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.
The Rogue's March
Peter F. Stevens
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The trident
Jason Redman
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Tolstoy
Henri Troyat
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Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
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Toussaint Louverture
Philippe Girard
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Trammell Crow, master builder
Robert Sobel
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Three Women
Lisa Taddeo
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Triggered
Donald Trump Jr.
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Everything Happens for a Reason
Kate Bowler
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Ulysses S. Grant
Brooks D. Simpson
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Antropology Bat Marten
Oliver Sacks
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Spy among Friends
Ben Macintyre
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Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope
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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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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2
Plutarch
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Stolen Lives
Malika Oufkir
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The Warren Buffett Way
Robert G. Hagstrom
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Washington
Ron Chernow
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