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Biography Books

The best biography books and personal memoirs of all time

Zero To One

Zero To One

Peter Thiel

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

19 mins read

4 reads

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.

16 mins read

2 reads

The Poisoner's Handbook

The Poisoner's Handbook

Deborah Blum

Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. Penguin Books, 2010.

21 mins read

1 reads

The Radium Girls

The Radium Girls

Kate Moore

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

21 mins read

1 reads

Quackery

Quackery

Nate Pedersen

A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Workman Publishing, 2017.

21 mins read

1 reads

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

Josephy Murphy

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind. Way to Success, 2019.

16 mins read

2 reads

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.

19 mins read

4 reads

Women in White Coats

Women in White Coats

Olivia Campbell

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

21 mins read

0 reads

How to Do the Work

How to Do the Work

Nicole LePera

Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self. Harper Wave, 2021.

21 mins read

3 reads

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.

15 mins read

2 reads

Uncommon Grounds

Uncommon Grounds

Mark Pendergrast

The History of Coffee and How It Transformed the World. Basic Books, 2019.

21 mins read

3 reads

Surrounded by Idiots

Surrounded by Idiots

Thomas Erikson

The Four Types of Human Behavior and How to Effectively Communicate with Each in Business (and in Life). St. Martin’s Essentials, 2019.

19 mins read

1 reads

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