No matter how content you are with your own life - and we sincerely hope that you are - there is nothing like peaking into the world of someone else. And, as our best autobiography list proves, some people have lived lives that are far from the mundane.
Here we list some of our favourite autobiographies, mostly from the world of entertainment. The ones that really get under the skin of their subjects - because they are written by the person who knows them the most, themselves.
UPDATE: Autobiographies don't get much more important than Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Published in 1969, it has gone on to be just the first part in a seven-book series that charts the poet and civil rights activist's life.
From rock stars that will surely outlive us all to chefs who are achingly truthful about their craft to mystery writers whose lives are more adventurous than the stories they wrote, these are a selection of the best autobiographies of all time.
Best autobiographies
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