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 Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X
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Knock at the Door
Ryan Manion
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The Beautiful Cigar Girl
Daniel Stashower
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The Quest for El Cid
Richard Fletcher
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Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom
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The House of the Rothschild
Niall Ferguson
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Lab Girl
Hope Jahren
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Education of an Idealist
Samantha Power
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Ballerina of Auschwitz
Edith Eva Eger
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Spain in Our Hearts
Adam Hochschild
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The glory of the trenches
Coningsby Dawson
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One Soldier's War
Arkady Babchenko
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The Journey of Crazy Horse
Joseph Marshall
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The Legend of Henry Ford
Keith Sward
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A Life Decoded
J. Craig Venter
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Everything Store
Brad Stone
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Measure of a Man
Sidney Poitier
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Lincoln's Melancholy
Joshua Wolf Shenk
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the mind of napoleon
J. Christopher Herold
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A champion's mind
Pete Sampras
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The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond The Rape of Nanking
Ying-Ying Chang
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Night
Elie Wiesel
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The complete poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Joanne M. Braxton
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Promise of a Pencil
Adam Braun
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