Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned MusicianAlthough we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. In this award-winning biography, author Christoph Wolff presents a picture that brings to...
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I Wanna Be Loved by You: Marilyn Monroe: A Life in 100 TakesPublishing one hundred years after her birth, Andrew Wilson's biography of Marilyn Monroe is a kaleidoscopic tour of her life told through 100 captivating snapshots. Dreamer. Bombshell. Icon. Featuring a wealth of unpublished material, I Wanna Be Loved By You presents Marilyn in a...
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In the Sanctuary of Outcasts"A remarkable story of a young man's loss of everything he deemed important, and his ultimate discovery that redemption can be taught by society's most dreaded outcasts." --John Grisham "Hilarious, astonishing, and deeply moving." --John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good...
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I'm Normal; Y'all CrazyI'm Normal; Y'all Crazy by Sharyl Anne is a powerful memoir of survival, resilience, and self-discovery. With unflinching honesty, Sharyl Anne chronicles her journey through childhood sexual abuse, emotional trauma, and the challenges of mental health diagnoses including bipolar depression, PTSD, and borderline personality...
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Heaven DelayedTom Stienstra had three events where his life stopped before doctors brought him back. Amid the cessations, he experienced visions of heaven. In two cases, he was visited from friends long passed who gave him advice and instructions for when he returned to life....
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Harmony Korine: InterviewsHarmony Korine: Interviews tracks filmmaker Korine's stunning rise, fall, and rise again through his own evolving voice. Bringing together interviews collected from over two decades, this unique chronicle includes rare interviews unavailable in print for years and an extensive, new conversation recorded at the...
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Hard Guys CryFor more than two decades, Jimmy Dennedy, a cop's cop, served the people of New York City as a member of the NYPD. First as a uniformed officer working the streets in some of the toughest crime ridden neighborhoods in his home borough of...
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Greek Lives"I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as my guest." Here, Plutarch introduces the...
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Good Morning Moon: A Snapshot of an American FamilyAuthor: Brad GoochPublisher: HarperPublished: 06/02/2026Pages: 192Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.44h x 5.52w x 0.88dISBN: 9780063466937Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 04/20/2026Booklist 05/01/2026Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2026About the AuthorGooch, Brad: - Brad Gooch is a poet, novelist, and biographer whose previous ten books include the bestselling Radiant: The Life...
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Good Damage: Tragedy, Lightly Polished with a Side of OptimismDevastating and funny. Dark and light. Good and damage. A memoir that refuses to separate them.Good Damage is the debut memoir from Trey Toler about the messy, unscripted "after. " After the illness, the loss, the burnout, and the exhausting performance of recovery.The story...
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Free Ride: Heartbreak, Courage, and the 20,000-Mile Motorcycle Journey That Changed My LifeINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER By the YouTube sensation with three million followers, the inspiring account of a young woman who, in a moment of personal crisis, embarked on an epic, transcontinental motorcycle ride--and along the way found a new sense of purpose. Noraly...
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Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American FascismThe story of Hunter S. Thompson's crusade against Richard Nixon and the threat of fascism in America--and the devastating price he paid for it Hunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-cracking, drug-addled cartoon character. This book reclaims him for what he truly...
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France on Trial: The Case of Marshal PétainA Telegraph, Spectator, Prospect, and Times Best Book of the Year "This is a story not just about Pétain but about war and resistance, the moral compromises of leadership, and the meaning of France itself."―Margaret MacMillan "This is a finely tuned history...Those who enjoy...
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Finding Truth with Michael: A Memoir of Friendship, Faith, and First Love"Darls was my first and only friend outside the family, and I treasured the time we spent together. One of the few girls in our school not in awe of Michael, she treated him as just another kid, which he really appreciated."-- La Toya...
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Finding God, Finding Me: How I met God as an ordinary teenagerFinding God, Finding Me tells the powerful testimony of an ordinary, sixteen-year-old girl whose life changes after encountering God. This book is a window into her fears, struggles, and insecurities as a high schooler, and how God helped her find her identity, confidence, and...
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Even the Darkest Night: A Father's Journey of Hope and Healing from Paternal DepressionOffering hope and illumination, the bone-raw story of a father's failure to bond with his infant twin daughters, and his journey through paternal depression--an often undiagnosed condition that affects millions of new fathers. After a traumatic birth nearly claimed his wife's life, anesthesiologist and...
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Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever ToldONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS: THE NEW YORKER - NPR - ELECTRIC LIT - TIME OUT - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY PROSE Award Winner Lambda Literary Award Finalist "A fabulously riveting hybrid memoir and queer history lesson." --New York Times It's 1996, and Jeremy has...
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Ed SheeranDiscover talented singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran's life story, from learning to play guitar as a child to becoming a global superstar! Ed Sheeran's love of music began in childhood in a small town in England, where he sang, played drums, and taught himself guitar. Soon...
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Decoding the Devil: Black Women Codebreakers and the Secret War Against Stalin's BombAuthor: Sarah ValentinePublisher: HarperPublished: 06/02/2026Pages: 368Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.26h x 6.31w x 1.17dISBN: 9780063305472Review Citation(s): Booklist 06/01/2026About the AuthorValentine, Sarah: - Sarah Valentine, Ph.D., is a widely published author and translator. In 2013 she was a Lannan Foundation Writers Fellow and has taught...
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Cook Up: A Crack Rock MemoirReminiscent of the classic Random Family and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, but told by the man who lived it, The Cook Up is a riveting look inside the Baltimore drug trade portrayed in The Wire and an incredible story of...
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