Biography & Memoir
All Books
A
23 books
A Life Decoded
by J. Craig Venter
A Long Way Gone
by Ishmael Beah
A Message to Garcia
by Elbert Hubbard
A Promised Land
by Barack Obama
A River in Darkness
by Masaji Ishikawa
A Woman of No Importance
by Sonia Purnell
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
by James Shapiro
Across That Bridge
by John Lewis
After the Fall
by Ben Rhodes
Alex & Me
by Irene Pepperberg
Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow
Alexander the Great
by Philip Freeman
Ali
by Jonathan Eig
All In
by Billie Jean King
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
by Rebecca Donner
American Crisis
by Andrew M. Cuomo
American Lion
by Jon Meacham
An Autobiography
by M. K. Gandhi
An Invisible Thread
by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski
And There Was Light
by Jon Meacham
And the Good News Is...
by Dana Perino
Arise, Awake
by Rashmi Bansal
Autobiography of a Yogi
by Paramahansa Yogananda
B
43 books
Bad Blood
by John Carreyrou
Bad Feminist
by Roxane Gay
Be Where Your Feet Are
by Scott O'Neil
Becoming
by Michelle Obama
Becoming Beauvoir
by Kate Kirkpatrick
Becoming Kim Jong Un
by Jung H. Pak
Becoming Steve Jobs
by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli
Bedtime Biography: An Autobiography
by M.K. Gandhi
Bedtime Biography: Black Spartacus
by Sudhir Hazareesingh
Bedtime Biography: Born a Crime
by Trevor Noah
Bedtime Biography: Edison
by Edmund Morris
Bedtime Biography: Florence Nightingale
by Cecil Woodham Smith
Bedtime Biography: Frida
by Hayden Herrera
Bedtime Biography: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by Jack Weatherford
Bedtime Biography: Harriet Tubman
by Catherine Clinton
Bedtime Biography: Hidden Figures
by Margot Lee Shetterly
Bedtime Biography: Isaac Newton
by James Gleick
Bedtime Biography: Long Walk to Freedom
by Nelson Mandela
Bedtime Biography: Madame Curie
by Eve Curie
Bedtime Biography: Margaret Thatcher
by Margaret Thatcher
Bedtime Biography: Me
by Elton John
Bedtime Biography: Napoleon The Great
by Andrew Roberts
Bedtime Biography: Notorious RBG
by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
Bedtime Biography: Queen of Fashion
by Caroline Weber
Bedtime Biography: Shoot for the Moon
by James Donovan
Bedtime Biography: Stasiland
by Anna Funder
Bedtime Biography: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
by Eleanor Roosevelt
Bedtime Biography: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bedtime Biography: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
by Jeanne Theoharis
Bedtime Biography: Vindication
by Lyndall Gordon
Bedtime Biography: Yes I Can
by Sammy Davis, Jr. and Jane and Burt Boyar
Beethoven
by Laura Tunbridge
Begin Again
by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
by Katherine Boo
Benjamin Franklin
by Walter Isaacson
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Beyond the Wand
by Tom Felton
Billion Dollar Whale
by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope
Black Edge
by Sheelah Kolhatkar
Born a Crime
by Trevor Noah
Boy Erased
by Garrard Conley
Buffett
by Roger Lowenstein
Burn Rate
by Andy Dunn
C
11 books
CONSPIRACY
by Ryan Holiday
Call Sign Chaos
by Jim Mattis, Bing West
Can’t Hurt Me
by David Goggins
Catch Me If You Can
by Frank Abagnale and Stan Redding
Catch and Kill
by Ronan Farrow
Charlie Munger
by Tren Griffin
Chasing Hillary
by Amy Chozick
Cinema Speculation
by Quentin Tarantino
Confidence Man
by Maggie Haberman
Cork Dork
by Bianca Bosker
Crying in H Mart
by Michelle Zauner
D
5 books
Dear Girls
by Ali Wong
Didn't See That Coming
by Rachel Hollis
Disrupting the Game
by Reggie Fils-Aimé
Do No Harm
by Henry Marsh
Dogfight
by Fred Vogelstein
E
9 books
Eat a Peach
by David Chang
Educated
by Tara Westover
Einstein
by Walter Isaacson
Elizabeth the Queen
by Sally Bedell Smith
Emergency
by Neil Strauss
Empire of Pain
by Patrick Radden Keefe
Endurance
by Alfred Lansing
Endure
by Cameron Hanes
Epic Measures
by Jeremy N. Smith
F
13 books
Faith, Hope and Carnage
by Nick Cave, Seán O'Hagan
Fall and Rise
by Mitchell Zuckoff
Finding Chika
by Mitch Albom
Finding Me
by Viola Davis
Finding My Virginity
by Richard Branson
Finding the Mother Tree
by Suzanne Simard
First They Killed My Father
by Loung Ung
Flash Crash
by Liam Vaughan
Florence Nightingale
by Cecil Woodham-Smith
For Small Creatures Such as We
by Sasha Sagan
For the Record
by David Cameron
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
by Matthew Perry
Furious Hours
by Casey Cep
G
7 books
Gang Leader For A Day
by Sudhir Venkatesh
Genius
by James Gleick
Ghost in the Wires
by Kevin Mitnick
Going Clear
by Lawrence Wright
Good Arguments
by Bo Seo
Greenlights
by Matthew McConaughey
Guantánamo Diary
by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, edited by Larry Siems
H
17 books
Hack Attack
by Nick Davies
Happy Fat
by Sofie Hagen
Hard Choices
by Hillary Clinton
Harriet Tubman
by Catherine Clinton
Help Me!
