Biography & memoir books
Browse biography & memoir book guides, with reading profiles, descriptions and edition details.
193 book guides · Showing 49–96
The Mamba Mentality
Kobe Bryant
Effort 25/100
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
Effort 38/100
Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer
Effort 47/100
Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
Effort 29/100
The Complete Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
Effort 33/100
The Hiding Place
Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill
Effort 24/100
The Worldly Philosophers
Robert L. Heilbroner
Effort 44/100
The Phantom Prince
Elizabeth Kendall
Effort 23/100
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Effort 51/100
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
Effort 32/100
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
Effort 50/100
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet A. Jacobs
Effort 43/100
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Effort 55/100
Boy
Roald Dahl
Effort 20/100
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
Effort 35/100
Just Kids
Patti Smith
Effort 43/100
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Matthew Perry
Effort 26/100
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Effort 39/100
Going Solo
Roald Dahl
Effort 24/100
Fun Home
Alison Bechdel
Effort 67/100
Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain
Effort 23/100
Reasons to Stay Alive
Matt Haig
Effort 28/100
When Rabbit Howls
Truddi Chase
Effort 62/100
Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance
Effort 45/100
A Father's Story
Lionel Dahmer
Effort 37/100
Wind, Sand and Stars
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Effort 49/100
Girl, Wash Your Face
Rachel Hollis
Effort 21/100
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
Effort 55/100
Principles: Life and Work
Ray Dalio
Effort 39/100
Black Like Me
John Howard Griffin
Effort 41/100
The Power Broker
Robert A. Caro
Effort 70/100
Einstein
Walter Isaacson
Effort 46/100
India From Curzon to Nehru and After
Durga Das
Effort 57/100
Farewell to Manzanar
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston
Effort 28/100
Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
Effort 64/100
Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand
Effort 37/100
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
Effort 41/100
A Mind That Found Itself
Clifford Whittingham Beers
Effort 37/100
All Creatures Great and Small: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor
James Herriot
Effort 28/100
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
Effort 36/100
When I Was Puerto Rican
Esmeralda Santiago
Effort 35/100
The Art of Learning
Josh Waitzkin
Effort 35/100
Madame Curie
Eve Curie
Effort 46/100
The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
Effort 20/100
Gender Queer
Maia Kobabe
Effort 27/100
The Happiest Man on Earth
Eddie Jaku
Effort 28/100
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer
Effort 30/100
The Night Stalker
Philip Carlo
Effort 33/100
