Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Switchbacks: True Stories from the Canadian RockiesIn Switchbacks, Sid Marty draws on his own memories and those of friends and former colleagues in relating a series of true mountain tales. Among his subjects are: the old guide who built a staircase up a cliff; the stranded snowshoer who was rescued...
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Sunday Suppers and Saltwater Swims: Uncover Your Purpose And Create The Life You Always WantedA guidebook for anyone feeling burned out, restless, or quietly longing for more-perfect for readers who loved Untamed and Big Magic.In Sunday Suppers and Saltwater Swims, Martin offers a gentle but powerful invitation to come back home-to yourself.With a heartfelt and relatable journey from...
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Staying Power: On Queerness, Inheritances, and the Families We ChooseA remarkably frank memoir about interdependence, grieving, and parenting as a queer femme that doesn't leave out the messy or the eroticStaying Power, Zena Sharman's memoir in essays, is a beautiful and honest journey of care work, grief, parenting, and chosen family in the...
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Spellbound: My Life as a Dyslexic WordsmithNational Bestseller An Amazon Best of Biography/MemoirComedian and severe dyslexic Phil Hanley reveals his unlikely path to success in a story that is equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking. When Phil Hanley was in first grade, he realized something that would forever set him apart...
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Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee MemoirFrom "an exceptional storyteller," Somewhere in the Unknown World is a collection of powerful stories of refugees who have found new lives in Minnesota's Twin Cities, told by the award-winning author of The Latehomecomer and The Song Poet. All over this country, there are...
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Run and Hide: How Jewish Youth Escaped the Holocaust: A Graphic NovelA gripping nonfiction graphic novel that follows the stories of Jewish children, separated from their parents, who escaped the horrors of the Holocaust. From the Sibert Honor and YALSA Award-winning creator behind The Unwanted, Drowned City, and others. In the tightening grip of Hitler's...
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Road HomeWhen Rex was outed the summer after he graduated high school, his father gave him a choice: he could stay at home, find a girlfriend, and attend church twice a week, or he could be gay--and leave. Rex left, driving toward the only other...
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Revolutionary Prudence Wright: Leading the Minute Women in the Fight for IndependenceHere is the first-ever picture book about female Revolutionary War activist Prudence Wright, who rallied the first and only group of "minute women" to fight the British, changing history in the process. Prudence Wright had a spark of independence. Annoyed when the British king...
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Restored: A Story of Grace, Grit, and GrowthRestored is a deeply personal memoir about resilience, faith, and rebuilding after life falls apart. After a painful divorce, author Vivian Yakpo-Newton found herself navigating single parenthood, financial uncertainty, and a new beginning in a country far from home. Through prayer, grit, and a...
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Phases: A MemoirThe iconic, multiplatinum, Grammy Award(R)-winning performer Brandy brings us a raw, intimate portrait of her life, charting her journey from Mississippi churches to Hollywood spotlightsFrom the moment she first sang at church in McComb, Mississippi, Brandy knew her voice was special. At fourteen she...
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Permafrost Is an Archive: And Other Inheritances from the Alaska-Yukon BorderlandsThe Yukon Ice Patch Project reveals ancient lives. A road through the boreal forest reads like a map of climate upheaval. Those houses with broken doorknobs--a legacy of government regulation over Indigenous life. Corinna Cook, who was born white on Áak'w Kwáan Tlingit land...
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On the BoardwalkA memoir from the writer of BENT with a foreword by Ian McKellenSherman takes us on a journey through America in the mid twentieth century, starting in New Jersey - where he was born in the 1930s to a Jewish immigrant family - ending...
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One PocketIn the summer of 1956, as a ten-year-old black kid living in Michigan, my family placed me on a train bound for Mississippi to visit relatives. My time there allowed me to visit my birthplace, reconnect with grandparents and it introduced me to a...
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Not Just Me: A Survivor's Fight For Healing, Justice, and DNA ReformOne in six American women will be the victim of sexual assault in her lifetime.This is one woman's story-and a roadmap for healing.When Julie Weil was violently abducted and raped in front of her young children in 2002, her world imploded in a single...
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No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the SceneNamed one of the most anticipated nonfiction books of 2026 by the New York Times "I loved this book.... A revelatory perspective on a formidable artistic movement whose history has been left to a handful of (male) gatekeepers."--Tanya Pearson, author of Pretend We're Dead...
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NightA New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator,...
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My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy ReaganThe former First Lady discusses her life, the Reagan administration, her shaky relationship with her children and key White House personnel, her husband's involvement in the Iran-Contra affair, and her bout with cancer. "During our White House years I said almost nothing about how...
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My Bloody Roots: From Sepultura to Soulfly and Beyond: The Autobiography (Revised & Updated Edition)My Bloody Roots is the brutally honest story of life in two of the world's best-known heavy metal bands, Sepultura and Soulfly, by one of the global metal scene's most respected musicians. Max Cavalera has a unique and extraordinary story to tell, and My...
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Murder on Federal Street: Tyrone Everett, the Black Mafia, Fixed Fights, and the Last Golden Age of Philadelphia Boxing"Journalist Nam delivers a knockout debut that shines a light on the underbelly of the boxing industry in 1970s Philadelphia. ...Nam brings '70s Philly to vivid life and manages to reignite interest in a decades-old mystery. The result is a remarkable melding of true...
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Mrs. OrwellEileen Blair, wife and partner of George Orwell, is brought out of her husband's shadow in this riveting graphic novel, which follows the couples' tireless campaign to expose difficult political truths through art. The Roaring Twenties are over, fascism is on the rise across...
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