Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Mission Driven: The Path to a Life of PurposeFormer Navy SEAL commander, White House Fellow, and nonprofit and business leader Mike Hayes offers an inspiring playbook for understanding and achieving your most rewarding and purposeful life. Mission Driven offers a practical guide for transition points: young people, recent graduates, professionals shifting to...
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Mein Kampf - The Official 1939 Edition Murphy Translation"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one." Adolf Hitler The officially sanctioned English language edition of 'Mein Kampf' was translated and introduced by James Murphy. The edition using his translation was...
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Mein KampfMein Kampf is one of the most widely known and heavily quoted books of all time. It demonstrates both Hitler's ability to persuade and his ability to instill a sense of heroic destiny. When most people hear the title, Mein Kampf, their first reaction...
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Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America#1 New York Times BestsellerNAACP Image Award WinnerFrom Joy-Ann Reid, a triumphant work of biography that repositions slain Civil Rights pioneer Medgar Evers at the heart of America's struggle for freedom, and celebrates Myrlie Evers's extraordinary activism after her husband's assassination in the driveway...
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McNamara at War: A New HistoryRobert S. McNamara was widely considered to be one of the most brilliant men of his generation. He was an invaluable ally of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson as U.S. secretary of defense, and he had a deeply moving relationship with...
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives RevealedINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!"Rarely have I read a book that challenged me to see myself in an entirely new light, and was at the same time laugh-out-loud funny and utterly absorbing."--Katie Couric"This is a daring, delightful, and transformative book."--Arianna Huffington, Founder, Huffington Post...
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Maybe This Will Save Me: A Memoir of Art, Addiction and Transformation*NATIONAL BESTSELLER**An Autostraddle Most Anticipated Queer Book*"I'm determined to get to know the real Tommy, to trace the shape of my scars."For years, Tommy Dorfman turned her back on her thoughts and emotions, hoping they'd simply go away.After a lifetime of confusion, she finally...
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Maus I & II Paperback Box SetThe bestselling graphic novel acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal) and "the first masterpiece in comic book history" (The New Yorker) - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - One of Variety's "Banned and Challenged Books Everyone...
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Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and MotherhoodLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION - From the acclaimed author of Losing Eden ("Powerful, beautifully written"--Anthony Doerr) an important, moving, passionate and passionately written inquiry--personal and scientific--into what happens--mentally, spiritually, physically, during the process of becoming a mother, from pregnancy and childbirth...
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to FreedomWinner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Biography "A rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant, exploiting assumptions about race, class, and disability...
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Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your NarrativeINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the award-winning, multihyphenate global entertainer Keke Palmer comes the inspiring true story of her journey to understanding her genuine value. Keke Palmer thought she knew who she was. What it means to be a good person and what...
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Mansa Musa and the Empire of MaliOliver's well-researched biography of Mansa Musa reads like an exotic tale of gold, glory, and adventure. During his long reign as Mali's emperor, Mansa Musa led his empire into its Golden Age; presided over a spectacular, 60,000 person, 9,000 mile pilgrimage; founded a university...
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Make Me Commissioner: I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix ItA New York Times bestselling biographer and lifelong baseball devotee takes readers on an epic journey through the game that baseball has become-- a heartfelt manifesto that's perfect for lovers of the sport. Jane Leavy has always loved baseball. Her grandmother lived one long,...
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Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's PoetryBraiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost's life and poetic legacy in a pathbreaking new work. By the middle of the twentieth century, Robert Frost was the best-loved poet in America. He was our nation's bard, simple and...
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Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (a Love Story)Both a love letter to America and a stirring rallying cry for the country to live up to the ideals on which it was founded, this propulsive biography from National Book Award Finalist and "nonfiction maestro (Horn Book)" Deborah Heiligman chronicles the extraordinary life...
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Little WeirdsStep into Jenny Slate's wild imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling), "delicious" (Amy Sedaris), and "poignant" (John Mulaney) New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive -- "this book is something new and wonderful" (George Saunders). You may "know" Jenny Slate from...
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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Meet the little leaders. They're brave. They're bold. They changed the world. Featuring 40 trailblazing black women in history, this book educates and inspires as it relates true stories of women who broke boundaries and exceeded all expectations, including:...
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Lions Do Not Bow: The Unbreakable Courage of Canada's PastorIn today's world, it is often difficult to take the road less traveled--a road where one's religious beliefs and moral convictions are uncompromising. Early in his life, Pastor Artur Pawlowski decided to follow the Lord, no matter the cost. Years later, at an Easter...
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Liliana's Invincible Summer (Pulitzer Prize Winner): A Sister's Search for JusticePULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - "A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister's murderer to justice years after the fact" (The Boston Globe), from "one of Mexico's greatest living...
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Lighthouse Ladies: Shining a Spotlight on Hardy HeroinesThe derring-do of Shark Lady meets the inspiration of Mae Among the Stars in the true stories of four intrepid and diverse women of history as they battle weather and waves to save sailors at sea. Kris Coronado's debut nonfiction picture book, perfect for...
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