Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Soccer Goat: Mbappã(c) V. HaalandBook two in this series from best-selling author Matt Oldfield and Seth Burkett, a former professional soccer player, tackles the question that every soccer fan wants answered: Who is the GOAT? Each book pits two of the biggest and best players in the world...
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The Real The Raw The Ruthless: I Ran My Game Until The Government Called My NameThe man, who forced a press conference from hustler to the most elusive narcotics trafficker that the city of Pittsburgh has ever seen, his organisation, grew so bold that it draws the attention of Washington accumulating in the unprecedented news conference by the former...
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Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis CabinetIn his final days in office in 1909, Theodore Roosevelt invited dozens of friends to the White House for lunch. They had never met as a group, but they had one thing in common: Each played tennis with the president and advised on policy...
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The Mother Earth EffectIn The Mother Earth Effect, award-winning producer and Earthing ambassador Olivia Ramirez Smith invites readers to rediscover the healing power beneath their feet-offering a transformative path to freedom, self-empowerment, and renewed connection through the wisdom of Mother Earth. "Olivia has done it again! Sharing...
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The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel: Romanovs, Revolutionaries, and the Forgotten Titan Who Fueled the WorldFrom the author of the New York Times bestselling The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel comes the enthralling hidden history of one of the world's most successful business titans, a rival to the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds, whose legacy was erased in the aftermath...
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The Life of Marpa the Translator: Seeing Accomplishes AllMarpa the Translator, the eleventh-century farmer, scholar, and teacher, is one of the most renowned saints in Tibetan Buddhist history. In the West, Marpa is best known through his teacher, the Indian yogin Nâropa, and through his closest disciple, Milarepa. This lucid and moving...
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The Life and Teaching of NaropaIn the history of Tibetan Buddhism, the eleventh-century Indian mystic Nâropa occupies an unusual position, for his life and teachings mark both the end of a long tradition and the beginning of a new and rich era in Buddhist thought. Nâropa's biography, translated by...
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The LGBTQ Almanac: 500 Years of Queer Culture in American HistoryInfluential! Remarkable! Groundbreaking! Discover and celebrate the amazing stories and achievements of some of America's most inspiring artists, athletes, scholars, advocates and activists, political and civic leaders, entrepreneurs, physicians, educators, and more. Explore the vibrant experiences and vital roles of LGBTQ people in America!...
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The Insect World of J. Henri FabreJean Henri Fabre, nineteenth-century French entomologist and author of the massive Souvenirs Entomoligies, has inspired perhaps more modern writer/naturalists than any other chronicler of the natural world. Edwin Way Teale's selection of the most compelling of Fabre's writing makes The Insect World of J....
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The Hour of Sehar: A Memoir of Brokenness, Becoming, and the Love that Rewrote My StoryThe Hour of Sehar is a deeply honest, faith-centered memoir that bears witness to the long arc of healing after childhood trauma, abandonment, and spiritual disorientation. With unflinching clarity and lyrical restraint, Melinda S. Jackson tells the story of a life shaped by secrecy,...
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The High Road: Confessions of a Homicide CopHank Idsinga, whose grandfather was murdered in the Holocaust, became the country's leading homicide detective; he shares his insights into tracking down murderers and serial killers over his colourful and decorated thirty-year career. From the age of ten, Hank Idsinga knew he wanted to...
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The Escape of Robert Smalls: A Daring Voyage Out of SlaveryThe mist in Charleston Inner Harbor was heavy, but not heavy enough to disguise the stolen Confederate steamship, the Planter, from Confederate soldiers. In the early hours of May 13, 1862, in the midst of the deadly U.S. Civil War, an enslaved man named...
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The Dream of an Education: How Phymean Noun Built a SchoolAs a young child, Phymean Noun dreamed of learning to read and write. But growing up during the Khmer Rouge reign of terror in Cambodia in the 1970s made that dream impossible. Formal education was not only forbidden at that time but also could...
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The Danger to Be Sane: Creativity and the Eccentric MindNew York Times Most Anticipated Books of May 2026Publishers Weekly Top 10 Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2026The Millions Most Anticipated Books of 2026"An ebullient examination of madness, mortality, suicide."--Chris KrausA dazzling journey into the eccentric, troubled, and luminous minds that shaped literature.In this...
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The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial KillerThis chilling true story and "harrowing account of the evil that can lurk around the edges of girlhood" (Carolyn Murnick, author of The Hot One)--reminiscent of Ann Rule's classic The Stranger Beside Me--follows a little girl longing for love who finds friendship with her...
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Theater Kid: A Broadway MemoirA New Yorker, NPR, and Washington Independent Review Best Book of 2025 A coming-of-age tale from one of the most successful American producers of our time, Jeffrey Seller, who is the only producer to have mounted two Pulitzer Prize-winning musicals--Hamilton and Rent. Before he...
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Stone Doll: An Immigrant's Memoir from War-Torn Italy to the American DreamFrom a dirt floor in Italy to the halls of American power--this is one woman's extraordinary journey.In 1955, five-year-old Toni Boucher left everything she knew behind. Her family's stone farmhouse in war-torn Italy--with its dirt floors and no running water--would become a memory as...
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Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of Next and the Remaking of an American VisionaryThe Untold Story of Steve Jobs's Wilderness Years--and the Creation of a Legend In 1985, Steve Jobs--the brilliant, volatile founder of Apple Computer--walked out of his company's headquarters, driven from the very corporation he had created. What happened next would transform not only his...
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South with the Seabirds: Follow Four Scientists to the Edge of the WorldEnter Mary Gillham, Isobel Bennett, Hope Macpherson and Susan Ingham, four scientists who successfully petitioned to be the first women to join an Australian research expedition to Macquarie Island, a remote subantarctic island with a unique ecosystem. Marine biologists Isobel and Hope explored the...
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Sophie Calle: The Address BookThe Address Book, a key and controversial work in Sophie Calle's oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. Having found a lost address book on the street in Paris, Calle copied the pages before returning it anonymously to its...
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