Biography and Memoir

Discover the stories of their lives, in recent biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs.
Updated March 31, 2026
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In The Days Of My Youth I Was Told What It Means To Be A Man: A Memoir
Junod, Tom.
Paper Book
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE * From two-time National Magazine Award winner Tom Junod, a searching, brilliantly stylized memoir about a charismatic, philandering father who tried to mold his son in his image, the many secrets he hid, the son's obsessive...
Mark Twain
Chernow, Ron.
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times Bestseller * One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025* A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book * Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, and Kirkus Reviews ...
North of Ordinary: How One Woman Left It All Behind for Wilderness and Wonder in Alaska's Frozen Frontier
Aikens, Sue.
Paper Book
When the wild strips everything away, what's left is who you are. In the raw, untamed wilds of Alaska--where the wind howls, predators hunt, and the sun disappears for months--only a rare few figure out how to survive. Sue Aikens, the breakout star of National Geographic's long-running TV...
Winter: The Story of a Season
McDermid, Val.
Paper Book
'McDermid's most personal book to date' THE SCOTSMAN'A warm hug of a book... like sitting by a roaring winter fire' JACKIE KAY Winter is the time to snuggle indoors without guilt; to curl up on the sofa with a good book or a box set, a hot drink or a...
The Irish Goodbye: Micro-memoirs
Fennelly, Beth Ann.
Paper Book
What can we learn from an ordinary life observed with extraordinary skill? In The Irish Goodbye, Beth Ann Fennelly writes of the small moments that shape a life, whether moving or perplexing or troubling or gladdening, in the process dignifying the diminutive through the act of attention....
Starry And Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, And The World
Cooke, Julia.
Paper Book
"Read this book and be enthralled." --The New York Times A Parade Most-Anticipated Book of the Year The page-turning story of three women reporters and the way they changed the world, work, and journalism. She hid on a Red...
I Identify as Blind: A Brazen Celebration of Disability Culture, Identity, and Power
Vandehey, Tim.
Paper Book
Lachi is an award-winning musician and an unapologetic activist who awakens the world to this truth: Disability is an identity worth brazenly celebrating. In her book, Lachi spotlights how disabled people have to be driven, persistent, perceptive, and highly adaptable just to get through any given...
The Look
Obama, Michelle.
Paper Book
'A historical document, capturing a pivotal moment in the evolution of the role of first lady when clothing became an even bigger part of communication. When, in other words, dress became an officially recognized part of the job.' Vanessa Friedman, New York Times ***
Labor: One Woman's Work
Afsari, Mary Fariba.
Paper Book
A powerful memoir of medicine, identity, and family secrets from an esteemed ob-gyn as she unravels her grandmother's mysterious death while reimagining women's health care from a mobile clinic--for readers of The Beauty in Breaking and The In-Between. In...
Black. Single. Mother.: Real Life Tales of Longing and Belonging
Lemieux, Jamilah.
Paper Book
A personal meditation on, examination of, and tribute to Black single motherhood, unapologetically told through poignant essays and candid interviews by a celebrated cultural critic "Jamilah Lemieux is one of the most important feminist writers of the twenty-first century."-...
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy In The Age Of Airplanes
Gottlieb, Anthony.
Paper Book
The first biography in more than three decades of the Austrian-born thinker Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century "An engrossing biography [that] focuses on what is most essential and interesting in the philosopher's work and life....
Real Alma Mahler: Composer, Socialite, Rebel and Influencer: Composer, Socialite, Rebel And Influencer
Grohmann, Judith.
Paper Book
Alma Mahler, one of the most fascinating and controversial women of the early 20th century, was far more than just the wife of composer Gustav Mahler. A muse, composer, writer, and socialite, she moved in the highest intellectual and artistic circles of her time, inspiring some of the greatest minds...
Emilio Pucci: The Astonishing Odyssey Of A Fashion Icon
Ward, Terence.
Paper Book
"Graceful." --New York Times "Reads like a spy novel, but in this case the truth is stranger than fiction." --Vogue The Drama of War and Postwar Italy Through the Life of One of Its Most Celebrated Icons When...
Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood
Mann, William J.
Paper Book
Illuminating and captivating, New York Times bestselling author of Tinseltown and Bogart offers the first definitive account of the Black Dahlia murder--the most famous unsolved true crime case in American history--which humanizes the victim and situates the notorious case...

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