The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X, Alex Haley · 484 pages

Wrestling for My Life: The Legend, the Reality, and the Faith of a WWE Superstar

Shawn Michaels, David Thomas · 176 pages

Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

Leah Remini, Rebecca Paley · 253 pages

Indoctrinated into the church as a child while living with her mother and sister in New York, Remini eventually moved to Los Angeles, where her dreams of becoming an actress and advancing Scientology’s causes grew increasingly intertwined. As an adult, she found the success she’d worked so hard for, and with it a prominent place in the hierarchy of celebrity Scientologists alongside people such as

Born Again: What Really Happened to the White House Hatchet Man

Charles W. Colson · 382 pages

Joni: An Unforgettable Story

Joni Eareckson Tada, Joe Musser · 224 pages

Autobiography of Joni Eareckson, who at 17 was left a quadriplegic as a result of a diving accident, and who today as an accomplished artist drawing with a pen held in her teeth, describes her struggles and her abiding faith in Christ.

The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith

Joanna Brooks · 209 pages

Story about leaving behind the innocence of childhood belief and embracing the complications and heartbreaks that come to every adult life of faith. Explores the author's journey through her faith, and the experience of being a Mormon.

Telling Secrets

Frederick Buechner · 117 pages

With eloquence, candor, and simplicity, a celebrated author tells the story of his father's alcohol abuse and suicide and traces the influence of this secret on his life as a son, father, husband, minister, and writer.

Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

Ayaan Hirsi Ali · 277 pages

"In this highly personal follow-up to Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali examines the high cost of freedom - estrangement from her family and country, the loud criticism of her by many Muslims (some of them women), the 24-hour security which came as a result of death threats, and her struggle to come to terms with an often lonely independence. She records the painful reconciliation with her beloved father,

Through the Narrow Gate

Karen Armstrong · 285 pages

Recounts the seven years that the author spent in a convent beginning at the age of seventeen, describing her religous doubts and spiritual struggles which led to her final recognition that she was not suited for life as a nun.

In the Presence of My Enemies

Gracia Burnham, Dean Merrill · 320 pages

A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph

Sheldon Vanauken · 240 pages

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. · 400 pages

A professor of history and the noted author and editor of several books on the civil rights struggle, Dr. Clayborne Carson was selected by the estate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to edit and publish Dr. King's papers. Drawing upon an unprecedented archive of King's own words--including unpublished letters and diaries, as well as video footage and recordings--Dr. Carson creates an unforgettable

The Road to Mecca

Muhammad Asad · 380 pages

This autobiographical work by one of Europe's best known convert to Islam gives us a rounded portrait of a man in search of adventure and truth. It is part spiritual autobiography, part summary of the author's intuitive insights into Islam and the Arabs, part an impressive travelogue. Punctuated with abundant adventure, moments of contemplation, colorful narrative, brilliant description and lively

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

C.G. Jung · 449 pages

The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist

Dorothy Day · 288 pages

This inspiring and fascinating memoir, subtitled, “The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist,” The Long Loneliness is the late Dorothy Day’s compelling autobiographical testament to her life of social activism and her spiritual pilgrimage. A founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and longtime associate of Peter Maurin, Dorothy Day was eulogized in the New York Times as, “a no

Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt · 384 pages

"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish im

The Seven Storey Mountain

Thomas Merton · 457 pages

The Seven Storey Mountain tells of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man, who at the age of twenty-six, takes vows in one of the most demanding Catholic orders—the Trappist monks. At the Abbey of Gethsemani, "the four walls of my new freedom," Thomas Merton struggles to withdraw from the world, but only after he has fully immersed himself in it. At the abbey, he wrote th

Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return To His Jewish Family

Stephen J. Dubner · 336 pages

The youngest of eight children, Stephen J. Dubner grew up in a family that was industrious, rambunctious, and, above all, Catholic. His parents were true believers, their faith extending to every corner of their lives. But they were also Jewish converts. Only when he reached his twenties did he discover his parents' extraordinary story, a story full of bitter estrangements, hard-fought triumphs a

In God's Underground

Richard Wurmbrand · 270 pages

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

C.S. Lewis · 238 pages

Autobiography of the English theologian, novelist, and scholar, concerning his early years. The author's spiritual journey from Chrisitanity to atheism and then back to Christianity.

Gladys Aylward: The Little Woman

Gladys Aylward, Christine Hunter · 160 pages

The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt

Parley P. Pratt · 480 pages

Stormie: A Story of Forgiveness and Healing

Stormie Omartian · 188 pages

Return of the Pharaoh: Memoir in Nasir's Prison

zynb lGzly · 214 pages