by Marianne Power
Hidden Figures
by Margot Lee Shetterly
Hidden Valley Road
by Robert Kolker
Hillbilly Elegy
by J.D. Vance
His Truth Is Marching On
by Jon Meacham and John Lewis
Hit Refresh
by Satya Nadella
House of Gucci
by Sara Gay Forden
How Not To Be a Boy
by Robert Webb
How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain de Botton
How To Be Black
by Baratunde Thurston
How to Fail
by Elizabeth Day
How to Live
by Sarah Bakewell
Hunger
by Roxane Gay
I
8 books
I Am Dynamite!
by Sue Prideaux
I Am Not Your Baby Mother
by Candice Brathwaite
I'm Still Here
by Austin Channing Brown
IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD
by Russ
Imagine It Forward
by Beth Comstock with Thal Raz
Inside Out
by Demi Moore
Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
Isaac Newton
by James Gleick
J
2 books
JAY-Z
by Michael Eric Dyson
Jog On
by Bella Mackie
K
3 books
Killing the Legends
by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
Know My Name
by Chanel Miller
Kochland
by Christopher Leonard
L
12 books
Lady Sings the Blues
by Billie Holiday with William Dufty
Lady in Waiting
by Anne Glenconner
Lawrence in Arabia
by Scott Anderson
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
by John Wood
Leonardo Da Vinci
by Walter Isaacson
Letters to a Young Athlete
by Chris Bosh
Life, on the Line
by Grant Achatz & Nick Kokonas
Liftoff
by Eric Berger
Live Wire
by Kelly Ripa
Long Walk to Freedom
by Nelson Mandela
Losing My Virginity
by Richard Branson
Love Warrior
by Glennon Doyle
M
17 books
Maid
by Stephanie Land
Make Change
by Shaun King
Make Trouble
by Cecile Richards (with Lauren Peterson)
Mandela’s Way
by Richard Stengel
Man’s Search for Meaning
by Viktor Frankl
Martin Luther
by Heinz Schilling
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone
by Lori Gottlieb
Me
by Elton John
Mighty Be Our Powers
by Leymah Gbowee with Carol Mithers
Millionaire
by Janet Gleeson
Minor Feelings
by Cathy Park Hong
Modern Warriors
by Pete Hegseth
Moore’s Law
by Arnold Thackray, David Brock and Rachel Jones
More Than Enough
by Elaine Welteroth
My Beloved World
by Sonia Sotomayor
My Life in Full
by Indra Nooyi
My Stroke of Insight
by Jill Bolte Taylor
N
10 books
Nanaville
by Anna Quindlen
Napoleon the Great
by Andrew Roberts
Natives
by Akala
Navalny
by Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet and Ben Noble
Nickel & Dimed
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Nine Lives
by Aimen Dean with Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister
No Cure for Being Human
by Kate Bowler
No Red Lights
by Alan Patricof
Nothing to Envy
by Barbara Demick
Notorious RBG
by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
O
5 books
On His Own Terms
by Richard Norton Smith
On the House
by John Boehner
On the Move
by Oliver Sacks
One of Us
by Åsne Seierstad
Open
by Andre Agassi
P
6 books
Permanent Record
by Edward Snowden
Personal History
by Katharine Graham
Poor Charlie's Almanack
by Peter D. Kaufman
Poverty Safari
by Darren McGarvey
Power Play
by Tim Higgins
Promises to Keep
by Joe Biden
Q
2 books
Queen of Fashion
by Caroline Weber
Questions I Am Asked About The Holocaust
by Hédi Fried
R
10 books
Raven
by Tim Reiterman with John Jacobs
Reagan
by H. W. Brands
Reasons to Stay Alive
by Matt Haig
Relationship Goals
by Michael Todd
Renegades
by Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen
Richard Nixon
by John A. Farrell
Rise Up, Women!
