Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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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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Burn Book: A Tech Love StoryNow including a new afterword! An instant New York Times bestseller from award-winning journalist Kara Swisher, Burn Book is a "highly readable...bawdy, brash, and compulsively thought-provoking" (Booklist, starred review) account of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but...
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BTS: A Little Golden Book BiographyGet to know BTS--the South Korean K-pop group loved by millions of fans around the world--with this beautifully illustrated collectible Little Golden Book! BTS's popularity has grown larger than anyone could have imagined. This boy bands' smash success story comes to life--from their early...
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Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French ParentingThe runaway New York Times bestseller that shows American parents the secrets behind France's amazingly well-behaved children. *This edition also includes Bébé Day by Day: 100 Keys to French Parenting "On questions of how to live, the French never disappoint. . . . Maybe...
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Brady vs. Belichick: The Dynasty DebateA unique and unparalleled look into the nature and relationship of two of the pillars in the NFL's greatest dynasty. The greatest dynasty in NFL history stood on two pillars - Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. Together they forged a working relationship that provided...
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Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of ColorFrom Denne Michele Norris and Electric Literature, a vital anthology of essays by trans and gender-nonconforming writers of color, sharing stories of joy, heartbreak, rage, and self-discovery.Featuring seventeen essays by trans people of color--spanning writers, scientists, actors, activists, and drag queens--Both/And explores what it...
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never SeenNATIONAL BESTSELLER - The astonishing and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run. An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? "Equal parts quest, physiology treatise, and running history.... The climactic race reads like a...
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Bon Vivant Banker-Bishop: A Life in my DayAbout the BookBon Vivant Banker-Bishop is the biography and memoir of Rt. Rev. Dr. Julius T. Makoni. This book highlights key points in his life triggered by the unfolding of events on the day his father died. Readers will benefit from reading about Makoni's...
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Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers StoryNATIONAL BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER The definitive biography of the Everly Brothers, one of the greatest and most influential acts in popular music history, based on dozens of exclusive and archival interviews, as well as long-lost global reporting In between the Elvis years and...
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Birding to Change the World: A MemoirIn this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment.Trish O'Kane is an accidental ornithologist. In her nearly two decades writing about justice as an investigative journalist, she'd never paid attention to...
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Bibliophobia: A Memoir"A wise, tremendously moving exploration of what it means to seek companionship and understanding, in books and in life."--Hua Hsu, author of Stay True "[A] stirring and sparkling new memoir."--The Washington Post ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH: Time, Los Angeles Times,...
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Be the Light: How She Became Angela DavisThe life of civil rights icon Angela Davis is illuminated in an extraordinary picture book biography. Booklist praised this profound exploration of American history, activism, the civil rights movement, and the power of the people as a one that "should be part of all...
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Belle Starr: The Truth Behind the Wild West LegendIn the annals of legendary Wild West desperadoes, Belle Starr is remembered to this day as the Bandit Queen. Shortly after her murder in 1889, a highly romanticized, sensational book titled Bella Starr ... The Bandit Queen, or the Female Jesse James was published--the...
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Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850-1950Explore the trailblazing lives of 30 trans people who radically change everything you've been told about transgender history Highlighting influential individuals from 1850-1950 who are all but unknown today, Eli Erlick shares 30 remarkable stories from romance to rebellion and mystery to murder. These...
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Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our FutureIncluded in the Lakota People's Law Project Decolonized Reading List for 2025 We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us....
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