: Re: What should I call a short book about my life? I want to write a very short book of 100 pages. I want to put into it what I've suffered throughout my life: Hardships, failures, disappointments....

It's called a memoir.

Memoir is a subset of autobiography, which is a subset of biography.

A biography is the story of someone's life. Autobiography is when you write your own biography.

Memoir is writing about your own life but without the scope of a biography. Your book may span many decades, but it's short and focused on certain events.

Since your book would be nonfiction, it does not get classified as a novel, novella, or short story. If you are instead writing fiction that is based on your life, then you could use these terms.

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