by Diane Atkinson
Rise of the Rocket Girls
by Nathalia Holt
Rocket Men
by Robert Kurson
Rogues
by Patrick Radden Keefe
S
18 books
Sam Walton: Made in America
by Sam Walton with John Huey
Saving Justice
by James Comey
Say Nothing
by Patrick Keefe
Sea Stories
by William H. McRaven
She Said
by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
Shoe Dog
by Phil Knight
Small Animals
by Kim Brooks
Small Fry
by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Solitary
by Albert Woodfox
Songs of America
by Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw
Spare
by Prince Harry
Speaking for Myself
by Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered
by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson
Stonewall
by Martin Duberman
Strength in What Remains
by Tracy Kidder
String Theory
by David Foster Wallace
Surrender
by Bono
T
83 books
Talking to GOATs
by Jim Gray
Tell Me More
by Kelly Corrigan
Tesla
by Margaret Cheney
The Airbnb Story
by Leigh Gallagher
The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book
by Alice B. Toklas
The Art of Asking
by Amanda Palmer
The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Alex Haley, Malcolm X
The Beatles Anthology
by The Beatles
The Biggest Bluff
by Maria Konnikova
The Black Jacobins
by C.L.R. James
The Blue Sweater
by Jacqueline Novogratz
The Boys in the Boat
by Daniel James Brown
The Bully Pulpit
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Contrarian
by Max Chafkin
The Cult of We
by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell
The Daughters of Kobani
by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
The Desert and the Sea
by Michael Scott Moore
The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
The Education of Brett Kavanaugh
by Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly
The First Muslim
by Lesley Hazleton
The Flight
by Dan Hampton
The Greater Freedom
by Alya Mooro
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Happiest Man on Earth
by Eddie Jaku
The House of Rothschild
by Niall Ferguson
The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
The Innovation Stack
by Jim McKelvey
The Innovators
by Walter Isaacson
The Intel Trinity
by Michael S. Malone
The Invention of Nature
by Andrea Wulf
The Last Folk Hero
by Jeff Pearlman
The Light We Carry
by Michelle Obama
The Light We Give
by Simran Jeet Singh
The Mamba Mentality
by Kobe Bryant
The Man I Knew
by Jean Becker
The Man Who Fed the World
by Leon Hesser
The Man Who Solved the Market
by Gregory Zuckerman
The Man Without A Face
by Masha Gessen
The Missionary Position
by Christopher Hitchens
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins
The Perfect Day to Boss Up
by Rick Ross, with Neil Martinez-Belkin
The Poisoner’s Handbook
by Deborah Blum
The Promise of a Pencil
by Adam Braun
The Quiet Mind
by John E. Coleman
The Radium Girls
by Kate Moore
The Revolutionary
by Stacy Schiff
The Ride of a Lifetime
by Robert Iger
The Rise
by Mike Sielski
The Run of His Life
by Jeffrey Toobin
The Salt Path
by Raynor Winn
The Snowball
by Alice Schroeder
The Soul of a Woman
by Isabel Allende
The Spider Network
by David Enrich
The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller
The Sun Does Shine
by Anthony Ray Hinton and Lara Love Hardin
The Surrender Experiment
by Michael A. Singer
The Threat
by Andrew G. McCabe
The Truths We Hold
by Kamala Harris
The Undying
by Anne Boyer
The Unwinding of the Miracle
by Julie Yip-Williams
The Valedictorian of Being Dead
by Heather B. Armstrong
The Virgin Way
by Richard Branson
The Volunteer
by Jack Fairweather
The Warmth of Other Suns
by Isabel Wilkerson
The World as It Is
by Ben Rhodes
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
Thick
by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Things No One Else Can Teach Us
by Humble the Poet
Things a Little Bird Told Me
by Biz Stone
Thirst
by Scott Harrison
This Is What America Looks Like
by Ilhan Omar
This Is the Fire
by Don Lemon
This is Going to Hurt
by Adam Kay
Titan
by Ron Chernow
To Pixar and Beyond
by Lawrence Levy
To Stop a Warlord
by Shannon Sedgwick Davis
Total Recall
by Arnold Schwarzenegger
Touching the Rock
by John M. Hull
Trick Mirror
by Jia Tolentino
Trust First
by Bruce Deel with Sara Grace
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas
by Adam Kay
U
7 books
Unapologetically Ambitious
by Shellye Archambeau
Unbound
by Tarana Burke
Uncanny Valley
by Anna Wiener
Undaunted
by John O. Brennan
United
by Cory Booker
Unstoppable
by Maria Sharapova
Untamed
by Glennon Doyle
W
17 books
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
Warren Buffett's Ground Rules
by Jeremy C. Miller
We Are Displaced
by Malala Yousafzai
We Are the Nerds
by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
What Happened
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
What I Know for Sure
by Oprah Winfrey
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
by Haruki Murakami
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
Why Religion?
by Elaine Pagels
Will
by Will Smith with Mark Manson
Wintering
by Katherine May
Wired for Love
by Stephanie Cacioppo
Wise Guy
by Guy Kawasaki
With the End in Mind
by Kathryn Mannix
Without You There Is No Us
by Suki Kim
Writing My Wrongs
by Shaka Senghor
Wuhan Diary
by Fang Fang
Y
2 books
You Are Your Best Thing
by Edited by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown
You Never Forget Your First
by Alexis Coe
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