne (1580)
The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Teresa of Avila (1588)
Meditations by Rene Descartes (1641)
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan (1666)
The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration by Mary Rowlandson (1682)
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1781)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (1791)
Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (1861)
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass (1881)
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington (1901)
Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche (1908)
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (1925)
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas Gandhi (1929)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein (1933)
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton (1948)
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C.S. Lewis (1955)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X (1965)
Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton (1973)
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandra I Solzhenitsyn (1973 in English)
Born Again by Charles W. Colson (1977)
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez (1982)
The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway (1989)
All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs by Elie Wiesel (1995)
[Notice: Original posting 2014-01-09 at Plethora of Books Blog: http://bookchallenges.weebly.com]
Tags: Autobiography, Well Educated Mind, Non Fiction