Autobiographical fiction books

Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy

Louisa May Alcott

The novel is an autobiographical‑style domestic fiction that follows the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and…

Henrietta Temple: A Love Story

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Henrietta Temple is a self‑styled autobiographical romance by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, that…

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

The novel is an autobiographical‑style bildungsroman that begins with a self‑conscious narrator announcing…

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott’s work is an autobiographical‑tinged domestic novel that follows the March sisters as they…

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

The novel is an autobiographical fiction that follows the early life of Stephen Dedalus, a young Dublin boy…

Du côté de chez Swann

Marcel Proust

Ce premier extrait révèle un récit qui mêle mémoire personnelle et description des milieux ruraux français du…

The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy

William Makepeace Thackeray

The second volume of William Makepeace Thackeray’s The History of Pendennis continues the comic,…

Swann's Way

Marcel Proust

Swann’s Way is an autobiographical work that blurs the line between memoir and fiction, set against the…

Villette

Charlotte Brontë

The novel is an autobiographical‑style work that opens with a reflective childhood memory of visits to a…

Martin Eden

Jack London

Martin Eden is an autobiographical bildungsroman that follows a rough‑shod young sailor thrust into the…

Oberland: Pilgrimage, Volume 9

Dorothy M. Richardson

The work is an autobiographical‑fictional sketch by Dorothy M.

Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I

Xueqin Cao

The work is an autobiographical‑style domestic fiction set in Qing‑era China, authored by Cao Xueqin, who…

Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft

Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman is an unfinished autobiographical‑fiction piece by Mary Wollstonecraft,…

The Blithedale Romance

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The novel is an autobiographical‑tinged psychological narrative that opens with a rambling, almost theatrical…

Sons and Lovers

D. H. Lawrence

The novel is an autobiographical work of domestic fiction set in a nineteenth‑century English mining…

Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë

Agnes Grey is an autobiographical‑fictional account that opens with a reflective preface, in which the…

Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Herman Melville

Pierre; or The Ambiguities is an autobiographical‑style work that folds the narrator’s own reflections into a…

His Masterpiece

Émile Zola

His Masterpiece is an autobiographical‑fictional portrait of the Parisian art world in the waning years of…

Redburn. His First Voyage Being the Sailor Boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-Of-A-Gentleman in the Merchant Navy

Herman Melville

The work is an autobiographical‑fictional sea story that follows a young American boy’s growing obsession…

Childhood

Leo Tolstoy

The work is an autobiographical‑fictional sketch of a young Russian boy’s early days, set in the…

Sarrasine

Honoré de Balzac

The Way of All Flesh

Samuel Butler

The Longest Journey

E. M. Forster

Sons and Lovers

D. H. Lawrence