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Memoirs Books

Personal Journeys Through Life’s Trials and Triumphs

Zero To One

Zero To One

Blake Masters, Peter Thiel

Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. Currency, 2014.

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much

David Leavitt

Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.

Make Your Bed

Make Your Bed

Admiral William H. McRaven

Little Things that Can Change Your Life… and Maybe the World. Grand Central Publishing, 2017.

The Radium Girls

The Radium Girls

Kate Moore

The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Sourcebooks, 2017.

Twice as Hard

Twice as Hard

Jasmine Brown

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

Women in White Coats

Olivia Campbell

How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine. Park Row Books, 2021.

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great

Tania Gergel

The Brief Life and Towering Exploits of History’s Greatest Conqueror as Told by His Original Biographers. Penguin Books, 2004.

The Feather Thief

The Feather Thief

Kirk Wallace Johnson

Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century. Penguin Books, 2018.

The Ride of a Lifetime

The Ride of a Lifetime

Robert Iger

Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company. Random House, 2019.

Muhammad

Muhammad

Martin Lings

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources. Inner Traditions, 2006.

The Code Breaker

The Code Breaker

Walter Isaacson

Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race. Simon and Schuster, 2021.

The Defiant Optimist

The Defiant Optimist

Durreen Shahnaz

Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women. Broadleaf Books, 2023.

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