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Memoirs Books

Personal Journeys Through Life’s Trials and Triumphs

Zero To One

Zero To One

Blake Masters

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

19 mins read

4 reads

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.

18 mins read

2 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 Radium Girls

The Radium Girls

Kate Moore

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

21 mins read

1 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

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

The Feather Thief

The Feather Thief

Kirk Wallace Johnson

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

22 mins read

1 reads

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.

19 mins read

2 reads

Muhammad

Muhammad

Martin Lings

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

21 mins read

2 reads

The Code Breaker

The Code Breaker

Walter Isaacson

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

21 mins read

1 reads

The Defiant Optimist

The Defiant Optimist

Durreen Shahnaz

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

21 mins read

2 reads

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