Biography & Essays
= notable
Title
Author
Genre/Topics
Date
Language
Location
I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsAngelou, MayaAutobiography1969EnglishUSA
Baldwin, JamesBiography 1985
EnglishIstanbul
Black
Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American WritingBaraka, Amiri Essays2007EnglishUK
Virginia Woolf: A BiographyBell, QuentinBiography1972EnglishUK
Biko, SteveBiography1978EnglishIstanbul
The
Portable ThoreauBode, CarlEssays, Journal1967EnglishUSA
How to Write An Autobiographical NovelChee, AlexanderBiography, Essays2018EnglishIstanbul
Tomorrow, Tomorrow
Cheikh, SaraBiography2023English, ArabicIstanbul
PanégyriqueDebord, GuyAutobiography1989FrenchIstanbul
Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassDouglass, FrederickAutobiography1845 / 1968EnglishUSA
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering GeniusEggers, DaveMemoir2000EnglishUSA
The YearsErnaux, AnnieMemoir2008EnglishUK
Farther
AwayFranzen, JonathanEssays2012EnglishIstanbul
How to Be
AloneFranzen, JonathanEssays2002EnglishUSA
Playboy
Debre, ConstanceBiography, Queerness, French Literature2018EnglishUK
Is It My
Body?Gordon, KimBiography 2014EnglishIstanbul
Remembering Poets, Reminiscences and OpinionsHall, DonaldEssays1978EnglishUSA
Alphabetical DiariesHeti, SheliaCreative Non-Fiction, Journal2024EnglishUK
All About
Lovehooks, bellEssays, Relationships
1999EnglishIstanbul
A Small
Place
Kincaid, JamaicaBiography, Antigua, Colonialism1988English Istanbul
Funny
WeatherLaing, OliviaBiography, Art, Culture2020EnglishIstanbul
The
Fran Lebowitz ReaderLebowitz, FranEssays1994EnglishIstanbul
TripLin, TaoMemoir, Psychedelics2018EnglishIstanbul
The Autobiography of Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn LobagolaLoBagola, Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn“Autobiography”1930EnglishUK
The Cruel Way: Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939
Maillart, Ella K. Biography, Travelouge2013EnglishUK
Kant’s Little Prussian Head & Other Reasons Why I WriteMessud, Claire Autobiography2020EnglishUSA
Anne
Sexton: A BiographyMiddlebook, Diane WoodBiography1991EnglishUSA
Letters Home by Sylvia Plath, Correspondence 1950-1963Plath, Aurelia SchoberLetters1975EnglishUSA
Dysphoria
MundiPreciado, Paul B.Essays, Gender, Queerness2025EnglishUK
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell Vol I: 1914-1944Russell, BertrandAutobiography1951EnglishUSA
Eldridge
Cleaver, Post Prison WritingsScheer, RobertBlack American History 1969EnglishUSA
The Last
HolidayScott-Heron, GilBiography2003EnglishIstanbul
AssataShakur, AssataAutobiography1987EnglishIstanbul
PimpSlim, IcebergAutobiography 1967EnglishIstanbul
Home Girls, A Black, Feminist AnthologySmith, BarbaraEssays / Anthology1983EnglishUSA
Little
XTate, Sonsyrea Memoir, Religion1997EnglishUSA
WaldenThoreau, Henry DavidAutobiography1854EnglishUSA
Trick
MirrorTolentino, JiaCulture Writing, Feminism2019EnglishIstanbul
The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern AmericaWhite, EdwardBiography2014EnglishUK
Uncanny
ValleyWiener, AnnaAutobiography2020EnglishIstanbul
Against
HappinessWilson, Eric G. Nonfiction2008EnglishUSA
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid TestWolfe, TomBiography1968EnglishUSA
Malcolm X Talks to Young People: Speeches in the US, Britain and AfricaX, MalcolmEssays/Speeches2002EnglishUSA
James Baldwin’s
Turkish Decade
Zaborowska, MagdalenaBiographysma2018EnglishIstanbul