Biography and Memoir

Discover the stories of their lives, in recent biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs.
Updated January 10, 2026
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Source Code : My Beginnings
Gates, William H.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Barnes & Noble's Best Business Books of 2025 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...
Class Clown : The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up
Barry, Dave
Paper Book
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...
Harder I Fight the More I Love You : A Memoir
Case, Neko
Paper Book
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...
House of My Mother : A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
Paper Book
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Heart-wrenchingly personal...dizzying." --Rolling Stone From eldest daughter Shari Franke, the shocking true story behind the viral 8 Passengers family vlog--now the subject of a new Hulu...
Hope : The Autobiography
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Pope Francis originally intended this exceptional book to appear only after his death, but the needs of our times and the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope have moved him to make this precious legacy available now. Hope is the first autobiography...
Crumb : A Cartoonist's Life
Paper Book
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post "A definitive and ideal biography--pound for pound, one of the sleekest and most judicious I've ever read." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times A critical darling, Crumb...
Dry Season : A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
Febos, Melissa
A TIME Best Book of 2025 The award-winning author of Girlhood returns with a revelatory chronicle of her year of celibacy and its transformative impact on her relationships--to others, and to herself. In the wake of a catastrophic two-year relationship,...
Care and Feeding : A Memoir
Woolever, Laurie.
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times Bestseller! A candid, funny, and occasionally devastating memoir of a woman making her way through the food world, navigating addiction, a cultural reckoning, and an unexpected tragedy In this moving, hilarious, and insightful bestselling memoir, Laurie...
Say Everything : A Memoir
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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
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In her first book, the popular From the Front Porch podcast host and independent bookstore owner challenges the idea that loud lives are the ones that matter most, reminding us that we don't have to leave the lives we have in order to have the lives of which we've always dreamed.<...
Homework : A Memoir
Dyer, Geoff
Dyer's first memoir recollects his childhood and coming of age in postwar Britain
Bibliophobia : A Memoir
Paper Book
"A wise, tremendously moving exploration of what it means to seek companionship and understanding, in books and in life."--Hua Hsu, author of Stay True "Stirring and sparkling."--The Washington Post A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND ELECTRIC...
Loves of My Life : A Sex Memoir
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A VULTURE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex. "In his panoply of sexual encounters, Edmund White's love of sex makes us proud to be human. And the story of...
Lorne : The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The definitive biography of Lorne Michaels, the man behind America's most beloved comedy show "The kind of biographical monument usually consecrated to founding fathers, canonical authors and world-historical scientific geniuses."--The New York...
Paper Doll : Notes from a Late Bloomer
Paper Book
An instant New York Times bestseller! "Dylan makes me laugh and makes me brave. I love Paper Doll, and I love this woman." --Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed Actress and content...
Spellbound : my life as a dyslexic wordsmith
Hanley, Phil.
Paper Book
National Bestseller An Amazon Best of Biography/Memoir Comedian and severe dyslexic Phil Hanley reveals his unlikely path to success in a story that is equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking. When Phil Hanley...
Sucker Punch
Koul, Scaachi.
Paper Book
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Chatelaine's Favourite Books of Spring 2025 * Named a Best Book of 2025 by CBC * Audible * W * Book Riot From the cultural critic and bestselling author of One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter comes a poignant,...
Cellar Rat : My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly
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Town & Country's Best Books of Spring 2025 | Kirkus Reviews's Most Anticipated Nonfiction of Spring 2025 | Amazon's Best Books of the Month | American Writers Museum's Staff Picks What happens when a career you love doesn't love you back? ...
This Dog Will Change Your Life
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . 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 The stunning hardcover of This Dog Will Change Your Life features a custom...
How to share an egg : a true story of hunger, love, and plenty
Reichert, Bonny
Paper Book
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
Handler, Chelsea
Paper Book
#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...
Second Life : Having a Child in the Digital Age
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"Second Life is not only a book for parents; it's for anyone intrigued (and concerned) by the ways in which our digital footprints impact the circle of life itself." --Elle "Engrossing....With a reporter's gimlet eye, Hess lenses out from her personal experience.....
Inherited Mind : A Story of Family, Hope, and the Genetics of Mental Illness
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Named one of the Best Books of 2025 by the Amazon Editors! A compelling memoir by ABC News correspondent James Longman in which he discusses mental illness and trauma in families, what the latest genetic science is telling us, and how to not only persevere but thrive.
Looking at Women Looking at War : A War and Justice Diary
Paper Book
WINNER, THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING SHORT LIST, THE 2025 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING WITH A FOREWORD BY MARGARET ATWOOD A NATIONAL BESTSELLERNPR BOOKS WE LOVE, 2025 "Remarkable...powerful, eloquently testifying to the...
Slayers, Every One of Us : How One Girl in All the World Showed Us How to Hold On
Russo, Kristin
Paper Book
"[A] joyful ode to the awesome ability of pop-culture arcana to create a solid community." --The New York Times A memoir reflecting on heartbreak, perseverance, and life lessons learned from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from the hosts of the hit podcast...
Motherland : A Feminist History of Modern Russia,from Revolution to Autocracy
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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NAMED ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2025 BY THE WASHINGTON POST NAMED ONE OF THE 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2025 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2025 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF FALL...
Do Not Cry When I Die : A Holocaust Memoir
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER One of the oldest living Holocaust survivors recounts her family's imprisonment at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen--and the extraordinary bond with her mother that ultimately saved her life--in this moving memoir of love, loss, courage, and hope.

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