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.
Higher Loyalty
James Comey
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Woman Makes a Plan
Maye Musk
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Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers
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Unit 731
Hal Gold
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Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees
Lawrence Weschler
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Harvard Classics; Volume 12
Plutarch
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Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
Diogenes Laertius
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Stolen Lives
Malika Oufkir
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Washington
Ron Chernow
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Washington Black
Esi Edugyan
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Where the Money Was
Willie Sutton
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Wing Leader
Johnnie Johnson
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Wonderful Tonight
Pattie Boyd
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