Biographies & Autobiographies books

""A refreshing memoir, fast, fun, and joyous."" -- Alex Honnold, climber featured in Free Solo and author of Alone...  Read More >>

In this captivating memoir from 1935-1950s, Margaret chronicles her journey from a troubled WWII childhood to becoming...  Read More >>

Throughout this vivid collection of poetry and prose and poetic prose there are recollections of her father, who...  Read More >>

Living in a one-room hut in a Mumbai slum, where open drains ran past crumbling homes and dreams were rationed like...  Read More >>

A Korean expatriate spent twenty-five years watching China transform-and saw what both Western observers and Chinese...  Read More >>

A ferociously honest and disarmingly funny memoir about an elusive mother’s encroaching dementia and a reckoning...  Read More >>

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2025 PICK From the author of Madame Restell and Get Well Soon, a biography...  Read More >>

Mannie Sher's autobiography, Timeless Lessons, is a deeply personal and reflective memoir written as letters and...  Read More >>

In A Lawyers' Beliefs, veteran prosecutor-turned-barrister Valery Stoyanov ushers you behind the scenes of post-communist...  Read More >>

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Timothée Chalamet Is Life is a beautifully illustrated guide that explores and celebrates the actor and his films....  Read More >>

The classic biography of Salvadoran revolutionary hero Farabundo Marti.  Read More >>

The tragic and mysterious death of Hazel Drew that inspired the cult hit TV show Twin Peaks, is finally solved by...  Read More >>

In these hard-hitting and deeply personal essays,Nation writer and veteran activist Wen Stephenson traces his search...  Read More >>

In a paean to the art of losing, Benjamin Libman gathers and weaves the threads of multiple pasts - of his community,...  Read More >>

The story of the circle of scientists, poets and dissidents who discovered laughing gas—and forever changed our...  Read More >>

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Step into the shadows. Light the cigarette. Ask the question you already know the answer to. If you've ever wanted...  Read More >>

A Renaissance Genius from Humble Beginnings: Follow Leonardo's journey from a curious child in the village of Vinci...  Read More >>

In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Bob Simpson, a former Vermont prosecutor, worked with police and other...  Read More >>

Eight years old and growing up in Colonial Singapore, enjoying all the elite privileges that came with having a...  Read More >>

""ദി സ്റ്റോറി ഓഫ് ദയയുള്ള എത്തിക്കൽ ഹാക്കർ"" എന്ന ചന്തു കാനൂരിയുടെ പുസ്തകം ഒരു ഹാക്കർ എങ്ങനെയാണ് ഒരു മികച്ച വ്യക്തിത്വമായി...  Read More >>

From Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali ""The Birth of a Legend"" Discover the transformation of a young, confident fighter...  Read More >>