Best autobiography novel

She lives in Richmond, VA. View All posts by Amanda Nelson. Check out our 10 picks below, then click on over to see their selections! On The Road by Jack Kerouac. Sal Paradise, a stand-in for Kerouac, travels across s America with his best friend Dean stand-in for Neal Cassady , crashing on couches, taking drugs, and doing the whole Beat Generation Thing.

The novel is based entirely on notebooks Kerouac kept during his real-life travels with his friends, and features a disguised Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs. The novel was famously first written on a single scroll of paper feet long, with no paragraph breaks, and would go on to be regarded as the defining text of a generation.

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The book deals with alcoholism, racism, classism, and teenage cruelty with humor and heart. Pam travels constantly, from Bhutan to Tunisia to home and out again, fleeing conflict, soaking up experiences and preventing boredom. Our narrator Jeanette is adopted by a zealously religious family, raised on church sermons and extremism.

In her adolescence, she realizes that she is a lesbian and must decide whether she believes what the church and her mother tells her about herself, or if she will follow a different path other than the one laid out for her by her family. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. The original or at least most well-known semi-autobiographical novel follows the titular character from his birth to the end of his life.

David Copperfield is one of my favorite Dickens novels and contains my absolute favorite Dickens character, the crotchety-yet-good-hearted aunt, Betsy Trotwood.

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In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner. This novel follows 7 year-old Raami, a member of a wealthy family in Cambodia in the s. The language, beautiful descriptions of Cambodia, and a persistent sense of hope make reading about the atrocities in the book bearable.