The best autobiographies you should read

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  • Educated: A Memoir

    • ASIN: 0399590501
    • Brand: Random House
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • In Pieces

    • ASIN: 1538763028
    • ISBN: 1538763028
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

    In this intimate, haunting literary memoir and New York Times Notable Book of the year, an American icon tells her own story for the first time -- about a challenging and lonely childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and a powerful emotional legacy that shaped her journey as a daughter and a mother. One of the most celebrated, beloved... [Read More]

  • Conversations with Myself

    • ASIN: 0312611684
    • ISBN: 0312611684
    • Brand: Picador USA
    • Manufacturer: Picador

    "[Nelson Mandela] has done so much to change his country, and the world, that it is hard to imagine the history of the last several decades without him." ―from the foreword by President Barack Obama Foreword by President Barack ObamaNelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of recording thoug... [Read More]

  • Something Other than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It

    • ASIN: B01N8XSGCC
    • Manufacturer: Ignatius Press

    Jennifer Fulwiler told herself she was happy. Why wouldn't she be? She made good money as a programmer at a hot tech start-up, had just married a guy with a stack of Ivy League degrees, and lived in a twenty-first-floor condo where she could sip sauvignon blanc while watching the sun set behind the hills of Austin.Raised in a happy, atheist home, J... [Read More]

  • Spilled Milk: Based on a true story

    • ASIN: 0615835600
    • ISBN: 0615835600
    • Manufacturer: K.L Randis

    "Randis later would testify at a criminal trial against her father, who was sentenced to prison for his crimes. He was sentenced to up to 16 years in 2004. Her painful -- and ultimately triumphant -- story is recounted in Randis' first novel, "Spilled Milk." -Stacy Brown, Pocono Record Newspaper"I read this book in two days. I couldn't put it down.... [Read More]

  • The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir

    • ASIN: 0767919378
    • ISBN: 0739482939
    • Brand: Bill Bryson
    • Manufacturer: Broadway Books

    From one of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of One Summer, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950sBill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle of the United States—Des Moines, Iowa—in the middle of the largest generation in American ... [Read More]

  • One Beautiful Dream: The Rollicking Tale of Family Chaos, Personal Passions, and Saying Yes to Them Both

    • ASIN: B072TKGFHZ
    • Manufacturer: Zondervan

    Is it possible to pursue your passions, love your family, and not feel guilty about wanting to do both? One Beautiful Dream is your invitation to the unexpected joy of saying yes to the life you long to live.Work and family, individuality and motherhood, the creative life and family life—women are told constantly that they can’t have it all. On... [Read More]

  • The Secret Wife: A captivating story of romance, passion and mystery

    • ASIN: B01D4O804G
    • Manufacturer: Avon

    ** The USA Today Bestseller****The number one Kindle bestseller**‘A cleverly crafted novel and an enthralling story… A triumph.’ DINAH JEFFERIESA Russian grand duchess and an English journalist. Linked by one of the world’s greatest mysteries . . .Love. Guilt. Heartbreak.1914Russia is on the brink of collapse, and the Romanov family faces a... [Read More]

  • On the Other Side of Fear: How I Found Peace

    • ASIN: 1612789668
    • ISBN: 1612789668
    • Manufacturer: Our Sunday Visitor, Inc.

    What happened to that girl?What happened to the girl who was not afraid to climb to the top of the waterfall and jump. Who backpacked across Europe? Who took on any “feat of bravery” without batting an eyelash? You wouldn’t recognize her – she’s become that woman paralyzed by fear, scared to death to trust God, and trying to manage her fa... [Read More]

  • Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

    • ASIN: 038549565X
    • ISBN: 038549565X
    • Brand: Anchor
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

    “The greatest World War II story never told” (Esquire)—an enthralling account of the heroic mission to rescue the last survivors of the Bataan Death March. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp... [Read More]

  • Brief Answers to the Big Questions

    • ASIN: 1984819194
    • ISBN: 1984819194
    • Manufacturer: Bantam

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind.“Hawking’s parting gift to humanity . . . a book every thinking person worried about humanity’s future should read.”—NPRNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ... [Read More]

  • Robin

    • ASIN: 1627794247
    • ISBN: 9781627794244
    • Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.

  • Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

    • ASIN: 1451695195
    • ISBN: 1451695195
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    The #1 New York Times bestselling account of a neurosurgeon's own near-death experience—for readers of 7 Lessons from Heaven. Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, b... [Read More]

  • Wolves at the Door: The True Story Of America's Greatest Female Spy

    • UPC: 884203109865
    • ASIN: 159921072X
    • ISBN: 159921072X
    • Brand: Lyons Press
    • Manufacturer: Lyons Press

    Virginia Hall left her Baltimore home in 1931 to enter the Foreign Service and went to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) when Hitler was building toward the peak of his power in Europe. She was assigned to France, where she helped the Resistance movement, escaped prisoners of war, and American Allied paratroopers. By 1942 she ... [Read More]

  • Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

    • ASIN: B009NG18Z8
    • Brand: William Morrow Paperbacks
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

    Regina’s Calcaterra memoir, Etched in Sand, is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story of tenacity and hope. Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings survived an abusive and painful childhood only to find themselves ... [Read More]

  • Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits

    • ASIN: 1501166271
    • ISBN: 1501166271
    • Brand: Atria Books
    • Manufacturer: Atria Books

    Academy Award–winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm.Reese Witherspoon’s grandmother Dorothea always said that a combination of beauty and strength made southern women “whiskey in a teacu... [Read More]

  • The Life We Bury

    • ASIN: B00JTA9Z7G
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Seventh Street Books

    A USA Today bestseller and book club favorite! College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and ... [Read More]

  • The Hiding Place

    • ASIN: B004TS1MGK
    • Brand: Chosen Books
    • Manufacturer: Chosen Books

    "Every experience God gives us . . . is the perfect preparation for the future only He can see."--Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker who became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the twentieth century. In World War II she and her family risked th... [Read More]

  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

    • ASIN: 1328662055
    • ISBN: 1328662055
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • All But My Life: A Memoir

    • ASIN: 0809015803
    • ISBN: 9780809015801
    • Brand: Hill Wang
    • Manufacturer: Hill and Wang

    All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops--including the man who was to become her husband--in Volary, Czechoslovakia, in 1945, Gerda takes the... [Read More]

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