📘 Biography & Memoir
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487 books
More Myself
Apropos of Nothing
I’m Glad My Mom Died
How to Test Negative for Stupid
You Better Believe I’m Gonna Talk About It
Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery
The Look
Nobody’s Girl
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic
Mud, Sweat, and Tears — The Autobiography
The Woman in Me
American Prison
The Code Breaker
Just Kids
I Am Zlatan
Walk in My Combat Boots
Solito
Somebody to Love
Clanlands
Noble Power. My Life, My Football
Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
The Forgotten Girls
The Diary Keepers
The Collected Regrets of Clover
The Chinese Groove
The Celebrants
Sink: A Memoir
Is It Hot in Here (Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?)
How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
Hijab Butch Blues
Couplets: A Love Story
Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
A Dog’s Promise
Idiots
The Space Barons
I Am Malala
Hatching Twitter
Elon Musk
A Little Princess
The 50th Law
Surrounded by Idiots
Sharing Space
And There Was Light
Bits and Pieces
Arise, Awake
The Heart of Business
The Revolutionary
Endgame
Becoming FDR
Endurance
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Lives of the Artists
Hit Refresh
The River of Doubt
On the House
Bedtime Biography: Harriet Tubman
The Storyteller
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Walk the Blue Line
Bedtime Biography: Madame Curie
JAY-Z
Sully
The Wide Wide Sea
Solitary
An Autobiography
The Demon of Unrest
The Unwinding of the Miracle
All My Knotted-Up Life
Burn Rate
What I Know for Sure
The Radium Girls
Surrender
From Here to the Great Unknown
Between the World and Me
The House of Morgan
Mark Twain
With the End in Mind
Undaunted
Notes from Underground
Say Nothing
Renegade
Bad Blood
Knife
I Am Not Your Baby Mother
Rogues
The Virgin Way
Daniel Deronda
Flash Crash
Teddy and Booker T.
Raven
A Life Decoded
Hillbilly Elegy
The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book
The Quiet Mind
You Never Forget Your First
The Art of Asking
Bedtime Biography: Florence Nightingale
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Undoing Project
Lincoln vs. Davis
Power Play
King
First They Killed My Father
Stonewall
Sea Stories
Poverty Safari
Be Water, My Friend
Rocket Men
Modern Warriors
We Are the Nerds
A Different Kind of Power
And Finally
Nothing to Envy
The First Muslim
Wired for Love
A Promised Land
Life, on the Line
The Office BFFs
Nanaville
Ali
Madame Bovary
The Man Who Fed the World
Napoleon the Great
Bedtime Biography: Me
Silas Marner
Nickel & Dimed
After the Fall
The Innovation Stack
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Millionaire
Bedtime Biography: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Bedtime Biography: Isaac Newton
G-Man
The House of Rothschild
Showing Up for Life
United
The Portrait of a Lady
Be Useful
Freedom
Do No Harm
The Run of His Life
Trick Mirror
Paris
The Man Without A Face
For the Record
Tell Me More
The Maruti Story
Titan
Unscripted
The Daughters of Kobani
Call Sign Chaos
The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks
The Situation Room
I Know why the Caged Bird Sings
Touching the Rock
On Call
A Long Way Gone
Living Resistance
Renegades
How To Be Black
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered
Be Where Your Feet Are
Fall and Rise
Elizabeth Taylor
This is Going to Hurt
The Mamba Mentality
Catch Me If You Can
Scott Harrison’s Journey to Purpose Through Clean Water
Sula
This Is What America Looks Like
Finding Chika
How to Lose Your Mother
Milton Friedman
Letters to a Young Athlete
Hope
The Missionary Position
Open
Why Religion?
Moore’s Law
How Proust Can Change Your Life
The Intel Trinity
Reasons to Stay Alive
Confidence Man
A River in Darkness
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Didn't See That Coming
To Stop a Warlord
Bad Feminist
Live Wire
Rise of the Rocket Girls
Empire of Pain
Bedtime Biography: Napoleon The Great
A Man for All Markets
Walden
The Contrarian
Inside Out
The Undying
Personal History
Becoming Myself
Bedtime Biography: Edison
For Small Creatures Such as We
Dear Girls
How Not To Be a Boy
Bedtime Biography: Queen of Fashion
Killing the Legends
Endure
American Lion
Careless People
Charlie Munger
Jog On
I Am the Storm
The Surrender Experiment
The Pursuit of Happyness
The Salt Path
Robinson Crusoe
The Year of Magical Thinking
Lucky Loser
Billion Dollar Whale
Epic Measures
Bedtime Biography: Black Spartacus
All About Me!
As I Lay Dying
Faith, Hope and Carnage
Sonny Boy
The Motorcycle Diaries
Man’s Search for Meaning
Can’t Hurt Me
Born a Crime
The House on Mango Street
Good Power
How to Live
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
How to Fail
Melania
Lady in Waiting
Me
Eat a Peach
No Red Lights
Elizabeth the Queen
At War with Ourselves
The Zone of Interest
The Stranger in the Woods
Bedtime Biography: An Autobiography
Help Me!
