Books about people improving

[Alfred001]

This is kind of broad, but could you give me recommendations about people improving upon some flaws they have, or becoming stronger. I would actually prefer autobiographies, but fiction is fine, too.

[Pompey Bum]

You may want to consider Straight Life by Art Pepper. Pepper was an amazing cool-jazz saxophonist who came back from heroin addiction, cocaine addiction, and some hard prison time. I haven't read his memoir, so I can't recommend it personally, but it has a good reputation.

http://www.amazon.com/Straight-Life-The-Story-Pepper/dp/0306805588

[KJMarin]

Atlas Shrugged :ihih:

[Tweedledum]

Self -improvement in fiction is a quite broad therm. Well, there are a couple of books that may be self-improvement but that comes on the second plan
Where the Heart Is by Billie Lets may sound good for you. I can say that "Emma" and "Pride and Prejudice" may be also self-improving (after the main characters realize the error of their ways, they try to fix them.). The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, The Metropolis by Upton Sinclair can also help you to improve.

[Alfred001]

Thanks for the recommendations, folks!

[Pike Bishop]

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
The Sportswriter and Independence Day by Richard Ford
Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto
Absolutely nothing by Philip Roth...God bless him
Americana by Don DeLillo
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Mr. Vertigo (bildungsroman) by Paul Auster
Black Swan Green (bildungsroman) by David Mitchell