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.
Bend, not break
Ping Fu
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Twelve against the gods
William Bolitho
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Tough As They Come
Travis Mills
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Eat a Peach
David Chang
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Edison
Matthew Josephson
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He Was No Coward: The Harry Farr Story
Janet Booth
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On the Move
Oliver Sacks
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In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
Robert Mcnamara
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In an Uncertain World
Robert Rubin
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Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward
Valerie Jarrett
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Find Me Unafraid
Kennedy Odede
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Meetings with Remarkable Men
G. I. Gurdjieff
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Encounters with the Archdruid
John McPhee
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Endless highway
David Carradine
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Between Meals
A. Liebling
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Writing my wrongs
Shaka Senghor
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Essential Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
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I remember the last war
Bob Hoffman
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Eugene Braunwald And The Rise Of Modern Medicine
Thomas H. Lee
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Excursion to hell
Vincent Bramley
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The Garden of the Gods
Gerald Durrell
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Fortunate Son
Lewis B. Puller Jr.
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Son of the morning star
Evan S. Connell
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Fallen Leaves
Will Durant
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