Biographies, Memoirs and Autobiographies that I've read

A relative recently asked me about the biographies and autobiographies I've read when the topic about favorite books came up. Here are some that I've read & enjoyed (marked in bold) -
  1. Al Jaffee's Mad Life: A Biography
  2. Tunnel of Time by RK Laxman
  3. C V Raman : A Biography - Uma Parameswaran 
  4. I Too had a Dream - Verghese Kurien
  5. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life - Scott Adams, part biography, part advise
  6. My Life and Medicine - Dr S Padmavati  
  7. Satyajit Ray - The Inner Eye
  8. The Rebel: A biography of Ram Jethmalani
  9. Fall of the Sparrow - Salim Ali
  10. A Shot At History: My Obsessive Journey To Olympic Gold - Abhinav Bindra
  11. The Autobiography of  Benjamin Franklin
  12. The Story Of My Experiments With Truth - Mahatma Gandhi
  13. My Days - RK Narayan
  14. Kishore Kumar: Method in Madness
  15. The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
  16. Beyond the Last Blue Mountain - JRD Tata
  17. Inventive Wizard: George Westinghouse
  18. Hit Refresh: "blends autobiography, biography of the company and techno futurism" - Satya Nadella
  19. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
  20. One Foot on the Ground: A Life Told Through the Body - Shanta Gokhale
  21. Ghost in the Wires - Kevin Mitnick
  22. Memoirs of My Working Life - Sir M. Visvesvaraya
  23. Notes of a Dream: The Authorized Biography of A.R. Rahman
  24. Naveen Patnaik
  25. Mind Without Fear - Rajat Gupta
  26. A.R.Rahman, The Musical Storm
  27. Karmayogi - E Sreedharan
  28. Super 30: Changing the World 30 Students at a Time - Anand Kumar
  29. Indira - graphic novel that serves as a biography of Indira Gandhi by Devapriya Roy with excellent drawing by artist and illustrator Priya Kuriyan
  30. When Breath Becomes Air - Dr Paul Kalanithi
  31. Evolving with Subramanian Swamy 
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