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.
House on Fire
William H. Foege
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Catherine the Great
Robert K. Massie
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Charlie Munger
Tren Griffin
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Churchill
Clive Ponting
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang
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Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Allan Quatermain
Charles B. Macdonald
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As I see it
J. Paul Getty
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Committed
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Conundrum
Jan Morris
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Conversations with Major Dick Winters
Cole C. Kingseed
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Conversations with Myself
Nelson Mandela
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Cuz
Danielle S. Allen
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Dad Is Fat (Miniature Edition)
Jim Gaffigan
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Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
Kary Mullis
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The 101 World's Great Mystery stories
Various
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Leaving Microsoft to change the world
John Wood
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Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China
Ezra F. Vogel
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After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul
Tripp Mickle
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Bringing Down the House
Ben Mezrich
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Desert solitaire
Edward Abbey
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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
Richard P. Feynman
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No Easy Day
Mark Owen
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Across the Fence
John Stryker Meyer
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