Queen of Fashion
Rise Up, Women!
The Man Who Solved the Market
Love, Pamela
Beethoven
Bedtime Biography: Notorious RBG
Tired of Winning
The Whole Story
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Ride of a Lifetime
Electronic Value Exchange
The Best Minds
Crying in H Mart
The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto
To the Lighthouse
Confronting the Presidents
Here, Right Matters
Extremely Hardcore
Maid
Poor Things
Gang Leader For A Day
Bedtime Biography: Long Walk to Freedom
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas
The Education of Brett Kavanaugh
The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Relationship Goals
Amazon Unbound
Autobiography of a Yogi
Thick
The Prince and the Pauper
Wuhan Diary
Dogfight
One of Us
David Copperfield
Cinema Speculation
Know My Name
Small Fry
Elon Musk
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
And the Good News Is …
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
Good Arguments
Pageboy
Ghost in the Wires
Reagan
Thicker Than Water
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Promises to Keep
Lawrence in Arabia
She Said
A Message to Garcia
Unbound
Happy Sexy Millionaire
Bedtime Biography: Born a Crime
Losing My Virginity
The Sun Does Shine
The Threat
The Truths We Hold
Lee Kuan Yew
House of Huawei
The Soul of a Woman
Genius
Beyond the Wand
My Name Is Barbra
Spare
Things No One Else Can Teach Us
Harriet Tubman
The Man I Knew
Becoming Beauvoir
Blood Meridian
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Moll Flanders
The Cult of We
In Order to Live
IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD
Furious Hours
American Crisis
Going Infinite
On the Move
Warren Buffett's Ground Rules
Lady Sings the Blues
On His Own Terms
The Happiest Man on Earth
Patriot
Bedtime Biography: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone
Alexander the Great
Buffett
Saving Justice
The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived
The Rise
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
The Boys in the Boat
His Truth Is Marching On
The Flight
Happy Fat
The Beatles Anthology
Finding the Mother Tree
Saved
When Breath Becomes Air
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea
Isaac Newton
An Ordinary Man
You Are Your Best Thing
I Am Dynamite!
Trust First
The Reader
Strangers
No Cure for Being Human
Astor
This Is the Fire
Richard Nixon
Bedtime Biography: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Guantánamo Diary
The Perfect Day to Boss Up
Hearts of Darkness
Notorious RBG
Into the Wild
Good for a Girl
Midnight's Children
Bedtime Biography: Vindication
Wise Guy
All Creatures Great and Small
The Volunteer
Unbroken Bonds of Battle
The Devil in the White City
The Desert and the Sea
To Pixar and Beyond
The Fund
Hidden Figures
The Warmth of Other Suns
Thirteen Days
Catch and Kill
Disrupting the Game
Will
Bedtime Biography: Yes I Can
Speaking for Myself
Florence Nightingale
Make Change
Choosing to Run
Tuesdays with Morrie
Strength in What Remains
The Last Folk Hero
The Remains of the Day
The Spider Network
There's Always This Year
We Are Displaced
Poor Charlie's Almanack
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Finding My Virginity
The Invention of Nature
Across That Bridge
The Greater Freedom
Bedtime Biography: Shoot for the Moon
More Than Enough
Play Nice But Win
Becoming Kim Jong Un
Source Code
Boy Erased
Becoming
The Urgent Life
The House of Hidden Meanings
Sol Price
The Snowball
Alexander Hamilton
Sam Walton: Made in America
Uncanny Valley
Nine Lives
Hidden Valley Road
Always Looking Up
The Light We Give
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
Some People Need Killing
Untamed
Unstoppable
Lovely One
Cork Dork
A Woman of No Importance
All In
A Higher Loyalty
Small Animals
Stay at Risk and Live Forever
Going Clear
Mighty Be Our Powers
The Yankee Way
Get It Together
12 Years a Slave
Citizen
Kitchen Confidential
Greenlights
My Life in Full
Unapologetically Ambitious
Navalny
On Character
Bedtime Biography: Stasiland
Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus
Writing My Wrongs
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man
The Biggest Bluff
Oath and Honor
Eat, Pray, Love
String Theory
Liftoff
Long Walk to Freedom
Emergency
Songs of America
Villette
Chasing Hillary
Conspiracy
House of Gucci
Wintering
The Courage to Be Free
Love Warrior
Imagine It Forward
The Mind of the Artist
Finding Me
Questions I Am Asked About The Holocaust
Black Edge
I Am Ozzy
Talking to GOATs
The World as It Is
I'm Still Here
Brown Girl Dreaming
Natives
The Covenant of Water
Alex & Me
The Airbnb Story
Educated
Martin Luther
My Stroke of Insight
Hunger
The Story of My Life
The Black Jacobins
Becoming Steve Jobs
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