Biography and Memoir

Discover the stories of their lives, in recent biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs.
Updated March 31, 2025
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The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
Shari Franke
Audiobook
Patriot: A Memoir
Alexei Navalny
Ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER * BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER, THE ATLANTIC, NPR * The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. "...
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Salman Rushdie
Ebook
NATIONAL 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 New...
What I Ate in One Year: (and related thoughts)
Stanley Tucci
Ebook
From Stanley Tucci, award-winning actor and New York Times bestselling author, a deliciously unique memoir chronicling a year's worth of meals. "Sharing food is one of the purest human acts." Food has always been an integral part of Stanley Tucci's...
Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father
April Balascio
Audiobook
Lovely One: A Memoir
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Ebook
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In her "vulnerable, tender, and infinitely inspirational" (Oprah Daily) memoir, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States chronicles her extraordinary life story. "A billowingly triumphant...
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne
Ebook
The instant New York Times bestseller * Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME, NPR, People, Town & Country, and Air Mail "Warm and perceptive." --New York Times "Griffin Dunne knows how to tell a story." --Washington...
On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
Anthony Stephen Fauci
Ebook
#1 New York Times Bestseller The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents "An eventful autobiography [and] a ...
Reagan: His Life and Legend
Max Boot
Ebook
NEW YORK TIMES * 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2024 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Washington Post * 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 Best Books of 2024: The New Yorker, The Economist, Chicago Public Library, The Auburn Citizen "This elegant...

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