Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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PrisonerThe Inspiration for the New Podcast Featuring Jason Rezaian. "544 Days" is a Spotify original podcast, produced by Gimlet, Crooked Media and A24.The dramatic memoir of the journalist who was held hostage in a high-security prison in Tehran for eighteen months and whose release--which...
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Pope Leo XIV: The BiographyA deeply personal biography of Pope Leo XIV, featuring his first-ever public interview as pope, from Elise Ann Allen, journalist and Rome correspondent for Crux. "An extraordinary achievement . . . a masterful and amazingly intimate portrait of our new pope."--Austen Ivereigh, biographer of...
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Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty CatsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An intimate memoir about the importance of community and care in a world that can feel impossibly broken--and a story about accidentally going viral while tending to a colony of feral cats. AN NPR AND CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST...
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Poetry Says It Better: Poems to Help You Wake Up"A generous, heartfelt gift." -- Kirkus (STARRED review)The legendary Academy Award-winning actress reflects on her love affair with poetry and makes us all believers.We all want inspiration. We want to feel connected to something universal. And we want to be able to share that...
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One Scan Saved My Life: How One Woman's Story Will Change the Way We Detect Lung CancerA powerful call to reform how we screen for the deadliest cancer, proving that early detection can save lives long before symptoms begin. She was forty-four, the picture of health -- a devoted mother of four, a daily runner, a kale enthusiast who never...
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Of Thee I Sing: Poems That Celebrate Our American SpiritA Poetry Anthology of Freedom, Courage, and the Nation's Heart. Celebrate the voices that shaped America with this beautifully curated collection of over 35 iconic poems. From the midnight ride of Paul Revere to the open roads of Walt Whitman, from Emily Dickinson's quiet...
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Nuclear Family: A Memoir of the Atomic WestA lyric exploration of the complicated shared legacy of the atomic west through the lens of family history and the aftermath of the Manhattan Project. Ty Bannerman's family came to Los Alamos in 1952 to build nuclear bombs. This fact has become their origin...
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Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well LivedSome people are born to lead and destined to teach by the example of living life to the fullest, and facing death with uncommon honesty and courage. Peter Barton was that kind of person.Driven by the ideals that sparked a generation, he became an...
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Nonbinary Life: An AutotheoryNonbinary Life is an invitation to imagine the possibilities of life outside of gender. To write, to think, to imagine, to agitate, and to love without regard for gender is to lead a non-binary life. In this genre-defying work of autotheory, Marquis Bey proposes...
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Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton"Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best." His legacy is towering. Walter...
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My Heart & I AgreeFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist Lucy Sante (I Heard Her Call My Name), a new collection of essays and reflections, mixing memoir with incisive writing about photography, music, literature, and film.Here she learns to dance by watching Soul Train, dissects the image of the cowboy,...
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My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams"A wonderfully vivid account of the momentous era they lived through, underscoring the chaotic, often improvisatory circumstances that attended the birth of the fledgling nation and the hardships of daily life."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times In 1762, John Adams penned a flirtatious note to...
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My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearney Massacre: With an Account of the Celebration of "Wyoming Opened"First published in 1910, Frances C. Carrington's My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearney Massacre recounted the author's adventures as an army wife on the Great Plains, but also sought to set the record straight on her second husband's involvement in the Fetterman...
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Modern Herstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting HistoryAn inspiring and radical celebration of 70 women, girls, and nonbinary people who have changed--and are still changing--the world, from the Civil Rights Movement and Stonewall riots through Black Lives Matter and beyond. With a radical and inclusive approach to history, Modern HERstory profiles...
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Midnight Flyboys: The American Bomber Crews and Allied Secret Agents Who Aided the French Resistance in World War IIAuthor: Bruce HendersonPublisher: Center PointPublished: 03/01/2026Pages: 500Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 8.77h x 5.54w x 1.21dISBN: 9798891647954
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Michelle Duppong: Hope in the Depths of SufferingServant of God Michelle Duppong (1984-2015) lived ordinary days with extraordinary love -- and God used her short life to set hearts ablaze. After her death, letters poured in describing the many graces obtained through her intercession -- most often a deep peace and...
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Memorial Days: A MemoirNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 - A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025 - A Time Best Memoir of 2025 - Named a Best Book of 2025 by...
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Matriarch: Oprah's Book Club: A MemoirINSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A glorious chronicle of a life like none other--enlightening, entertaining, surprising, empowering--and a testament to the world-changing power of Black motherhood "A beautiful and brave story of strong women, fierce mothering, and the power of continued evolution."--Michelle...
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Lionel Messi: Big Goals, a BiographyAn all-star picture book biography about how Lionel "Leo" Messi went from the smallest kid on the pitch to the greatest soccer player of all time.Right now, on any soccer field, in any town--small or large, rural or suburban--you will see a kid wearing...
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Karl Lagerfeld: An Illustrated BiographyKarl Lagerfeld--a larger-than-life fashion icon who changed the industry and a living brand--comes to life in this all-new graphic novel biography that looks at the man behind the logo "It starts with me and it ends with me."--Karl Lagerfeld Karl Lagerfeld stylized himself into...
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