Biography & memoir books
Browse biography & memoir book guides, with reading profiles, descriptions and edition details.
193 book guides · Showing 97–144
Papillon
Henri Charrière
Effort 28/100
A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson
Effort 35/100
Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris
Effort 22/100
Black Boy
Richard Wright
Effort 43/100
Chasing Lincoln's Killer
James L. Swanson
Effort 17/100
The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green
Effort 31/100
Monster
Sanyika Shakur
Effort 44/100
The Stranger Beside Me
Ann Rule
Effort 37/100
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World
Jennifer Armstrong
Effort 19/100
The Color of Water
James McBride
Effort 51/100
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
Effort 46/100
Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson
Effort 39/100
Endurance
Alfred Lansing
Effort 29/100
Warriors Don't Cry
Melba Pattillo Beals
Effort 36/100
Travels with Charley
John Steinbeck
Effort 37/100
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
Effort 41/100
Empire of the Summer Moon
S. C. Gwynne
Effort 44/100
The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown
Effort 30/100
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston
Effort 61/100
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Marjane Satrapi
Effort 34/100
Desert Solitaire
Edward Abbey
Effort 38/100
Ted Bundy
Stephen G. Michaud, Hugh Aynesworth
Effort 44/100
First They Killed My Father
Loung Ung
Effort 32/100
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?"
Richard P. Feynman
Effort 27/100
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Adeline Yen Mah
Effort 24/100
Maus II
Art Spiegelman
Effort 52/100
Zlata's Diary
Zlata Filipović
Effort 24/100
All Boys Aren't Blue
George M. Johnson
Effort 31/100
Notes from a Small Island
Bill Bryson
Effort 22/100
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
Michelle McNamara
Effort 51/100
The Radium Girls
Kate Moore
Effort 39/100
Killing for Company
Brian Masters
Effort 38/100
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe
Effort 50/100
Open
Andre Agassi
Effort 24/100
The Lost Continent
Bill Bryson
Effort 27/100
The Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer
Effort 60/100
Slow Days, Fast Company
Eve Babitz
Effort 28/100
The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
Effort 43/100
The Frontiersmen
Allan W. Eckert
Effort 52/100
Apollo 13
Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger
Effort 45/100
The Boy on the Wooden Box
Leon Leyson, Marilyn J. Harran, Elisabeth B. Leyson
Effort 24/100
Escape from Camp 14
Blaine Harden
Effort 26/100
The Indifferent Stars Above
Daniel James Brown
Effort 42/100
Enrique's Journey
Sonia Nazario
Effort 39/100
All But My Life
Gerda Weissmann Klein
Effort 42/100
The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969
Jorge Luis Borges
Effort 63/100
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
Nujood Ali, Delphine Minoui
Effort 20/100
Manchild in the Promised Land
Claude Brown
Effort 42/100
