Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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If You Must Go, I Wish You Triplets**FEATURED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES 'MODERN LOVE' ESSAY**"It's strangely heartwarming to realize that even sexagenarians can be this chaotic."-Vulture, New York Magazine "What a fantastic book...like reading a mystery, racing to see what happens...and then finding clarity and the triumph of the ending."-ABIGAIL...
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I Am a Part of Infinity: The Spiritual Journey of Albert EinsteinA "beautifully written" (David Fideler) spiritual biography of Albert Einstein that reveals for the first time the scientific and religious origins of his personal philosophy -- "a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the mind of the great physicist" (Jo Marchant) Albert Einstein...
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How to Stop Trying: An Overachiever's Guide to Self-Acceptance, Letting Go, and Other Impossible ThingsAn unflinchingly honest and sometimes hilarious look at hustle culture, exploring the forces that have shaped a generation of overachieving women who now find themselves in search of a better way forward. Have you ever heard someone say, "I'm trying to make it work,"...
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How to Starve Cancer: ...and Then Kill It with FerroptosisAfter being given a terminal diagnosis with only a few weeks to live, Jane dug up research, some decades old, in her quest to survive. Rather than aiming to cure cancer, which in many cases is unachievable, Jane's approach was to stop it growing....
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How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Formula 1 Designer'Adrian has a unique gift for understanding drivers and racing cars. He is ultra competitive but never forgets to have fun. An immensely likeable man.' Damon HillThe world's foremost designer in Formula One, Adrian Newey OBE is arguably one of Britain's greatest engineers and...
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How to Be Free: A Proven Guide to Escaping Life's Hidden Prisons"I love this book--because it teaches you how to manifest freedom in your own life and how that work allows you to rise to your greatest glory." --Oprah Winfrey, The Oprah Podcast Learn to embrace joy, achieve success, and unlock your full potential with...
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House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for HomeThe author of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South tells his own story this time. Of growing up in a house wrecked by violence and a South haunted by racism. And of how his search for home led him to...
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House of Psychotic Women: Expanded Edition: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation FilmsHOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN has attained canonical status, having ushered in a new way of writing about film. Kier-La Janisse's acclaimed book is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films that examines hundreds of films through a daringly personal lens....
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Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space RaceBased on the New York Times bestselling book and the Academy Award-nominated movie, author Margot Lee Shetterly and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award winner Laura Freeman bring the incredibly inspiring true story of four black women who helped NASA launch men into space...
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Harry StylesLearn about the life of Harry Styles, one of the most beloved pop singers of all time.From a young age, little Harry loved singing and performing, and he sparked joy in the hearts of his audience. Starring in his school's play, he felt right...
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Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern ShoreA fresh portrait of this iconic American--and the first to involve a Tubman family member since Harriet herself was interviewed in 1886. For all Harriet Tubman's accomplishments and the myriad books written about her, many gaps, errors, and misconceptions of her legendary life persist....
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Happy to Help: Adventures of a People PleaserA Brit&Co Most Anticipated Books of 2025 An IPPY Gold Medalist in Essays A National Indies Excellence Awards Memoir Finalist Amy Wilson, co-host of the award-winning podcast What Fresh Hell, takes a funny and insightful look at how women are conditioned to be "happy...
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Good Game, No Rematch: A Life Made of Video Games*An Inside Hook Book You Should Be Reading This April*"Funny, genuine and knowledgeable about something that meant so much to all of us." --Ben Schwartz A hilarious and nostalgic memoir about the video games that entertain and inspire us, and even hold the power...
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Going Somewhere: Truth about a Life in ScienceGoing Somewhere is a dynamic autobiographical narrative about Andrew Marino's career in science. With a depth and drama that arise from personal involvement, the book explores an exceptionally wide range of science-related matters: the relation between electrical energy and life; the influence of corporate...
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God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for MeaningA strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. - "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks...
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Girl with No Name: The Incredible Story of a Child Raised by MonkeysIn 1954, in a remote mountain village in South America, a little girl was abducted. She was four years old. Marina Chapman was stolen from her home and then abandoned deep in the Colombian jungle. That she survived is a miracle. Two days later,...
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Gifts from the Garbage Truck: A True Story about the Things We (Don't) Throw Away"Informative and inspirational... will have readers rethinking the value of items that appear seemingly worthless. Highly recommended." -- School Library Journal, STARRED ReviewA picture book about what we throw away, and why it might be worth keeping!What if everywhere you looked, you saw something...
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From Under the Truck: A Memoir"Josh Brolin's out to catch his breath between the slant-eyed suggestions and irrefutable evidence of his past. He hears voices, and he listens, reminding us with brutal honesty that our surroundings were never there to be carried, rather woven into the fabric of the...
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good DeathFascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world's funerary customs and expands our sense of...
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Free LunchInstead of giving him lunch money, Rex's mom has signed him up for free meals. As a poor kid in a wealthy school district, better-off kids crowd impatiently behind him as he tries to explain to the cashier that he's on the free meal...
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