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.
Words Are My Matter
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The travels of Marco Polo the Venetian
Marco Polo
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Lincoln's virtues
William Lee Miller
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Asylum
William Seabrook
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Autobiography of Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
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Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic
Osho
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Being Nixon
Evan Thomas
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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Carl Van Doren
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Black Edge
Sheelah Kolhatkar
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Black Elk
Joe Jackson
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Black Elk speaks
John G. Neihardt
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Black Spartacus
Sudhir Hazareesingh
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Bobby Kennedy
Larry Tye
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Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen
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Boyd
Robert Coram
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Brother Sam
Bill Kinison
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Bruce Lee
Linda Lee
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By honor bound
Tom Norris
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Team Dog
Mike Ritland
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Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson
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Walk in Their Shoes: Can One Person Change the World?
Jim Ziolkowski
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Ways of escape
Graham Greene
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Helmet For My Pillow
Robert Leckie
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Principles of politeness, and of knowing the world
The Earl of Chesterfield
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