伝記・回想録の本

Lives told by those who lived them, or by those who knew them: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Plutarch's Lives, Dostoevsky's prison memoir The House of the Dead, Oscar Wilde's De Profundis and Babbage's Passages from the Life of a Philosopher.

Arabic biography includes Baha al-Din ibn Shaddad's life of Saladin, written by the sultan's own judge, and al-Aqqad's The Genius of Muhammad.