Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler ProjectDuring World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social workers to save 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto. Incredibly, after the war her heroism, like that of many others, was suppressed...
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LifeformFrom actor, comedian, co-creator of Marcel the Shell, and New York Times bestselling author of Little Weirds, Jenny Slate, a wild, soulful, hilarious collection of genre-bending essays depicting the journey into motherhood as you've never seen it before. What happened was this: Jenny Slate...
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Letters to a Young PoetRainer Maria Rilke's powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet. At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering, and the nature of advice itself....
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Lessons from the Admiral: Naval Wisdom and Sea Stories for LeadersAs the aide for a navy admiral more than thirty years ago, Mark C. Fava learned valuable lessons that were formative in his emergence as a thoughtful and successful leader. Now a vice president at the world's largest aerospace company and a career aviation...
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Leonardo Da VinciNow a docuseries from Ken Burns on PBS! The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is "a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it...Most important, it...
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Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in MedicineAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTUAL PEOPLE IN GLOBAL HEALTH "This book is more than a memoir--it also serves as a call to action to create a more equitable healthcare system for patients of color, particularly Black women."...
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Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the WorldIn Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolin--"one of today's finest writers about ships and the sea" (American Heritage)--tells the true story of a wild and fateful encounter between an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig, and a British warship in the Falkland archipelago...
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted MurderNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring--and surviving--an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The...
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Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our HeadINSTANT PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER "Unnervingly raw and honest, this book is timeless wisdom that was earned the hard way."--Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck From the author of Dark Days and lead singer of long-running extreme metal band,...
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Joy Prescriptions: How I Learned to Stop Chasing Perfection and Embrace ConnectionNATIONAL BESTSELLER Doctor by day and Bravo's Real Housewife by night, Tiffany Moon has a prescription for releasing perfectionism and finding joy! "A must-read for anyone seeking more balance, purpose, and joy at home and at work."--Barbara Corcoran As a self-proclaimed "good girl," Tiffany...
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Jim!: Six True Stories about One Great Artist: James MarshallA picture book biography of the late, great James Marshall--illustrator of Miss Nelson is Missing and the George and Martha series--and as clever, delightful, and daring as Jim himself Author and illustrator James Marshall let kids in on the joke. He knew little kids...
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Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams: The Woman Who Rescued a Generation of Children and Founded the World's Largest Children's LibraryThe inspiring true story of how one visionary woman used children's books to help heal a generation of Germany's children after WWII and went on to set up the International Youth Library and International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). Written by Katherine...
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I Was Told There'd Be a Village: Transforming Motherhood Through the Power of ConnectionMelissa Wirt recounts her journey and dozens of others in building a supportive "village" to transform oppressive, solitary motherhood into a connected--even joyful--endeavor. Melissa Wirt thought she had everything--she'd built her own company and moved to a beautiful farm with her family. Then during...
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It's Lonely at the Centre of the EarthA provacative graphic memoir perfect for fans of Allie Brosh's Solutions and Other Problems - Thorogood is the winner of the 2023 Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award - Nominated for two 2023 Eisner Awards in the Best Graphic Memoir and Best Writer/Artist categories...
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It's (Almost) Always Sunny in Philadelphia: How Three Friends Spent $200 to Create the Longest-Running Live-Action Sitcom in History and Help Build aIn the bestselling traditions of Seinfeldia and Top of the Rock comes a fascinating deep dive into the longest-running live-action sitcom in television history, from its humble beginnings to its evolution as a critically acclaimed cult classic comedy. Charlie, Dennis, Mac, Sweet Dee, and...
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Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets Ofthe HeartThe award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother...
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Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi EuropeFrom three-time National Book Award finalist and Newbery Honor author Steve Sheinkin, a true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the Holocaust--one in hiding in Hungary, and the other in Auschwitz, plotting escape. It is 1944. A teenager named Rudolf (Rudi)...
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I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying: A MemoirElle's Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 The Boston Globe's Best Books of 2024 San Francisco Chronicle's Best New Books of Fall 2024 From standup comedian Youngmi Mayer, an unforgettable memoir written with "raw, enviable freedom that simply floors you," interrogating whiteness, gender, and sexuality...
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I'm Highly Percent SureIn this rich, transparent, and witty memoir, the Co-Founder of WangaWoman LLC, current President & CEO of Essence Ventures, and ambassador of authenticity navigates the lifelong battle between her intuition and inner saboteur delivering "instigational" inspiration with a passion to help every person discover...
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I'll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop FanJia Tolentino's Trick Mirror meets Cathy Park Hong's Minor Feelings in a meditation that blends memoir and cultural criticism to explore how the author's love affair with K-pop has shaped her sense of self, charting K-pop's complex coming-of-age through some of its biggest idols....
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