Browsing: Biographies and Memoirs

A modern classic and New York Times bestseller from a beloved poet and memoirist: Maya Angelou paints a “simultaneously touching and comic” portrait (The New York Times) of her time growing up, experiencing prejudice and trauma and learning about love and kindness.

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning author: This #1 New York Times bestseller and NPR Best Book of the Year traces the life and legacy of the 41st US president, George Herbert Walker Bush. “Should be required reading” (The Washington Post).

Named a New York Times Notable Book, this compelling narrative history examines the aftermath of the attempted assassination of President James A. Garfield. A “crisp, concise, and revealing” account (The Washington Post), with over 29,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads!

A “fascinating” New York Times bestseller (Publishers Weekly): During the Civil War, a British spy in South Carolina fought tirelessly against the Confederacy. “The best espionage book I’ve read. I couldn’t put it down” (New York Times bestselling author Robert Baer).

An “intense, moving” New York Times bestseller (Booklist starred review): In Nazi-occupied Paris, an American physician and his family risked everything to help the French Resistance smuggle Allied pilots to safety. A BookBub Editor Pick that’s “constructed and written like a thriller” (Chicago Tribune).

This winner of the 2016 Royal Society Science Book Prize traces the life of German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, a man who influenced Darwin, Thoreau, and other figures — and revolutionized our ideas about the world. “Beautifully researched… A thrilling intellectual odyssey” (The Sunday Times).

From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: a “sublime collection of true stories … and wild imaginings that take…

A “riveting” account (The Wall Street Journal) of the Jazz Age showdown between Harry Houdini and a purported psychic that became a focal point in the national debate over Spiritualism. “Beautifully written, deeply researched, and delightfully mysterious” (Pulitzer Prize–winning author Debby Applegate).

This true account from a New York Times bestselling author tells the story of two US Navy aviators who flew side by side into battle during the Korean War. “This is aerial drama at its best — fast, powerful, and moving” (#1 New York Times bestselling author Erik Larson).

National Bestseller The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the…