Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Happy Iceland: How Icelandic Strangers Taught a Miserable American the Secret to Lifelong HappinessA simple question at Iceland's international airport-What are your happiest memories of Iceland?-sets off an unforgettable journey across the Land of Fire and Ice. Abandoning guidebooks and itineraries, a young woman on the precipice of turning thirty spends five weeks backpacking and hitchhiking to...
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Hangar 4: A Combat Aviator's Memoir** Gold Medal Winner: 2024 Military Writers Society of America AwardsThe Best of the Best . . . Risk taker. Son. Badass. Husband. Combat aviator. Father. From Officer Candidates School to squadron Commanding Officer, Isaac G. Lee, Lieutenant Colonel USMC (Ret.), reached the finish...
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Gratitude, Grit & GigglesBill Henry thought he was in the driver's seat, right up until the universe ripped the steering wheel out of his hands.After 37 years of building high-performing sales teams in the wine and beverage industry-a career that perfectly enabled his addiction-a life-threatening health crisis...
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Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code"If you've got a good idea, and you know it's going to work, go ahead and do it." The inspiring story of Grace Hopper--the boundary-breaking woman who revolutionized computer science--is told told in an engaging picture book biography. Who was Grace Hopper? A software...
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Given To Fly: An Improbable Story of Triumph, Tragedy and Realization at the Western States 100In June 2006, Brian Morrison ran the race of his life at the legendary Western States 100-almost.For nearly one hundred miles through the brutal heat of California's Sierra Nevada, Morrison ran stride for stride with the sport's greatest champion, chasing what seemed impossible: victory...
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Fifty-nine in '84"First-class narrative history that can stand with everything Steven Ambrose wrote. . . . Achorn's description of the utter insanity that was barehanded baseball is vivid and alive." --Boston Globe"A beautifully written, meticulously researched story about a bygone baseball era that even die-hard fans...
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Fifty Shades of True Crime: Sex, Drugs, and Killer KinkThe primary sex organ is the brain, an unrelenting and powerful receptor of aphrodisiacs, hardwired to get down and dirty and capable of imagining anything. You might think doggy style or downloading porn is getting your freak on, but you are about to indulge...
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Every Little StepA New York Times BestsellerIn Every Little Step, Bobby Brown tells the full story of his life and sets the record straight, particularly about his relationship with Whitney Houston.Bobby Brown has been one of the most compelling American artists of the past thirty years,...
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Elizabeth and Her German Garden (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)Elizabeth von Arnim's vivid, humorous, and subtly subversive Elizabeth and her German Garden is one of the great garden memoirs of all time. As the wife of a stern German aristocrat and mother of young children, the irreverent narrator of this engrossing memoir escapes...
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Do What You Fear Most: The History of the Velvet Underground"Of all the books I have read on the story of the Velvet Underground, Richie's is probably the best. He brings us the voices of the people who were also important to those times, but who either go unmentioned, unheard, or not written about...
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Date with Destiny: The Untold Story of Ua 1175On the morning of February 13, 2018, Captain Christopher Behnam was the first officer on United Airlines flight 1175, flying a Boeing 777. He and his crew were on a routine flight from San Francisco to Honolulu when suddenly a loud noise, accompanied by...
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Cultural Capital Doesn't Pay the Rent: A Queer MemoirCultural Capital Doesn't Pay the Rent is a story about loss, economic survival, and three decades of organizing against the interlocking hellscapes of neoliberalism. Jessica Lawless's memoir is a queer, anarcho-punk history of community care and healing justice. An original member of Home Alive,...
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Crashing Through: The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to SeeMike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision. Then, in 1999, a...
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Cool Heat: Anita O'Day and Her Dangerous Jazz LifeHow did Anita O'Day-the legendary jazz singer who, along with Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, and Stan Getz, led the so-called "cool school" of modern jazz-define cool?"That means doing everything that you like to do and getting away with it, you dig?"Her traits...
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Civil Rights Warrior: A Life on the Front Lines of Justice, Equality, and the American DreamThe inspiring memoir of Evie Rich, a fearless African-American activist whose lifelong fight for justice, equality, and workers' rights shaped pivotal moments in American civil rights history. From the working-class streets of Depression-era Philadelphia to the front lines of America's most pivotal civil rights...
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Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women FreeNamed one of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2025 The riveting hidden history of Claire McCardell, the most influential fashion designer you've never heard of. Claire McCardell forever changed fashion--and most importantly, the lives of women. She shattered cultural norms around...
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Candy Barr: The Small-Town Texas Runaway Who Became a Darling of the Mob and the Queen of Las Vegas BurlesqueBorn Juanita Slusher in Edna, Texas, in 1935, the entertainer who became Candy Barr was perhaps the last great dancer in burlesque, a stripper who insisted on live, improvisational music and who at one time commanded $2,000 a week in 1950s Las Vegas. But...
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Cancel Me If You CanIn his unfiltered style, Dave Portnoy details the journey of how he built his polarizing media empire, Barstool Sports, while refusing to bend the knee to those who tried to tear him down, staying true to himself and blocking out the haters. Dave Portnoy...
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Bust a Move: Matt Dike, Delicious Vinyl, and the Hip-Hop Hits That First Conquered PopThe greatest untold story in the history of hip-hop, this is the first-ever complete account of the scene, street-savvy stars, and daring record label that launched West Coast hip-hop into the American mainstream and produced the hits that dominated the '80s and '90s--with previously...
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Breaking The Sickle: A Snippet of the Life of Dr. Yvette Fay Francis-McBarnetteBreaking The Sickle is a snippet of the life of a pioneer pediatrician who saved and prolonged the lives of people battling sickle cell anemia; whose life's work became U.S. medical policy. Have you ever wondered what you were put on this Earth to...
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