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Best Biography Books
A curated list of the best biography books.
Book Summaries
Eat, Pray, Love
One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Memoir
Travel
Biography
Steve Jobs
Biography
Business
Technology
Into the Wild
Biography
Adventure
Classics
Becoming
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Bossypants
Memoir
Humor
Biography
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Science
History
Biography
Man's Search for Meaning
Psychology
Philosophy
Self Help
When Breath Becomes Air
Memoir
Biography
Medicine
I Am Malala
Biography
Memoir
Feminism
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Memoir
Biography
Politics
Elon Musk
Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Biography
Business
Science
Spare
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Psychology
Memoir
Self Help
Everything I Know About Love
Memoir
Romance
Self Help
The Boys in the Boat
Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
History
Sports
Biography
Kitchen Confidential
Food
Memoir
Biography
Shoe Dog
A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Business
Biography
Memoir
On Writing
A Memoir of the Craft
Writing
Memoir
Biography
Just Kids
Memoir
Music
Biography
The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
Biography
History
Memoir
Can't Hurt Me
Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
Self Help
Biography
Personal Development
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Adventures of a Curious Character
Science
Biography
Physics
Team of Rivals
The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
History
Biography
Politics
Benjamin Franklin
An American Life
Biography
History
American History
Born Standing Up
Biography
Memoir
Humor
Creativity, Inc.
Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Business
Leadership
Biography
Too Much and Never Enough
How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
Biography
Politics
Memoir
An Unquiet Mind
Psychology
Memoir
Mental Health
The Everything Store
Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Business
Biography
Technology
An Autobiography
Biography
History
Autobiography
The River of Doubt
Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
History
Biography
Adventure
Lab Girl
Science
Memoir
Biography
A House in the Sky
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Travel
The Reason I Jump
The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Memoir
Psychology
The Snowball
Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Biography
Business
Finance
My Story
Memoir
True Crime
Biography
The Girls of Atomic City
The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
History
World War II
Science
Finding Ultra
Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
Health
Sports
Biography
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Biography
History
Autobiography
Gifted Hands
The Ben Carson Story
Biography
Memoir
Medical
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Kind of the Story of My Life
Self Help
Business
Biography
Masters of Doom
Biography
History
Video Games
Beyond Band of Brothers
The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
History
Biography
World War II
Hatching Twitter
A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
Business
Technology
Biography
iWoz
Biography
Technology
Business
Disrupted
Ludicrous Misadventures in the Tech Start-up Bubble
Business
Memoir
Biography
Alex Ferguson
My Autobiography
Biography
Sports
Football
Becoming Steve Jobs
The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
Biography
Business
Technology
Thinking in Pictures
My Life with Autism
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Memoir
Psychology
That Will Never Work
The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
Business
Biography
Technology
The World As It Is
A Memoir of the Obama White House
Politics
Memoir
History
Poor Charlie's Almanack
The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Business
Finance
Biography
Boys in the Trees
Memoir
Biography
Music
Start Something That Matters
Business
Entrepreneurship
Biography
The New New Thing
A Silicon Valley Story
Business
Technology
History
Market Wizards
Interviews With Top Traders
Finance
Business
Economics
Making Movies
Film
Media Tie In
Art
Cicero
The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
History
Biography
Ancient History
Michael Jordan
The Life
Biography
Sports
Basketball
Meet the Frugalwoods
Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living
Finance
Memoir
Personal Finance
A Man for All Markets
From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
Finance
Biography
Business
The Cult of We
Business
History
True Crime
Wizard
The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla
Biography
Science
History
Tried by War
Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
History
Civil War
Biography
Invent and Wander
The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos
Business
Biography
Leadership
Confessions of an Advertising Man
Business
Biography
Writing
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree
A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor
Holocaust
History
Memoir
The Long Loneliness
The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
Biography
Memoir
Religion
Stalling for Time
My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator
True Crime
Crime
Memoir
J. K. Rowling
The Wizard Behind Harry Potter
Biography
Biography Memoir
Childrens
American Icon
Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company
Business
Biography
Leadership
The Bridge
The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
Biography
Politics
History
Think Big
Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
Self Help
Biography
Inspirational
Inferno
A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
Memoir
Mental Health
Psychology
50/50
Sports
Memoir
Fitness
A Freewheelin' Time
A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
Music
Memoir
Biography
Aftermath
On Marriage and Separation
Memoir
Essays
Feminism
Keynes Hayek
The Clash that Defined Modern Economics
Economics
History
Biography
A Gift of Hope
Helping the Homeless
Romance
Memoir
Social Justice
The Obamas
Politics
Biography
History
Timothy Keller
His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation
Biography
Christian
Theology
Only in Naples
Lessons in Food and Famiglia from My Italian Mother-in-Law
Memoir
Italy
Travel
Guitar Zero
The New Musician and the Science of Learning
Music
Psychology
Memoir
Tao of Charlie Munger
A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth With Commentary by David Clark
Business
Finance
Economics
Kushner, Inc.
Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
Politics
Biography
History
I, Steve
Steve Jobs In His Own Words
Biography
Business
Leadership
Bad Habits
Confessions of a Recovering Catholic
Humor
Memoir
Biography
Letters
Biography
Memoir
Essays
Great Thinkers
Philosophy
Self Help
Psychology
Appetite for America
Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West — One Meal at a Time
History
Biography
American History
England's Mistress
The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
Biography
History
British Literature
Keynes
The Return of the Master
Economics
History
Biography
The Visionaries
Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
Philosophy
History
Biography
Troublemakers
Silicon Valley's Coming of Age
History
Technology
Business
Brave Genius
A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
History
Science
Biography
Richard Dawkins
How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think: Reflections by Scientists, Writers, and Philosophers
Science
Biography
Biology
Mother Tongue
My Family's Globe-Trotting Quest to Dream in Mandarin, Laugh in Arabic, and Sing in Spanish
Travel
Memoir
Language
The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman
My Life as Indiana Jones, James Bond, Superman, and Other Movie Heroes
Biography
Film
Memoir
The Business Wisdom of Steve Jobs
250 Quotes from the Innovator Who Changed the World
Business
Biography
Self Help
Rudolf Steiner
An Introduction to His Life and Work
Biography
Philosophy
Religion