Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Irresistible Force: The Life and Times of Gorilla Monsoon"What a monumental achievement this book is. I was fascinated from the first page. Brian Solomon filled in so many blanks for me and also reintroduced many wrestlers I'd long forgotten about. I'll put it right next to my favorite pro wrestling books ever!"...
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In Yer's Kitchen: Memoir of a Hmong DaughterNONFICTION BOOK AWARDS WINNER 2025 -- Bronze Award"What sets this memoir apart is its masterful interweaving of the personal and the political. Vang doesn't just share recipes; she reveals how food becomes a lifeline for displaced communities. Her mother's kitchen wisdom-emphasizing simplicity, seasonality, and...
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In the Room at the Top of the World: Leaving the Midwest, the Bucks Title Run, and Other SurvivalsMost know people from Milwaukee because they left: Oprah, Gene Wilder, Liberace. Milwaukee is too small to be a global hub, yet it's too big to be idyllic. Good things happen there-great things don't. Ben McCormick left it full of promise for writing grad...
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In the Garden of MemoryWinner of the Nike Prize, Poland's most prestigious literary awardJoanna Olczak-Ronikier is one of Poland's most admired dramatists, screenwriters, and authors. In the Garden of Memory, her most acclaimed work, traces the lives of four generations of her own family-Polish Jews who were members...
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In the Days of Billy the Kid: The Lives and Times of José Chávez Y Chávez, Juan Patrón, Martín Chávez, and Yginio SalazarThe legend of Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War remains prominent in the annals of American frontier history, but for men like José Chávez y Chávez, Juan Patrón, Martín Chávez, and Yginio Salazar, it was merely one famous epoch in a much...
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Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of AuschwitzThis is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded,...
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In Search of a Boy Named Chester: A gift to my father for his 100th birthdayShortly after the end of World War II, a 21-year-old Navy officer - just back after a year at war in the Pacific - was eager to return to his small hometown in eastern North Carolina for a brief home leave. At the San...
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In Other Words: A MemoirNATIONAL BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Namesake delivers a powerful meditation on the process of learning to express herself in Italian--and the stunning journey of a writer seeking a new voice. - "The most evocative, unpretentious, astute account of a...
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InHumana: An American Healthcare StoryInHumana: An American Healthcare Story tells how an only child was conscripted into a war with a soulless monstrosity that repeatedly tried to throw his widowed mom's life away with the surreptitious aid of unregulated artificial intelligence.Months after a stroke and two seizures robbed...
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Ingrained: The Making of a CraftsmanNATIONAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTIONA captivating memoir that immerses readers in the life of a Scottish carpenter as he perfects his craft, builds a business, and reflects on what inheritance and shared responsibility really meanThe eldest son...
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InfidelOne of today's most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened that she would be next. She made headlines again when she was stripped of her citizenship...
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In Black & WhiteThis is the story of a Black man from Harlem descended from slaves and his wife, an immigrant Jewish daughter of Holocaust survivors. Both martial artists, they have been together since 1981 and have over 125 years martial arts training combined. In this book,...
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I'm History...but do I repeat myself?In her entertaining memoir, I'm History...but do I repeat myself?, recently retired public school teacher Lee Knapp recounts the effects that an entirely new population on her old familiar high school campus had on her life. As a metaphor of America itself, her once...
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I'll Scream LaterCritically acclaimed and award-winning actress Marlee Matlin reveals the illuminating, moving, and often surprising story of how she defied all expectations to become one of the most prolific and beloved actresses of our time in this powerful celebrity memoir. Marlee Matlin entered our lives...
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I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD BrainA hilariously-honest, heartwarming essay collection about life, love, and discovering you have ADHD at age 35 Despite being a published writer with a family, a gaggle of internet fans, and (most shockingly) a mortgage, Emily Farris could never get her sh*t together. As she...
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Illegally Yours: A MemoirNow in paperback, a funny and poignant memoir about how as a teenager, TV writer Rafael Agustin (Jane The Virgin) accidentally discovered he was undocumented and how that revelation turned everything he thought he knew about himself and his family upside down. Growing up,...
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I Knew a Man Who Knew BrahmsA vivid personal account of a Golden Age in classical music--the second half of the 20th century--providing a rare, behind-the-scenes view of the inner workings of a top symphony orchestra. Nancy Shear was only fifteen when she began sneaking into Philadelphia Orchestra concerts through...
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I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to the Blind Side, and BeyondThe football star made famous in the hit film (and book) The Blind Side reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth. Michael Oher shares his personal account of his story, in this inspirational New York Times bestseller. Looking...
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I Am Temple Grandin"I hope this book inspires you to overcome challenges and make a positive difference in the world," --Prominent autistic American scientist and animal behaviorist Temple Grandin, 30th hero in this New York Times bestselling picture book biography series for ages 5 to 9. This...
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I Am Neil ArmstrongNeil Armstrong's journey to the moon is the focus of the 15th picture book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about heroes, for ages 5 to 8. This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the...
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