Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Enough: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount EverestA searching, uplifting memoir by the celebrated, groundbreaking climber: a journey of overcoming where the mountain's highest peaks can only be reached by traversing the dark crevasses of the soul At twenty-seven, when Melissa Arnot Reid accepted a tank of oxygen just short of...
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Educated: A Memoir#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER - One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD...
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Edgar Allan Poe: A LifeA groundbreaking exploration of one of America's most iconic and misunderstood authors Edgar Allan Poe: A Life is the most comprehensive critical biography of Poe yet produced, exploring his fascinating life, his extraordinary work, and the vital relationship between the two. Best known for...
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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil SandsA New York Times Notable Book; a Barack Obama's end of year favorite of 2022; and the winner of Canada ReadsKate Beaton's Ducks stunned the world with its unflinching honesty and candid vulnerability, cementing its place in the graphic novel canon alongside Maus, Persepolis,...
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Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip FreelonYou've seen the building. Now meet the man whose life went into it.Philip Freelon's grandfather was an acclaimed painter of the Harlem Renaissance. His father was a successful businessman who attended the 1963 March on Washington. When Phil decided to attend architecture school, he...
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DoveIn 1965, 16-year-old Robin Lee Graham began a solo around-the-world voyage from San Pedro, California, in a 24-foot sloop. Five years and 33,000 miles later, he returned to home port with a wife and daughter and enough extraordinary experiences to fill this bestselling book,...
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Dora: A Daughter of Unforgiving TerrainDora: A Daughter of Unforgiving Terrain is a gripping memoir by Dora Rodriguez, one of only thirteen survivors of a harrowing 1980 crossing through the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona during El Salvador's civil war. At just nineteen, Dora risked everything to...
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Don't Call It a Comeback: What Happened When I Stopped Chasing Prs, and Started Chasing Happiness"Don't Call It a Comeback is fireworks in a crowded field of athlete memoirs. With a knack for hilariously vulnerable storytelling, Keira unspools a fascinating tale of her unconventional running career." --Shelby Van Pelt, New York Times bestselling author of Remarkably Bright Creatures A...
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Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)An "incredible" (Alex Cooper, Call Her Daddy), "riveting" (People) New York Times bestselling memoir by One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz about her decade in a cult and her quest to break free. In the early 2000s, after years of hard work and...
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Detained: A Boy's Journal of Survival and Resilience"A shocking and moving read. A brutally honest account of the impact of family separation at the US border."--Kirkus Reviews The first-ever memoir of a child's experience in detention on the US/Mexico border under President Trump's infamous family separation policy. D Esperanza was just...
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Destroy This House: A Memoir"Incredible...riveting." --Dax Shepard, Armchair Expert podcast For fans of The Glass Castle and The Liars' Club, a tender, heartbreaking, and hilarious memoir chronicling the challenges of growing up with a desperately scheming father, a mother plagued by an acute hoarding disorder, and parenting parents...
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Desert SolitaireHailed by The New York Times as "a passionately felt, deeply poetic book," the moving autobiographical work of Edward Abbey, considered the Thoreau of the American West, and his passion for the southwestern wilderness. Desert Solitaire is a collection of vignettes about life in...
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Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's NebraskaThe fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen's most surprising album, Nebraska, revealing its pivotal role in Springsteen's career--in development as a major motion picture starring Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) "Brilliant . . . For fans of American music, Deliver Me from...
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Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore LeonardDrawing on unprecedented archival and family access, Cooler Than Cool: The Life of Elmore Leonard, is the first comprehensive biography of the master American crime writer, author of witty, gritty bestsellers like Get Shorty and Raylan.Over the course of his sixty-year career, Elmore Leonard,...
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Cold War Correspondent (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #11): A Korean War TaleDiscover the Korean War through the eyes of a journalist who covered it in author-illustrator Nathan Hale's Cold War Correspondent, a Hazardous Tale in the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series. In 1950, Marguerite Higgins (1920-1966) was made bureau chief of the Far...
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Clam Down: A MetamorphosisIn this wondrously unusual memoir, a woman retreats into her shell in the aftermath of her divorce, and must choose between the pleasures and the perils of a closed-up life--a transformation fable from an acclaimed 5 Under 35 National Book Foundation honoree. "A marvel...
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Chronicles: Volume OneWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan."I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I...
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Children of Radium: A Buried InheritanceIn the tradition of The Hare with Amber Eyes, this "profound...comic...[and] unconventional" (The New York Times) family memoir investigates the dark legacy of the author's great-grandfather, a talented German-Jewish chemist who wound up developing chemical weapons and gas mask filters for the Nazis. When...
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Captain Kidd: A True Story of Treasure and Betrayal2025 Readers' Favorite Book Awards Gold Medal-winner A breakneck adventure of war, romance, and politics in the golden age of piracy. Captain William Kidd stands as one of the most notorious "pirate" outlaws ever, but his legend is tainted by a bed of lies....
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Can't Deny It - An Unlikely Wall Street Career and the Calls that Reshaped the Energy IndustryIn this compelling memoir, Douglas Terreson, one of Wall Street's most influential energy analysts, takes readers on a journey through the high-stakes world of global oil markets and financial powerhouses. From his humble beginnings on offshore oil rigs to making billion-dollar calls that reshaped...
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