Biography Books
The best biography books and personal memoirs of all time
Zero To One
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. Currency, 2014.
Make Your Bed
Little Things that Can Change Your Life… and Maybe the World. Grand Central Publishing, 2017.
The Poisoner's Handbook
Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. Penguin Books, 2010.
The Radium Girls
The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Sourcebooks, 2017.
Quackery
A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Workman Publishing, 2017.
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind. Way to Success, 2019.
Twice as Hard
The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.
Women in White Coats
How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine. Park Row Books, 2021.
How to Do the Work
Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self. Harper Wave, 2021.
Alexander the Great
The Brief Life and Towering Exploits of History’s Greatest Conqueror as Told by His Original Biographers. Penguin Books, 2004.
Uncommon Grounds
The History of Coffee and How It Transformed the World. Basic Books, 2019.
Surrounded by Idiots
The Four Types of Human Behavior and How to Effectively Communicate with Each in Business (and in Life). St. Martin’s Essentials, 2019.
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