Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of JesusNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From a renowned National Book Award-winning scholar, an extraordinary new account of the life of Jesus that explores the mystery of how a poor young man inspired a religion that reshaped the world. "This a brilliant and necessary book....
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Malcolm Lives!: The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers"Vital, brilliant" --New York Times Book Review * A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection * 4 starred reviews National Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times-bestselling author Dr. Ibram X. Kendi brings a global icon to life in the first major biography of...
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The Place of TidesA National Bestseller"A modern classic, one we very much need right now." -George SaundersFrom the acclaimed author of The Shepherd's Life, a magical work of nonfiction in which James Rebanks reflects on a life-changing summer spent on a remote island off the coast of...
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Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir***The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!***A smart, funny, and refreshing memoir from Mark Hoppus, the vocalist, bassist, and founding member of pop-punk band blink-182.This is the story of an angst-filled kid from the desert, navigating the chaos of his parents' bitter divorce and...
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Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. ButlerA magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work. As the first Black woman to consistently write and publish in the field of science fiction, Octavia...
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Gender Queer: A Memoir2020 ALA Alex Award Winner 2020 Stonewall -- Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was...
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Uncommon Favor: Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Life Lessons I Learned from All ThreeINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For the first time, Dawn Staley shares powerful and inspiring stories that have shaped her journey on and off the court. A three-time Olympic gold medalist, six-time WNBA All-Star, and the first person to win the Naismith College Player...
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Sam Walton, Made in America: My StoryIn this "sure-fire all-American success story" (The New York Times Book Review), the founder of Wal-Mart describes the inspiration, heart, and optimism that propelled him to build the largest retailer in the world. "[A] wise and inspiring autobiography--Walton tells his quietly fantastic story with...
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Persepolis: The Story of a ChildhoodNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. "A wholly original achievement.... Satrapi evokes herself and her schoolmates coming of age in a world of protests and...
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Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless CraftsmanTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER A memoir of the author's journey from an office job to restoring a cabin in the Pacific Northwest, based on his wildly popular Outside Magazine piece. Wit's End isn't just a state of mind. It's the name of a gravel road,...
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Sun and SteelIn this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of writing, yet in the end fits into none of them.At one level, it...
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Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative LifeINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith distills creativity and the craft of writing with a practical guide perfect for fans of Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic and Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird. Drawing from her twenty years of teaching...
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The Glass Castle: A MemoirTHE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER--FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG THE MOON The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world's most gifted storytellers. The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a...
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX - A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice--from one of...
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Nuts! A 101st Airborne Division Machine Gunner at BastogneAuthor: Vincent J. SperanzaPublisher: Vincent J. SperanzaPublished: 11/11/2014Pages: 244Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51dISBN: 9781941165515
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Jfk: Public, Private, SecretTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED ONE OF AMAZON EDITORS' BEST BOOKS OF JULY From the New York Times bestselling Kennedy historian and author of Jackie: Public, Private, Secret comes the other side of the story--her husband's: JFK: Public, Private, Secret. In this definitive...
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Just Kids: An AutobiographyWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD"Reading rocker Smith's account of her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, it's hard not to believe in fate. How else to explain the chance encounter that threw them together, allowing both to blossom? Quirky and spellbinding." -- People It...
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Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White HouseINSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER"Brutal." --Huffington Post"Scathing." --New York Post"[D]epicts Biden's decline in vivid detail." --Politico"So many revelations." --Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe"Bombshell." --Jesse Watters, host of FOX's Jesse Watters PrimetimeThe authors of the #1 New York...
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary UnderbellyAn updated and revised edition of Anthony Bourdain's mega-bestselling Kitchen Confidential, with new material from the original editionAlmost two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, "Don't Eat before You Read This," by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no...
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On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's SportsInstant New York Times Bestseller! A news-making and electrifying portrait of sports phenomenon Caitlin Clark, whose dramatic ascendance in college basketball and now in the WNBA has captured the attention of media and fans unlike any other female team-sport athlete in history--by award-winning USA...
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