Biography & memoir books
Browse biography & memoir book guides, with reading profiles, descriptions and edition details.
193 book guides · Showing 1–48

Can't Hurt Me
David Goggins
Effort 28/100

I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy
Effort 27/100

Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Effort 51/100

The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
Effort 34/100

Wings of Fire
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari
Effort 33/100

Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Effort 37/100

Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom
Effort 21/100

Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
Effort 74/100

A Child Called "It"
Dave Pelzer
Effort 20/100

Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
Effort 32/100

Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
Effort 57/100

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
Effort 38/100

Smile
Raina Telgemeier
Effort 15/100

Maus I
Art Spiegelman
Effort 50/100

When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Effort 52/100

On Writing
Stephen King
Effort 25/100

Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
Effort 24/100

Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
Effort 33/100

22 Cells in Nuremberg
Douglas M. Kelley
Effort 37/100

Man's Search for Meaning adapted for Young Adults
Viktor E. Frankl
Effort 31/100

The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Alex Haley, Malcolm X
Effort 57/100

Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton
Effort 28/100

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Effort 40/100

The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
Effort 22/100

Moonwalking with Einstein
Joshua Foer
Effort 32/100

Night
Elie Wiesel
Effort 29/100

Guts
Raina Telgemeier
Effort 15/100

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
Effort 71/100

Abraham Lincoln
Carl Sandburg
Effort 53/100

Elvis and Me
Priscilla Presley, Sandra Harmon
Effort 25/100

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
Effort 57/100

Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
Effort 39/100

Spare
Prince Harry
Effort 27/100

Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
Effort 36/100

Letters to Milena
Franz Kafka
Effort 43/100

The Confessions
Augustine of Hippo
Effort 73/100

Never Finished
David Goggins
Effort 25/100

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker
Effort 29/100

The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
Effort 50/100

The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
Effort 43/100

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Richard P. Feynman
Effort 29/100

An Autobiography
Mahatma Gandhi
Effort 58/100

Educated
Tara Westover
Effort 31/100

A Long Way Gone
Ishmael Beah
Effort 31/100

I Am Malala
Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
Effort 36/100

Survival in Auschwitz
Primo Levi
Effort 46/100

Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
Effort 50/100

Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
Effort 31/100