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 Story Lately Told Coming Of Age In Ireland London And New York
Anjelica Huston
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Promised Land
Barack Obama
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The secret life of Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali
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The Killing Zone
Frederick Downs Jr.
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Storm over the land
Abraham Lincoln
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Believe me
Eddie Izzard
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Adios, Motherfucker
Michael Ruffino
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Albert Einstein
Banesh Hoffmann
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Beyond Band of Brothers
Dick Winters
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Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C.: A Historical Biography
Peter Green
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Alexander and the East
A. B. Bosworth
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Alexandre Kojeve
James H. Nichols Jr.
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Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens
K. C. Cole
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All Out War
Sean Parnell
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Winsor McCay
George H.W. Bush
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Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning
Claire Dederer
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The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America
Charlotte Alter
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Here, Right Matters
Alexander Vindman
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Arthur Ashe
Raymond Arsenault
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Mark Twain's weapons of satire
Mark Twain
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Adventures of Henry Thoreau
Michael Sims
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The Confessions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Recollections of Rifleman Harris
Benjamin Harris
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The Kennedy women
Laurence Leamer
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