Biography and Memoir

Discover the stories of their lives, in recent biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs.
Updated October 27, 2025
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Patriot: A Memoir
Alexei Navalny
Paper Book
** WINNER OF THE OVERALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AND BEST NARRATIVE NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2024 ** 'Mind-blowing ... one extraordinary read' EMILY MAITLIS 'The greatest political figure of his generation' OBSERVER 'Part memoir,...
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
Shari Franke
From eldest daughter Shari Franke, the shocking true story behind the viral 8 Passengers family vlog - now the subject of a new Disney+ docuseries - and the hidden abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother, and how, in the face of unimaginable pain, she found freedom...
Freedom: Memoirs 1954 – 2021
Angela Merkel
For sixteen years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany. She led the country through numerous crises, shaping both Germany and international politics with her actions and attitudes. In her memoirs, co-written with her long-time political advisor Beate Baumann, she reflects on her life in two...
Source Code: My Beginnings
Bill Gates
Paper Book
Bill Gates is one of the most transformative figures of our age. In Source Code he takes us back to his beginnings. He describes with candour his childhood in Seattle, the centrality of family - his close relationship with his card-playing grandmother and his demanding but caring parents -...
Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman
Brooke Shields
Paper Book
Memorial Days: A Memoir
Geraldine Brooks
Paper Book
Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father
April Balascio
The untold story behind the hit true crime podcast The Clearing, this unforgettable memoir traces one daughter's moving quest to understand her larger-than-life childhood as she searches for the truth about her father, the serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards. One evening in...
Hope: The Autobiography
Pope Francis
The wish of Pope Francis was for HOPE, on which he has been working for six years, to be published posthumously. However, with the Jubilee Year of Hope coming in 2025 and the pressing needs of our times have urged Pope Francis to share this personal legacy now. HOPE is the...
Kosciuszko
Anthony Sharwood
Paper Book
Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on Australia's highest peak. Tadeusz Kosciuszko: freedom fighter, friend of Thomas Jefferson and champion of liberty on two continents. Bestselling author Anthony Sharwood...
Unleashed
Boris Johnson
Paper Book
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, DAILY MAIL, TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES 'ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVE' ED BALLS 'SENSATIONAL' DAILY MAIL THE UNMISSABLE, UNVARNISHED MEMOIRS OF BORIS JOHNSON<...
The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had
Helen Rappaport
Paper Book
'What a wonderful book!  The storytelling, the research, the deep love of her subject -- this must be the climax of Rappaport's long and illustrious career'  Lucy Worsley    To Queen Victoria she was Aunt Julie; to Catherine the Great she was Grand...

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