Amazon.com Best BooksBiographies & Memoirs

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100 Works 114,168 Books 5,869 Reviews ½ 4.0
The 25-50 most popular titles with Amazon.com for each year - a mix of editor and customer picks.
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The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family af Gail Lumet Buckley
2016
Lust & Wonder: A Memoir af Augusten Burroughs
2016
Consequence: A Memoir af Eric Fair
2016
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story af Matti Friedman
2016
The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-boats af William Geroux
2016
Lab Girl af Hope Jahren
2016
When Breath Becomes Air af Paul Kalanithi
2016
You Will Not Have My Hate af Antoine Leiris
2016
Truevine af Beth Macy
2016
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul af James McBride
2016
The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers af Terry McDonell
2016
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill af Candice Millard
2016
My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir af Chris Offutt
2016
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution af Nathaniel Philbrick
2016
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo af Amy Schumer
2016
Dimestore: A Writer's Life af Lee Smith
2016
I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir af Nadja Spiegelman
2016
Born to Run: The Autobiography af Bruce Springsteen
2016
Sex Object: A Memoir af Jessica Valenti
2016
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant af Ronald C. White
2016
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War af Lynsey Addario
2015
Between the World and Me af Ta-Nehisi Coates
2015
Glitter and Glue: A Memoir af Kelly Corrigan
2015
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life af William Finnegan
2015
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book af Peter Finn
2015
Leaving Before the Rains Come af Alexandra Fuller
2015
Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim af Justin Gifford
2015
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget af Sarah Hepola
2015
Bettyville: A Memoir af George Hodgman
2015
Reckless: My Life as a Pretender af Chrissie Hynde
2015
The Art of Memoir af Mary Karr
2015
The Seven Good Years: A Memoir af Etgar Keret
2015
Furiously Happy af Jenny Lawson
2015
H Is for Hawk af Helen Macdonald
2015
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs af Sally Mann
2015
The Wright Brothers af David McCullough
2015
It Was Me All Along: A Memoir af Andie Mitchell
2015
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family af Amy Ellis Nutt
2015
Find a Way af Diana Nyad
2015
Barefoot to Avalon af David Payne
2015
On the Move: A Life af Oliver Sacks
2015
My Life on the Road af Gloria Steinem
2015
Please Be with Me: A Song for My Father, Duane Allman af Galadrielle Allman
2014
Updike af Adam Begley
2014
Shrinkage: Manhood, Marriage, and the Tumor That Tried to Kill Me af Bryan Bishop
2014
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? A Memoir af Roz Chast
2014
The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War af Yochi Dreazen
2014
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned af Lena Dunham
2014
I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist af Betty Halbreich
2014
Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island af Will Harlan
2014
Unremarried Widow: A Memoir af Artis Henderson
2014
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League af Jeff Hobbs
2014
Min kamp : roman af Karl Ove Knausgård
2014
Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings af Michelle Knight
2014
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal af Ben Macintyre
2014
Call Me Burroughs: A Life af Barry Miles
2014
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra af Helen Rappaport
2014
Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life af Tom Robbins
2014
Napoleon: A Life af Andrew Roberts
2014
Cosby: His Life and Times af Mark Whitaker
2014
Mom & Me & Mom af Maya Angelou
2013
Camelot's Court af Robert Dallek
2013
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune af Bill Dedman
2013
Wave af Sonali Deraniyagala
2013
Son of a Gun: A Memoir af Justin St. Germain
2013
After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story af Michael Hainey
2013
Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him af David Henry
2013
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape af Jenna Miscavige Hill
2013
Here I Am: The Story of Tim Hetherington, War Photographer af Alan Huffman
2013
Jim Henson: The Biography af Brian Jay Jones
2013
The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century af David Laskin
2013
Norman Mailer: A Double Life af J. Michael Lennon
2013
Huset i himlen af Amanda Lindhout
2013
Coming Clean: A Memoir af Kimberly Rae Miller
2013
A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story af Qais Akbar Omar
2013
Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter af Alyn Shipton
2013
The Faraway Nearby af Rebecca Solnit
2013
My Beloved World af Sonia Sotomayor
2013
A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley af Neal Thompson
2013
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 af Mark Twain
2013
Vinternoter af Paul Auster
2012
The Passage of Power af Robert A. Caro
2012
The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows af Brian Castner
2012
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis af Timothy Egan
2012
Dødelighed af Christopher Hitchens
2012
The Black Count: Napoleon's Rival and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas af Tom Reiss
2012
Joseph Anton. Erindringer af Salman Rushdie
2012
The End of Your Life Book Club af Will Schwalbe
2012
To the Last Breath: A Memoir of Going to Extremes af Dr. Francis Slakey
2012
Wild : en fortælling om at fare vild og finde sig selv igen af Cheryl Strayed
2012
Blue Nights af Joan Didion
2011
Townie af Andre III Dubus
2011
Bossypants af Tina Fey
2011
Moonwalk med Einstein : kunsten at huske alt af Joshua Foer
2011
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef af Gabrielle Hamilton
2011
My Korean Deli: Risking It All for a Convenience Store af Ben Ryder Howe
2011
Steve Jobs : en biografi om manden bag Apple af Walter Isaacson
2011
Then Again af Diane Keaton
2011
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy af Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis
2011
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention af Manning Marable
2011

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