Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football TeamA great American sport and Native American history come together in this true story for middle grade readers about how Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner created the legendary Carlisle Indians football team, from New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Award recipient Steve Sheinkin....
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Ubac and Me: A Life of Love and Adventure with a French Mountain DogThe international sensation, a charming and moving memoir of a dog's transformative love. "Having a dog as company makes nothing feel excessive--not time or space. It's not even about passing time, but being of it." A tiny ad in a local newspaper catches Cedric...
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Tweak: Growing Up on MethamphetaminesThe story that inspired the major motion picture Beautiful Boy featuring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet. This New York Times bestselling memoir of a young man's addiction to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery....
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Trust God, Love People: Stories of My Openhanded FaithIn this inspirational memoir, the beloved co-host of HGTV's Fixer to Fabulous asks: When you look back at the stories of your life, where do you see the markers of God's faithfulness? "Reading this warm, charming story feels like sitting down with a close...
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Trophies and Scars: Ray EvernhamTrophies and Scars is the profoundly personal, sincere, and remarkably revealing story of the life and times of NASCAR Hall of Famer Ray Evernham. A son of the Jersey Shore, Evernham dedicated his life to fulfilling his boyhood dream of becoming a professional race...
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To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories"Has the page-turning quality of a thriller." --NPR "Strange and wonderful...A book for our times." --The New York Times Book Review "Propulsive...mesmerizing...breathtaking." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) This unforgettable memoir traces the ramifications of a series of lies that threaten to derail the author's life--exploring...
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To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! Dr. Mary Neal tells the incredible story of the near-death experience that took her to heaven--where she encountered God's peace, joy, and angels--and back to life again. In the Los Rios region of...
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Togo and LeonhardTOGO and Leonhard is the inspiring true story about the relationship between Alaska's most famous musher, Leonhard Seppala, and his legendary lead dog, Togo. Through Leonhard Seppala's arrival as an immigrant from Norway, to the birth of a tiny, sickly puppy who was not...
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This Magnetic North: Candid Conversations on a Changing Northern MichiganWhat happens when a place is so beautiful that everyone wants to go there--and then they stay? This book explores a phenomenon occurring around Michigan's Great Lakes and other high-demand scenic locations across the country: natural landscapes are undergoing profound human and climatological change...
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This Leaves Me Okay: Race, Legacy, and Letters From My GrandmotherLucille "Mama Ceal" Hatch Eldridge wrote to her grandson Walter Pryor weekly for nearly 30 years, from his boyhood until she died at 80. Most extraordinarily, Mama Ceal was not a well-educated person, having completed only the eighth grade. As a live-in maid, raising...
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This Boy's Life (30th Anniversary Edition): A Memoir"A classic of the genre."--New York TimesThe 30th anniversary edition of Tobias Wolff's "extraordinary memoir" (SF Chronicle), now with a new introduction by the author.Thirty years ago Tobias Wolff wrote a memoir that changed the form. The "unforgettable" (Time) This Boy's Life is the...
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The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a StoreThe Year of Less In her late twenties, Cait Flanders found herself stuck in the consumerism cycle that grips so many of us: earn more, buy more, want more, rinse, repeat. Even after she worked her way out of nearly $30,000 of consumer debt,...
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They Changed the Game: 50 Stories and Illustrations Celebrating Creativity in SportsHow did we go from peach baskets to breakaway rims? From underhand lobs to 100-mph fastballs? The history of sports is full of hard-won victories, but they weren't all about being the fastest or scoring the most points. Lavishly illustrated, They Changed the Game...
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The World Is Waiting for You: Embrace Your Calling and Manifest the God Dream Over Your LifeWith a foreword by Viola Davis, award-winning actress Edwina Findley Dickerson presents a faith-filled, laugh-out-loud guide for manifesting your "God Dream" and creating the life you've always envisioned.Were you born with a talent, and gifting to change the world? Is there a divine calling...
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The WildernessA deeply felt chronicle into the wilderness of the first forty days of new motherhood.In the final weeks of her pregnancy, Ayşegül Savaş becomes fascinated by the mythology around the first forty days after giving birth, and the invisible beings that are said to...
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The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled ItThe Widow Clicquot is the New York Times bestselling business biography of the visionary young widow who built a champagne empire, became a legend in her tumultuous times, and showed the world how to live with style. Tilar J. Mazzeo brings to life the...
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The White Peril: A Family MemoirFrom the son of legendary civil rights organizer Robert P. Moses: a brilliant, unflinching memoir about becoming Black in America that interweaves voices from 3 generations of the Moses family "Omo Moses has written an epic reaffirmation of Black diasporic life and a clarion...
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The Unofficial Fan Guide to Sabrina CarpenterInside this brand-new book about Sabrina Carpenter, you'll find everything you could ever want to know about the world's hottest new star. Find out about how Sabrina grew up, her early days of stardom with Disney, all about every one of her pop albums,...
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The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full BiographyLost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. This comprehensive edition includes Jacobs's narrative in full alongside a full-length biography. For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by...
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The Totally Awesome World of Steph Curry: Learn All There Is to Know about Your Favorite MVPLearn everything there is to know about the basketball master of the 3-point shot from the Golden State Warriors in The Totally Awesome World of Steph Curry! Are you a basketball superfan? Do you want to dive into the life of one of the...
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