Biography and Memoir

Discover the stories of their lives, in recent biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs.
Updated December 26, 2025
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Mark Twain
Ron Chernow
Ebook
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, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, and Kirkus Reviews ...
Memorial Days: A Memoir
Geraldine Brooks
A New York Times Bestseller · A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 · A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025 · Named a Best Book of 2025 by NPR, People, and Publishers Weekly "Brooks tracks the geography of grief with...
Source Code: My Beginnings
Bill Gates
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age "A surprisingly candid memoir of the Microsoft mogul's early years...Reading this book feels like watching someone take a...
Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up
Dave Barry
America's most beloved wiseass finally tells his life story with all the humor you'd expect from a man who made a career out of making fun of pretty much everything. How does the son of a Presbyterian minister wind up winning a Pulitzer Prize for writing a wildly inaccurate...
The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir
Neko Case
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN APPLE BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH Singer-songwriter Neko Case paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary life--one forged through a poverty-stricken childhood, obsessive desire, bursts of comedy, and indispensable friendships-...
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
Shari Franke
Audiobook
How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir
Molly Jong-Fast
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025 "With propulsive humor and perspective on her annus horribilis, Jong-Fast achieves the memoir's transformative work of alchemy, arming us all with lines so good you won't just...
The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
Melissa Febos
From Melissa Febos, the national bestselling author of Girlhood, comes an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes she discovered during a year of celibacy and a wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge. "Only Melissa Febos could...
Say Everything: A Memoir
Ione Skye
In this instant New York Times bestselling memoir, Gen X icon Ione Skye shares her "delightfully juicy" (People) and achingly vulnerable story about chasing fame, desire, and true love in the shadow of her famous, absent father. In 1987, sixteen-year-old Ione Skye...
Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put
Annie B. Jones
Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman
Brooke Shields
Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations
Alton Brown
Audiobook
Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir
Mark Hoppus
Lucky Loser: Adventures in Tennis and Comedy
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I Regret Almost Everything
Keith McNally
Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand
Jeff Chu
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A profound meditation on nature, heritage, and belonging, from an accomplished journalist who left New York City for life on a working farm "I needed this book. I think you need it, too."--Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could...
You'll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Other Stuff I Should Only Tell My Therapist
Kari Ferrell
Sucker Punch: Essays
Scaachi Koul
The long-awaited follow-up from one of the most original and hilarious voices writing today. Scaachi Koul's first book was a collection of raw, perceptive, and hilarious essays reckoning with the issues of race, body image, love, friendship, and growing up the daughter of...
This Dog Will Change Your Life
Elias Weiss Friedman
A uniquely insightful, uplifting, emotional, and informative book that shows us how dogs make our lives better by making us better people from the Dogist. Elias Weiss Friedman became known as The Dogist when he took thousands of photos of dogs and posted them online along with...
How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty
Bonny Reichert
An "absolutely transformative" (People) culinary memoir about the relationship between food and family--sustenance and survival--from a chef, award-winning journalist, and daughter of a Holocaust survivor. "Beautifully written, heartbreaking and hopeful."--Ruth Reichl, New...
I'll Have What She's Having
Chelsea Handler
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In hilarious and tender essays, Chelsea Handler shares her unforgettable story of becoming the woman she always wanted to be. "A raw and raucous exploration of Handler's ongoing search for self . . . [She's] disarming us with humor to get at our...

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