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.
Secrets of the flesh
Judith Thurman
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No hiding place
William Seabrook
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No Future Without Forgiveness
Desmond Tutu
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Sherman
B. H. Liddell Hart
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Shook One
Charlamagne Tha God
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Hell Yes, I'd Do It Again
T. Fred Harvey
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About Face
Colonel David H. Hackworth
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Solitary
Albert Woodfox
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Stalin
Edvard Radzinsky
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Stalin
Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Stalingrad: Memories and Reassessments
Joachim Wieder
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Still Writing
Dani Shapiro
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Up from slavery
Booker T. Washington
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Surrender
Bono
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Swimming Across
Andrew S. Grove
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Tap Dancing to Work
Carol J. Loomis
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Witness
Whittaker Chambers
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the farmer from merna
Karl Schriftgiesser
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Mythos
Stephen Fry
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The Maverick and His Machine
Kevin Maney
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All these wonders
Catherine Burns
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The nightingale's song
Robert Timberg
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The Paris Review Interviews, I (Paris Review Interviews)
The Paris Review
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The puzzle people
Thomas Starzl
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