Best books in Biography & Memoir
The favorite books of those who lived something worth telling. Founders, scientists, presidents and athletes — what they read about the lives of others says as much about them as their own achievements. Walter Isaacson, the catalog's great biographer, appears recommended by very different voices.
A soldier's journal
James Bollich
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Ambassador
Susan Ronald
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Spy and the Traitor
Ben Macintyre
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The Spirit of St. Louis
Charles A. Lindbergh
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Surrender Experiment
Michael A. Singer
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Churchill Factor
Boris Johnson
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Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Chris Hadfield
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The forgotten Highlander
Alistair Urquhart
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The Man Who Fed the World
Leon Hesser
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The man who knew infinity
Robert Kanigel
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The man who stayed behind
Sidney Rittenberg
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The Man Without a Face
Masha Gessen
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Idealist
Nina Munk
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The long game
Mitch McConnell
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The Long Way
Bernard Moitessier
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The Wizard of Menlo Park
Randall E. Stross
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The Best We Could Do
Thi Bui
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Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
William Kamkwamba
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The Brontë myth
Lucasta Miller
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World As It Is
Ben Rhodes
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The fish that ate the whale
Rich Cohen
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Price of Power
Seymour Hersh
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The surgeon of Crowthorne
Simon Winchester
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Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King, The
Michael Craig
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